Being a teenager is hard, especially if you're questioning your sexuality and growing up in rural Ontario in the mid '90s. Add to that a temperamental, homophobic father and a tenacious love for Madonna, and it's almost unbearable. Despite it all, Luke loves working on the family farm, and at least he has the support of a group of local outsiders who invite him into their circle.
Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (North America's largest gay and lesbian theatre) for eighteen years, where he produced over twenty-five of his own plays. Sky is an associate professor and holds a University Research Chair in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies at the School of English and Theatre at the University of Guelph.
"Gilbert provides a good dose of humour to make his message of acceptance and tolerance more palatable..." —Paula Citron