[acc-cca-l] Toronto Launch, Tues. March 3, 7:PM | Will Straw: Nights in Fairyland (MQUP)

[Paul Moore]

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Colleagues,

Join us at a Toronto book launch for Will Straw's Nights in Fairyland: Gossip, Blackmail, and the Many Lives of “Broadway Brevities”<https://www.mqup.ca/Books/N/Nights-in-Fairyland> (2026, McGill-Queen's University Press)

In conversation and Q&A:
WHEN: Tuesday, March 3, 7PM
WHERE: Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick, Toronto
https://www.facebook.com/events/1950133922207311/
No advance registration required.

About the book: In its time (the 1920s and 1930s), the New York-based periodical Broadway Brevities was best known as the basis of a blackmail racket made public in a widely-covered trial that sent its Canadian-born editor to prison in 1925. In recent years, interest in Broadway Brevities has focused instead on its relentless exposure of the places of Queer nightlife in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. The fourteen episodes of the “Nights in Fairyland” series saw Brevities’ editor venture into the queer gathering places of Manhattan, denouncing the people he found there even as he revelled in the rich details of their lives.

Will Straw<https://willstraw.com/> is James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Paul S. Moore, Professor
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts
Graduate Program in Communication & Culture
Toronto Metropolitan University
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