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posted Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Here We Go Loop De Loop by William Jack Sibley has greed, lust, sexuality, spiritual enlightenment, xenophobia, and the meaning of a life worth living all woven into a single, outrageous knot in the insulated town of Rita Blanca, Texas. Discussions – and discoveries – of sexuality abound as characters strive to find happiness and meaning. […]
posted Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Kudos to author Sasha Geffen on having the most glittery cover image of the year! From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary. Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent […]
posted Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Special Topics in Being a Human is a gentle, witty, and insightful illustrated guide of practical advice for the modern age, all filtered through a queer lens. S. Bear Bergman offers Dad advice and Jewish bubbe wisdom to help you navigate some of the complexities of life—from how to make big decisions or make a good apology, to […]
posted Tuesday, October 5, 2021
The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada’s most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He’s called it Binge because it’s impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that’s how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic […]
posted Tuesday, September 28, 2021
The Pursued and the Pursuing reimagines the ending of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Instead of Gatsby dying, he finds love in the arms of Nick Carraway. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby ends after Jay Gatsby is shot and killed for a hit and run that he did not commit, as well as for his […]
posted Saturday, September 25, 2021
On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn’t good. But she survived. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed […]
posted Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Last summer, poetry lovers/haters gathered on the patio at Buddies in Bad Time Theatre to read and write their own musings on life, love, and the pandemic. Spurred from the mind of Patricia Wilson. along with the careful editing of host and writer David Bateman, the Pandemic Poetry Project has been published. 19 of the 26 […]
posted Tuesday, September 14, 2021
A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. The linked stories in Householders move effortlessly from the commonplace to the […]
posted Saturday, September 4, 2021
Love That Journey For Me dives deep into the cultural sensation of Canadian comedy-drama Schitt’s Creek. Considering the fusion of existing sitcom traditions, references and tropes, this Inkling analyses the nuance of the show and its surrounding cultural and societal impact as a queer revolution. By discussing how the show reshapes LGBTQ+ narratives from the […]
posted Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Men are disappearing from Toronto’s gay village. They’re the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and riots against raids to gentrification and police brutality, the survivors face inaction from the […]
