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Series: Poetry is Queer Paperback J Kirby 9781989287866 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM Oct 01, 2021

Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers?real and imagined?conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word ?queer? for those ? who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state,? Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O?Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman?s grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir lik... + Read More
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Series: Our Story Coming out in the time of HIV and AIDS Paperback Robert Hamilton 9781987963915 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2020

This is a story of friendship, love, loss, and drag told with humour and compassion. In 1977, the author, then a naïve young man, escapes his pulp and paper mill town in northern New Brunswick and goes in search of his gay self. After two years studying in Toronto, he moves to Edmonton, begins his career as a prison guard and timidly comes out into the gay scene. A lasting and sometimes tumultuous friendship develops with Joe, a drag queen and in the summer of 1982 they move to Vancouver in anticipation of fun times and promising futures. Their... + Read More
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Series: Murder at the World's Fair Paperback MJ Lyons 9781987963540 $20.00 FICTION May 02, 2019

The year is 1893, and airships cloud the skies over the bustling metropolis of Toronto. The city is set to host the world's fair thanks in no small part to the work of two fantastical inventors. The New World Exhibition is to be a celebration of cultural and technological marvels; roving automatons, clockwork contraptions, the world's biggest steam-powered paddle boat, all to be fully lit by the wonder of electricity! On the day of the grand opening, young Norwood Quigley, aspiring journalist, photographer and scion of a world-famous airship ma... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series Cardinal Divide Paperback Nina Newington 9781771834421 $20.00 FICTION Sep 01, 2020

A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It's complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is Indigenous. But is she? How can she find out? Cardinal Divide explores the hunger for certainty and the mutability of identity, whether of gender, race or sexuality. Authenticity isn't simple. Acting as somebody else is simultaneously a way to deceive and to ... + Read More
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Series: Guernica Prize This Cleaving and This Burning Paperback J.A. Wainwright 9781771835664 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2020

Two unrelated, aspiring writers, born on the same day in the same year to parents with the same first names, grow up together and eventually gain national prominence as authors. As the years pass, the complex sexual identities of Miller Sark and Hal Pierce undermine their intense private relationship, inflicting damage that cannot be undone by the distinction of their fiction and poetry. Inspired by the lives and works of American literary giants Ernest Hemingway and Hart Crane, This Cleaving and This Burning reveals the passion and purpose beh... + Read More
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Series: Essential Prose Series That Summer in Provincetown Paperback Caroline Vu 9781771830355 $20.00 FICTION Jul 01, 2015

Daniel, a young French-Vietnamese man, lies dying in a Montreal hospital. Spurned by his family for contracting AIDS in Provincetown, Daniel spends his last months in despair. Only his cousin Mai stays by his side to record the darkest of family secrets. From French Indochina to present day North America, this novel follows three generations of a Vietnamese family as they endure their own folly and the whims of history.
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Series: Essential Prose Series No Safeguards Paperback H. Nigel Thomas 9781550719840 $25.00 FICTION Jul 01, 2015

No Safeguards, the first in a trilogy, follows Jay and his brother Paul from childhood to young adulthood. We witness the destructive impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs on their mother and father, opposition to those beliefs by the boys' grandmother and each boy's very different response to their parents' religiosity. This becomes even more poignant after they leave their grandmother's comfortable home in St. Vincent to join their mother in Montreal. The revelation that both boys are gay adds to their sense of oppression and divides the... + Read More
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Series: The Girls with Stone Faces Paperback Arleen Paré 9781771314640 $20.00 POETRY Sep 01, 2017

A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award?winning Lake of Two Mountains, turns her cool, benevolent eye to the shared lives of Florence Wyle and Frances Loring, two of Canada's greatest artists, whose sculptures she comes face to face with at the National Gallery of Canada. In the guise of a curator, Paré takes us on a moving, carefully structured tour through the rooms where their work is displayed, the Gallery'... + Read More
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Series: The Essential John Glassco 1st edition Paperback John Glassco 9780889844421 $14.95 POETRY Jan 01, 2022

A collection of the poetic achievements of John Glassco, a Montreal Group poet whose technical giftedness and unimpeachable wordplay brought music and flair to poems characterized by darkness and decay.
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Series: The Essential Douglas LePan 1st edition Paperback Douglas LePan 9780889844230 $14.95 POETRY May 01, 2019

