MISCELLANEOUS / DIVERS
The user interested in zines should see the note and brief list in
MISCELLANY section, the second to last section of this bibliography.
ACTA
Exhibition “Queer CanLit,” catalogue of which listed elsewhere,
displayed a publication on which “Queeries” appeared on cover.
No issue number discernible from display. Nature of the publication and
classification for this list uncertain.
Aldrich, Andrew R.
How My Family Came To Be – Daddy, Papa and Me. Andrew R. Aldrich;
illustrated by Mike Motz. Oakland, CA: New Family Press, c2003.
([24] p.; ISBN 0974200808)
Children’s picture book about a gay male couple and their adopted son.
Included
because illustrator is resident in
flyleaf, he “lives in Calgary…with his wife and two children”.
Bertouille, Ariane, 1964-
Ulysse et Alice. Texte, Ariane Bertouille; illustrations, Marie-Claude Favreau.
Montréal : Editions du Remue-ménage, [2006?].
(28 p.; ISBN 289091237X)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 32726380, which applies descriptor
“Children of gay parents,” among other headings, and notes that this is
juvenile fiction of interest to children six to nine years old.
Brant, Beth (Degonwadonti), 1941-
Mohawk Trail. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, c1985.
(94 p.; ISBN 0932379028 and 0932379036)
Also published: Toronto: Women’s Press, c1990
(ISBN 0889611513; AMICUS catalogue record no. 20906216)
Various literary genres.
Included in exhibition “Queer CanLit,” catalogue for which listed
elsewhere. Exhibition display case annotation notes “A Long Story”
and “Coyote Learns a New Trick” in this volume. In addition,
“A Long Story” appears elsewhere in the Gay Canada bibliography, in an
annotation.
Brant, Beth.
Writing As Witness: Essay and Talk. Toronto: Women’s Press, 1994.
(127 p.; ISBN 0889612005)
Burks, Stephanie, 1959-
While You Were Sleeping. Story by Stephanie Burks; illustrations by Kelli
Bienvenu. Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, c2004.
([13] p.; ISBN 1412028531)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 29976152, which applies descriptors
for lesbian mothers, gay parents and adoption, and classes as juvenile
fiction.
Byrne, John, illus.
“Northstar.” In The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Deluxe ed., vol. 2,
no. 9, pp. 41-42. Written by Mark Gruenwald and Peter Sanderson.
“Northstar est un mutant gai originaire de Montréal qui s’est joint au
groupe de super-héros Alpha Flight. Première apparition: X-Men 120
puis la série Alpha Flight jusqu’au numéro 50” – from Archives gaies
du Québec online bibliography
Causse, Michèle.
Lesbiana: Seven Portraits. Paris: Nouveau Commerce, 1980.
(53 p.)
Causse, Michèle.
Lettres à Omphale. Paris: Denoël-Gonthier, 1984.
“Four women, all of them protected by pseudonyms, write love letters
that are actually translations to Omphale, a Francophone woman writer”—
from Gay & Lesbian Literature, v. 2, p. 82.
Causse,
Michèle.
Quelle lesbienne êtes-vous? Paris: Parole de Lesbiennes, 1996.
Ref.:
Gay & Lesbian Literature, v. 2, p. 80.
The Church-Wellesley Review.
“…literary annual published in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a
supplement to the Pride issue of XTRA!, Toronto’s bimonthly gay and
lesbian newspaper” (ref.: John Barton, “Introduction [to Seminal],”, p. 25,
footnote 50). Barton notes also (p. 24) that Jane Rule wrote a foreword to
the 1991 issue, which is noted, from a brief quotation, to have been the
second of these supplements.
Dempsey, Shawna, and Millan, Lorri.
Fauna & Survival Skills. Toronto: Pedlar Press, c2002.
(271 p.; ISBN 0968652263)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue no. 27460228, which applies descriptor
Lesbianism – Humor.
Note also related items in Literary Criticism section of Gay Canada
mounted list and also in Videos section, below, under Lesbian….
Denis,
Serge, 1948-
Coeur à corps: chroniques. Montréal: S. Denis, 1997.
(330 p.)
Dykstra, Laurel.
Uncle Aiden. Written and illustrated by Laurel Dykstra.
