Ivan E. Coyote: One in Every Crowd

Stories. CAN 2012, 240 pp., brochure, € 14.69
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Arsenal Pulp Press
Ivan E. Coyote is one of North America's best-loved storytellers - her honest, wry, plain-spoken tales about gender, identity, and family have attracted readers around the world. For many years, Ivan has performed in high schools, where her talks have inspired and galvanized many young people to embrace their own sense of self and to be proud of who they are. This new story collection is her first specifically for queer youth. These stories are for anyone who has ever felt alone in their struggle to be true to themselves. Included are stories about Ivan's own tomboy past in Canada's north, where playing hockey and wearing pants were the norm - and about her life in the big city, where she encounters both cruelty and kindness in unexpected places.

Felix L. Falkon and Thomas Waugh: Gay Art

A Historic Collection. CAN 2006, 255 pp. illustrated b/w, brochure, € 20.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press
When originally published in 1972, »A Historic Collection of Gay Art« was the first book of its kind to document expressions of gay male sexuality as depicted in visual art, from antiquity to 1970s pop culture. Its frank and unapologetic survey of the pleasures of the flesh was, for gay men, unprecedented, and it remains a starting-point for contemporary discussions of erotic gay male artwork and comics. This 2006 edition has been updated by the original author, with assistance and contributions from Thomas Waugh. It features erotic line drawings and other artwork from ancient Greece to 1970s America, by artists both anonymous and infamous (including Tom of Finland, and Aubrey Beardsley), as well as an insightful narrative that provides a fascinating historical context for these images, including their production and dissemination.

Greg Youmans: Word Is Out

CAN 2011, 191pp. with b&w filmstills, brochure, € 13.59
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on the groundbreaking 1977 documentary that profiled the lives of ordinary gay men and lesbians of different ages, races, and backgrounds. »Word Is Out« found a wide audience theatrically and, perhaps more importantly, had a national public TV broadcast. The film provided an intimate portrait of gay men and lesbians, and by doing so, it played a significant role in the then-nascent struggle for gay rights. It premiered six months after Anita Bryant's infamous »Save Our Children« campaign led to the repeal of a gay rights ordinance in Florida, and just as other anti-gay activists were beginning to copy her tactics elsewhere in the U.S. The documentary offered an important counterpoint to the homophobic rhetoric that Bryant and others were spreading.

Susan Knabe and Wendy G. Pearson: Zero Patience

CAN 2011, 183pp. with b&w film stills, brochure, € 13.59
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson's controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient Zero, the male flight attendant accused in Randy Shilts' book »And the Band Played on« of bringing the AIDS crisis to North America. This book provides a guided tour of the film, looking at its engagement with both biomedical and populist discourses around AIDS in its first decade and with the political work undertaken by the queer community to provide support for HIV+ people and treatment for those with AIDS. It also delves into how Greyson, one of the most important figures in New Queer Cinema, combined experimental film aesthetics with a camp take on Hollywood genre films and the Canadian documentary film tradition while at the same time responding to Shilts' book and other discourses focused on placing blame for the AIDS crisis on an individual and a community.

Will Aitken: Death in Venice

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2011, 189 pp. with b&w filmstills, brochure, € 13.59
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel, about a middle-aged heterosexual artist (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. The book analyzes the film's cultural impact and provides a vivid portrait of the director, an ardent Communist and grand provocateur. Known variously as »The Red Duke« or »the director of the dirty bed sheets«, Visconti, along with Rosselini, Antonioni, Pasolini, and Fellini, revolutionized Italian film and became one of the giants of world cinema. Although he never spoke directly about his homosexuality, it was an open secret, and many of his works, like »Death in Venice«, were suffused with it.

Sarah Schulman: The Mere Future

USA 2011, 183 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Arsenal Pulp Press
From the nation that elected Barack Obama in the flames of economic disaster comes the first novel of the New Era, »The Mere Future«, by award-winning novelist, activist, and playwright Sarah Schulman. In this dystopian vision, New York City has morphed into an idealized version of itself, the result of what the newly elected mayor calls »The Big Change«. Rent is cheap, homelessness is over, and everyone works in Marketing. Despite the utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing malaise that infects the population. Our heroine, a lowly copywriter, and her girlfriend Nadine just want to fall in love all over again, but can't help noticing that the social packaging may not be recyclable. Calling on all genres - literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry, and stand-up comedy - Schulman invents a literature that reflects the lives we live right now while being funny, sexy, and open-hearted.