Fragment of a photograph taken on September 6, 2014 by an astronaut on the International Space Station: metropolitan Vancouver with all of its suburbs often referred to as “The Lower Mainland”
Fragment of a photograph taken on September 6, 2014 by an astronaut on the International Space Station: Vancouver’s West End, Downtown, and False Creek the focus of early LGBT activism and gay male neighbourhood formation in the second half of the Twentieth Century
Brochu-Ingram, Gordon Brent. 2015. Building Queer Infrastructure: Trajectories of Activism and Organizational Development in Decolonizing Vancouver. in Queer Mobilizations: Pan-Canadian Perspectives on Activism and Public Policy. Manon Tremblay editor. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 227 – 249.
PDF copy available: Brochu-Ingram 2015 Q infrastructure in Queer Mobilizations
Fragment of a photograph taken on September 6, 2014 by an astronaut on the International Space Station: The Eastside of the City of Vancouver including Main Street and Commercial Drive and bounded in the north by Burrard Inlet and in the south by the Fraser River. Commercial Drive was the fulcrum of lesbian neighbourhood formation and activism in the 1980s and 1990s.
Fragment of a photograph taken on September 6, 2014 by an astronaut on the International Space Station: the sprawling city of Surrey the second most populous municipality in The Lower Mainland that recently elected an openly lesbian councillor.