In August 1989, Jane Rule -- novelist, essayist, and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America -- summed up the first eight years of her correspondence with Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic: "It seems to me that what has concerned us is richly human and significantly focused on the concerns of our time and our tribe."

A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of their correspondence. At turns poignant, scintillating, and incisive, their exchanges include ruminations on queer life and the writing life as they document some of the most pressing LGBT issues and events of the 1980s and ’90s, including HIV/AIDs, censorship, youth sexuality, public sex and S/M, Toronto's infamous bath raids, and state regulation of identity and desire.

Join us on June 1 at Glad Day Bookshop, 499 Church St, Toronto, for a celebration of A Queer Love Story and the letters and lives of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout.