A Queer Love Story

The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout

Buch | Softcover

648 Seiten

2019
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3544-2 (ISBN)

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In August 1989, Jane Rule – novelist, essayist, and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America – summed up the first eight years of her correspondence with Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic: "It seems to me that what has concerned us is richly human and significantly focused on the concerns of our time and our tribe."

Rule lived in a remote rural community on Galiano Island in British Columbia but wrote a column for the magazine. Bébout was a resident of and devoted to Toronto's gay village. A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of their correspondence. At turns poignant, scintillating, and incisive, their exchanges include ruminations on queer life and the writing life as they document some of the most pressing LGBT issues and events of the 1980s and '90s, including HIV/AIDS, censorship, youth sexuality, public sex and S/M, Toronto's infamous bath raids, and state regulation of identity and desire.

Marilyn R. Schuster was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Smith College and has been professor and provost emerita since 2015. Her research and writing focuses on contemporary writers such as Jane Rule, Marguerite Duras, and Monique Wittig, and she is the author of Marguerite Duras Revisited and Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction. She lives in Oakland, California. Rick Bébout was the editor of the hugely influential Body Politic, "the magazine of record for the activities and development of the gay liberation movement across the country." He was born in Ayer, Massachusetts, and came to Canada at age nineteen in 1969. He died in Toronto in 2009. Jane Rule was born in Plainfield, New Jersey and moved to Canada in 1956. She died at her home on Galiano Island in 2007 at the age of seventy-six. She was inducted into the Order of British Columbia in 1998, and into the Order of Canada in 2007. She wrote fourteen books, including Desert of the Heart (1964), which was turned into the movie Desert Hearts.

Foreword / Margaret Atwood

Introduction

1981 "Any question of such censorship"

1982 "An odd flu"

1983 "It's raining men"

1984 "Moved by a stranger"

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

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

1987 "Life and its sheer wonder"

1988 "Loving is a way of being"

1989 "Xenophilia"

1990 "The dying of the light"

1991 "There is no fault"

1992 "A lesbian in the '40s"

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

1994 "I accept this degree"

1995 "A public space for our views and values"

The Last Chapter "I will do my best to live up to you"

Dramatis Personae

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Erscheinungsdatum	31.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Sexuality Studies
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	940 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7748-3544-3 / 0774835443
ISBN-13	978-0-7748-3544-2 / 9780774835442
Zustand	Neuware