About the Author
Sky Gilbert
Sky Gilbert is a writer, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was the founding artistic director (1979 to 1997) of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre—one of the world’s longest-running gay and lesbian theatres. There is a street in Toronto named after him—Sky Gilbert Lane (you can google it!). He has had more than forty plays produced and has written seven critically acclaimed novels and three poetry collections. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline McGibbon Award, and the Silver Ticket Award. His latest novel, Sad Old Faggot (ECW Press), was critically acclaimed. His book Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry was the World will be published by Guernica Editions in 2020. He lives in Hamilton.
There is an art to taking the real and fictionalizing it: whether it’s the life of an extraordinary historical figure or one’s own ancestry, the following ten novels have at least a kernel of reality in their otherwise make-believe narratives.
It’s Pride weekend this weekend in Toronto: and naturally, we’re preparing by reading some fantastic LGBTQ+ books. We’ve come across some great words and phrases on the way: here are ten for you to include in your own Pride lexicon.
Not enough literary festivals last week for you? Check out this week, with festivals in Victoria, Vancouver, Lethbridge, Winnipeg, and Toronto. But that's not all!
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WAKE UP from that Turkey-coma: there's literary events to be had. If you're in Toronto, be sure to celebrate the LPG's 40th Anniversary with us at Ben McNally this Thursday. And if you're not, there's tons of great things going on Canada-wide, like WordFest in Calgary! ... Read more
In our column Character Study, we typically highlight certain attributes and tangible traits of some of our favourite ALU characters: the gold bikini of Bunny and Shark ’s Bunny, for example, or Thomas from New Tab’s social media addiction. But, given ... Read more
We're celebrating Pride Week 2015 with a new selection of LGBTQ books published over the last year. If you want even more Pride picks, don't forget to check out our World Pride Reads list from last year!
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