Army of Lovers

A Community History of Will Munro

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Pub Date Oct 15 2013 | Archive Date Mar 04 2014

Description

'Will was pretty much the perfect role model.'
— Beth Ditto, The Gossip

Will Munro was a legendary artist, DJ, activist and impresario, as renowned for his transgressive, irreverent art as he was for reinventing Toronto's nightlife culture. His installations and prints co-opted rock 'n' roll imagery and raunchy gay iconography — you couldn't look at men's underwear the same way after a Munro show — and his outre Vazaleen dance parties brought to the city's stages some of the most notorious performers of the last forty years: Nina Hagen, Jayne County and Vaginal Davis, among them. When Munro died of brain cancer in 2010, at the unfathomably young age of thirty-five, Toronto was robbed of one of its most significant civic heroes.

Army of Lovers collects stories from and about the people who knew and loved Munro — including Gossip singer Beth Ditto, filmmaker Bruce LaBruce and artist Luis Jacob — to movingly capture an incandescent moment when Toronto's queer community, art scene and independent music universe came of age and collided with one another.

'Will was pretty much the perfect role model.'
— Beth Ditto, The Gossip

Will Munro was a legendary artist, DJ, activist and impresario, as renowned for his transgressive, irreverent art as he was...


Advance Praise

'With her characteristic insight, elegance, wit and generosity, Sarah Liss gives us the first, important account of Will Munro one of the most important queer artists, activists, promoters and community builders Toronto has ever seen. His impact, memory and influence loom large, and Liss is one of the few people I'd trust to tell his story the way it should be told.'
— Michael Cobb, author of Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled

'With her characteristic insight, elegance, wit and generosity, Sarah Liss gives us the first, important account of Will Munro one of the most important queer artists, activists, promoters and...


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