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Title

In a queer country : gay and lesbian studies in the Canadian context / edited by Terry Goldie.

Publication

Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

Goldie, Terry

Description

313 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if not fractured and fraught with the contradictions of place, privilege, race, and gender. In a Queer Country is a groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, In a Queer Country confronts queer culture from various perspectives relevant to international audiences. Topics range from the politics of the family and spousal rights to queer black identity, from pride parade fashions to lesbian park rangers. Specific essays include Tom Waugh (Hard to Imagine, Lust Unearthed (Arsenal), Outlines (Arsenal)) on Montreal and Toronto's queer cinema of the '60s and '70s; Gary Kinsman's critique of nationalism, both queer and Canadian; Lynn Fernie in an interview on her extraordinary award-winning documentary about lesbians in the 1950s, Forbidden Love; Elaine Pigeon on Michel Tremblay's classic play Hosanna and its author's attempts to mingle sexual, class and Quebec Nationalist politics; and Gordon Brent Ingram on nude beaches and aspects of gay male public space. Includes numerous photographs and illustrations. Lambda Literary Award Finalist." --

Alternative Title

In a queer country : gay & lesbian studies in the Canadian context

Subject

• Gays > Canada
• Lesbians > Canada
• Gay liberation movement > Canada
• Gay and lesbian studies > Canada
• Homosexuels > Canada
• Lesbiennes > Canada
• Études sur les homosexuels > Canada
• Mouvement de libération des homosexuels > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Hosanna! Michel Tremblay's queering of national identity / Elaine Pigeon -- Talking forbidden love : an interview with Lynne Fernie / Terry Goldie -- Buller men and batty bwoys : hidden men in Toronto and Halifax black communities / Wesley Crichlow -- "Family" as a site of contestation : queering the normal or normalizing the queer? / Michelle K. Owen -- Can you see the difference? : queerying the nation, ethnicity, festival, and culture in Winnipeg / Pauline Greenhill -- The bisexuality wars : the perils of identity as marginality / Zoë Newman.
• Imagining an intercultural nation : a moment in Canadian queer cinema / James Allan -- The elephant, the mouse, and the lesbian national park rangers / bj wray -- Having a gay old time in Paris : John Glassco's not-so-queer adventures / Andrew Lesk -- Redesigning wreck : beach meets forest as location of male homoerotic culture & placemaking in Pacific Canada / Gordon Brent Ingram -- Challenging Canadian and queer nationalism / Gary Kinsman -- Siting lesbians : urban spaces and sexuality / Catherine Nash -- Wear it with pride : the fashions of Toronto's pride parade and Canadian queer identities / Andrea N. Frolic -- Fairy tales of two cities : or queer nation(s) -- national cinema(s) / Thomas Waugh.

ISBN

1551521059 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 47823677
• SCSB-11983161

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library