20/20 hindsight : being gay* in Bruce and Grey : reflections on decades of change / collected by Joan Beecroft ; foreword by Kate Reid
Material type: TextPublication details: Owen Sound, Ontario The Ginger Press 2020Description: 98 pagesISBN:- 9781897502747 (paperback)
- Twenty-twenty hindsight: being gay* in Bruce and Grey
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Meaford Public Library Non-Fiction | Non-fiction | 306 .76 Twent (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Donated by PFLAG Canada - Owen Sound | Pride Collection | 23351 |
*gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, two-spirit.
Picture of the road with a rainbow image of Grey Bruce map -- Front Cover
“This is a queer book,” writes singer-songwriter Kate Reid in her Foreword to 20/20 Hindsight. “The stories here disrupt stereotypes, beliefs, and taken-for-granted assumptions about gender, sexuality, bodies, desire, and relationships.” Joan Beecroft has spent the last couple of years talking to members of the Grey-Bruce LGBTQ+ community about what it means to get old here. Why stay? And what does the future look like for LGBTQ+ individuals?
These powerful stories from 20 local contributors are challenging and direct. They are also contradictory: some say it’s easy for seniors to be out, others say it’s difficult; some say the community is accepting, others say it’s isolating. As Kate Reid writes, “The stories in this important collection comprise an archive of queer senior life in Grey-Bruce and demonstrate the diversity, richness and commonalities of human experience.” -- Ginger Press
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