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Eating
Fire follows in the steps of Riordon’s
popular 1996 book Out our way, on gay and
lesbian life in the country (BTL, 1996). This new
set of tales examines the range in living patterns
and relationships among queer families across
Canada.
Eating Fire illuminates the rich diversity
in which people negotiate their personal and public
identities. As in all his writing and radio work,
Riordon brings to this book a subtle, direct, and
vivid style. For Eating Fire he travelled
widely, engaging in significant new research and
speaking with hundreds of fascinating people. The
resulting book is wanted and needed in classrooms,
within queer communities, and among everyone hungry
for knowledge about the wide range of Canadian
families.
Michael Riordon is an author and oral
historian. His articles have appeared in Toronto
Life, This Magazine, Xtra!,
The Globe and Mail, and The New
Internationalist.
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