Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Foreword xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Historical Contexts, Queer Activism
8. Notes on Grey zone 19
9. Solidarity in Motion: Manzano por Manzana and To Pick Is Not to Choose 43
10. “Tell a Story, Save a Life” (Montage 1987–89) 58
11. Buggering John Greyson 69
12. John Greyson’s After the Bath, Moral Panic, and Interpublic Address 81
13. Obsessions
14. John Greyson’s Queer Internationalism 101
15. Parsing the Transnational in John Greyson’s Queer Cinema: Proteus, Fig Trees, Covered, and Hey Elton 113
16. Fables of Empire: The Intimate Histories of John Greyson 136
17. And Now for Something Completely Dissident: The “Parodic Historical” and “Archival Necrology” of John Greyson 148
18. Froth and Its Uses 169
19. Greyson, Grierson, Godard, God: Reflections on the Cinema of John Greyson (from North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 [2002]) 180
20. “Strike a Pose”: Notes towards Queering Tableau and Temporality in the Work of John Greyson 196
21. Audio Visual Judo 209
22. “God is a lesbian,” Says John 216
23. In His Own Words
24. The Boxboys (from The Body Politic, September 1979) 227
25. Fact and Fiction (from The Body Politic, November 1979, 36) 234
26. Skirting the Issue (from The Body Politic, April 1981,31–2) 238
27. Queer behind the Curtain: Interview with John Greyson (from The Body Politic, October 1985, 23 4) 243
28. Parma Violets (from Urinal and Other Stories, [1988] 1993) 248
29. Still Searching (from A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art & Contemporary Cultures, 1992,85-95) 258
30. Security Blankets: Sex, Video, and the Police (from Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, 1993, 383–94) 268
31. The Coconut Strategy: Shape-Shifting in Filmmaking (from Montage, Fall 2001) 279
32. Something Always Seems to Go Wrong Somewhere: Eisenstein at the Barricades, Pasolini at the Baths (from Public 25 [2002 ]: 110-18) 283
33. The Singing Dunes: Colin Campbell, 1943–2001 (from C Magazine, 2002) 294
34. Pils Slip (from Vertigo, Autumn 2005) 300
35. Everett Klippert: A Musical Waiting to Happen (unpublished, 2005) 306
36. A Whore on Terror: Several Quodlibets (unpublished, 2006) 312
37. Waiting Jor Gaydot (unpublished, 2009) 323
38. The Films
39. Defending Desire: Direct(ing) Gay Male Sex (from Deviant Eyes, Deviant Bodies: Sexual Re-orientation in Film and Video, 1996) 343
40. On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the Other: An Untimely Meditation1 (from The Ethics of Marginality, 1995) 351
41. “Nice gun you’ve got there”: John Greyson’s Critique of Masculinity (from Parachute 66 [ 1992|: 27–32) 371
42. “Bash back, baby, your life depends on it”: Pedagogical Responses to Anti-Gay Violence in John Greyson s The Making of “Monsters” 383
43. Zero Patience, The Musical 408
44. “But ... it’s so beautiful”: Collective Fantasy in Lilies (from Nouvelles “vues” sur le cinéma québécois, no. 8 [Winter 2008]) 425
45. Three Peters and an Obsession with Pierre: Intellectual Property in John Greyson’s Un©ut 438
46. Counting Time in The Law of Enclosures 450
47. Queer Anachronism and National Memory in Proteus 462
48. Ten Propositions on Operatic Subversions and the “Charge of the Real” in John Greyson’s Fig Trees 475
49. Thoughts on Fig Trees (from Fig Trees: A Video Opera by David Wall and John Greyson, catalogue to accompany exhibition at the Oakville Galleries, 2003) 493
50. Opera Games (from Fig Trees: A Video Opera by David Wall and John Greyson, catalogue to accompany exhibition at the Oakville Galleries, 2003) 499
51. Filmography 503
52. John Greyson: Selected Writings 517
53. Works Cited 519
54. Contributors 541
55. Index 549