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Dr. Craig Jennex, Assistant Professor
Department of English, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Toronto, Ontario, M5B 2K3

craigjennex@ryerson.ca

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View fullsize The Gay Community Dance Committee (GCDC) was known, throughout the 1980s, as having the best Halloween party in Toronto. Costume contests, LGBTQ2+ dancing, and raising funds for important community organizations!? Oh my! . . . . . . . #liberationont
View fullsize A ticket for the Gay Community Dance Committee's (GCDC) "SOAP II" dance on February 4, 1984. ❤️ 🎉🌈 Participating groups made money based on volunteer hours provided to a dance AND through ticket sales. All participating groups were listed
View fullsize The Gay Community Dance Committee's (GCDC) dance on February 5, 1983 was called "Soap," referencing Toronto Police raids of four gay bathhouses in downtown Toronto on February 5, 1981. The bathhouse raids, coined "Operation Soap"
View fullsize Gay Community Dance Committee (GCDC) volunteers pose for the camera at a dance at the Masonic Temple in Toronto. Photograph by Philip Share, c. 1980s. 🥰 . . . . . . . #liberationonthedancefloor #gaycommunitydancecommittee #lgbtq #lgbtqhistory #queer
View fullsize DJ Ron Merko smiles at the camera in the DJ booth on the lower level of the Concert Hall (888 Yonge Street) during a Gay Community Dance Committee (GCDC) dance! 🤩 Merko was a regular DJ at GCDC events, usually spinning records on the basement dance
View fullsize DJ Ilona Laney searches for the next record in the DJ booth on the lower level of the Concert Hall (888 Yonge Street) during a Gay Community Dance Committee (GCDC) dance! 🤩 Laney was a regular DJ at GCDC events, often spinning records on the basemen
View fullsize Don't forget: (almost) all of the Gay Community Dance Committee's beautiful, funny, interesting, creative posters are available to view on our website! www.liberationonthedancefloor.ca . . . . . . . . #liberationonthedancefloor #gcdc #popmusicresearc