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- 1 2 3 Glenn Sumi, "Gay theatre scores big with its target audience: Canada's homosexual community is large, rich and self-aware -- and playwrights are cashing in on it. Who cares if the critics don't always approve?" The Globe and Mail , March 14, 1998.
- ↑ Robert Crew, "Love amid the lust in bathhouse". Toronto Star , March 14, 1996.
- ↑ Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0887548529.
- ↑ Kate Taylor, "Comedy well buried in bland play". The Globe and Mail , January 20, 2001.
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