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Underwear art and queer punk parties: a portrait of artist, activist and civic hero Will Munro.
About the author
Sarah Liss is The Grid 's music columnist and culture editor. Her writing has appeared in a number of places, including Toronto Life, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, CBC.ca and Flare, and onstage at Nightwood Theatre. Her piece 'A Force of Will,' a love letter to deceased Toronto artist Will Munro published in The Grid, was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2013.
Summary
Underwear art and queer punk parties: a portrait of artist, activist and civic hero Will Munro.
Foreword
Outside our traditional media list, the book will also be pitched and sent to LGBTQ publications and sites, as well as those concerned with contemporary art
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"With her characteristic insight, elegance, wit and generosity, Sarah Liss gives us the first, important account of Will Munro – one of the most important queer artists, activists, promoters and community builders Toronto has ever seen. His impact, memory and influence loom large, and Liss is one of the few people I'd trust to tell his story the way it should be told." – Michael Cobb, Professor of English and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto and author of Single: Arguments of the Uncoupled
"Will was pretty much the perfect role model. He was such a one-of-a-kind person. He really understood that throwing parties and shows is a part of creating community and that it can be dirty and crazy and chaotic, but also inclusive and positive and creative rather than destructive." – Beth Ditto, The Gossip
"Even in his passing, [Will] is still transforming things." – Luis Jacob, artist (Toronto Star)
"Munro's work is about nothing so much as life and inspiration, in their purest forms." – David Balzer, Canadian Art
'Army of Lovers is so fascinating it’s already earned a place on the mandatory reading lists of high school and university queer-studies courses, in my opinion. Its pages should be torn out of the book and wheatpasted on every weirdo kid’s locker in every high school in every suburban hellhole.'
— Keith Cole, Xtra!
'Through her reconstruction of the past, Liss proves she is a gifted storyteller deeply moved by her subject matter, approaching [Munro's] legacy like a meticulous curator.'
— Stacey May Fowles, The National Post
'. . . The most productive force of Army lies not only in conveying the community history of a queer, whimsical, superstar community builder, but in its very documentation through collective memory. Army gives us a different history of queer life in Toronto that must be remembered in order move forward.'
— Lambda Literary Review of Books
