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“Sebastian” – a romantic comedy based in Toronto, and featuring RuPaul’s Katya

posted Monday, February 5, 2018

by: in Film, Queer, Toronto

SEBASTIAN is a uniquely modern story – exploring the search for love in an age of instant gratification, online hookups, and the yearning for connection in an age of convenience and superficiality. It paints a nuanced portrait of 20-something queerness; that perpetual feeling of having what you want at the tip of your fingers, but not […]

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“Just Charlie” – a trans teen coming of age film

posted Monday, January 29, 2018

by: in Film, Queer, Trans

JUST CHARLIE traces with nuance and sensitivity one young person’s struggle with gender identity through the lens of a gritty, sports loving blue-collar community and a tough family struggling to accept it.  Set in Tamworth, a gritty, small working class Midland town in the UK, teenage soccer star Charlie and his family see soccer as a […]

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Queer Portraits: Sarah Hunter

posted Thursday, January 25, 2018

by: in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, New York City, Pride, Queer, Toronto

As the administer for the K.M. Hunter Foundation, Sarah Hunter is well known in the charitable community for her support of arts, culture, the environment and HIV/AIDS. In Sarah’s off hours she is a dedicated full-time artist whose work is as beautiful as it is provocative. In 2008 she began what was to become her […]

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“Call Me By Your Name” special presentations at TIFF Bell Lightbox (Toronto)

posted Friday, January 19, 2018

by: in Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Film, Queer, Toronto

  For anyone who hasn’t heard yet, Call Me By Your Name, is one of the most talked about films of 2017/18, and Oscar buzzing for Best Picture as well. And for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, there are two unique screening opportunities that are happening at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox. Snapshot review below. […]

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“Queens On King” presents an early evening of drag and burlesque cabaret

posted Friday, January 19, 2018

by: in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Comedy, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Music, New York City, Pride, Queer, Toronto

The Church/Wellesley Village was once the crowning jewel of gay Toronto, but in recent years our venues have moved out to other areas of the city. Some argue that as we lose the close concertation of LGBT spaces we forgo a certain amount of power and safety as a community, but the flip side is […]

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Come Up To My Room – January 18 to 21, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Monday, January 15, 2018

by: in Art, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Music, Queer, Toronto

Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) is the Gladstone Hotel’s annual 4-day alternative design exhibition. Each year CUTMR provides artists and designers the opportunity to take risks, to push their ideas, to evoke meaning not just function. CUTMR 2018 explores how people interact with art and design. Is it a shared experience mediated by an artist or designer? Or […]

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“My Funny Valentine” – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre – January 10-21, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Friday, January 12, 2018

by: in Events, Featured Events, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

From playwright Dave Deveau (Nelly Boy, Tiny Replicas (GayVancouver’s Top 10 Productions of 2011), the Jessie and Oscar Wilde Nominated My Funny Valentine enters the minds of people on the fringes of a murder that will forever affect them and examines the ripple effect of hatred in a community. Haunting, moving, and at times strangely […]

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Book Launch for “Not Joy Division” by Andrew James Paterson – January 15, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, January 11, 2018

by: in Art, Bar/Club, Books, Events, Featured Events, Music, Queer, Toronto

The opening of Pleasure Dome’s Winter 2018 season begins with the launch event for Andrew James Paterson‘s new book, Not Joy Division, hard-boiled mystery novella cast in a post-punk social media glow. It is being published by Eldon Garnet’s Impulse B press. To celebrate Pleasure Dome is throwing a party that will feature Andy’s group Derwatt, […]

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The Assassination of Giovanni Versace premieres January 17, 2017

posted Thursday, January 11, 2018

by: in Celebrity, Fashion, Queer, Television

The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story premieres Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 10 p.m. ET on FX. A dangerous obsession becomes an unthinkable tragedy in the nine-episode, second installment of Ryan Murphy’s critically acclaimed and award-winning anthology series. Iconic fashion designer Gianni Versace (Ramirez) is killed on the steps of his Miami home by serial murderer Andrew Cunanan (Criss) – […]

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“Long Winter” brings art, music and more to Gladstone Hotel – January 5, 2018

posted Friday, January 5, 2018

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Dance, Events, Featured Events, Gallery, Music, Queer, Toronto

MUSIC FROM PEOPLE CITY TORONTO’S MUSICAL  UNDERGROUNDS This all-ages, pay-what-you-can concert and exhibition includes a multi-room visual tour of select moments in Toronto’s alt-music history: subcultures, milieu, and happenings from 1970s to the present. Revisit our city’s DIY past alongside its most exciting emerging scenes. This project is a part of Myseum Presents: Music from People City, a city-wide celebration […]

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