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Gilbert, Sky

Dramas & Plays

Playwrights Canada Press

"In 1985, Toronto was shocked and excited by a rude wake-up call. The Drag Queens had arrived. In "Drag Queens on Trial", Sky Gilbert's drag queens, Lana Lust, Judy Goose, and Marlene Delorme were divinely decadent and serenely triumphant in the face of all disasters - from bad hair days to AIDS. The three queens went on to travel to the stars in the internationally produced "Drag Queens in Outer Space"." "Gilbert's fascination with drag continued with the Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning "Suzie Goo: Private Secretary", and his 1995 "play with no plot or meaning", "Jim Dandy", still stirs up controversy with critics." "Read all these self-admitted 'smutty plays' here, uncut, unexpurgated, gay and proud!"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Painted, Tainted, Sainted: Four Plays by Sky Gilbert

I Have Aids! is about gay men who are neither tragic or sad. We are led to laugh with them, not at them.

I Have AIDS!

Included in the collection are: Pasolini/Pelosi or The God in Unknown Flesh: A Theatrical Enquiry into the Murder of Filmmaker Pier Paulo Pasolini, In Which Pier Paulo Pasolini Sees His Own Death in the Face of a Boy: A Defacement in the Form of a Play; My Night With Tennessee; Hester: An Introduction; Theatrelife; and More Divine: A Performance for Roland Barthes.

This Unknown Flesh: A Selection of Plays

Humor & Entertainment

Oberon Books

Wit in Love

Literary

Quattro Books

Shortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award\nA professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated.\nDenton Moulton ― a shy, effeminate male professor ― lives inside his head, where he is really a long-dead movie star: the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria’s shocking secret before he dies. Does he have the right to tell this woman’s story? Who, in fact, has the right to tell anyone’s story at all?\nA scandalous, humorous novel of taboo desires and repression, I, Gloria Grahame alternates between Gloria’s imagined life with her film-director husband, Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause, and Denton’s increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art: an all-male drag production of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. The novel takes us from high-strung film sets to dark bars and the puritanical offices of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runs up against the sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone else, even in art.\nA RARE MACHINES BOOK

I, Gloria Grahame

Genre Fiction

Rare Machines

Kissing and telling You’ve heard about Sky Gilbert: he’s loved by fans of his novels, plays, poetry, and columns; hated by the Toronto Sun and by some members of the gay community. His alter ego Jane, a drag queen, was charged with not wearing a seat belt in a cab, took the case to trial, and won: The judge said I was a reasonable person.” Gilbert’s theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, was almost closed by The City of Toronto for sponsoring S/M workshops in 1990, and yet he was awarded the Pauline McGibbon Award for directing in 1985, has directed two plays at the Shaw Festival, and had his work performed across North America. The Religious Right has campaigned against him, yet some men argue that his work has changed their lives. So, what’s Gilbert all about, what makes him tick? Is he a drag queen? An award-winning artist? A complete slut? Or, maybe, all three? Many are going to be angered by this book, many more will be entertained. One guarantee: everyone is going to be reading Ejaculations from the Charm Factory to see if their names are in it. And yes, they are. But there’s also a whole lot more.

Ejaculations From the Charm Factory

ECW Press

This collection takes off from where Sky Gilbert’s first volume of poetry concluded and begs the question: Has Sky Gilbert grown up? Thankfully, the answer is no. Like Digressions of a Naked Party Girl, Temptations of a Juvenile Deliquent does not represent a fine literary turn by a respected man of letters, nor is it an experiment in metaphor and metonymy ripe for exegesis and respect. Instead, it’s a personal, confessional, hilarious, rant-filled thrill-ride where familiar streets are filled with gay boys, hookers, Key West sunshine, and movie stars. These are poems written on the run, between tricks, after orgies, and before that last cigarette at 4 in the morning. They are meant to be read: out loud, in bed, or simply as a tool for seduction. This dangerous book is recommended to minors, the inexperienced, the virginal, shut ins, and the sexually repressed, not University courses or best-seller lists anywhere.

Temptations for a Juvenile Delinquent

Poetry

a misFit book

Adored by a post-war American public, ripe for the egoism expounded in her writings, novelist Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism held many in their sway. But when Ayn asks her husband to set aside his emotions and accept that she has found another lover purely as a result of reason, her husband, her lover, and her lover's wife, all adherents to Rand's philosophy, must submit to one of its perverse conclusions.In The Emotionalists, award-winning playwright Sky Gilbert reveals a towering intellect caught in her own contradictions and a society of friends damaged by their principles. Gilbert's command of his characters, enmeshed in their Objectivist conundrum, is masterful. The Emotionalists is an intelligent, witty, and disturbing examination of the limits of reason and the need for honest emotion.

The Emotionalists

Blizzard Pub Ltd

A daring foray into the groundbreaking genre of autobiographical fiction Sad Old Faggot is the absorbing, sometimes embarrassing, always entertaining story of a lonely, self-obsessed, selfish, deluded, impotent 62-year-old gay man named Sky Gilbert who despite his best intentions cannot help but become a stereotype. Sky’s main claim to fame is founding Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in 1979. But since leaving Buddies, he’s fallen on hard times. Sky Gilbert is no longer even remotely famous. He has to fight off his own bitterness as audiences for his plays steadily dwindle. Theatre people dismiss his work as old news and point to the fact that he teaches at the University of Guelph as proof: his descent into academia clearly signals his failure as an artist. All along the way, the book questions our truths and celebrates their mutability. What is really true about each of us? What do we actually know about ourselves? And how much, it asks, of our own personal truth is based on fact and how much is rooted in fiction?

Sad Old Faggot: A Novel

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