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By Daniel Gawthrop
Daniel Gawthrop was twelve years old and playing Peewee house league in 1975. He did not expect to grow up and start a gay men's hockey club, and he certainly did not expect that writing admiringly about the beauty of Pavel Bure's skating would set off a round of very nervous commentary from Don Cherry on down.
Those stories anchor Cutting Edge, a sharp and personal look at what gender, masculinity and sexuality have done to Canada's national sport. Gawthrop traces hockey's slow shift away from straight white male turf toward a game where women, racialized players and gender-diverse people have somewhere to play, and he is clear-eyed about how hard the sport's institutions have pushed back, from a scandal-plagued Hockey Canada to an NHL that still has not seen an active player come out in 109 years.
He also takes on Heated Rivalry and the strange new mainstream appetite for queer hockey stories, asking what that attention is actually worth to the players living it. Warm about the game, unsparing about the culture around it, and written by someone who clearly loves both the rink and the argument.
Paperback, 352 pages
Published by Arsenal Pulp Press (Sep 2026)
ISBN-13: 9781834050485
Dimensions: 15.24 x 5.08 x 22.86 cm
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