Vancouver: Babybloc, c2005.
([24] p.; ISBN 0973819103)
Refs.: N. Richards communication; AMICUS no. 31272154
Some AMICUS subject headings assigned: 1) Gay men – Juvenile fiction ;
2) Picture books for children.
Elwin, Rosamund, and Paulse, Michele.
Asha’s Mums. Toronto: Women’s Press, c1990.
(24 p.; ISBN 0889611432)
Children’s picture book. Asha has lesbian mothers. For an
international bibliography of children’s picture books, see, e.g.,
the Spence article, “Controversial Books in the Public Library,”
listed in the LIBRARIES section of this bibliography.
Émond, Johanne, 1951-
D’une
femme à propos d’une autre: recueil de pièces détachées, récit intimiste
à saveur poétique. Cap-Saint-Ignace, QC: La Plume d’oie, 2003.
(159 p.; ISBN 2923063341
; AMICUS no. 28931590)
Ref. : N. Richards communication.
AMICUS
catalogue note: Comprend des poèmes.
fab ( Toronto,
Issue no. 206 (date not known) carries notation “Literary issue” printed on cover.
Ref.: Exhibition “Queer CanLit,” catalogue of which listed elsewhere
in this bibliography. Compiler noted issue in display case. Contents not
known. Classification here for purpose of this list uncertain.
“Flaming Prairies: The Queer Issue.” Prairie Fire: A Canadian Magazine of
New Writing, v. 22, no. 2 (Summer 2001).
Ref.: Issue included in exhibition “Queer CanLit,” catalogue for which is
listed elsewhere. Prairie Fire published by Prairie Fire Press, Winnipeg.
Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in
Introduction
by Pat Califia and Janine Fuller. Pittsburgh,
(176 p.; ISBN 1573440205 and 1573440191)
Gould, Allan, comp.
What Did They Say about Gays? Toronto: ECW Press, 1995.
(191 p.; ISBN 155022235X)
Greenland, Cyril, and Colombo, John Robert, comps.
Walt Whitman’s Canada. Willowdale, Ont.: Hounslow Press, c1992.
(245 columns; ISBN 0888821565)
Limited ed. of 125 copies; includes facsimile reproduction of 1st ed.
of Whitman’s diary (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904).
Guilbeault,
Luce, et al.
La Nef des sorcières . Nouv. éd., rév., corr. et augm.; Montréal: Editions de
l’Hexagone, 1992.
(139 p.; ISBN 2892950775)
A critic suggests that the last three monologues, Marie-Claire Blais’s
“Marcelle I” (pp. 107-118), Pol Pelletier’s “Marcelle II” (pp. 119-125), and
Nicole Brossard’s “L’écrivain” (pp. 127-139) are relevant here – Jane
Moss, “Dramatizing Sexual Difference,”
American Review of Canadian
Studies 22(4)(1992):491-492.
Originally published [?]: Montréal: Quinze, 1976.
Gysin, Brion.
Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader. Edited by Jason Weiss.
Middletown,
(354 p.; ISBN 0819565288 and 0819565296)
See, e.g., “Minutes to Go,” excerpt from “I Am That I Am,” and
excerpt from “Poem of Poems,” included in the Seminal anthology.
Ref.: Queer CanLit exhibition catalogue (catalogue listed elsewhere in
this list).
Also see references at AMICUS catalogue record no. 25482404
and the Canadian gay poets’ anthology, Seminal, p. 342
Hardy, Robin, 1952-1995.
The
Day the Homos Disappeared. [ North Vancouver,
(12 p. ; ISBN 0969336152)
Ref.: AMICUS record no. 10496811.
Item is of unknown genre. Correctness of placement in this section
uncertain.
Hardy
was born in Halifax and lived in various parts
of
the
The interested user might consult the online New York Public Library
(Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Manuscripts and Archives
Division) archival essay on Hardy, titled “Robin Hardy Papers, 1964-
2001,” prepared by John D. Stinson, October 2003 (Nov. 2003 version)
and found at: www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/hardy-pdf This
site also contains a useful biographical overview. (File viewed July 18,
2008).
Another major work, perhaps out of scope of this bibliography, is a
manuscript incomplete at the time of his death, but finished by David
Groff and published as Crisis
of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay
Brotherhood (
Minneapolis,
Hoolboom, Mike.
