A queer love story : the letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout by Schuster, Marilyn R., editor; Rule, Jane, correspondent; Bébout, Rick, 1950-2009, correspondent instant download

A queer love story : the letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout by Schuster, Marilyn R., editor; Rule, Jane, correspondent; Bébout, Rick, 1950-2009, correspondent instant download

xxv, 619 pages ; 24 cm, \"A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule--novelist and the first widely recognized \"public lesbian\" in North America--and Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic, an important incubator of LGBT thought and activism. Rule lived in a remote rural community on Galiano Island but wrote a column for the magazine. Bébout resided in and was devoted to Toronto's gay village. At turns poignant, scintillating, and incisive, their exchanges include ruminations on queer life and the writing life even as they document some of the most pressing LGBT issues of the '80s and '90s, including HIV/AIDs, censorship, and state policing of desire\"--Provided by publisher, Includes bibliographical references and index