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Peter McGehee & Doug Wilson
Sep. 24th, 2011 09:00 am
Peter Gregory McGehee (October 6, 1955 - September 13, 1991) was an American-born Canadian novelist, dramatist and short story writer.Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas to Frank Thomas and Julia Ann May McGehee, Peter moved with his family to Little Rock when he was six. He was the second of three children. McGehee played the trombone at Parkview High School in Little Rock where he graduated in 1973. McGehee studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas before moving to San Francisco to work in theatre where he graduated from the University of San Francisco. While living in San Francisco, he wrote his first play and first comedic musical revue The Quinlan Sisters. that is where he later met Canadian activist Douglas Wilson, who became his partner. He moved to Saskatoon in 1980 to be with Douglas, and subsequently to Toronto in 1982.
He published his first novella, Beyond Happiness in 1985 and premiered his second revue, The Fabulous Sirs in 1987.
In 1988, McGehee and Wilson were both diagnosed HIV-positive. McGehee subsequently wrote two novels, Boys Like Us and Sweetheart, and a book of short stories, The IQ Zoo. Boys Like Us was published in 1991, shortly before McGehee's death of AIDS-related causes; Sweetheart and The IQ Zoo were both published posthumously.
Using notes that McGehee had written in preparation for his third novel, Wilson subsequently wrote Labour of Love before his own death in 1992. That novel was published in 1993.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_McGeh
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Douglas Wilson and Peter McGehee
Douglas Wilson (1950-1992) was a Canadian gay activist, graduate student, publisher and writer born in Saskatchewan. In 1975, he gained prominence in a fight for gay rights with the University of Saskatchewan. The University's Dean of the College of Education refused to allow Wilson into the school system to supervise practice teachers because of his public involvement with the gay liberation movement. Wilson was vice-president of the Gay Community Centre Saskatoon and had been trying to start a gay academic union at the university. The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission failed to protect Wilson and his case was unsuccessful.
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Wil
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Highway Nights
The only complain I have on this novel is that this is a good mystery / thriller. Well, that is not a complaint at all you would say, and indeed it was hard to find something that was not good and to me, romance lover and all, that was the only point: I remember Bill and Christopher from Amor en Retrogrado and I was really glad to have the chance to read about them again, especially since in the previous novel their story was left hanging. And so, when I started this second book, I was eager to meet again Bill and above all Christopher; the author was nice enough to reintroduce me to Bill on chapter 3, but Christopher only made an appearance by phone, and I had to wait more or less 1/3 of the book to have him by person.
The only complain I have on this novel is that this is a good mystery / thriller. Well, that is not a complaint at all you would say, and indeed it was hard to find something that was not good and to me, romance lover and all, that was the only point: I remember Bill and Christopher from Amor en Retrogrado and I was really glad to have the chance to read about them again, especially since in the previous novel their story was left hanging. And so, when I started this second book, I was eager to meet again Bill and above all Christopher; the author was nice enough to reintroduce me to Bill on chapter 3, but Christopher only made an appearance by phone, and I had to wait more or less 1/3 of the book to have him by person.