Queering Representation

Manon Tremblay is a professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is the author of 100 Questions about Women and Politics and, with Anne Mévellec, of Genre et professionnalisation de la politique municipale. She co-edited Stalled: The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments, with Linda Trimble and Jane Arscott, and The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship, with David Paternotte and Carol Johnson.Contributors: Curtis Atkins, Frédéric Boily, Steven D. Brown, Alexa DeGagne, Joanna Everitt, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Brooke Jeffrey, Barry Kay, Mireille Lalancette, Catherine J. Nash, Andrea M.L. Perrella, Dennis Pilon, Tracey Raney, Ève Robidoux-Descary, Graeme Truelove, Angelia Wagner

• Foreword / Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovoIntroductionPart 1: LGBTQ Voters1 Profile of the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Electorate in Canada / Andrea M.L. Perrella, Steven D. Brown, and Barry Kay2 Winning as a Woman/Winning as a Lesbian: Voter Attitudes toward Kathleen Wynne in the 2014 Ontario Election / Joanna Everitt and Tracey Raney3 Media Framing of Lesbian and Gay Politicians: Is Sexual Mediation at Work? / Mireille Lalancette and Manon Tremblay4 Electing LGBT Representatives and the Voting System in Canada / Dennis PilonPart 2: LGBTQ Representatives5 LGBT Groups and the Canadian Conservative Movement: A New Relationship? / Frédéric Boily and Ève Robidoux-Descary6 Liberalism and the Protection of LGBT Rights in Canada / Brooke Jeffrey7 A True Match? The Federal New Democratic Party and LGBTQ Communities and Politics / Alexa DeGagne8 Representation: The Case of LGBTQ People / Manon Tremblay9 Pathway to Office: The Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, and Election of LGBT Candidates / Joanna Everitt, Manon Tremblay, and Angelia Wagner10 LGBTQ Perspectives on Political Candidacy in Canada / Angelia Wagner11 Out to Win: The ProudPolitics Approach to LGBTQ Electoralism / Curtis Atkins12 LGBT Place Management: Representative Politics and Toronto's Gay Village / Catherine J. Nash and Andrew Gorman-MurrayAfterword: The Champion / Graeme TrueloveIndex

The authors do a great job of maintaining a balanced approach while engaging many seldom-explored issues. They force the reader to abandon their assumptions by examining the data and problematizing the issues raised by LGBTQ voters and representatives without reaching beyond the scope of the book. - David Girard (Alternate Routes)