The Essential Douglas LePan presents a wide-ranging collection of poetry-from tense verses on the fog of war to homoerotic love poems to lyrics in praise of the natural world, all in celebration of the heart's blood `that runs through and supports everything mankind has made'.
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Series: Essential Poets The Essential Daryl Hine First Paperback Daryl Hine 9780889843851 $14.95 POETRY May 31, 2015

The Essential Daryl Hine presents a judicious selection of the work of a poetic virtuoso, a friend of James Merrill, John Hollander, and Richard Howard long celebrated for his learned wit, formal and rhetorical mastery, and cosmopolitan sensibility.
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Series: The Videofag Book Paperback William Ellis 9781771663625 $20.00 DRAMA Nov 15, 2017

Longlisted for the 2018 Toronto Book AwardsIn October 2012, lovers William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill moved into a former barbershop in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood and turned it into an art space called Videofag. Over the next four years Videofag became a hub for counterculture in the city, playing host to a litany of performances, screenings, parties, exhibitions, and all manner of queer fuckery. But hosting a city in their house took its toll and eventually William and Jordan broke up, closing the space for good in June 2016.The... + Read More
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Series: Body Politic Paperback Nick Green 9781770919747 $17.95 DRAMA May 21, 2019

The point is that we started the conversation. In 1971 Phillip was on the cusp of starting something big. Something that would make history. Now he’s an aging journalist trying to make sense of Grindr. Phillip was a founding member of The Body Politic, a gay-liberation newspaper based in Toronto. As he recounts memories of censorship battles, police raids, historic rallies, and the onset of HIV/AIDS during an intimate encounter with a younger man, their generational differences shine a light on the massive shifts in queer identity and politics ... + Read More
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Series: The Gay Heritage Project Paperback Damien Atkins 9781770917989 $22.95 DRAMA Sep 24, 2018

This isn’t your ordinary history project. In what has become an important piece of contemporary queer theatre, three of Canada’s most gifted performers—Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir—go on a search way past Google in order to find the history of gay people. The trio start their quest by looking back at their own lineages and move along to the library, the Yellow Brick Road, Ukraine, a game show, and a court. They discover handfuls of forgotten heroes and stories, but also visit some well-known names, compiling everything into one ... + Read More
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Series: Gertrude and Alice Paperback Evalyn Parry 9781770918801 $18.95 DRAMA Mar 12, 2018

Visiting the audience in the present day, Gertrude and Alice come to find out how history has treated them. The couple recounts stories of their forty-year relationship; of meetings with iconic artists and writers; and of Alice’s overwhelming, consuming devotion to Gertrude’s genius. Before they leave, they want to find out what has become of their artistic and cultural influence, and how their lives and work are—or are not—remembered.
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Series: Philistine, The Paperback Leila Marshy 9781988130705 $19.95 FICTION Mar 10, 2018

When Nadia Eid leaves Montreal in search of her Palestinian father who has been missing in Cairo, she is far from imagining that she her true discovery will be a complex relationship with Manal, a young Egyptian artist. But what to do when nationality and personal relations refuse to coexist? With Manal's career poised to take off and her father's secret life revealed, the intifada rages across the border and Nadia must choose between family and destiny.
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Series: Blue The Derek Jarman Poems 1st edition Paperback Keith Garebian 9781897109243 $14.95 POETRY Mar 20, 2008

In Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems, Keith Garebian, himself an insatiable cineaste, has masterfully spliced together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. Derek Jarman's final film, Blue, is a work without visuals except International Klein Blue, and it provides Garebian with an inspired backdrop against which he explores, in the book's poignant closing section, the filmmaker's descent into illness-induced blindness, charting... + Read More
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Series: Bowling Pin Fire 1st edition Paperback Andy Quan 9781897109229 $14.95 POETRY Oct 20, 2007

In his second book of poems, Andy Quan recounts a series of firsts: first time listening to Joni Mitchell's Blue, first loss of a friend, first dance with a man. Building on earlier explorations of memory, sexuality, and culture that are the signatures of his best work, Bowling Pin Fire transcribes the arc of one man's life from growing up Chinese in Vancouver, to seeing the world through the lens of fearless, free-spirited youth, to arriving, as we all must, at the initial cautionary glimmerings of midlife. The rituals and rivalries of grade s... + Read More
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Series: The Seat Next to the King Paperback Steven Elliott Jackson 9781927922415 $15.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2018

