Bricks and Glitter – Grassroots LGBTQ+ Community Arts Festival – July 18 to 29, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Monday, July 9, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Charity, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Outdoors, Queer, Toronto, Trans

Bricks and Glitter is a community arts festival, celebrating Two-Spirit, trans and queer talent, ingenuity, caring, anger, and abundance. Centered around the Junction Triangle and Parkdale, sites of multiple queer, precarious, and creative histories, the festival runs from July 18th-29th, 2018. The festival brings together multiple thriving collectives of young queer artists, musicians, culture producers, […]

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Chhoti Maa performs at Pride Toronto’s Catalyst Event – June 22, 2018

posted Friday, June 22, 2018

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

Are you a fan of Indigenous music but often don’t know where to start your search for the best artists out there? Behold Revolutions Per Minute, AKA RPM, a global Indigenous music platform, label, and artist collective. This year they present Catalyst, an exciting evening of music showcasing some of today’s most compelling Indigenous voices […]

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Blockorama’s Nik Red talks 20 years at Pride, “Black Is Magic,” and SWV

posted Thursday, June 21, 2018

by: Joey Viola in Celebrity, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Outdoors, Toronto, Trans

For two decades, Blockorama has been an unstoppable force of queer liberation at Pride in Toronto. “Blocko,” as it’s been nicknamed, is curated by Blackness YES!, a community-based committee, and is officially known as the longest-running stage at Pride Toronto; 2018 marks their 20th anniversary.  This year’s theme is “Black Is Magic,” so it’s no […]

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Q&A with Alterna-Queer performers at Pride Toronto – June 22, 2018

posted Thursday, June 21, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Dance, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Montreal, Music, Pride, Queer, Toronto, Trans

Stop by Alterna-Queer at Pride Toronto to get a taste of Toronto’s West End queer scene with the city’s most vile vixens: the House of Filth. They’re loud, rude, and like to roll around in gutters and sit on cakes. They are the queens who do things other queens haven’t dreamed up even in their darkest […]

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Pride Toronto – Ch-Ch-Changes

posted Monday, June 18, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Charity, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Outdoors, Pride, Queer, Toronto, Trans

With a festival as large and as politically charged as Pride Toronto, there’s always going to changes happening, which undoubtedly will lead to disenchantment from some community members, and applause from others. Pride means something different to everyone, and for many it’s a very personal and passionate experience. While many see the festival as losing […]

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Pride Toronto on the Island – “Til Sunrise” Kicks off Pride Week

posted Monday, June 18, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Art, Dance, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Outdoors, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Toronto’s very first Pride-style celebrations happened on Toronto Island in 1971, and this weekend Pride Toronto kicked off Pride Week in style with their new ‘Til Sunrise all-day dance party and celebration that took place  on the grounds of Artscape Gibraltar Point.  Hundreds of partiers caught the ferry over to Hanlan’s point, and then connected […]

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Church & Wellesley Village parties that represent Toronto’s LGBTQ+ community during Pride Weekend

posted Friday, June 15, 2018

by: Joey Viola in Bar/Club, Dance, Drag, Entertaining, Events, Lesbian, Pride, Queer, Toronto

Pride Weekend is just around the corner, and anyone who lives in Toronto knows exactly what that means: the largest Pride festival in Canada (and one of the largest in the entire world) is underway! Every queer stone is overturned and local entertainers, businesses and residents work together as a driving force to accommodate this […]

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Nuit Rose Festival and Art Crawl – June 16, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Wednesday, June 13, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Drag, Events, Family, Featured Events, Gallery, Lesbian, Music, Outdoors, Pride, Queer, Toronto, Trans

NUIT ROSE is back for its fifth annual festival of queer art and performance. Taking the theme of Unbound, the festival features art that crosses borders, both real and imagined.  Join us on June 16th from 7PM till late for our annual ART CRAWL with programming across Toronto neighbourhoods West Queen West and the Church-Wellesley […]

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Buddies Queer Pride – June 8 to 24, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, May 22, 2018

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Art, Bar/Club, Comedy, Dance, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Music, Pride, Queer, Theatre, Toronto, Trans

Queer Pride is radical love and defiant self-expression. It’s a time when all of the queer communities come together to celebrate everything that we are and all that we can be. It is in this spirit that Queer Pride 2018 thrives – a festival of queer theatre, comedy, art, music, and parties that showcase our community’s […]

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“Deadpool 2″ is bigger, better and badass-ier!”

posted Friday, May 18, 2018

by: Joey Viola in Art, Celebrity, Entertaining, Film, Lesbian, Queer

When Ryan Reynolds stepped onto the silver screen as Wade Wilson in 2016, nobody knew how the first R-Rated Marvel superhero flick, Deadpool, would fair, but after hauling $738.3 million (domestically) for 20th Century Fox, it became a bonafide sensation. Reynolds tried his hand at superhero stardom before (as Hal Jordan in 2011’s DCEU live-action […]

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