Prairie Fairies

Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the Canadian prairies.

Valerie Korinek is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan.

Prairie Fairies is an excellent and an extremely valuable contribution to the growing field of Canadian lesbian, gay, and queer history.

Peter Boag, Washington State University :

Employing the most current LGBTTQ scholarship, Valerie Korinek’s Prairie Fairies takes us deep into a history of Canada’s Central Prairie Provinces (and occasionally south of the international border into the U.S. states of Montana, the Dakotas, and Minnesota) where few scholars have previously ventured. In scope and content, this volume is a must for anyone seeking a better understanding of the persevering lives of a people who have long been at the heart of the North American continent and its story.