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On February 2, the Department of History will be the community sponsor of a film screening at , Kingston ������ý ’s annual queer film festival, now in its twenty-sixth year. The featured film is , directed by David Secter. Made in 1965, the student production, filmed on the snow-covered campus of the University of Toronto, explores the relationship between two undergrad students, Doug, a well-liked senior with an equally popular girlfriend, and Peter, a shy freshman. Produced in the period before the decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada, Winter Kept Us Warm is considered the first Canadian film to explore a gay romance and became the first dramatic feature from Canada to show at Cannes. The film is the subject of , published by McGill-Queen ������ý ’s in their “Queer Film Classics” series. Students in Steven Maynard ������ý ’s course, “The History of Sexuality in Canada,” are writing papers on the film and the book. Steven will moderate a conversation between Dupuis and Secter as part of the screening. Winter Kept Us Warm will be presented on February 2, 4pm, at the Screening Room, 120 Princess Street.