Pink Blood: Homophobic Violence in Canada by Douglas Victor Janoff is the first Canadian book on the topic. It was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2005. In 2007, Pink Blood: La violence homophobe au Canada was published in French by Éditions Triptyque in Montreal. For more details, visit the French-language website of Pink Blood.

Douglas Janoff spent nine years researching 120 queer-related homicides and more than 350 assaults that occurred in Canada between 1990 and 2004. Pink Blood is now being read at over 250 universities in Canada, the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean, Asia and Australia. To find a library near you, click here.

Click the following links to read about Pink Blood in English, French, Spanish and Turkish. You can also hear an interview with Doug Janoff at the Writer’s Cafe or listen to his lecture at the University of Alberta. Media inquiries can be directed to Andrea Wilson, University of Toronto Press or Lucie Bélanger at Éditions Triptyque.

• Montreal Mirror
• International Observer
• Capital Xtra (Ottawa)
• FFWD (Calgary)
• Georgia Straight (Vancouver)
• Canadian Press
• Halifax Chronicle Herald
• University of Victoria newspaper
• University of Western Ontario newspaper
• Outpost (Vancouver)

In French - En français

• Au fil des événements
• Fugues (Montréal) 2007
• Fugues (Montréal) 2005
• L’Observateur International (Montréal)
• À babord!
• FrancoQueer

In Spanish - En español

• Rio Negro Newspaper (Patagonia, Argentina)

In Turkish - De Türkçe

• Indigo Dergisi
• Milliyet Newspaper (Istanbul)