C2007-906040-4 Printed and bound in Canada Cover & interior design: HeimatHouse Represented in Canada by the Literary Press Group Distributed by the University of Toronto Press The publisher gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (bpidp), and the Province of British Columbia through the B. C. Arts Counci [...] Completely bypassing the alternative press climb (they caught up with him later on), Klinck arrived in the heart of the mainstream media on August 23, 1997, when page three of the Saturday Arts section read, “Sex rebel is anti-gay, his own way.” At the time, I dubbed Klinck a “safe-sex radical.” He was part of the post- AIDS generation, the group that had seen the sexual carnage of the ’80s, and d [...] Whether it’s Todd or Trevor who provides the voice-over for the blankly amoral narrator, the self-erasing witness who exposes the power-plays behind the sex-and-violence delivery system in the second decade of the epidemic, I can’t quite tell. [...] I suspect that a teasing trick has been played on me by the author of the ad and the writer of the novel. [...] The Toronto community was still two years away from the homo-pomo renunciation of our xvii tacones Before Selves popularized at the turn of the millennium by the dreaded Bert Archer in The End of Gay (and the Death of Homosexuality).
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2013.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781897535394 9781895636840
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.K485
- LCCN Item number
- T3 2007eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxxi, 96 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00233222 (OCoLC)860709323 (CaOOCEL)446423
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover Page 1
- Title Page 5
- Copyright 6
- Dedication 7
- Table of Contents 9
- Foreword 11
- Introduction 15
- Tacones 35
- 1. Nobia Gets Pepper Spray in Her Eyes 37
- 2. Tacones: Headquarters 40
- 3. Blaine, Carrie, and the “Ex-Baby” 45
- 4. Trevor’s First Ad 49
- 5. The Beach 51
- 6. The Trip-Out Room 53
- 7. Elastic Throat/Strap-Ons 56
- 8. Very Hot Baby and the Clumps Maxi-Pad 59
- 9. Mr. Bell 62
- 10. Public Service Announcement 65
- 11. Trevor Places the Ad 67
- 12. A Date for Diva 68
- 13. Biff & the Boys 70
- 14. Peony 73
- 15. Nobia & Biff 75
- 16. Answering the Phone 76
- 17. Mr. Hammer 78
- 18. An Ikea Moment 80
- 19. Oops! 82
- 20. Emaciated 84
- 21. Isabel 85
- 22. Piss Interests & Heroin 87
- 23. The Fight 90
- 24. The Perfect Fuck 92
- 25. Ashley Sinks 93
- 26. Bungee Jumping 94
- 27. Biasto-Geronto-Philia! 97
- 28. Soozi 100
- 29. Full Service 103
- 30. Scrap 105
- 31. Surreal Drug Art of René Suvuomo 107
- 32. The Donut Shop 110
- 33. Ashley Bobs 112
- 34. Trick with No Dick 113
- 35. Ashley Rises 118
- 36. Crowd Thins Out 119
- 37. The Car 122
- 38. Isabel Weeps 124
- 39. Speed 126
- Afterword 129
