Ian Young (writer)
Ian Young | |
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Born | January 5, 1945 |
Occupation | non-fiction, journalism, poetry |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 1970s-present |
Notable works | The Gay Muse, The Male Homosexual in Literature |
Ian Young (born January 5, 1945) is an English-Canadian poet, editor, literary critic, and historian. He was a member of the
Young is best known for his work as editor of the anthology The Gay Muse[6] and the bibliography The Male Homosexual in Literature.[7] He edited The Male Muse: A Gay Anthology, the first English-language anthology of poetry with gay male themes.[2] In 1974, a shipment of The Male Muse was seized and burned by British customs officials.[2]
He was interested in ceremonial magic during the 1980s and was a founding member of the Hermetic Order of the Silver Sword.[5]
His recent book, Encounters with Authors (2013), featured historical and critical essays on the work of three noted Canadian LGBT writers, Scott Symons, Robin Hardy and Norman Elder.[8]
Publications
- White Garland: 9 Poems for Richard (1969)
- Year of the Quiet Sun (1969)
- Double Exposure (1970, 2nd edition 1974)
- Lions in the Stream (1971) (with Richard Phelan)
- Some Green Moths (1972)
- Invisible Words (1974)
- The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography (1976; 2nd edition 1982)
- Common-or-Garden Gods (1976)
- Son of the Male Muse (1983)
- Gay Resistance: Homosexuals in the Anti-Nazi Underground (1985)
- Sex Magick (1986)
- The AIDS Dissidents: An Annotated Bibliography (1993)
- The Stonewall Experiment: A Gay Psychohistory (1995)
- The AIDS Cult: Essays On the Gay Health Crisis (1997) (with John Lauritsen)
- Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps (2012)
- Encounters with Authors: Essays on Scott Symons, Robin Hardy, Norman Elder (2013)
- London Skin & Bones: The Finsbury Park Stories (2017)
- The Male Homosexual in Literature: A Bibliography Supplement (2020)
See also
- Canadian literature
- Canadian poetry
- List of Canadian poets
- List of Canadian writers
- HIV/AIDS denialism
- Homoerotic poetry
References
- ^ ISBN 9780415291613. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
- ^ OCLC 35108319.
- Ryerson University Library & Archives. 2014. Archived from the originalon 2014-10-16. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
- ISBN 9781590213865. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
- ^ a b Percy, William (December 2, 2011). "Ian Young". Retrieved 2014-10-01.
- ISBN 9780802007612. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
- ^ Gunn, Drewey Wayne (September 18, 2010). "'All of Me (Can You Take All of Me?)' by Dirk Vanden". Lambda Literary Review. Retrieved 2014-09-24.
- ^ "‘Encounters with Authors: Essays on Scott Symons, Robin Hardy, Norman Elder’ by Ian Young". Lambda Literary Foundation, August 26, 2013.