Shorts in Conversation – catch flicks by emerging queer filmmakers at Ace Hotel Toronto’s new monthly screening series

posted Tuesday, March 21, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Events, Featured Events, Film, Queer, Toronto

Ace Hotel Toronto has launched a new monthly film screening series, Shorts In Conversation, that creates space for both cinema and dialogue. Each month, an organization curates films and filmmakers to discuss the craft, taste, and journey of putting thoughts into moving images. Toronto’s queer film festival, Inside Out, has been chosen as the host […]

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Like Me – young lost soul navigates the realities of life

posted Tuesday, March 21, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

In Like Me, Tom, a high school senior, is kicked out of his family home, and finds himself in a unusual relationship with an older fashion photographer whom he is modelling for, while secretly being in love with his close friend Gilad. The debut feature from writer-director Eyal Kantor had its world premiere at the […]

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Queendom – radical queer performance artist struts the streets of Moscow

posted Sunday, March 19, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

In Queendom, Gena Marvin, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism, while at the same time putting her life in danger. She dresses in otherworldly costumes made from found objects and tape, and protests the government on the streets […]

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Ithaka – Wikileaks documentary explains how the truth will (not) set you free

posted Saturday, March 18, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Toronto

Ithaka is a strange and convoluted documentary about the campaign to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Filmed over two years across the UK, Europe and the US, While it does divulge some inside information and background on the details that led to the detainment of Assange, it comes across as more a feature on his […]

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Rainbow Ski Weekend at Blue Mountain Village – Activities For All Both On And Off The Slopes – March 24 to 26, 2023

posted Friday, March 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Outdoors, Queer, Sports, Toronto, Trans

Blue Mountain Village Association‘s (BMVA) fifth annual Rainbow Ski Weekend is back again taking place on the grounds of Blue Mountain Resort. It’s Ontario’s only gay ski weekend, and there’s plenty to do both on and off the slopes, whether you ski, play, and slay (sleigh?), there are numerous fun events taking place throughout the weekend. Get […]

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Cram – think twice about delaying your next project

posted Friday, March 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online

Were you the one that waited until the last minute to study for a test, then had the Cram everything in last minute? We all do what we gotta do to pass – except Marc. Desperate to finish his final paper, he struggles to cram all night in the library. After dozing off, Marc awakens […]

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Egghead and Twinkie – an Asian American Gen Z road trip comedy about coming out

posted Friday, March 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Egghead and Twinkie tells the story of seventeen-year-old Twinkie, who takes off on a road trip to meet her online crush with the help of her nerdy best friend, Egghead, after coming out to her parents. As they make their way across the country, Egghead wrestles with his unrequited feelings for Twinkie, while Twinkie learns […]

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Public Sweat – a springtime community experience fusing art with sauna culture – until April 23, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, March 15, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Featured Events, Toronto

Toronto’s Art Spin have collaborated with Harbourfront Centre to present Public Sweat, a sauna village where you can move through and explore five sweat bathing structures each created by a different artist. Every space is unique in design and ranges in temperature, and quality of steam. In one you’ll lie side-by-side with others on a […]

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Pride Toronto 2023 theme is “Here, There, Everywhere” – initial performers announced

posted Monday, March 13, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Featured Events, Lesbian, Pride, Queer, Toronto, Trans

Pride Toronto is back for its 43rd year and continues to be the most exciting and most inclusive festival in Canada, and one of the largest 2SLGBTQI+ festivals in the world! The organization has announced this year’s Festival theme as “Here, There, Everywhere,” which is equal parts protest as it is party. Focused on the […]

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Blue Jean – lesbian teacher navigates life while trying to remain secretly in the closet

posted Sunday, March 12, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Lesbian, Streaming Online

Blue Jean tells the story of Jean, a gym teacher who is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job and her integrity. At the 1987 Conservative Party Conference in Britain, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated, […]

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