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- Title
Resisted Access? National Security, the Access to Information Act, and Queer(ing) Archives.
- Authors
GENTILE, PATRIZIA
- Abstract
The anti-homosexual security purges organized by the Security Panel and enforced by the RCMP, represent a sad chapter in Canadian Cold War history. This essay offers some of the author's experiences as she negotiated the "maze" of classified documents, archives, and historical records held at government departments while researching her book The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, co-authored with Gary Kinsman. The author contends that the national security state can deploy the Access to Information Act (ATI) to create challenges and obstacles for queer historians in their effort to find queers in -- or to queer -- the archives. The essay also speculates that in the context of the "war on terror," the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) will reinforce the negative impact of ATI and thus have detrimental implications for the writing of queer history.
- Subjects
CANADA; ESSAYS; ACCESS to information; LGBTQ+ archives; NATIONAL security; INFORMATION resources management -- Law &; legislation; WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009; COUNTERTERRORISM laws
- Publication
Archivaria, 2009, Issue 68, p141
- ISSN
0318-6954
- Publication type
Essay