David Morton Rayside (born 1947) is a Canadian academic and activist. He was a professor of

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at the

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until his retirement in 2013,"Symposium to honour David Rayside"
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'', 27 February 2013. and was the founding director of the university's Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies from 2004 to 2008. Rayside joined the University of Toronto in 1974, and for forty years taught and wrote on the politics of sexual diversity, gender, and religion. He was a member of the

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. He was also a cofounder of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association, and of the Positive Space Campaign at the University of Toronto. He has served on the boards of the

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and the

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, and in both organizations, he worked on committees promoting equity in academic life. In 2014 he was elected a

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. In 2019, he was inducted into the National Portrait Collection of The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives. In recent years he has focused his writing on the history of a small eastern Ontario community in Glengarry County. Out of this has come a biography of Edith Rayside, a great aunt who distinguished herself as a leader of Canadian military nurses in the First World War. Other essays use stories about South Lancaster as vehicles for exploring larger themes in Canadian social and political history.

Publications

* ''A Small Town in Modern Times: Alexandria, Ontario'' (), 1991 * ''On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics'' (), 1998 * ''Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour'', ed. Gerald Hunt and David Rayside (), 2007 * ''Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States'' (), 2008 ''Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States'', ed. David Rayside and Clyde Wilcox (), 2011 * ''Conservatism in Canada'', ed. James Farney and David Rayside (), 2013 * ''Religion and Canadian Party Politics'', by David Rayside, Jerald Sabin, and Paul E. J. Thomas (), 2017 * "Early Advocacy for the Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity," in ''The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics'', ed. Michael Bosia, Sandra McEvoy, and Momin Rahman () 2020. * "Parenting Rights in North America," in ''Global Encyclopedia of LGBT Politics and Policy'', ed. Donald Haider-Markel , 2021 * "Muslims and Sexual Diversity in North America," in ''Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion'', 2021 * "Edith Catherine Rayside," ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 17 (1940-1950)'', 202

References

External links

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David Rayside archival papers
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University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
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