Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness is an iconoclastic romp through the end of the twentieth century. The misfit characters in this funny and poignant collection of stories find themselves adrift in an increasingly absurdist world — a world they must reinvent for themselves in order to find hope. How much of our identity is forged by direct experience, and how much is shaped by our constant exposure to a barrage of images and ideas imposed on us from elsewhere? From a story about a precocious teenage boy coming out in high school in the 1970s, to a series of tales about two queer con artists and their ridiculous get-rich-quick schemes, to a yarn about a famous transgender sex worker’s efforts to rally her community against redneck homophobes, to an account of a lesbian puppeteer’s AIDS activism in the 1980s, to a story about a sister coming to terms with her brother’s death from AIDS, the collection explores how the human heart stays afloat in a society entertaining, informing, and networking itself to death.

"Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness is a funny, poignant, and timelessly provocative collection of short stories where misfit characters find themselves adrift in an increasingly absurdist world. These strong-willed characters explore how much of their identities are forged by direct experience, and how much is shaped by constant exposure to the barrage of images imposed on them from elsewhere. First published in 1998 in a limited edition, these stories, accompanied by three new stories, remain astonishingly relevant. From a story about a precocious teenage boy coming out in high school in the '70s, to a series of tales about two queer con artists and their ridiculous get-rich-quick schemes, to a yarn about a famous transgender sex worker's efforts to rally her community against redneck homophobes, to an account of a lesbian puppeteer's AIDS activism in the 1980s, to a story about a sister coming to terms with her brother's death from AIDS, the collection explores how the human heart stays afloat in a society that is entertaining, informing, and networking itself to death."--

Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

"Gay Canada is a bibliographic record of major print and filmed works relating to Canadian gay and lesbian life from 1984 to 2000, with substantion coverage also for 2001 and early 2002. It is an essential source for libraries, students of sexual diversity studies, and archivists. "Gay Canada is an accessible and serious research tool, a collection of important and fascinating information. This revised and expanded edition incorporates, in particular, results of a detailed search of the National Library of Canada's online union catalogue, AMICUS. It reflects also re-examination of sources check earlier in order to retrieve some works indexed too late for inclusion in the first edition. A small number of errors discovered in the first edition have been corrected. In this revised edition, the Addendum of the first edition has been combined with the new items uncovered to produce the Supplement section.