In 1964, a white man walks into a public restroom in a Washington, DC park looking for sex. The next man who enters is a black man.The Seat Next to the King explores the lives of two men who literally sat next to the most powerful men in America. Bayard Rustin, a friend to Martin Luther King Jr. and the organizer of the March on Washington, and Walter Jenkins, top aide and friend to President Lyndon Johnson, meet in that restroom, although neither knows the other's identity yet. Each is a symbol of hope and change in 1964, and each is conflicte... + Read More
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Series: Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 Canadian, expanded Paperback Trish Salah 9780994047144 $19.95 POETRY Jun 30, 2017

Largely written before the current cultural visibility of trans lit, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 is Salah's prescient contribution to a canon of self-determined literature that explores transness. In this case, the author sidesteps the "I" in the text and instead draws on archives--sexological, anthropological, psychological, among others--to demonstrate the shifting and shifty nature of our identities, affiliations, and narratives. This 2017 edition is the first to be published in Canada and features four new poems and a new cover design by Kai Yun ... + Read More
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Series: Natural History of Transition, A Paperback Callum Angus 9781999058876 $18.95 FICTION Apr 27, 2021

A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters, who grow as tall as buildings, turn into mountains, unravel hometown mysteries, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history, horror, and a reality heavily dosed with magic.
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Series: My Two-Faced Luck Paperback Brett Grubisic 9781989689271 $19.95 FICTION Oct 15, 2021

1990. Transferred to Horsetail Institution and mortally ill, an inmate devotes his remaining weeks to a project--recording his history on cassette tape. The account describes a curious queer journey that began in rural New England in 1927. Meditating on ruined family, illicit lovers, drunken parties, a tragic marriage, and strange terms of employment, the American inmate strives to wring sense--meaning--from a life now winding down in River Bend City, British Columbia... a few years after a jury found him guilty of murdering his boss, a geriatr... + Read More
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Series: Inanna Memoir Series In Search of Pure Lust Paperback Lisa Weil 9781771334976 $22.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 23, 2018

Winner, IPPY Bronze Medal for LGBT Non- Fiction; Finalist, 2019 International Book Awards for LGBTQ - Non-Fiction; Finalist, 2018 Foreword INDIES Award for LGBT Adult Nonfiction; Finalist, American Book Fest 2019 Best Book Awards for LGBTQ Non-Fiction)In Search of Pure Lust documents an important chapter in lesbian history that is already being distorted and erased, a time when lesbians were reinventing everything from the ground up. Along with violence against women around the globe, lesbians of the 1970s and '80s were motivated by growing ... + Read More
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Series: creole métisse of french canada, me Paperback Sharron Proulx-Turner 9781928120100 $16.00 POETRY Dec 31, 2017

Sharron's poems and writings in creole métisse of french canada, me include insights into her experiences as a child, a student and beyond; inviting the reader to understand her life, Métis experience in Canada, the true stories from the inside out. "if I could believe that, then maybe I could believe my own childhood pictures and words all neatly drawn and gridded and hidden inside dust devils on clean white paper, like cartoons in a comic book. I learned a cartoon can be a stand-alone drawing on strong, large paper. so I changed up the form. ... + Read More
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Series: Marvellous Grounds Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto Paperback Jin Haritaworn 9781771133647 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 18, 2018

Toronto has long been a place that people of colour move to in order to join queer of colour communities. Yet the city’s rich history of activism by queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and racialized people (QTBIPOC) remains largely unwritten and unarchived. While QTBIPOC have a long and visible presence in the city, they always appear as newcomers in queer urban maps and archives in which white queers appear as the only historical subjects imaginable. The first collection of its kind to feature the art, activism, and writings of QTBIPOC in T... + Read More
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Series: Queer Progress From Homophobia to Homonationalism Paperback Tim McCaskell 9781771132787 $39.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 08, 2016

How did a social movement evolve from a small group of young radicals to the incorporation of LGBTQ communities into full citizenship on the model of Canadian multiculturalism? Tim McCaskell contextualizes his work in gay, queer, and AIDS activism in Toronto from 1974 to 2014 within the shift from the Keynesian welfare state of the 1970s to the neoliberal economy of the new millennium. A shift that saw sexuality —once tightly regulated by conservative institutions—become an economic driver of late capitalism, and sexual minorities celebrated... + Read More
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Series: Burning the Night Paperback Glen Huser 9781774390115 $19.95 FICTION May 13, 2021

From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and musicians.When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the diary her intended husband Phillip kept before his death during World War One, an obsessed Curtis examines parallels to his own life: his desire to become a skillful artist and to find fulfilling love.Timeless and essential, award-winning author Glen... + Read More