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At the beginning of the year, DC comics created international buzz amongst anxious readers by announcing a major character would come out as gay. In early June, the Green Lantern came out to the whole world. And that’s just the latest in a list of comic book heroes that are coming out…

Queer historians Jason B. Crawford, PhD and Julie Podmore, PhD take a look at the perplexing and problematic new book Montreal’s Gay Village: The Story of a Unique Urban Neighborhood through the Sociological Lens by Donald W. Hinrichs.

Montréal queer novelist Daniel Allen Cox will be launching his new novel Basement of Wolves on May 5. You may remember him from his last novel, Krakow Melt, about a pyromaniac Polish rebel re-enacting the great fires of history. For his new novel, think: more Cox, but without the burning…

The new must-read from Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore questions the top/bottom dichotomy, and all those other gay discontents, in Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?

Mad Men, Proust, and Gay Sex in the 70s all make the reference list for American gay writer par excellence Edmund White’s new work, Jack Holmes and His Friend, serving unrequited love with a big twist and lots (and lots) of sex.

The Montréal launch of Will Aitken’s new book on the Luchino Visconti gay classic takes place this Thursday, Jan 26, 6pm. Mark Ambrose Harris tells us why this canonical tale of pederastic desire – that won the Palme d’Or over forty years ago – is still relevant today.

Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage and Don’t Ask to Fight Their Wars, Against Equality’s latest addition to the ship-disturbing critical approach to the neo-liberal middle class LGBT agenda launches tonight, Jan 17 (6pm), at McGill’s Leacock Building (855 Sherbrooke West, Montreal).

Jordan “Van Tassel” Coulombe has been working on a very queer Master’s degree this past year, and besides his already plethoric familiarity with queer classics and gay revisionism, he managed to narrow the year’s non-fiction picks down to these three scrumptious titles. For your lover, friend, or just because you deserve it!

Foregrounding the history of gay bar raids, gendered clothing requirements, sodomy laws, and other carceral histories of policing gender and sexuality, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex challenges the assumption that we can and should reform the prison system to work for us. Review by Conrad Ryan for 2Bmag.

A coalition of Montréal organizations is hosting a book launch on Thursday November 24th for the recently released AK Press title Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith. QPIRG Concordia -1500 de Maisonneuve O. suite 204, Thursday November – 24th, 6:30pm