Field Notes

“Touchez-pas That Dial”
by Martin Patriquin
(pp. 16-18)

To hear Tim Morgan on air, tune into his radio station weekdays between 3 and 7 p.m. ET (choose the “Listen Now” link), or check out CHOM’s competition on the Montreal airwaves, CKOI .

Morgan isn’t the first Vancouverite with a flair for rock and talk. Maclean’s interviewed one of Canada’s original radio DJ celebrities in ““They Liked the Energy’: Red Robinson: A Pioneering Rock ‘n’ Roll DJ Remembers Elvis, the Beatles”“and Some Hot Lyrics ” (March 3, 2003, p. 28).

For more information on the anglophone experience in Montreal, read Martha Radice’s Feeling Comfortable The Urban Experience of Anglo-Montrealers (Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2000).


“Straight and Narrow”
by Wendy Glauser
(pp. 18”“20)

Behind the Mask is an online newsmagazine devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex issues in Africa. It features international profiles, human rights updates, arts coverage, opinion pieces, health education, and discussion forums.

Stephen O. Murray and Will Roscoe’s Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities (New York: Palgrave, 1998) gathers together scholars from a variety of disciplines who examine same-sex patterns across the continent. Read about institutionalized marriages between women, same-sex relations between men and boys in colonial work settings, and the success of lesbian and gay activism in South Africa, which in 1996 became the first nation on earth to constitutionally ban discrimination based on sexual orientation.