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LOVE OASIS at the Hamilton Fringe Festival

posted Saturday, July 16, 2016

by: in Events, Featured Events, Hamilton, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Johnny Salib is an award winning actor, composer, sound designer and playwright from Toronto. He has mounted four original plays and has four music albums out, but recently he was the dramaturge/assistant director of Terrible Parents by Sky Gilbert as well as starring as Chad in RAID: Operation Soap during this years QueerPride Festival at Buddies In Bad […]

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Aydian Dowling: International Grand Sex Symbol

posted Saturday, July 2, 2016

by: in Activism, Celebrity, Pride, Toronto, Trans

Please don’t tell my boyfriend, but I’m in love with another man. It all started during this year’s trans march when I went down to try and grab a quick interview with Aydian Dowling, this year’s International Grand Marshal. If you don’t know who Aydian is, a quick Google image search will get you all the eye candy you […]

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Eulogy for a Videofag

posted Monday, June 27, 2016

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Drag, Film, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

How do queers mourn the death of someone they love? With brunch of course! If you haven’t heard already, Toronto’s beloved Videofag is closing up shop and so they’ve been holding funeral services (yes, that’s plural) to help our community mourn. I went to the brunch service to deliver the following eulogy in honour of this tragic […]

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Thorgy Thor: Gender Fluidity, The Body As Art and Being Moved By A Viola

posted Thursday, June 16, 2016

by: in Art, Celebrity, Drag, New York City, Pride, Toronto

Thorgy Thor (pronounced ‘th’ with an orgy) is a drag performance artist, host and musician reining from Brooklyn. Finishing sixth on season eight of RuPaul’s Drag Race, she was only one of two queens representing New York City and she was just here as part of Pride month co-hosting RuPaul’s Battle of the Seasons Afterparty at Fly 2.0 […]

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Kitty Glitter Gets Fishy: A Night At The AQUEERium

posted Sunday, June 12, 2016

by: in Activism, Celebrity, Drag, Events, Music, Pride, Toronto

“Even though gender issues have been making steady progress it’s imperative we all work towards a more global awareness.” –Kitty Glitter Kitty Glitter is from Sydney, Australia. but has DJ’d at so many Pride, Prism and Fly events that she now considers Toronto her second home. With her upcoming gig A Night At The AQUEERium […]

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The Prancing Elites: Turning It All The Way Out For Pride!

posted Friday, June 10, 2016

by: in Activism, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Part of our theBUZZ Pride Toronto 2016 coverage, part 3 of 3. What Can We Expect From The Blockarama Performance? ADRIAN: It’s going to be epic and never seen before, we are gonna turn it aaaaaaaaaaaalll the way out! JEREL: This is our first time traveling internationally so we are preparing to show up and show out! […]

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The Prancing Elites: Challenging Homophobia 

posted Wednesday, June 8, 2016

by: in Activism, Celebrity, Pride, Queer, Toronto, Trans

Part of our theBUZZ Pride Toronto 2016 coverage (Part 2 of 3) With Pride month already upon us there’s lots to celebrate; our right to get married, have our own children and our basic human rights are more or less protected under the law. The LGBT movement was born out of a rebellion against how we were being treated, […]

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The Prancing Elites Project: Gender Mentors

posted Thursday, June 2, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Celebrity, Pride, Queer, Trans

Hailing from Alabama, The Prancing Elites are stars of the reality television series, The Prancing Elites Project, and despite the show’s glittery veneer there’s a very real and political gender battle being waged. The term reality TV’ typically suggests a cast of caddy characters each trying to outdo the other for witty comebacks and mean spirited attacks, but with this show it’s […]

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David Bateman: Performance Poet & Butter Tart Police

posted Wednesday, June 1, 2016

by: in Art, Art Gallery, Books, Celebrity, Drag, Uncategorized

Part of our theBUZZ Pride Toronto 2016 coverage. David Bateman is an internationally recognized performance poet, and last year he co-wrote the music and starred in thirteen public presentations of Brock Hessel’s hit Hamlet In A Hot Tub starring Paul Bellini, Amy J. Lester, plus a host of cameo appearances by notable queer Canadian starlets. Photo taken by Ben […]

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Keith Cole: Butter Tarts, KFC and Queering Up the AGO

posted Saturday, May 21, 2016

by: in Bar/Club, Events, Pride, Queer, Theatre, Toronto, Uncategorized

Keith Cole is a queer Canadian performance artist and political activist. An alumnus of York University’s Fine Arts program, Cole has worked in film and video, dance and theatre performance, both as himself and in character as drag queen Pepper Highway. Theatrical works include: the shows Mine, Alma, The Needle Exchange and Dodged Bullets/Missed Opportunities. He […]

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