posted Thursday, October 27, 2016
Andria Wilson is a passionate arts administrator with a diverse work history across non-profit organizations. She has spent the last 15 years in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she was an integral contributor to the arts and LGBTQ+ communities and co-founder of OUTeast, Atlantic Canada’s Queer Film Festival in 2011. Wilson will assume her new position […]
posted Monday, October 24, 2016
Gimme Danger is one Rock Doc not to be missed! Director Jim Jarmusch has cleverly intertwined candid interviews and concert footage, along with significant memorabilia pieces, cultural references, and animation. It’s the story of “the greatest rock and roll band ever”, or so we are told as the film opens. The Stooges truly were pioneers […]
posted Friday, October 21, 2016
Young filmmaker Alden Peters captures the coming out process in the current digital era with startling emotional clarity in the new documentary COMING OUT, recently released on DVD / VOD from Wolfe Video. In his directorial debut, young NYC-based filmmaker Alden Peters documents his own coming-out experience, capturing everything on-camera as he plans and boldly captures his disclosures to […]
posted Wednesday, October 19, 2016
After winning more than a dozen International festival awards, the acclaimed LGBTQ drama The David Dance kicks off its Canadian theatrical release in Toronto at the prestigious Carlton Cinemas on Friday October 21st, 2016, with additional cities to be announced. The film release is incredibly timely given the current political landscape and debate internationally around LGBTQ rights and […]
posted Wednesday, October 19, 2016
This is one of the better film festivals in Toronto, and that’s saying a lot in this city of nearly 100 different annual festivals taking place. Who needs popcorn and soda drinks, when you can have a chef-prepared meal and alcoholic beverages to go with your movie experience? A provocative and evocative feast for the […]
posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) is North America’s largest commuter film festival, and 2016 marks its 10th anniversary. North America’s first, largest, and longest running subway film festival, the Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), features silent, 60-second film video and animation from across the globe. Reaching more than one million daily commuters on subway platform […]
posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016
A multidisciplinary art exhibition and music festival, in / FUTURE will use the breathtaking West Island of Ontario Place as the setting for an immersive experience of the arts. Ontario Place will be transformed into a creative hub of inspirational art experiences and world music for 11 days only, with the inaugural in / FUTURE. […]
posted Friday, August 12, 2016
There seem to be more LGBT themed films hitting mainstream theatres and festivals as of late. Here are three new one’s worth checking out. Closet Monster is by award winning director Stephen Dunn, and features Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Sofia Benzhaf, Joanne Kelly and Isabella Rossellini (in one of her most bizarre roles ever). The […]
posted Monday, June 27, 2016
How do queers mourn the death of someone they love? With brunch of course! If you haven’t heard already, Toronto’s beloved Videofag is closing up shop and so they’ve been holding funeral services (yes, that’s plural) to help our community mourn. I went to the brunch service to deliver the following eulogy in honour of this tragic […]
posted Friday, June 17, 2016
The people at Glad Day Bookshop are business savvy community heroes, no doubt about it! Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto is the world’s oldest LGBTQ bookstore since the closure of New York City’s Oscar Wilde Bookshop in early 2009. Glad Day started in 1970 and has occupied its current location on Yonge Street since 1981. […]
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