OUT: Queer Looking Queer Acting Revisited

This book is edited by noted curator and activist, Robin Metcalfe and includes essays by Metcalfe and several other well-known activists. The publication is a reproduction the original catalogue from the 1997 MSVU exhibition Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian and Gay Vernacular, including a main essay that constitutes the most complete social history, to date, of the emergence and first quarter century of Queer activism in Halifax. Jane Kansas reflects on coming out as lesbian in rural Nova Scotia, and James MacSwain contributes a film- and videography of local Queer cinematic production up until 1997. For this second edition, contemporary activist Rebecca Rose traces a personal account of Queer activism in Halifax in the second decade of the 21st century, emphasising the growing visibility of transgender or trans* activism within the Queer movement and NSCAD Queer Collective’s Beck Gilmer-Osborne and Genevieve Flavelle share an account of their experience with the Collective and the Turret Resurrection. The book is at once a celebration of the past, an important social and historical documentation, and a passing of the proverbial baton.