INSPIRE Awards honours LGBTQ+ individuals’s achievements, advocacy, and activism – January 6, 2024 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, January 3, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Comedy, Drag, Featured Events, Music, Queer, Toronto, Trans

The 12th annual INSPIRE Awards, an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ activism and advocacy within an inspirational framework, is taking place on January 6, 2024 at the Hart House, University of Toronto. The annual event also brings together all the other honourees for the evening, including community leaders and organizations, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community […]

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Casa Susanna photographs from America’s first trans network on display at the AGO until April 14, 2024

posted Wednesday, January 3, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Toronto, Trans

Casa Susanna is an exhibition of snapshots taken by members of the earliest known American crossdressing network, which operated in upstate New York from the mid-1950s through the end of the 1960s  Now on display at the AGO in Toronto, it’s the first standalone exhibition that showcases more than 350 candid and often playful snapshots, […]

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Arcadia Earth Toronto’s art exhibit and reality experience inspires guests to take action towards a greener future

posted Friday, December 1, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Featured Events, Toronto

Arcadia Earth Toronto is located in the city’s newest mixed-use community complex, The Well. The next generation art exhibit and extended reality experience aims to inspire guests to take action towards a greener future.  The 17,000 square-foot multi-sensory experience reimagines the way people address planet Earth’s most pressing environmental challenges. In a stunning 10-room adventure, […]

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World AIDS Day Ball highlights HIV/AIDS awareness through ballroom culture – Dec 2, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, November 30, 2023

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

The third annual World AIDS Day Ball: Fashion Icons returns to Toronto’s HISTORY nightclub, located at 1663 Queen St E on December 2, 2023.  The event highlights Ballroom culture, BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ talent, and the importance of HIV awareness, education, and linkage to care. With Fashion Icons the group is revisiting some of the world’s […]

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The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival offers both in person and online options – Oct 17 to 29, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, October 17, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Film, Streaming Online, Toronto

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (imagineNATIVE) runs from October 17-22, 2023 in person in Toronto, and October 23-29, 2023 streaming online. The Festival showcases 14 feature films, 70 short films across 11 short film programs, 21 digital and interactive works, and 17 audio works.  Each work presented at the festival is led by an […]

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Honouring Trans Musician Jackie Shane’s Toronto Legacy With Commemorative Plaque

posted Sunday, April 30, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Music, Queer, Toronto

Fans and the public are invited to contribute to a fundraising campaign to celebrate and honour musician Jackie Shane with a commemorative plaque in downtown Toronto. Shane was a pioneering trans soul singer who packed nightclubs and electrified the Toronto music scene in the 1960s. This campaign seeks to raise funds to erect a plaque near the […]

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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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Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival celebrates its 20th Anniversary with five films, March 8-19, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Monday, March 6, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Film, Queer, Streaming Online, Toronto, Trans

The 20th Annual Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival (HRWFF) in partnership with Hot Docs Cinema will be held from March 8 to 19, 2023; March 8-12 in-person at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, and March 13-19 on Hot Docs digital platform. Following the tradition of past festivals, all tickets for both in-person and digital screenings are […]

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Souperlicious! – feeding Toronto’s hungry one bowl at a time – Feb 14, 2023

posted Monday, February 13, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Charity, Featured Events, Toronto

On February 14, 2023, Souperlicious! will celebrate the day of LOVE, as Marty G. Sensations will be serving up free, chef-inspired, delicious hot soup and a “Nu Bügel” bagel to hundreds of people from multiple soup stations around the city. The chef inspired soups will reflect our many diverse cultures from around the world. Marty […]

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Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On – decades of Indigenous music and activism finally gets the recognition it deserves

posted Wednesday, February 8, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Film, Music

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On is a joyous, challenging account of this cultural and musical icon Buffy Sainte Marie’s lifelong commitment to music, and sharing the truth. Buffy shares her own story from her early love of music to the activism she continues to this day, despite her career being suppressed because of it. Additional […]

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