posted Sunday, April 30, 2023
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 […]
posted Monday, March 13, 2023
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 […]
posted Monday, March 6, 2023
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 […]
posted Monday, February 13, 2023
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 […]
posted Wednesday, February 8, 2023
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 […]
posted Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Set amid the legendary ‘80s Lower East Side art scene, a forgotten artist with dreams of glory is “restored” in the evocative documentary, Make Me Famous. The film will have its World Theatrical Premiere here in Toronto screening at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, from January 20 to February 1, 2023. Although he shared […]
posted Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Vancouver’s Out On Screen have launched a new training and mentorship initiative for emerging BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ film curators. Led by their new Artistic Director, Charlie Hidalgo, the Programming Disruptor Fellowship will select three emerging film programmers who identify as BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+, who will have the opportunity to be an integral part of the curation of the Vancouver Queer […]
posted Sunday, November 13, 2022
To honour Transgender Awareness Week (Nov 13-19), and the Trans Day of Remembrance (Nov 20), Historica Canada has released a new Heritage Minute celebrating iconic soul singer Jackie Shane, a pioneering transgender performer and a prominent figure in Toronto’s R&B scene. Born in 1940, Jackie Shane grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, singing in church choirs and gospel groups. At 13, she […]
posted Monday, July 25, 2022
AIDS2022, the world’s largest conference on HIV and AIDS, will convene leading scientists, policy makers and grassroots activists in Montreal from July 29 to August 2, 2022. It is taking place in Canada for the first time in almost 20 years. In 1989, the International AIDS Conference was in Montreal and it is remembered as the moment […]
posted Sunday, June 19, 2022
After two long years, the Toronto AIDS Candlelight Vigil is proudly returning in-person to Barbara Hall Park (519 Church Street, Toronto) on Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 9:00 p.m. EST. Finally, hundreds of 2SLGBTQIA+ community members and allies will be able to gather together to honour the lives of those who have passed from AIDS or AIDS-related illnesses or have given […]
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