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The Envoy

Mark Carney has a plan

Bubble Weary in Trump's America

A dispatch from the early days of a divided nation

On Familiar Spirits

A senator warns against another witch hunt

Susan G. Cole

Susan G. Cole is an activist, playwright and the editor of Outspoken: A Canadian Collection of Lesbian Scenes and Monologues.

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Susan G. Cole

What Makes a Gay Icon?

An attempt to define Canada’s queer pioneers July-August 2016
Pity the poor editor trying to wrangle an essay collection into something that stays true to its theme. Queers Were Here: Heroes and Icons of Queer Canada, edited by Robin Ganev, a history professor at the University of Saskatchewan, and history scholar R.J. Gilmour, has a very promising title, the kind that draws a queer bibliophile like myself in a…