The Body Politic ~ Index 1985
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Goodbye 1984: Looking Back on the Dreaded Year that's Now Just Another Date in History | 8-9 | |
| Straights, Come Out | Jane Rule | 16 |
| The Uses of Abuse | 27-30 | |
| Beverley Bratty | Sonja Mills | 31 |
| Out of the Closet & Out in the Cold: Are the Enforcers of Gay Bar Door Policies the New queer Bashers in Our Midst? | Danny Cockerline | 32 |
| Different Roads Out of "Death-in-Life" | Mary Meigs | 33 |
| Sheer Fetish | Rick Bébout | 47 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| John Damien: Ten Years, & Still Fighting | Michael Totzke | 7-8 |
| Sue Harris: Entering the Political Mainstream | Don Larventz | 9-11 |
| Aimless Development Threatens Gay Beach | Andrew Lesk | 11-12 |
| Test Shows AIDS Bug Well-Established Here | 14 | |
| Australia: Lesbian Alison Thorne Battling to Return to Teaching | 19 | |
| Friends, 1926: Excerpt from the Lesbian Poet Elsa Gidlow's Autobiography | 29-31 | |
| Playing with Ourselves: Recent Surge of Gay Men's Theatre | Bob Wallace | 32-34 |
| Talking Hope | John Bodis | 47 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Surveillance & Suicide: January Washroom Busts in St. Catherines | Ed Jackson | 7-9 |
| Living the Double Life: Being Married & Gay | Ed Jackson | 8 |
| Sex, Not Sexism, the Censor's Real Target | Lee Waldorf | 11 |
| Gay News Bad News; MPs Refuse Free TBP | Ken Popert | 13 |
| Spermicide Unproven as AIDS Prevention | Ken Popert | 14 |
| National Day Task Force Goes to the Supreme Court to Defend the Value of Free Speech | 17 | |
| Service Groups Say: "Don't Take the AIDS Test" | 19 | |
| Pleasure & Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality | Lee Waldorf | 26-28 |
| Circumcision: The Unkindest Cut | Robin Hardy | 29-30 |
| Still Glad to be Gay: Rocker Tom Robinson | Alan McGinty | 31 |
| Gay Words, Gay Worlds | Richard Summerbell | 33-34 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Your Place & Mine: Changing Housing Patterns in Toronto & Their Potential Effect on the Gay Community | 7-8, 35, 39 | |
| Discrimination by Decree: "Esprit de Corps" Can Become a "Security Risk" | Pat Spencer | 9, 14 |
| Censorship as a Civil Right | Gillian Rodgerson & Lee Waldorf | 11-12 |
| London Lesbian & Gay Centre Opens to Fact Tight Tory Times | 19 | |
| AIDS: Dubious Test Approved; Funding Cuts Loom | 21 | |
| 31 Words: A Single Classified Ad Sets Off a Major Debate on Questions of Race, Sexuality, & the Role of This Magazine | 29-32, 45 | |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| What the G***p!? The Courts Take Away Canada Customs Scissors, but Not for Long | Lee Waldorf | 7 |
| AIDS Groups to Hold First National Meeting | 17 | |
| Sydney Overcomes Obstacles to Put on a Party of Pride & Strength | Doug Grenville | 19 |
| AIDS: Tests Show Virus Common, Long-Established, in Africa | 21 | |
| High School Faggot | Ian Paterson | 30-31 |
| Beyond the Iceberg: Search Out a Gay Sensibility at the Art Gallery of Ontario | Alan O'Connor | 32-33 |
| Photo Essay: We Are... | Lisa Kanemoto | 34-35 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Last Call for Miller? Ontario Voters Slash the Tories to a Shaky Minority | Andrew Lesk | 15-16 |
| BC: Second-Guessing Customs | Gillian Rodgerson | 17 |
| Mapping the Gay World | Alan O'Connor | 26-27 |
| Getting the General Idea: Creation of Three Gay Artists | David Vereschagin | 29-32 |
| Vita Variations: Biography of Virginia Woolf | Catherine Bennett & Mary Meigs | 33-34 |
