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“Holding Patterns” – Art in Storage: Twenty Stories

posted Monday, October 15, 2018

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

Is art something you frame on the wall, or an experience to remember? In Holding Patterns (1655 Dupont St., various hours, until Oct. 21), art appreciation is found in the unlikeliest of places – a storage facility. Note I said art appreciation, not art storage – who knows how many masterpieces collect dust in those […]

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Queer-themed flicks from FilmsWeLike, including Studio 54 in theatres now

posted Friday, October 12, 2018

by: in Activism, Celebrity, Film, Lesbian, Montreal, Music, New York City, Queer, Toronto

Films We Like is a Canadian distribution company, co-founded in 2003 by music promoter Gary Topp and filmmaker Ron Mann who set to release, The Academy Nominated film “The Weather Underground” by Sam Green and Bill Siegal which at the time had no distribution in Canada. 14 years and over and over 370 films later, […]

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A summit for men wanting to have babies coming to Toronto at The 519

posted Thursday, October 11, 2018

by: in Events, Family, Toronto

Good loving parents are some of my most favourite people, and this new summit coming to Toronto can help gay men achieve that. Men Having Babies is a non-profit, and their board and staff are comprised of gay dads and surrogates. