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).