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An anthology of comic artwork confronting issues around civil rights, censorship, and freedom of speech.

An anthology of adult-themed comic artwork that epitomizes the kinds of comic art often censored or banned.

Essays based on a monumental-sized photograph by preeminent visual artist Stan Douglas.

A collection of five erotic stories from Ming dynasty China, in English for the first time.

Striking photographs of minor league professional wrestlers.

A wry and outrageous chronicle of contemporary gay life.

A second collection of spine-chilling Gay Horror Fiction.

New stories from the author of the acclaimed and award-winning "Close to Spider Man."

A dazzling and provocative examination of the persistent cultural image that is the cyborg.

The first English translation of an erotic novel published in China in the 17th century, regarded as a notorious classic in Chinese literature, long banned in China. Shockingly explicit, it's a story of betrayal, lust, revenge, and intrigue.

Nominated for a Commonwealth Writers Prize, this extravagant and tragicomic novel is told in the musical lilt of Spanglish. Camilo, a strong-willed queen from Chile, tells his story as he lays dying in his hospital bed, recalling a life of sequins and disco. "Realistic, stream-of-consciousness style."--"Time Out "(London)

A dead man is discovered in his apartment, surrounded by notes, books, and other assorted fragments of his life. A distant acquaintance is called in to clean up the mess, clear out the space, and try to make sense of the suicide, which leads to his own world being turned upside down. As he sifts through the evidence of his friend's life and death, the things he once thought of as certain cannot now be taken for granted, subsumed by the anonymous urban chaos of Vancouver's West End, a world populated by voyeurs, exhibitionists, and lonely outcasts looking for a way out, and a way in.Elegantly written and full of sharp bursts of wit, Flat explores how we relate -- and don't relate -- to one another, amid an unforgiving concrete landscape that holds more secrets than it can bear

The first Hot & Bothered, a 1998 collection of short short stories on lesbian desire, went through three printings within its first year. Hot & Bothered 2, the sequel, contains even more sensuous tales of lesbian seduction and fantasy. There are sicty-nine stories from numerous countries around the world, including the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, and elsewhere. These imaginative, uninhibited stories will delight, arouse, and inspire you in 1,000 words or less.

Keenly surveying the borders of queer male community and identity, the fictions of "Contra/Dictions", a collection of stories by queer male writers from the U.S. and Canada, resist simple answers to complex questions. They suggest that while the "gay community" is becoming more "accessible" and "visible", there are regions and mindstates that cannot or refuse to subscribe to it, recognizing the plurality of gay identity. Mordant, coarse, and full of angry, wry truths, Contra/Dictions asks pressing questions of both the culture of queer men and the larger world in which it is often uncomfortably enmeshed. The nightmare and paradise of sexuality, love, and community are viewed from different perspectives, along with issues of race, economics, violence, politics, and homophobia. Pulling no punches, Contra/Dictions is a snapshot of queer male life in North America at the cusp of the millenium.

"A varied, juicy anthology of gay short takes". -- Village Voice"A worthwhile collection -- the standard is remarkably high". -- Gay Times of London (UK)Danger, romance, humor, and hot sex: all this and more in Hot & Bothered, a short short fiction anthology of lesbian desire, by the co-editor of Queer View Mirror 1 and 2. From a transgendered bashing in Bulgaria, to a sex-obsessed dyke trying to do her grocery shopping, to a woman wearing tit clamps attempting to go through airport security, the tales in Hot & Bothered will get you there in 1,000 words or less.Included in the book are stories by 69 writers, including Dorothy Allison, Persimmon Blackbridge, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Nisa Donnelly, Elana Dykewomon, Judith Katz, Joan Nestle, Leslea Newman, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Sarah Schulman, Kitty Tsui, and Jess Wells.

A bright and shiny follow-up to Queer View Mirror, the popular international anthology of lesbian and gay short short fiction. These are snapshots of queer life that articulate, in one thousand words or less, different ways of the world.One hundred and one stories from writers in eight different countries -- including the U.S., the U.K., and Canada -- make up Queer View Mirror 2. Their subject matter ranges the wide spectrum of gay experience, from first kisses to journeys home; moving stories of family and childhood, hot tales of furtive glances and one-night stands. Diverse and imaginative, these stories depict the pleasures and the politics of queer desire. And by again collecting work by lesbians and gay men in one volume, the anthology acknowledges the common ground within the collective gay experience while at the same time celebrating its diversity.Included in the collection are pieces by such well-known writers as Maureen Brady, Nisa Donnelly, Michael Thomas Ford, Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Larissa Lai, Leslea Newman, Carol Queen, Patrick Roscoe, and Lawrence Schimel.

Some twenty-five years after the height of the "women's liberation movement", feminism has, in certain circles, become a dirty word; for some, it is no longer relevant, nor descriptive of women's lives today. For others, however, the struggles and the issues continue, implying the need for a redefinition of feminism and its role in modern society. Bringing it Home is a collection of intensely personal essays by women, from diverse experiences and backgrounds, on the role of feminism in their lives. Provocative and inspiring, the book brings feminism home and sits her down for frank discussions about life, love, motherhood, daughterhood, work, sex, and community. From the kitchen sink to the corporate boardroom, these essays peel away the rhetoric from feminist discourse, and pose meaningful questions for women everywhere.

