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Serving Our LGBT Youth: From New York to Toronto

posted Thursday, April 28, 2016

by: in Activism, Charity, Lesbian, New York City, Queer, Toronto, Trans, Uncategorized

Organizations such as Hetrick-Martin Institute in New York has been providing youth services to at-risk LGBT youth since 1979 and they have had extraordinary successes including attracting such notable ambassadors as Andy Bell, Judy Gold, and Carole Pope to name just a few. Targeting services to at-risk LGBT youth is not about providing separate services, […]

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International Day Against Homophobia / Transphobia Fundraising Gala – May 17, 2016

posted Friday, April 8, 2016

by: in Activism, Charity, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto, Trans

The Canadian Centre for Gender & Sexual Diversity, formerly Jer’s Vision, is celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia  & Transphobia with our Annual Gala! The event will bring together 250 guests to Toronto to celebrate the work the community has done across Canada to address herterosexism & cissexism. Join  host Andre Morriseau & Kelly Kyle, alongside key community and […]

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Robert Mapplethorpe biopic on HBO Canada

posted Wednesday, April 6, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Celebrity, Featured Events, Film, Photography

HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS presents MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES “Look at the pictures,” said Senator Jesse Helms, denouncing the controversial art of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs pushed boundaries with frank depictions of nudity, sexuality and fetishism, igniting a culture war that rages to this day. More than 25 years later, the HBO Documentary Films presentation […]

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Spur Toronto – April 7 to 10, 20-16

posted Wednesday, April 6, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Books, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

Join fellow citizens and great thinkers for some serious fun at Spur 2016 and add your voice to the national conversation. The 21st century has brought unprecedented change when it comes to personal freedoms. What were once distinct, assigned roles are inhabited more freely. Many greet this fluidity — whether it be cultural, sexual or […]

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Tough As Nails: Transgressive Queer Glamour at YTB Gallery (Toronto) – April 5 to 23, 2016

posted Monday, April 4, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Lesbian, Queer, Toronto

Tough As Nails: Transgressive Queer Glamour Alchemy, drag, flash, haunting, shade, wild, glitter, shame, sex, violence, trash, fame. Tough as Nails brings five emerging Toronto based artists together to flaunt the glamorous side of queer resistance. Seeking to complicate ideas of marginality, Tough as Nails explores the relationship between glamour and agency. Drawing on the […]

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Bonham Centre Awards Gala – April 13, 2016 – University of Toronto

posted Saturday, April 2, 2016

by: in Activism, Charity, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

The annual Bonham Centre Awards Gala will be held at the beautiful Hart House at University of Toronto on Wednesday, April 13. This year’s awards will recognize LGBT business leaders and policy experts who are helping to make workplaces, and the business community as a whole, more welcoming and inclusive spaces for sexual and gender […]

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IRISH QUEERS: Green With Pride

posted Thursday, March 17, 2016

by: in Activism, Events, Featured Events, New York City, Outdoors, Queer

In this episode of Closet Case we chat with Gabrielle Cryan from Irish Queers NYC who will be joining hundreds of other NYC queers marching in the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade for the first year ever in an official capacity. Emmaia Gelman, also from Irish Queers NYC wrote – This Thursday, Irish […]

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Not-To-Be-Missed Upcoming Nights at Leslieville’s “The Duke”

posted Thursday, March 3, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Charity, Comedy, Disability, Drag, Events, Fashion, Film, Gallery, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Last Friday night I dropped by The Duke, a red brick Leslieville landmark built in 1870 and an historic night spot that offers 5 dollar pints, karaoke, sports TV, open pool tables, and claims of a great kitchen backed up by the sight of several generous servings seen sliding past on their way to delivery! […]

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Kensington’s “The Round” Hosts an Eating Disorders Event

posted Wednesday, March 2, 2016

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Charity, Comedy, Disability, Drag, Events, Fashion, Film, Gallery, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

  Here’s something worth checking out.  If you go to the gym often and wonder about some of the things you overhear, or if you have friends who engage in negative or conformist body image talk, you are not alone. At The Round in Toronto’s Kensington Market on February 4th, a collection of performers in […]

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Pride Month Toronto – June 1 to July 3, 2016 – Trudeau, Wynne, and Tory

posted Monday, February 22, 2016

by: in Activism, Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Outdoors, Pride, Queer, Toronto, Trans

  Pride Toronto unveiled today its 2016 Pride Month theme, announcing to the world that this June, “YOU CAN SIT WITH US.” The campaign for Canada’s first-ever Pride Month, kicking off in 100 days, features Canada’s top political leaders: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and partner Jane Rounthewaite and Toronto Mayor John […]

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