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Country Music

Please stand and remove your cynicism

Bountiful Diversity

A leading Québécois scholar’s appreciative look at Canada’s biggest province

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

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…