Daniel Gawthrop (born 1963 in

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writer and editor.GAWTHROP, Daniel
''ABC Bookworld'', 2013. He is the author of five books, most recently ''The Trial of Pope Benedict'' and ''The Rice Queen Diaries''. As a journalist he was the original publisher and editor of ''

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, and has also contributed to publications including the ''

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'' and ''

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''. He now works as a communications representative for the

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Background

He was educated at the

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(BA 1987), the

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(BJ 1988), and

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(MA 2009). During the 1990s, he worked as a journalist for various publications in British Columbia. In 1990, he was part of a gay writers group in the

area, which included Stan Persky, George Stanley and

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, that launched the literary magazine ''Sodomite Invasion Review''. He was named as the first publisher and editor of ''Xtra! West'' in 1993. During the 1994 NHL playoffs he attracted national attention when articles he had published in both ''Xtra! West'' and the ''Vancouver Sun'', about the sex appeal of

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hockey player

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, drew commentary on ''

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'' from

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. He is an active member of the

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Books

His first book, a biography of AIDS activist and educator Peter Jepson-Young titled ''Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter'' (1994), examined its subject's life and contributions in the context of the conservative politics and mediascape of the times. His second book, an examination of the New Democratic government of

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titled ''Highwire Act: Power, Pragmatism and the Harcourt Legacy'', was published in 1996. He followed up with ''Vanishing Halo: Saving the Boreal Forest'' in 1999, a book commissioned by the

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to raise awareness about the world's coniferous crown and the industrial practices that have threatened it. After a few years in Thailand, where he worked as a sub-editor for the English language daily newspaper ''

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'', he returned to Canada and in 2005 published ''The Rice Queen Diaries'', a personal memoir that explores the political and cultural minefields of ethnicity and desire between white Western and Far East Asian men. In 2013 he published ''The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity'',"Good Pope, Bad Pope The Hatred of Benedict and Francis, Measured in Books"
'' The Stranger'', June 26, 2013. a critical account of its subject's decades-long campaign to crush a liberal reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church after the

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Works

* ''Affirmation: The AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter'' (New Star Books, 1994) — * ''Highwire Act: Power, Pragmatism and the Harcourt Legacy'' (New Star Books, 1996) — * ''Vanishing Halo: Saving the Boreal Forest'' (

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, 1999) — * ''The Rice Queen Diaries'' (2005,

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) — * ''The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity'' (2013, Arsenal Pulp Press) —

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