Acha Bacha

By Bilal Baig
Introduction by Kama La Mackerel

For years, Zaya has delicately balanced his relationship with his Muslim faith and queer identity by keeping his genderqueer lover and manipulative mother apart. But when his mother ends up in the hospital on the same day his partner is leaving for pilgrimage, Zaya’s worlds ... Read more

Age of Minority

By Jordan Tannahill

Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers. The award-winning rihannaboi95 centres around a Toronto teen whose world comes crashing in when YouTube ... Read more

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By bill bissett

Ten ‘translationed’ fragments from bill bissett’s new book:

Another near-life experience.

““Help, help,”“ such a classical utterance…

Can we connect? Is there time for that?

Obsession is a replacement for interaction.

they showed a cluster of, circle of, people ... Read more

BASH'd

By Chris Craddock & Nathan Cuckow

When naïve small-town boy Dillon meets the sophisticated urban Jack in a gay bar, it’s love at first sight, and not just for a one-night stand either! While these star-crossed lovers manage to bring their initially dubious if not downright disowning families together in celebration ... Read more

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very ... Read more

Body Politic

By Nick Green
Introduction by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

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 ... Read more

Body So Fluorescent

By Amanda Cordner & David Di Giovanni

What happened last night on the dance floor? Gary knows he went to the club with his friend Desiree, but now all he has is a fuzzy memory and a text saying, “We’re done. ” Desiree has known something’s been up with Gary, but she always kept her thoughts to herself. Until ... Read more

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom

By Jordan Tannahill
Foreword by Kirsten Bowen

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom presents wildly apocryphal retellings of two events—one historic, one mythic—that reconsider the official record through decidedly queer and feminist lenses.

Painter Sandro Botticelli is an irrepressible libertine, renowned for his ... Read more

Cissy

By Dave Deveau

Cissy is a collection of three plays on gender and young LGBTQ+ folk by the acclaimed playwright Dave Deveau. In Nelly Boy, an unknown man sits in a nondescript room trying to discover how Nelly came to be running naked along the side of a six-lane highway. Nelly’s world slowly ... Read more

Cold Meat Party

By Brad Fraser

This unlikely group gathers to remember past friendships and the happy days of success but also to face the uncertain and chaotic present. It will be a hilarious and heartbreaking weekend and, in the end, more painful than they ever imagined.