See also entries for individual authors. The following list is a guide to author names used as primary headings in this index: ARMSTRONG, LUANNE; BANNON, ANN; BIDULKA, ANTHONY; BOSWELL, JOHN EASTBURN; BOUCHARD, MICHEL MARC; CARPENTER, DAVID; CHANDLER, STACY; DONOGHUE, EMMA; FINDLEY, TIMOTHY; FISSURE, DJINN; FRASER, BRAD; GILBERT, SKY; GINSBERG, ALLEN; HOLMLUND, MONA; McGEHEE, PETER; NYCUM, BENJIE; QUAN, ANDY; RIORDON, MICHAEL; ROBERTA, JEAN; ROSCOE, PATRICK; RULE, JANE; STEWART, STEVE; TRIFONOV, GENNADY; TULCHINSKY, KAREN X.; WILDE, OSCAR; WOLFF, CHARLOTTE; YOUNG, IAN;

See also REVIEWS -- BOOKS; note at BOOKSTORES

See also COMIC STRIPS for some items on comic strips, comic books, and cartoons

Related headings: PRESS; GAY PRESS; PERIODICALS

Annotated lists of titles of interest to the gay/lesbian community and received by the Saskatoon Public Library appear in many issues. Individual items have generally not been indexed. See various issues.

Out on the shelves [reporting on upcoming Saskatoon Public Library literature display, mentioning Canadian Library Association guide to gay/lesbian fiction, and including annotated list of six recent titles].
P3 (1983): 5 (33cm.)

Sex, lesbians and the printed word [including a brief history of lesbian publishing, debates in lesbian community over lesbian sexuality, etc.; some Canadian issues included]. By Jean H.
P22 [1986]: 9-12 (101cm.)

A Family Portrait: Gay & Lesbian Canada '92 [is a planned collection of "letters, poems and drawings by gays and lesbians from across Canada, each telling something about the life of its author as a gay/lesbian person in Canada in 1992"; the compilation has been denied use of the official 125th anniversary logo by Canada 125 Corporation because book considered controversial; submissions deadline October 15, 1992. Indexer note: not known if this work was published].
P73 (v10n4)(June 10, 1992): 18 (26cm.)

Woman to Womon Books [created by group of women with experience in book business and in coming out; to help overcome feelings of fear and isolation; free catalogue from Edmonton address].
P75 (v10n6)(Sept. 16, 1992): 14 (15cm.)

Out in the country [call from Michael Riordon for contacts with rural lesbians and gay men, including two-spirited First Nations men and women, for interviews for a book (indexer note: Riordon published Out Our Way in 1996)].
P82 (v11n5)(July 28, 1993): 21 (20cm.)

Call for submissions [to Women's Press from lesbians who are Caribbean born or culturally identified or of Caribbean parentage; also request for submissions for anthology by lesbians about men in the writers' lives; etc.].
P93 (v12n8)(Dec. 7, 1994): 25 (26cm.)

Writing on the prairies [efforts underway to organize writing group for gays/lesbians in Regina; Charlotte Thompson one of organizers; organizational meeting scheduled for June 28].
P97 (v13n4)(June 7, 1995): 14 (14cm.)

Fighting AIDS with comic book [in Winnipeg; Deadly Desires produced by the Committee on Unplanned Pregnancy, a coalition of community groups; aimed at 14- to 24-year-olds].
P100 (v13n7)(Oct. 25, 1995): 12 (17cm.)

Lambda Award finalists [list of, with some comments on, finalists for the 8th Lambda awards, an annual American gay/lesbian book award].
P105 (v14n4)(June 5, 1996): 27 (37cm.)

Out Our Way [Pink Triangle Community Services, Regina, co-sponsoring book signing October 20; Michael Riordon will sign Out Our Way].
P107 (v14n6)(Sept. 11, 1996): 11 (8cm.)

Lesbian writer honored [Karen X. Tulchinsky wins 1996 VanCity Book Prize for In Her Nature; some details of the work and mention of other of her writings/ anthologies; etc.].
P108 (v14n7)(Oct. 23, 1996): 28 (25cm.)

Call for submissions [from Arsenal Pulp Press for two international anthologies, Quickies and Hot & Bothered, to be published in 1998].
P110 (v15n1)(Jan. 29, 1997): 20 (14cm.)

Children's literature studied ["gay and lesbian children's literature" course taught by Steven Bruhm at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax].
P118 (v16n1)(Jan. 21, 1998): 21 (37cm.)

Submit! [Michael Graydon requests submissions for book he is editing, titled "Hard Facts: An Anthology of True Canadian Men's Sex Tales"; address for submissions].
P120 (v16n3)(April 29, 1998): 25 (14cm.)

Can we talk? [request by Michael Riordon for assistance in preparing a book on gay and lesbian relationships, "The Family Album"; Riordon presents description of his plans for the work].
P124 (v16n7)[misnumbered v16n6 on contents page](Oct. 28, 1998): 14 (35cm.)

Submit! [calls for submissions for four new queer anthologies -- "Quickies, vol. 2," "Hot & Bothered, vol. 2," "Donors & Dads," and "Boners & Blunders"; contact information].
P126 (v17n1)(Jan. 27, 1999): 20 (21cm.)

