sentences:  Syms’s work for "Rites" included political and cultural analysis that was referenced in such books as "The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader"
  and "Global Sports Sponsorship", and reprinted in the respected left-of-centre LGBT weekly "Gay Community News".During that time, Syms was also active in the political organization AIDS Action NOW!, which fought for access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS.In 1997 and 1998, he was publisher, for Pink Triangle Press, of "Canadian Male", a short-lived gay men's sexual magazine characterized by very diverse contents and high production values.