Education

2016 – Doctor of Philosophy – History
York University, Toronto, ON

• Dissertation: “‘Enough is Enough‘: The Right to Privacy Committee and Bathhouse Raids in Toronto, 1978-1983.“

2008 – Master of Arts – History
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON

• Thesis: Three Strikes but not Out: Judicial Losses and Women’s Political Activism Ahead of the Charter.”

2006 – Bachelor of Arts, Honours – History
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON

Scholarly Publications

Tom Hooper, “‘The State’s Key to the Bedroom Door’: Queer Perspectives on Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s “Just Society” in an Era of Bathhouse Raids,” in No Place for the State: The Origins and Legacies of the 1969 Omnibus Bill, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020: 101-121.

Tom Hooper, “Queering ’69: The Recriminalization of Homosexuality in Canada,” Canadian Historical Review, 100:2 (June 2019): 257-273.

Tom Hooper, “‘More than two is a crowd:’ Mononormativity and Gross Indecency in the Criminal Code, 1981-2.” Journal of Canadian Studies, 48:1 (2014): 53-81.

Teaching experience

Sessional Assistant Professor
Department of Equity Studies
York University, Toronto, ON
September 2021 – Present

Courses Taught:
HREQ 1900 – Sexuality, Gender, and Society
HREQ 3890 – Social Justice: Theory and Practice

Contract Faculty
Department of History
York University, Toronto, ON
May 2015 – August 2021

Courses Taught:
HIST 1086 – Vice, Deviance, and Social Control
HIST 2501 – Canada 101

Contract Faculty
Law and Society Program
York University, Toronto, ON
September 2018 – April 2021

Courses Taught:
SOSC 1350 – Gender and the Law
SOSC 3393 – Queering Law
SOSC 4355 – Gender, Sex, and the Supreme Court
SOSC 4357 – Explorations in Socio-legal History
SOSC 4358 – Law and Sexuality

Consulting

Historica Canada
October 2019 – March 2020.
“Operation Soap” video project.

Department of Canadian Heritage
October 2018 – March 2019
Standing Up, Standing Out Exhibit

Department of Canadian Heritage
February – March 2018
Research Report on Commemorating LGBTQ2 Communities in Canada

Conference Papers

–“‘With Approval From Our Funders’: Pride Toronto and the Misappropriation of Canada Heritage Grants”, Queer History Conference, San Francisco State University, June 12-15, 2022.

–“The Battle of Church Street: Queers, Communities, and Protest in Toronto, 1981,” Revisiting Human Rights in Canadian History Workshop, King’s University College, May 2-3, 2022.

“Settler Colonialism and Queer Heritage Grants,” Toronto Queer Film Festival, April 23, 2022.

“Queering ’69: Mythologies and Heritage Grants to Egale and Pride Toronto,” Between Portwar and Present Day: Canada, 1970-2000, Local, National Global, University of Toronto, May 6-9, 2021.

“Bathhouse Raids in Canada, 1968-2004,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting [Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History], New York City, January 3-6, 2020.

“Don’t Believe the ’69 Hype!” Toronto Queer Film Festival Symposium, Ontario College of Art and Design, November 9, 2019.

“Condom or Viagra? Was 1969 a Turning Point?” (With Tim McCaskell) Anti-69: Against the Mythologies of the 1969 Criminal Code Reform, Carleton University, March 22-24, 2019.

“‘It does not even legalize this kind of conduct:’ Queer Sex, Parliamentary Debates, and the Myth of Decriminalization in 1969,” Association for the Studies of Culture, Law and Humanities Conference, Ottawa, ON, March 22-23, 2019.

“Black Lives Matter and the Toronto Bathhouse Raids: Community Intersections and the Legacy of Pride,” The Future of Historical Studies: A Symposium in Honour of Dr. James W. St. G. Walker, University of Waterloo, November 11, 2017.

“Canada’s Stonewall?  Reviewing the Historical Legacy of the 1981 Toronto Bathhouse Raids,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting [Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences], Ryerson University, May 28-30, 2017.

“188½ Seaton Street: George Smith, Tim McCaskell, and the Marxist Commune that Transformed the Right to Privacy Committee,” A Celebration of the Work and Leadership of Craig Heron, York University, May 26-27, 2017.

“‘A principled alliance’: Lesbians, Gay Bathhouses, and the Right to Privacy Committee in Toronto, 1979-1982.” Sexuality Studies Association Annual Conference [Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences], University of Ottawa, June 2-3, 2015.

“‘Our Police Force Too!’ The Right to Privacy Committee and Creating the ‘Gay Minority’, Toronto 1979.” Political Mobilization and Citizen Engagement in Quebec and Canada, Université du Québec à Montréal, October 2-4, 2014.