Army of Lovers: A Community History of Will Munro (Exploded Views)
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1552452778 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was such a one-of-a-kind person. 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. He really understood tha
Suzinne Barrett said This Charming Man. Review is for Kindle edition. This is a heartfelt and well written biography of Will Munro, DJ, party organizer, gay activist, artist and Y-front designer based in Toronto, Canada. He's largely unknown in the States, but he was quite a celebrity in Toronto. Seems Will's a complicated man, and maybe a little on the uptight side. He eschewed drinking and drugging but wasn't defiantly straight edge. Will came from a large and volatile family. So, like many before him, Will found inspiration and solace in the arts: music, fashion and art installations.Will held a regular party called "Vazaleen" (a play on "Vaseline") at his club
Famed for his subversive, irreverent visual art, which co-opted rock 'n' roll imagery and raunchy gay iconography, and his legendary Vazaleen dance parties, which singlehandedly reinvented Toronto’s queer nightlife culture, Will did more to revolutionize both his community and his city in a decade than most folks do in a lifetime.Weaving together a collage of stories from and about the people who knew and loved him, Army of Lovers is both a biography of Will Munro and a document of a galvanizing period in the history of Toronto, a moment when the city's various subcultures the queer community, the art scene, the independent music universe, the grassroots activist enclaves came of age and collided with one another.Selected by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) for the 2014 Over the Rainbow Project book list. "Will was pretty much th