Plague Years: A Life in Underground Movies. Edited by Steve Reinke.
Toronto: YYZ Books, 1998.
(216 p.)
“A compendium surveying nearly forty film scripts, essays and
microstories by renowned filmmaker Mike Hoolboom….[N]ot strictly
speaking an autobiography….[A] strong fictive element throughout” –
review in Parachute 94 (April-June 1999): 62-63.
Jiménez, Karleen Pendleton, 1971-
Are You a Boy or a Girl? Toronto,
(16 p.; ISBN 9781896781143)
Ref.: N. Richards communication; AMICUS catalogue no. 25347550
One AMICUS descriptor: Gender identity – Juvenile literature.
“A story of a child thinking through who she is, a child learning through
her mother’s love to be both strong and soft” – “Teaching for Change”
Web site, annotation of entry in “Early Childhood Equity
Initiative, Children’s Bibliography, Preschool and K-3,” viewed
Compiler uncertain
if this originally published in
nationality of author not known.
Junior.
Sexe en vrac. Montréal: Editions HMX, 1992.
(64 p.)
“Bandes dessinées” [=comic strips] – Bibliothèque nationale du Québec.
Kester, Norman G., 1962-
From
Here to District Six: A South African Memoir with New Poetry, Prose and
Other Writings. Toronto: District Six Press, 2000.
(113 p.; ISBN 0968634206)
Kiss & Tell (Group of artists)
Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies. Vancouver: Press Gang
Publishers, 1994.
(112 p.; ISBN 0889740585)
Kiss & Tell is Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones, and
Susan Stewart.
Lacey, Edward.
A Magic Prison: Letters from Edward Lacey. Edited by David Helwig.
Ottawa, Ont.: Oberon Press, c1995.
(160 p.; ISBN 0887509924)
With Henry Beissel.
Martin, Sean, 1955-
Doc & Raider: Caught on Tape. Toronto: Queer Press, 1994.
(144 p.; ISBN 1895564034)
Cartoons concerning gays/homosexuality.
Martin, Sean, 1955-
Doc & Raider: Incredibly Lifelike. Toronto: Queer Press, 1996.
(143 p.; ISBN 1895564042)
Caricatures/cartoons concerning homosexuality/gay male couples.
Mayr, Suzette.
“Chimaera
Lips.” MA thesis,
(78 p.)
“Uses language as an investigative medium to…challenge the binaries that
sustain racism, sexism and homophobia….The texts are divided into four
sections, each section covering different aspects of, and connections
between, the politics of race and racism, as well as sex and sexuality” –
from Canadian Research Index abstract.
Morris, Mark Andrew Humphry.
“Benedetta.” Ph.D. dissertation,
(147 p.)
Latin and English text; libretto. Based on story of a real-life nun in Pescia.
Various events of her life, including “discovery of her lesbian affair with
another nun” – from Canadian Research Index abstract.
La Nef des sorcières.
SEE entry at Guilbeault, Luce, in this section.
Paulse, Michele.
SEE entry at Elwin, Rosamund, in this section.
Pedneault, Hélène.
Chroniques délinquantes de La vie en rose. Montréal: VLB ;
Ville Saint-Laurent, QC: Diffusion Dimédia, c1988.
Archives gaies du Québec online bibliography: “40 chroniques ayant
paru principalement dans le magazine ‘La Vie en rose’,” un
magazine publié entre septembre 1980 et mai 1987.
Persky, Stan.
The Short Version: An ABC Book. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2005.
(333 p.; ISBN 1554200164)
Wide-ranging, and subject matter much broader than scope of this
bibliography. However, see, for example, according to one reviewer,
“ Bangkok” and “ Chicago,” for the narrower concerns of this list.
Peterkin, Allan D.
Outbursts!: A Queer Erotic Thesaurus. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, c2003.
(149 p.; ISBN 1551521512)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 28405156.
Author is a Toronto psychiatrist.
Queer Press Collective, ed.
A Queer Sense of Humour: A Collection of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Cartoons.
Toronto: Queer Press Non-Profit Community Pub., c1993.