Lambda Literary Award finalistAlternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one. Throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you're visibly different from those around youwhether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Ze offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the "e;official stories"e; about how gender and sexuality work.S. Bear Bergman's first book was Butch is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press). Ze is an activist, gender-jammer, and author of two books and three award-winning solo stage shows. Bergman recently relocated to Burlington, Ontario, from New England.

This earnest, violent, yet utterly transfixing gay love story is set in the nineteenth-century American Midwest. Douglas Fortescue is a successful poet who flees England for America following a scandal; Joshua Jenkins is a feral young outlaw who was taught how to shoot a man at age six. The two men meet when Joshua robs Douglas' carriage and takes him hostage; soon, a remarkable secret is revealed, and these two very different men grow closer, even as Douglas' brother tries to ';save' him from his uncivilized surroundings.First published in Germany, Missouri is available in English for the first time.

A fun, informative guide to fifty-plus facial hairstyles for men.

A lavish book on the art of Attila Richard Lukacs.

A collection of essays about identity: gender, culture, class, and sexuality.

'Coyote is an important literary voice, blending a keen sense of gay identity and community with a refreshing appreciation for the goodness at the heart of some straight people.'OutThe first three story collections by Ivan E. Coyote featured insightful, deeply personal tales about gender, identity, and community, based on her own experiences growing up lesbian in Canada's North. Ivan's most recent book, Bow Grip, was her first novel; it was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Prize for Women's Fiction, was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association, and won Canada's ReLit Award for Best Novel of the Year.With The Slow Fix, Ivan returns to her short story roots in a collection that is disarming, warm, and funny, while it at the same time subverts our preconceived notions of gender roles. Ivan excels at finding the small yet significant truths in our everyday gestures and interactions. By doing so, she helps us to embrace not what makes us women or men, but human beings.Ivan E. Coyote is the author of five books, all published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Born in Canada's Yukon Territory, she lives in Vancouver, BC.

Journalist and shopping addict Pamela Klaffke documents the history of shopping, from a time when cattle were currency to the current age of contemporary shopping phenoms like QVC and eBay.

As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past--the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National Dreams is an incisive study of the most persistent icons and stories in Canadian history, and how they inform our sense of national identity: the fundamental beliefs that we Canadians hold about ourselves. National Dreams is the story of our stories; the myths and truths of our collective past that we first learned in school, and which we carry throughout our adult lives as tangible evidence of what separates us from other nationalities. Francis examines various aspects of this national mythology, in which history is as much storytelling as fact. Textbooks were an important resource for Francis. "e;For me, these books are interesting not because they explain what actually happened to us, but because they explain what we think happened to us."e;For example, Francis documents how the legend of the CPR as a country-sustaining, national affirming monolity was created by the company itself--a group of capitalists celebrating the privately-owned railway, albeit one which was generously supported with public land and cash--and reiterated by most historians ever since.Similarly, we learn how the Mounties were transformed from historical police force to mythic heroes by a vast army of autobiographers, historians, novelists, and Hollywood filmmakers, with little attention paid to the true role of the force in such incidents as the Bolshevik rebellion, in which a secret conspiracy by the Government against its people was conducted through the RNWMP.Also revealed in National Dreams are the stories surrounding the formation and celebration of Canadian heroes such as Louis Riel and Billy Bishop.

';Schulman crafts a piercing investigation into desire, mores, and the law.'Publishers Weekly';An important work of American literature. That this is probably not how the book will be handled, reviewed, shelved, sold and read makes the novel all the more necessary and true.'Lambda Book Report';Sarah Schulman is one our most articulate observers.'The Advocate';In true Schulman form, the book has a gleaming intelligence and chilled anger. It's beautifully blunt and plainspoken.'L.A. Weekly';A thought-provoking story on a controversial subject. . . . To her credit, Schulman forces the reader to question common societal assumptions.'Library JournalThe Child, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, is the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by acclaimed lesbian writer Sarah Schulman, available for the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia, based on the 1997 sexual assault and murder of an eleven-year-old boy by a fifteen-year-old.Stew is a lonely teen who discovers love on an adult website. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting, his proclivities are revealed to his family and friends, to his horror. Devastated by these revelations and left to fend for himself, he ends up committing murder.Brazen and daring in its themes, The Child is a powerful indictment of sex panic in America, and a plaintive meditation on isolation and desire.

A Little Sister's Classic: a young American man comes of age in 1950s France.

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 lace, privilege, race, and gender. In a Queer Country is a groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays from established and emerging writers 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 to manifestations in popular culture, from pride parade fashions to lesbian park rangers.Specific essays include Tom Waugh (author of the acclaimed Hard to Imagine) on Montreal and Toronto's queer cinema of the 1960s 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 the 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.

A reprint of Sarah Schulman's brilliant 1995 novel, with a new introduction by the author.