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	The Body Politic and Visions of Community
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The Body Politic
Some background (670 words)

So, what is community?
Some tentative definitions (820 words)

The movement as community
Solidarity in the Seventies (920 words)

The ambiguous ghetto
Ratty bars meet "the Jesus Christ Farts of the Movement" -- Early '70s (880 words)

Business, reluctant and otherwise
Advertising and budding gay capitalism -- Mid-late '70s (1,070 words)

From gay paper to community cause
The Body Politic's trials, from 1977 (660 words)

Grouplets galore
The boom in community organizing before 1981 (1,150 words)

Our Stonewall?
The 1981 Toronto Bath Raids (1,150 words)

Race, sex and solidarity
"Community" meets "the inviolability of desire" (1,790 words)

A variety of means and media
The rise of Xtra; the fall of The Body Politic (1,130 words)

Community(ies) now
-- or something else altogether (1,200 words)

What kind of world do you want?
A polemical conclusion (1,650 words)