This presentation was given at the Centre for Digital Humanities at Ryerson University, April 25th, 2014.

1. Visualizing Gay Liberation in Canada:
Using Digital Tools to Represent
People and Places
Michelle Schwartz
Ryerson University
Constance Crompton
University of British Columbia, Okanagan

2. Today…
•Introduction to Lesbian and Gay
Liberation in Canada (LGLC)
•Analyzing LGLC data
• People
• Time and space
•Future directions

3. Lesbianand Gay LiberationIn Canada:
A SelectedAnnotatedChronology,1964-1975
• lgl

4. EncodingLesbianand Gay LiberationIn
Canadain TEI

5. Bibl
Bibl
Bibl
Bibl

6. Bibl
Bibl
Bibl
Bibl
Information to
capture
• Names
• Pseudonyms
• Dates
• Places
• Publications
• Organizations
• Protests
• Legislation

7. LGLC Appendices
Gay organizations
(now includes political
parties and homophobic
organizations)
Bars and clubs
(expanded to
include almost
anything with
geographic
coordinates)
Canadian
LGBT Periodicals
(now all inclusive)

8. Additional research
Our Own Voices: A Directory of Lesbian and Gay Periodicals,
1890s to 2000s
Alan V. Miller
http://www.clga.ca/periodicals-lgbt
Image source: Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives

9. Analyzing LGLC data

10. The people of LGLC
The people of LGLC:
There are 2596 names listed, 1184 of these are within event records and 1402 are
within bibliographical records.
There are 145 people that appear in both the bibls and the events:
(some examples: James Egan, Jane Rule, Norma K. Mitchell, Réjane Rancourt, Thérèse
Limoges, John Alan Lee, Douglas Sanders, Gary Nichols, Michael Hanlon, Marie
Robertson, George Stanley, Christine Bearchell…)
The most prodigious writers cited in the bibls:
1. Gary Kinsman (56) – The Regulation of Desire: Sexuality in Canada
2. Ron Dayman (43) – Body Politic, CLGA
3. Margaret Fulford (31) – The Canadian Women's Movement, 1960-1990
4. Ken Popert (27) – Body Politic
5. Ian Young (27) – "The Problem of Homosexuality,” The Eye Opener, Sept. 1968

11. The people of LGLC
Force Atlas visualization in Gephi

12. The people of LGLC

13. Time and space in LGLC
Places in the LGLC dataset
Source: http://lglc.ca/gis/googlekml.html

14. Time and space in LGLC
Events in 1964
Source: http://lglc.ca/timemap/1964_kml_extendeddata.html

15. Future directions: Public knowledge

16. Future directions: Identity
“For anyone who wants
to know what it is to be a
lesbian, this book offers
as many answers as
there are voices to
speak… no view need
cancel another, for this is
an exploration into
variety rather than a
thesis to prove my
particular.”
– Jane Rule, Lesbian
Images, 1975

17. With thanks to Don McLeod, CWRC, and the CDH.
Keep in touch!
Michelle Schwartz: @MichelinaNeri
Constance Crompton: @CLKCrompton