posted Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Founded in 2012 (as Gay Play Day), the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival has been presenting plays by Toronto-based LGBTQ+ playwrights for the past seven years at the Alumnae Theatre and will present the eighth annual edition there once again from September 27 to September 28. This year’s playwrights include Steven Elliott Jackson, Lawrence Aronovitch and former Dayne Ogilvie Prize winner Tamai […]
posted Tuesday, September 24, 2019
ScrapFest is a multicultural, immigrant friendly indie music series showcasing alternative artists with varied geopolitical backgrounds and a common outsider perspective. The platform seeks to bridge cultural differences by showcasing artists with a shared queer inclusive narrative. Actually, we just want to have to have fun. “Live loud queer and proud. The future is in full […]
posted Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Based on author Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel, director James Franco (The Disaster Artist, The Sound and the Fury) stars as Ike Jerome, a.k.a. “Vikar,.” Vikar is a lost soul journeying through Hollywood in 1969, a land of myths, beauty and monsters. The studio system is in decay, and a new generation of brash filmmakers are […]
posted Thursday, September 12, 2019
POSI VIBEZ is taking over Glad Day Bookshop on Friday September the 13th and throwing a party with Feel Your Fantasy to celebrate the launch of Dylan Berryman’s new zine of collages SALVADOR DISNEY. ~*SALVADOR DISNEY*~ Dylan Berry’s new zine of collages explores Salvador Dali and Walt Disney’s ill-fated 1945 collaboration, Destino. In honour of the zine, Destino will be […]
posted Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Pam Ann is inviting everyone on a jolly f**king holiday in Pam Ann Returns, her brand-new show starring the perfectlyinappropriate-in-every-way air-hostess Pam Ann. From feeding the birds in coach to flying kites in first class, Pam Ann’s barbed wit has seen her hilariously negotiate even the most politically incorrect flight path. Her take on the […]
posted Monday, September 9, 2019
Kire Paputts’ The Last Porno Show — a welcome follow-up to his debut, the 2015 TIFF hit The Rainbow Kid — introduces us to Wayne (Nathaniel Chadwick), a struggling actor who was traumatized as a child while living with his father Al (Christian Aldo), whom he hasn’t seen in years. Now a bit of an emotional mess, Wayne is […]
posted Monday, September 9, 2019
WARNING: Do not go see this movie if full frontal male nudity offends you, as that’s the opening scene, and the first five minutes of this movie! The gay innuendos are heavy throughout, yet….well, you’ll have to watch it and see for yourself as to how this one plays out. Y oav, (Tom Mercier), a young […]
posted Thursday, August 29, 2019
For the upcoming issue of AutumnPlay, I spoke with Thom Fitzgerald who was in LA working on his upcoming film, Stage Mother, which stars Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, and Adrian Grenier among others. The plot follows a conservative church choir director who inherits a drag club in San Francisco started by her deceased son, from whom she was estranged after he came out as gay. “Even […]
posted Thursday, August 15, 2019
Chill & Chat will be an incredible evening learning about and celebrating the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network‘s vital work for LGBT rights in the Caribbean. LGBTQ+ people in the Caribbean face prison time, harassment, violence, and in some cases death, for being who they are and loving who they love. This is a resilient community, still […]
posted Tuesday, August 6, 2019
If you took all the best of the We’re Funny That Way Festival, you’d wind up with something very close to Tom Hearn’s latest offering, SLANG, a queer solo sketch comedy tour. Original over-the-top stand-up monologues, hyperbolic sketches, and satirical parodies all written by Tom Hearn, whose character impersonations are as funny as they are […]
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