A queer love story : the letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout / edited by Marilyn R. Schuster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schuster, Marilyn R., editor.

Series:

Sexuality studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rule, Jane--Correspondence.

Rule, Jane.

Bébout, Rick, 1950-2009--Correspondence.

Bébout, Rick.

Journalists--Canada--Correspondence.

Journalists.

Lesbians--Canada--Correspondence.

Lesbians.

Gay men--Canada--Correspondence.

Gay men.

Authors, Canadian--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, Canadian.

Canada.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xxv, 619 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2017]

Summary:

"A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule--novelist and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America--and Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic, an important incubator of LGBT thought and activism. Rule lived in a remote rural community on Galiano Island but wrote a column for the magazine. Bébout resided in and was devoted to Toronto's gay village. At turns poignant, scintillating, and incisive, their exchanges include ruminations on queer life and the writing life even as they document some of the most pressing LGBT issues of the '80s and '90s, including HIV/AIDs, censorship, and state policing of desire."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1981 "Any question of such censorship" 3

1982 "An odd flu" 20

1983 "It's Raining Men" 67

1984 "Moved by a stranger" 116

1985 "Why is 'a star' a word for the exceptional?" 147

1986 "What is it we want when we want sex?" 177

1987 "Life and its sheer wonder" 204

1988 "Loving is a way of being" 236

1989 "Xenophilia" 279

1990 "The dying of the light" 315

1991 "There is no fault" 363

1992 "A lesbian in the '40s" 403

1993 "It's all right (even useful) to write drunk, as long as one edits sober" 435

1994 "I accept this degree" 487

1995 "A public space for our views and values" 530.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Rule, Jane. Correspondence. Selections.

Bébout, Rick, 1950-2009. Correspondence. Selections.

Other Format:

Queer love story.

ISBN:

9780774835435

0774835435

OCLC:

966983893