posted Saturday, June 20, 2015
As our series on the stars of Drag ON! continues, I shot a few questions at local starlet Sapphire Tithi-Reign to get a little clarity on the calculations it takes to be a queen! What does Pride mean to you? To me, Pride means celebrating my freedom as a member of the LGBTQ community! I […]
posted Friday, June 19, 2015
Philadelphia’s self-described ‘S&M Punk’ band GASH will be part of this year’s Pride Toronto performers at the Alterna-Queer Stage. The music is reminiscent of 70/80’s punk with the prerequisite “fuck you” attitude in full effect. What I’m most fascinated by with this band is their live stage show which includes a Dominatrix and a message […]
posted Saturday, May 30, 2015
This week has been the Inside Out Film Festival‘s 25th year in Toronto. Each year, the festival delivers a showcase of fabulous local talent – Mixed Shorts:Local Heroes. Vince Racanelli’s short documentary “What Makes Me a Woman” made this years official selection for Local Heroes. His film poses a simple question, and receives a simple […]
posted Thursday, May 7, 2015
Building on the success of last year’s WorldPride 2014 Human Rights Conference, Pride Toronto announced “Pride and Prejudice: Human Rights in the Pan Am Region” today. The 2nd annual human rights conference will be held Saturday June 20, 2015 at University of Toronto’s University College. In 2014, over 500 activists from over 50 countries participated […]
posted Wednesday, April 29, 2015
I can do nothing but praise this documentary. It was short, sweet and to the point. It also was unexpectedly very emotional. Especially for someone like myself with a music background who perhaps in getting older has forgotten the power music can have on youth. It really tore away at my cynicism and that is […]
posted Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Pride Toronto has announced Scarborough native David Furnish as the 2015 Grand Marshall, and he will be leading the Pride Parade on Sunday June 28, 2015 along with International Grand Marshall Celina Jaitly from India. Pride Toronto annually selects an International Grand Marshall (IGM) who acts as an ambassador to represent global LGBTTIQQ2SA communities during […]
posted Sunday, April 26, 2015
After my performance as American Horror Story’s Elsa Mars at the Great Hall with Illuminair Entertainment on Sunday April 19, I trucked across town to legendary drag bar Crews and Tangos to witness one of the most turnt out drag pageants Toronto has seen for a while. Organiser Matteo Cassano ( aka Heroine Marks) showed […]
posted Thursday, April 23, 2015
“We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it’s a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative […]
posted Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Kensington Market in Toronto is in for a treat tonight! A queer dance party and book launch in one, held at the infamous Double Double Land, will be thriving from 10pm till late, April 22 2015. Author Susana Vargas has recently published a book of photographs and essays on “highly sexualized subjects taking centre stage […]
posted Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Elvis. I don’t even have to say his last name. That’s how well known the man was and still is. I once heard that Eddie Murphy had a room in his house filled with paraphernalia completely dedicated to The King as so many of us refer to him. Murphy’s personal fascination apparently stemmed from the […]
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