We are THRILLED to be welcoming one of Canada’s foremost queer activists and scholars to St. John’s next week for two very special events!

Gary Kinsman (he/they) is a longtime activist/organizer in queer liberation, anti-racist, anti-poverty, AIDS and anti-capitalist movements. He lived in St. John’s in the early 1990s and was a key activist with Gays and Lesbians Together (GALT) and the Newfoundland AIDS Association.

Join us on Thursday, October 17 from 5-7pm in the Breezeway Bar at Memorial University, for the official St. John’s launch of The Regulation of Desire (3rd Edition), featuring Gary Kinsman along with local author and journalist Rhea Rollmann (A Queer History of Newfoundland, Engen Books 2023).

Copies of the book will be available for sale thanks to Downtown Comics – NL’s radical indie bookstore! The third edition of this revolutionary text includes new chapters and an introduction that contextualizes the work within today’s fight for liberation in ‘Canada.’

Join us for this free event as we discuss the history and future of queer liberation on Turtle Island and beyond! (more info in the comments)

This event sponsored and supported by St. John’s Pride, Palestine Action YYT, MUN Students’ Union, MUN Dept. of Gender Studies, Downtown Comics & ig/@aducknameddad !

And check out the separate event page for No Pride In Genocide! happening on Wednesday Oct. 16 at Eastern Edge Gallery!

We are THRILLED to be welcoming one of Canada’s foremost queer activists and scholars to St. John’s next week for two very special events! On Wednesday, October 16 from 6-8pm at Eastern Edge Gallery, join us for:

NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE!

Recently “No Pride in Genocide” has been raised by queer and trans activists against the complicity of many larger Pride Committees and mainstream LGBT+ groups in support of the active genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state. Many Pride events across the country became the sites of important struggles with the theme of “No Pride in Genocide!” This is also linked back to organizing in 2021 with the theme of No Pride in Genocide against the genocide of Indigenous people on Turtle Island and settler colonialism. Drawing on the recently released Third Edition of the Regulation of Desire, activist and author Gary Kinsman will link queer and trans struggles against genocide and settler colonialism from Turtle Island to Palestine. Gary Kinsman (he/they) has been involved in Queers4Palestine-Toronto, Abolitionist Pride, the No Pride in Policing Coalition and is a supporter of the Coalition Against Pinkwashing. He/they are the author of The Regulation of Desire: Queer Histories, Queer Struggles and the co-author of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation.

This free event sponsored and supported by Queers For Palestine (St. John’s), Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s Pride, Palestine Action YYT, MUN Dept. of Gender Studies, and Downtown Comics!

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Check out the separate event listing for The Regulation of Desire Book Launch – happening Thursday October 17 from 5-7pm at the Breezeway Bar at Memorial University!