The Body Politic ~ Index 1981
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Losing, Learning & Living Through It - Toronto Civic Elections | Ed Jackson | 9-12 |
| Community Pressure Prods Police to Act, & Hallowe'en Hate-Fest Comes to End | Gerald Hanon | 13 |
| School Principal Cancels Reading by Gay Writer of Children's Books | Fay Orr | 18 |
| Maryland Anti-Gay Politican Buys Sex, Loses Seat | 21 | |
| Gay in Colombia: Hiding, Hustling & Coming Together | Tim McCaskell | 24-27 |
| Watching Them Watching Us: CBC Drama The Running Man | David Mole | 28-29 |
| Towards 1984 | Andrew Hodges | 27 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Discrimination: the Human Cost | 13 | |
| Legal Gay Sex at 18? | Paul Trollope | 14 |
| Conference to Plan Aid Package for Underdeveloped Gay World | Ken Popert | 16 |
| Anti-Gay Attacks on the Rise in the US | 17 | |
| Coming Out of Silence: the Fourth NAMBLA Conference | Alex Wilson | 19 |
| Questionnaire: True Confessions, Getting TBP | 21-24 | |
| Interview with Quebec Playwright Tremblay | 25-27 | |
| TBA: No-Strings Band | 28 | |
| Casting Light on the Dark Ages | Robert A. Padgug | 29 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Taking It to the Streets: February 5 Police Raid | Gerald Hannon | 9-12, 16 |
| Sun Puts Heat on Calgary Mayor After His Appearance at Gay Ball | Gerald Hannon | 14 |
| CBC Documentary "Sharing the Secret" | Chris Bearchell | 21-24 |
| An Evening with Gay Appeal | Fay Orr | 25 |
| Comics: Beyond the Vanderbelt: Gay Etiquette for the Eighties | Gary Ostrom | 26 |
| On the Party Circuit with Sky Gilbert | David Roche | 27-28 |
| Fear of Cruising | Jeff Richardson | 43 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Uncovering the Enemy Within: Toronto's Plainclothes Police Infiltrate Gay Demonstration | 12 | |
| Toronto Board Limits Gay Rights Policy | Roger Spalding | 14 |
| Gay Freedom Rally Wins Support | 15-16 | |
| Court Rules AG Not in Contempt, Holds Decision on TBP Appeal | Robert Trow | 17 |
| Toronto Raids Spark Worldwide Protest | 23 | |
| Behind the Spectre of San Francisco | Allan Bérubé | 25-27 |
| Bent: Martin Sherman's Play, Parallels Between Toronto in 1981 & Germany in 1934 | Michael Lynch | 28-29 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Making Gay Sex Dirty | Gerald Hannon | 8-9 |
| Exposing the Big Lie: Plainclothes Cops | Gerald Hannon | 10 |
| TBP to Appeal to Supreme Court to Overturn Court Order for Retrial | Robert Trow | 12 |
| Age-of-Consent Revisions to Code May Get Second Reading soon | 15 | |
| Edmund White: US Author Reflects on Myths & Gay Literature | Stephen MacDonald & Gerry Oxford | 25-26 |
| Sex & Sandinismo: Gay Life in the New Nicaragua | Tim McCaskell | 19-21 |
| Pagan Wholeness & Holiness of Bodies: Erotic Drawings of Claire Weissman Wilks | Mary Meigs | 22-23 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Putting on the Pressure: The Community Fights Back Against the Rising Attacks on Places to be Gay | Gerald Hannon | 9-10 |
| Human Rights: Last Round at Queen's Park | Ed Jackson | 11 |
| TBP Takes Final Shot at Top Court | 15 | |
| Making Waves in Atlantic Canada: A New Quarterly for Lesbians & Gays | Robin Metcalfe | 17 |
| Right-Wing US Homophobes Launch Anti-Gay Legislation In Congress | 19 | |
| Skinscapes | Norman Hatton | 21-23 |
| Schisms & Sharing at Torre Pellice: IGA Conference in Italy | Chris Bearchell | 24 |
| Gay Bell: Political Theatre is Not Just Clowning Around | 25-26 | |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Edmonton: Bath Raids Move West | Gerald Hannon | 7-8 |
| Ontario Human Rights "Omission": CGRO at Code Review Hearings | Ed Jackson | 13 |
| A Space for Ourselves: Two Gay Men in Toronto's Latin American Community | Michael Riordon | 19-21 |
| United Church in Alberta Votes to Study Ordination of Gays | Robert Trow | 8 |
| Conception by Choice: Artificial Insemination by Donor | Fay Orr | 23-24 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Probing Our World: City Council Appoints Arnold Bruner to Conduct a Study of Police/Gay Community Relations in TO | Ed Jackson | 7 |
| Pride & Panache: Lesbian & Gay Pride Across Canada | Robert Trow | 8-9 |
| Demo Launched Decade of Gay Militancy: 1971 Rights Rally in Ottawa | Ed Jackson | 15 |
| Skill & Self-Respect: Fifth Gay Softball World Series | Ken Popert | 25-27 |
| Butch/Fem & Sexual Courage | Joan Nestle | 29-31 |
| Homos According to Hollywood | Norman Hay | 32 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Opening the Mounties' Closet: the RCMP's Hot Files on Gay | Bill Loos | 9 |
| Los Angeles Wins Championship in Gay Softball World Series | Craig Patterson | 11 |
| Bruner Report Must Deal with Cops Who Say Gays are not a Minority | Ed Jackson | 13 |
| Making Allies Among Indecent Activists: Hustlers, Hookers, Swingers, & "Sexual Revolutionaries" | Chris Bearchell | 17 |
| New Kinsey Study: Homosexuality May Arise from Biological Precursor that Parents Cannot Control | 19 | |
| Bar-Hoping for Gay Women in TO | Chris Bearchell | 25-27 |
| Hero of the Fever - Interview with William Burroughs | Robin Hardy | 28-31 |
| The "Gay Cancer" Scare or Mass Media Scare? | Bill Lewis & Randy Coates | 43 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Bedroom, Not Bawdyhouse a Judge Says a Home is not a Public Place | Gerald Hannon | 9 |
| Police & Gays: Study Calls for Dialogue | Ed Jackson | 10-11 |
| Queen's Park to Debate Code, Gay Right Protection Unlikely | Chris Bearchell | 14 |
| Cop's Reinstatement Overturned; Court of Appeal Chops Head | Chris Bearchell | 16 |
| High Court Sends TBP Back for Retrial | 17 | |
| Solidarity Day: US Gays Out in Force | 18 | |
| Courage & Caring in North Bay | Val Fournier | 27-29 |
| The Myth of Genital Jealousy | Jane Rule | 30 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Street Kids: Nobody's Priority? | Ed Jackson | 7, 11 |
| Recognized Gays as Legitimate: Bruner Report Clears First Hurdle | Ed Jackson | 9 |
| Mail-Order Trial Tests Legality of Sex Toys | Bill Loos | 13 |
| US House Representatives Overturned the Sex-Law Reform Bill | 16 | |
| At the Cutting Edge in San Francisco: Do Liaison Officers or Gay Cops Really Make a Difference? | Greg Day | 18-19 |
| Taking Flight with Thomas Disch | David Galbraith & Alexander Wilson | 26-28 |
| Sexual Preference: Their Statistics, Our Lives | George Smith | 29-30 |