posted Monday, June 18, 2018
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 […]
posted Friday, June 15, 2018
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 […]
posted Friday, June 15, 2018
The House of Filth Family Showcase, is this collective’s longest standing family tradition, and the whole gang (bang) returns this Pride week with a very special guest. That’s right, the delectably deportable kiwi krusader Judy Virago, returns to take her seat at the head of the table. So bring your button eyes children, she’s here to sew […]
posted Friday, June 15, 2018
Omar Beretta is the co-author of the new novel, Shaman Express, a humorous and provocative look that’s partly based on real events, about the dangers of pursuing cheap or intense enlightenment, be it at sex, with drugs, or even in the search for spirituality. Beretta is a former lawyer, yoga instructor, and publishing company owner-turned world […]
posted Thursday, June 14, 2018
I had a chance to chat with Waseem Shaikh, one of the founders and creative director of Rangeela about their upcoming party “Samundar” that is part of Pride Toronto celebrations. Tell us about the concept behind this, what got it started. I understand it to be a not for profit initiative? Rangeela is Canada’s largest […]
posted Wednesday, June 13, 2018
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 […]
posted Sunday, June 10, 2018
I love love love a good drag extravaganza. Montreal does it well, Vegas does it well, and Thailand for sure does it well. So, when I heard about Tiffany’s Show, one of the world’s most renowned drag show, is coming to perform at the booth of Tourism Authority of Thailand in the street fair at […]
posted Friday, June 8, 2018
On the eve of Sunday, June 3rd, at the stroke of Pride Month, independent recording artist and performer Danny Dymond geared up for the launch of his debut album, Nightlife, Love & Liberty. Inside the Hideout live music venue on College Street West, Danny’s fabulous 8-song set portrayed each noun in the album title effortlessly, combining […]
posted Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Tony Award-winning actor and activist Alan Cumming is many things to many people – Renaissance man, style icon, social activist, bon viveur – but to himself he is a storyteller and provocateur for hire. He became an American citizen in 2008, and Legal Immigrant is a cabaret of songs and stories about his life and loves in his adopted […]
posted Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Just in time for Pride, Oasis Love returns to Toronto as part of Buddies In Bad Times Theatre’s QueerPride line-up! After a relationship gone bad, writer and performer Johnny Salib (Calpurnia, RAID: Operation SOAP) has teamed up with director/dramaturge extraordinaire Franny McCabe-Bennett (SMASHES! at We’re Funny That Way Comedy Festival in Toronto and the International […]
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