| Reclaiming a Gay Artform: A Tribute to the Unjustly Obscure Practitioners of Physique Art Leaves Out One Vital Fact | Thomas Waugh | 36 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Facing a Common Enemy: AIDS in Canada | 13-15 | |
| RCMP: Queer-Free & Proud of It | 19-20 | |
| New Zealand: Repressive Sex Laws | 25-27 | |
| Massachusetts: Keeping Foster Homes Straight | 27 | |
| Man in Frock: A Personal Reflection on Drag | Neil Bartlett | 31-33 |
| Theatre in the Plague Years | Robin Hardy | 34-35 |
| Transit Tryst? Big Brothers Poster | Rick Bébout | 37 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Ice Age Ends, But Will the Ice Melt? Tories are Out, the Liberals are In | Andrew Lesk | 13 |
| Unacceptable & Absurd: Human Rights Chief Trashes RCMP Homophobia | Michael Totzke | 14 |
| High-Tech Sex Cops Strike Again: Police Video Surveillance Disrupts Another Ontario Community | Ian Kirkby | 17 |
| Closing the Barn Door: The Fraser Commission Gives us Too Little, Too Late | Jim Monk | 18 |
| Dying to Live: Reflections on the Black Death | Gerald Hannon | 27-29 |
| The Real Dirt: Gay Gardeners | Doug Grenville | 30-31 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| High School Confidential: Toronto Students Expelled for Lesbianism | 13-14 | |
| Charter Flights: The Words Sexual Orientation Missing from Charter of Rights | Michael Totzke | 15-17 |
| Sex & the State: Finding History, Making History | Rick Bébout | 30-33 |
| Mormon Gays | Jonathan Stevens | 35-36 |
| Amazon Warriors: Comic Books for Big Girls | Laura Coramai | 51 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Assault Victim Overcomes a Cover-Up & Faked Records to Bring His Assailants to Justice | Lee Waldorf | 15-16 |
| Gay Households are Still Endangered by City By-Laws | Lee Zaslofsky | 17 |
| Reading the Sex Scandals | Stan Persky | 19-20 |
| Moscow: Queer Behind the Curtain | Tim McCaskell | 23-24 |
| Beyond Racism: Balancing Gay Asian American Must Perform to combat Racism While Trying to Overcome Restrictive Traditional Values | Siong-huat Chua | 29-30 |
| A Day in the Media Life of Disease, August 12, 1985 - Rock Hudson Came Out | Rick Bébout | 31-32 |
| The Birth of Perversity: Understand Our Forebears | Jeffrey Weeks | 33-34 |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Refugees from Homophobia: A Gay Coupl Thread Their Way Through the Maze of Immigration Laws | 13, 21 | |
| Homosexuals Anonymous: Preying on the Wounded | Neil Powers & Andrew Lesk | 14-15 |
| Gay Sex Book Taken Off Sale | Gillan Rodgerson | 15 |
| Maloney: Gay Activist Runs Against NDP | Ken Popert | 17 |
| Poll Favours Gay Protection: 70 Percent of Canadians Want Human Rights Laws Extended to Sexual Orientation | Ken Popert & Ric Taylor | 23 |
| Great Britain: Straight to Tell, Only Heterosexuals Jurists are Quailfied to Decide if Gay Literature is Obscene | 27 | |
| Title | Author | Pages |
| Monkey See, Monkey Rape? Long-Sought Proof of a Link Between Pornography & Rape | Francis Gillis | 13 |
| AIDS: Double Exposure, Ontario & British Columbia Ignore Fears about Confidentiality of AIDS Antibody Test Results | Ed Jackson | 15, 17 |
| Taking the Test: What for? | Julian Aynsley | 17 |
| Safe Sex Only, Or Else...Mayor Ed Koch Closes New York City's Most Famous Fuck Bar, the Mineshaft | 23 | |
| San Francisco Students to Learn about Gay Life & AIDS in Classroom | 25 | |
| Rock Hudson: The Last Guy You'd Have Figured? | Richard Dyer | 27-29 |