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Autobiography of a Tattoo is an investigative literary work about the education and pursuit of homosexual desire. Its mixture of serial stories and mo...
Books of the Decade, 2000-2009
In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both the triumphs and tensions of ...
Divided into two parts, Robin Blaser consists of two essays by people who knew Blaser intimately, as a life–long friend, a mentor and intellectual i...
Meditations on Desire
Buddy's is a gay bar in Vancouver's West End that opened in the spring of 1982 and closed in the summer of 1988. It was the starting point for this un...
Sex and Politics in Gay Eastern Europe
A gay writer, professor of philosophy and political studies, meets people in post-Cold War Albania, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, and Lithuania, from his ...
Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
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U.S. Foreign Policy in Central America Under Reagan
Has Bill Bennett's Government Gotten B.C. Moving Again?
A study of British Columbia politics by an important gay American writer who immigrated to Canada....
Mayor Jack Volrich and Vancouver Politics
About Cities, Politics, Desires
In the midst of the sweep of history, it's easy to anticipate that the events of twenty-five years ago might soon be lost to memory. We might forget w...
Sexual Representation, Free Speech, and the Robin Sharpe Case
In January 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada handed down its ruling on the Charter challenge brought to the "kiddie porn law" by Robin Sharpe’s case...
Stories from the Other Side of Europe
Stan Persky's tale of his adventure through Eastern Europe and into "boyopolis" -- the underbelly of Berlin, a fast-changing world of gay bars, houses...
A lavish book on the art of Attila Richard Lukacs....
The Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Aboriginal Title
Bill Vander Zalm and the Future of Social Credit
The Decline & Stumbling of Social Credit Government in British Columbia, 1979-83