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Marie-Claire Blaise
(b. 1939) was reticent about lesbianism in her early novels, but has since
written works in which lesbian passion is at once lyrical, mystical, and
liberating. |
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Québécoise
writer and editor Nicole Brossard (b. 1943) creates texts that
are radical in their approach to gender, sexuality, and literary
convention. |
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Though
Canadian Literature in English is often confused with or
even indistinguishable from American literature, Canadian gay and
lesbian writers have produced a vibrant body of fiction, non-fiction,
drama, and poetry since the 1960s. |
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Timothy Findley
(1930-2002) was an award-winning novelist and playwright whose works
examine the nature of power and society and the struggle to understand
and achieve what is right. |
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 Canadian-born
writer and editor Katherine V. Forrest (b. 1939) has played a
major role in bringing lesbian fiction to the forefront of the mystery
and science fiction genres. |
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Elsa Gidlow
(1898-1986), known to many as the "poet-warrior," was unabashedly
visible as an independent woman, a lesbian, a writer, and a
bohemian-anarchist at a time when such visibility was both unusual and
potentially dangerous. |
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Canadian-American poet
Daryl Hine (b. 1936) has been a leader in giving serious
homosexual poetry a place in the mainstream of American poetry. |
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Québécoise
novelist Jovette Marchessault (b. 1938) risked her developing
career in 1980 when she became the first Quebec novelist to
unequivocally declare her lesbianism in print. |
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 American-Canadian
novelist Peter McGehee (1955-1991) is best remembered for his
deft negotiation of the AIDS pandemic through the genre of screwball
comedy. |
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Although gay and
lesbian Québécois Literature has only a fifty-year
history, it has flourished and seems destined to merge with mainstream
Québécois literature. |
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Though Vancouver-based
novelist and critic Jane Rule (b. 1931) addresses lesbian and
gay issues directly, her work is deliberately non-political. |
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Sri Lankan-Canadian
writer Shyam Selvadurai (b. 1965) has emerged as a significant
figure in post-colonial and gay writing by virtue of the style, wit,
and perspicacity of his three novels. |
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Montreal-born
playwright and novelist
Michel Tremblay (b. 1942) draws on his
own Catholic working-class background in his presentation of bar
culture characters and their relatives. |
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Photo Credits:
Image of Katherine V. Forrest is a detail from a photograph by Angela
Brinskele ©
Angela Brinskele. Photo of
Peter McGehee (left) with partner Douglas Wilson courtesy Fiji
Robinson. |
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