(132 p.; ISBN 1895564018)
“Features contributions from many popular Canadian cartoonists, notably
Sheila Smart, Rolyn, Gary Probe, Michael D Vinci, Rick Hammond and
Roscoe Bunny” – University of Western
McClure and Liz Fitting are editing members of the Collective.
A Queer Sense of Humour.
SEE entry at Queer Press Collective, ed., in this section.
René, Luc, 1960-
L’amour gai, c’est
correct. Montréal: Edimag, 2000.
(204 p.; ISBN 289542022X)
Richardson, Bill, 1955-
Oddball@large. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1998.
(152 p.; ISBN 1550546260)
Ref. : AMICUS catalogue no. 17128138
Humorous pieces.
See, e.g., “Another Tuesday Morning,” “A Shaggy Horse
Story,” “Cast of Three with Noises Off,” “Bigger Than a Cake Box,”
“Earthquake Readiness: 1,” “A Postal Box Named Desire,”
“Secrets of the Heart,” “AIDS: Four Paragraphs,” “James Merrill,”
“Two Sisters, Eight Legs,” “Necessary Occlusions,” and “In the
Madding Crowd.”
Richardson, Bill, 1955-
Waiting for Gertrude: A Graveyard Gothic. Vancouver; Toronto: Douglas &
McIntyre, c2001.
(184 p.; ISBN 1550548921)
“…a love story, a whodunit, a meditation on life’s transience…set in
Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery.” –Book cover.
Collection of short works in various forms, including letters. “Catalogue
of players” includes Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, and Oscar Wilde,
among many others. Included because author and publisher Canadian.
Room of One’s Own (periodical)
NOTE: Issue numbered volume 7, no 1 & 2 displayed in exhibition
“Queer CanLit,” catalogue of which is listed elsewhere. Compiler has not
checked.
Setterington, Ken.
Mom and Mum Are Getting Married! Written by Ken Setterington; illustrated by
Alice Priestley. Toronto: Second Story Press, c2004.
(24 p.; ISBN 1896764843)
Children’s picture book concerning same-sex marriage.
Summerbell, Richard Charles, 1956-
Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1985.
(66 p.; ISBN 091957341X)
Symons, Scott.
Dear Reader: Selected Scott Symons. Edited and with an introduction by
Christopher Elson. Toronto: Gutter Press, c1998.
(316 p.; ISBN 1896356184)
Tessera (periodical)
NOTE: vol. 30 has on cover “Lesbian Creations.”
That issue displayed in exhibition “Queer CanLit,” catalogue for which listed
elsewhere in this bibliography. Compiler currently hs no additional information.
Contents unknown. Classification for purpose of this list uncertain.
Treleaven, Scott, 1972-
The Salivation Army Black Book (1996-2006).
Text & collages by Scott Treleaven; preface by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.
Toronto: Art Metropole, 2006.
(343 p.; ISBN 089439021X)
Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 32117918, which notes that
“[m]aterial originally published in v. I-IX of Scott Treleaven’s
‘zine, This is the Salivation Army, 1996-1999” and that is in limited
edition of 666 copies. Descriptors applied: Gay culture, Punk
culture, Homosexuality in art.
Treleaven, Scott, 1972-
This is the Salivation Army. Toronto: Art Metropole, 2002.
(ISBN 0920956696)
Ref.: OCLC accession no. 50939131, which provides descriptors
“Gays in art” and “Gays’ writings, Canadian (English).” Prepublication
note states that “material originally published in Scott Treleaven’s ‘zine,
“This is the Salivation Army, 1996-1999” and was to be released along
with the film of the same title,
OCLC record,
Usukawa, Saeko, ed. and comp.
The Little Lavender Book: On the Love That Once Dared Not Speak Its Name.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, c1994.
(92 p.; ISBN 1551520044)
“Historically revealing quotations tracing the evolution of gay and lesbian
desire” – Arsenal Pulp Press website, last accessed late 2000.
Wisebone, Phoenix, 1960-
Lonely
in Lesbos.
Vancouver: Firehawk
Enterprises, c2008.
(ISBN 9780968735725)
Ref.: AMICUS prepublication record no. 34107991
(as of
is Lesbians – Comic books, strips, etc. Record also notes
that “[i]ncludes cartoons previously published in
Siren ( Toronto),
Rag (