GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE April 25, 2003

The Cleveland Museum of Art

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A Special Evening with

The Fred Hersch Trio

Wednesday, May 7, 2003 at 7:30 p.m.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

11150 East Boulevard

Jazz pianist Fred Hersch has enjoyed a distinguished career as a composer, arranger, bandleader and performer over the course. of twenty years. Join us for a musical evening of original works and familiar standards at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Following the Fred Hersch concert the AIDS Taskforce Board of Directors will host a reception at NightTown with Fred Hersch.

Fred Hersch Trio tickets at the Cleveland Museum of Art, $20.00 Fred Hersch Trio Concert and NightTown Reception, $45.00

To purchase tickets, call 216-357-2223

Proceeds will benefit the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland

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Another weapon in the international war of words

Publisher presents a slate of LGBT titles

One Man's Trash

by Ivan E. Coyote

Arsenal Pulp, $13.95, paperback

Home

Mark Macdonald

Arsenal Pulp, $12.95, paperback

Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers The Cha-Cha Years

Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco Arsenal Pulp, $13.95, paperback Reviewed by Anthony Glassman

Many jokes are made at Canada's expense, whether leftover Bob and Doug MacKenzie slang or comments about the uniforms of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Admittedly, they do have a little problem with Customs' tendency to seize gay-themed books and films coming over the border from the United States and Britain. Granted, they pronounce words ending in "out" strangely and have an odd tendency to put both French and English on the labels of foodstuffs.

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However, unlike the United States, they are not a thinlyveiled theocracy. This comes through in their devotion to human rights and their literature. Arsenal Pulp Press, founded in 1971, has the distinction of putting out the first book of gay male prose ever published in Canada, Queeries, and in the last ten years has made LGBT studies and literature a major focus of its publishing ever since. Their Queer Fear anthologies have been recognized by the Lambda Literary awards, and Out/Lines, a collection of gay male images in underground art, was goundbreaking.

Their single-author collections of short stories One Man's Trash and Home are two excellent examples of why the Vancouver company is at the top of their field.

Ivan E. Coyote, who in the stories in One Man's Trash alternately self-identifies as a butch dyke and a transman, perhaps best exemplifies the difference between Canadian and United States literature. Where other authors would tend towards either a victim mentality or almost mindless anger at their situations, Coyote's understated wit and almost "down home" feel come through well. All of her stories are presented in an al-

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most matter-offact voice, seeming at first glance to be autobiographical.

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ences in narratives, however, quickly dispel that notion, since nobody could be in as many places at once as the storytellers in the book. Hailing from the Yukon,

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she is the daughter of great, wide open spaces, and her wanderlust is reflected on every page, balanced only by her love of wherever and whoever she can call home.

In terms of segues, there could be no better one that that to introduce Ohio to Mark Macdonald, whose short fiction is practically a study in the theater of the absurd. From a family dealing with a patriarch who keeps rising from the dead to a man who fights off the effects of AIDS by constantly fortifying the house he inherited, Macdonald's stories are a trip down a stream of consciousness that must inevitably end in some monstrous, magnificent waterfall.

Unlike Coyote's work, Macdonald's sexual orientation is not a constant issue. Certainly, it informs everything he writes, but is not the subject of his entire oeuvre. His stories adhere to the "I'm here, I'm queer, and I'll talk about it if it comes up in the story" school of writing. Whether that qualifies Home as gay literature or simply literature by a gay author is an argument not worth having, since either way the miscellany is a worthwhile find.

Francisco Ibañez-Carrasco's Flesh Wounds and Purple Flowers, however, is a distinctly gay novel. Bouncing between a first-person and third-person narrative, the story is a panoply of multiculturalism. The author, like his protagonist, is a gay Chilean émigré; Ibañez-Carrasco's route to Vancouver is unknown, but Camilo, after a stint in New York City, decides that north of the border might be a more hospitable place. Camilo's tale is also that of a young man dealing with life in the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, into which he is slipping at the beginning of the book.

Intricate, delicately plotted and playing to both comedy and tragedy, Blood Wounds is a portrait of a truly unique character, yet completely representative of the quality of Arsenal's output.

This publishing house will probably at some point release a poorly written or illconceived book, but judging from this trio, it won't be any time soon.

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