Student slams homophobic textbook [University of Ottawa psychology student upset over statements in Families in Canada: Social Context, Continuities, and Changes; particular objection to claims made in text by Paul Cameron, anti-gay founder of Family Research Institute; additional information about Cameron and about the university's handling of the student's objections].
P128 (v17n3)(April 21, 1999): 26 (39cm.)

Noted author coming [Irish lesbian writer, Emma Donoghue, will present free public guest lectures at University of Saskatchewan on January 17, 2000; descriptions of lectures scheduled; information about Donoghue's work].
P133 (v17n8)(Dec. 8, 1999): 20 (25cm.)

Call for submissions [by Blithe House Quarterly, an electronic magazine; "features a diversity of new short stories by emerging and established gay, lesbian and bisexual authors"; other details].
P134 (v18n1)(Jan. 26, 2000): 22 (11cm.)

Look! Up in the sky! It's a homosexual!, or Our valiant return to our rightful place in tights [author discusses announcement of DC comics that it will introduce two gay characters in its comic, The Authority, and that these characters will not be effeminate; author pokes fun at and develops comments around this announcement; recalls the eroticism of some of the comics of his childhood; etc.]. By Jeff Dodds.
P135 (v18n2)(March 8, 2000): 6, 8 (47cm.)

Pride Pages [fifth edition of Greater Edmonton Pride Pages being prepared; annual list of businesses and services; contact and deadline information; "each year 5,000 copies...are printed and distributed..."; etc.].
P136 (v18n3)(April 19, 2000): 11 (15cm.)

Submit [announcement that editor Karen X. Tulchinsky is preparing lesbian erotic story collection, "Hot & Bothered 3"; submission guidelines, etc.].
P138 (v18n5)(Aug. 2, 2000): 23 (12cm.)

Submit! [request for submissions for anthology of erotica, "Across Golden Sands and Sapphire Seas: Travel Erotica Stories," for publication by San Francisco publisher; details, contact information].
P140 (v18n7)(Oct. 25, 2000): 23 (29cm.)

Submit! [call for submissions for "anthology of erotica" entitled "Across Golden Sands and Sapphire Seas, Travel Erotica Stories"; California address; submission instructions].
P142 (v19n1)(Jan. 31, 2001): 20 (27cm.)

Worldwide call for submissions [for follow-up anthology to the first Erotic Travel Tales; being assembled by Mitzi Szereto for print publication by Cleis Press; details].
P150 (v20n1)(Jan. 30, 2002): 22 (21cm.)

About Out on the Screen: an interview with gay author Steve Stewart [Steve Stewart "founded Companion Press in 1990 in order to publish alternative movie and video companion books"; Companion Press is in Laguna Hills, California; this interview also carries much information on gay/lesbian movies, including interviewee's "top-25"; article reprinted from www.companionpress.com].
P150 (v20n1)(Jan. 30, 2002): 24-25 (94cm.)

Pulitzer goes to queer book [Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex receives the United States's Pulitzer Prize for Literature; some information about the book and mention of other award nominations it has received].
P160 (v21n3)(April 16, 2003): 22 (12cm.)

The best in summer reading [list of 15 titles of queer fiction, with brief reviews; list includes both "new books, and other highly recommended books from years past"; includes works by Canadian authors Darren Greer, Anthony Bidulka, Helen Humphreys, and Linda Little; Little Sister's and After Stonewall as Canadian queer bookseller sources]. By Jeff Dodds.
P162 (v21n5)(July 23, 2003): 8-11 (149cm.)

Books for Christmas [brief reviews of five books of male nudes].
P165 (v21n8)(Dec. 3, 2003): 21 (43cm.)

Geography Club now in paperback [concerning young adult novel by Brent Hartinger; includes brief story line and honours the book has received].
P167 (v22n2)[misnumbered v22n1 on contents page] (March 10, 2004): 22 (16cm.)

Under the rainbow [Edmonton educator, Kris Wells, accepting contributions for forthcoming book, to be titled Under the Rainbow: Stories and Strategies for Queer Youth and Their Allies in Canada; contact information].
P168 (v22n3)(April 21, 2004): 11 (15cm.)

The Queen's English in Canada [concerning 2nd edition of Canadian Oxford Dictionary, which will include many gay-related terms; e.g., GLBT, lesbigay, lipstick lesbian, bareback, bi-curious, gaydar; several other entries mentioned; some additional details].
P170 (v22n5)(July 21, 2004): 23 (21cm.)

I could not speak my heart [Regina report that western Canadian symposium, titled "I Could Not Speak My Heart: Education and Social Justice for Gay and Lesbian Youth," to be held Oct. 15-16, 2004; list of sponsors; keynote speaker: David L. McIntyre, composer and director of Prairie Pride Chorus; event will also feature book launch of I Could Not Speak My Heart, by James McNinch and Mary Cronin; contact and registration information].
P171 (v22n6)(Sept. 15, 2004): 10 (17cm.)

Saskatchewan 'lesbian' novel [author, named djinn fissure, plans Web serialization of her novel, Sappho's Child; "new chapter will be posted each week or so..., but not until the required number of readers sign up"; details of novel and of marketing method].
P172 (v22n7)(Oct. 27, 2004): 22 (35cm.)