Buddy’s

Buddy’s is a gay bar in Vancouver’s West End that opened in the spring of 1982 and closed in the summer of 1988. It was the starting point for this unusually frank and engaging portrait of gay life and gay culture in the late eighties. Shifting effortlessly between autobiography, fiction, and criticism, Buddy’s is in turn shocking, erotic, witty, and moving, a study of life in a time of plague.

AUTHOR

Stan Persky

Stan Persky is a writer, commentator on the media, and a professor of philosophy at Capilano University in North Vancouver. Originally from Chicago, he settled in Vancouver after a tour as a merchant marine. He is the author of twenty-one books, which include At the Lenin Shipyard: Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union; Buddy’s: Meditations on Desire; Then We Take Berlin: Stories from the Other Side of Europe; and Topic Sentence: A Writer’s Education. He has won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize of the BC Book Prizes (2006) and was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2010.