Peter Knegt
Peter Knegt holds an MA in media studies from Concordia University. He has written for the Undergraduate Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies, Xtra!, Exclaim, InToronto, Variety and Playback, and is the associate editor of indieWIRE.
Books by Peter Knegt
About Canada Queer Rights
Peter Knegt
Is Canada a ”queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world — and the first in the Western Hemisphere — to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and social acceptance of homosexuality has grown exponentially. But are these the goals that queer activists hoped to achieve? Is this legal regulation and normalization of homosexuality what the Gay Liberation Movement of the early 1970s fought for? Using… (more information)