David Rayside

David Rayside FRSC
Born	David Morton Rayside 1947 (age 76–77) Montreal,Quebec,Canada
Partner	Gerald Hunt
Academic background
Alma mater	Carleton University University of Michigan
Thesis	Linguistic Divisions in the Social Christian Party of Belgium and the Liberal Parties of Canada and Quebec(1976)
Doctoral advisor	Robert D. Putnam
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	University College, Toronto
Website	davidrayside.ca

David Morton RaysideFRSC(born 1947) is a Canadian academic and activist. He was a professor ofpolitical scienceat theUniversity of Torontountil his retirement in 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 theRight to Privacy Committee,a committee formed in response to police raids ongay bathhouses,The Body Politic,one of Canada's first and most influentialLGBT magazines,the Citizens' Independent Review of Police Activities, and the campaign to add sexual orientation to theOntario Human Rights Code.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 theCanadian Political Science Associationand theAmerican Political Science Association,and in both organizations, he worked on committees promoting equity in academic life. In 2014 he was elected afellow of the Royal Society of Canada.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(ISBN0773508260), 1991
• On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics(ISBN0801483743), 1998
• Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour,ed. Gerald Hunt and David Rayside (ISBN0802086349), 2007
• Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States(ISBN0802086292), 2008Faith, Politics, and Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States,ed. David Rayside and Clyde Wilcox (ISBN978-0-7748-2009-7), 2011
• Conservatism in Canada,ed. James Farney and David Rayside (ISBN9781442614567), 2013
• Religion and Canadian Party Politics,by David Rayside, Jerald Sabin, and Paul E. J. Thomas (ISBN978-0-7748-3558-9), 2017
• "Early Advocacy for the Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity," inThe Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics,ed. Michael Bosia, Sandra McEvoy, and Momin Rahman (ISBN9780190673741) 2020.
• "Parenting Rights in North America," inGlobal Encyclopedia of LGBT Politics and Policy,ed. Donald Haider-MarkelISBN9780190677930,2021
• "Muslims and Sexual Diversity in North America," inOxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion,2021doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.869
• "Edith Catherine Rayside,"Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 17 (1940-1950),2023[1]

External links

• Official website
• David Rayside archival papersheld at theUniversity of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services