![]() TBP was dragged into court several times, as were Little Sisters and Glad Day, Canadian bookstores, an ultimately futile move by the government but a costly one for the defendants. Rule was the only well-known, openly lesbian Canadian, and Bébout guided TBP through obscenity trials after Canada Customs seized his paper and one of her novels at the border. Having in common a deep and powerful bond with their community, Rule and Bébout became public figures in the fight for LGBT equality. Rule and Bébout met several times in Toronto, and also in Galiano, relishing their time together. ![]() Intimacy could hardly have been predicted between writers whose lives were so different: Bébout (1950–2009) lived in the heart of Toronto’s gay community, loved the bars, and had many short-term affairs, while Rule, nineteen years older, lived quietly on Galiano, an island off Vancouver, with her longtime partner Helen Sonthoff. At first the two were professionally related as editor and columnist: Rule (1931–2007) wrote a column for TBP for ten years and gradually became close to Bébout. readers, Rick Bébout-editor of the Toronto gay paper The Body Politic and the book Flaunting It: A Decade of Gay Journalism from The Body Politic-is equally engaging in these letters. 619 pages, $49.95įANS of lesbian icon Jane Rule will celebrate the publication of her letters to a man whom she came to love. ![]() A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout ![]()
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