David Rayside

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David Rayside

Born
David Morton Rayside

1947 (age 76–77)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
PartnerGerald Hunt
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisLinguistic Divisions in the Social Christian Party of Belgium and the Liberal Parties of Canada and Quebec (1976)
Doctoral advisorRobert D. Putnam
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
InstitutionsUniversity College, Toronto
Websitedavidrayside.ca Edit this at Wikidata

David Morton Rayside FRSC (born 1947) is a Canadian academic and activist. He was a professor of political science at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 2013,[1] and was the founding director of the university's Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies from 2004 to 2008.[1]

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

Ontario 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 the Canadian Political Science Association and the American Political Science Association, and in both organizations, he worked on committees promoting equity in academic life. In 2014 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2019, he was inducted into the National Portrait Collection of The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives.[2]

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.

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