Social Status
Rites was an important forum for the publication of Canadian lesbian and gay history, publishing the first interview with Jim Egan, Canada's first public gay activist in the 1950s (who initiated a lawsuit – Egan v. Canada - that ultimately led, in 1995, to a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision interpreting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to prohibit discrimination by the state based on sexual orientation). The magazine also carried articles on the history of lesbian and gay communities in Toronto and Montreal, and published a special supplement of lesbian and gay history book reviews.
Other special supplements published in Rites over its history included features on families, youth, lesbians and gays of colour, lesbian and gay survivors of childhood sexual abuse, AIDS prevention, racism, science fiction, aging, and relationships.
In Vol. 7 No. 8 (January/February 1991) Rites published "Queer Entries," a comprehensive index to its first six volumes (from May 1984 to April 1990). Rites was also indexed in the Alternative Press Index.
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