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Black & Blue Strikes Gold in Montreal

posted Thursday, November 5, 2015

by: in Bar/Club, Celebrity, Charity, Events, Featured Events, Queer

Last month while many were preparing (Canadian) Thanksgiving turkey and sitting cross-legged at the dinner table, on our best behaviour in front of the family, there were others who descended down upon Montreal in a swarm of excitement, bright eyed and bushy-tailed with a hedonistic sense of adventure. No, this was not Pride, it was […]

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TIFF BOOMBOX fundraiser November 5th

posted Wednesday, November 4, 2015

by: in Art, Celebrity, Charity, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Toronto

  TIFF’s annual charity fundraiser BOOMBOX will celebrate the highly anticipated exhibition Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen, that explores his lifelong fascination with fame and celebrity. This event is going to be off-da-hook, so you better grab your tickets early! Taking place on Thursday, November 5, BOOMBOX offers an all-out blast of film, […]

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Naked Heart LGBT Festival of Words – Oct 16 to 18, 2015

posted Thursday, October 15, 2015

by: in Books, Events, Featured Events, Lesbian, Queer, Toronto, Trans

Glad Day Bookshop is thrilled to present the first year of NAKED HEART – The LGBTQ Festival of Words. The vision for NAKED HEART is to establish a yearly Canadian LGBTQ literary festival that amplifies love, language and freedom. This year, over 120 writers are presenting at 47 panels, workshops and readings during the weekend […]

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Pride Toronto announces new five year Strategic Plan – 2016-2021

posted Wednesday, October 14, 2015

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

This new community-driven Plan offers strategic directions, revised mission, vision and values for organization, the result of a years worth of community engagement and consultation which will guide the organization over the next five years. The Strategic Plan, Beyond 20/20, introduces a revised mission, vision and values for Pride Toronto, as well as strategic directions and […]

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Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival – November 6 to 14, 2015

posted Tuesday, October 13, 2015

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

The first and largest mental health film festival in the world, Rendezvous with Madness (RWM), presented by Workman Arts (WA), returns to TIFF Bell Lightbox alongside the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema and Workman Theatre from November 6 – 14 for its 23rd edition. The nine-day festival showcases 20+ programs with almost 40 feature and short […]

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Mirvish Announces 2015/16 Productions

posted Sunday, October 4, 2015

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

David Mirvish announced additional shows and new details about his 2015-16 theatre season. Consisting of seven shows in the Main Subscription and three shows in the Off-Mirvish Subscription, the season also has eight shows that will be presented outside of subscription. In total, Mirvish will produce and/or present 18 shows in four different theatres – […]

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Kinky Boots is (sort of) Kinky

posted Wednesday, September 30, 2015

by: in Celebrity, Drag, Events, Featured Events, Queer, Theatre, Toronto, Trans

Sometimes it’s best going into things, not knowing everything. .or anything at all. Such could be the case with the Mirvish production of Kinky Boots. If you’re going in thinking it’s all about kinks and such, then you’re wrong (sort of). However, it is about being Kinky, in a Lola (sort of) way, but it’s […]

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New LGBTTQ Documentary – Older Than What?

posted Tuesday, September 15, 2015

by: in Activism, Featured Events, Film, Lesbian, Queer, Toronto

Filmmaker Sheen Starr is working on her second feature, a short film about the experience of aging in the LGBTTQ community. See below on how you can help support the making of this important documentary. Older Than What? is a short film about LGBTQ identity and aging. It promises to be a quippy, honest, surprising, […]

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Toronto’s New West-End Gallery Hub

posted Monday, September 14, 2015

by: in Art, Events, Featured Events, Film, Gallery, Photography, Queer, Toronto

Last week I ventured out to an art exhibition happening at Clint Roenisch Gallery on St. Helens St in the Bloor and Landsdowne area. The gallery was showing a film, as part of TIFF, and it was free! The movie, La Giubba, was not very exciting, but the context seemed somewhat relevant to the current […]

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Amy Bowles, Echoing Wood @ Paul Petro – Opening Sept 11, 2015

posted Thursday, September 10, 2015

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

The title alone for Amy Bowles‘ new exhibition warrants attention – Echoing Wood! Bowles ‘walk in the woods’ has paid off big time with her new ceramic works that portray her childhood relationship to her time spent in the forests in England. In these new pieces we can see the magic and imagination of the […]

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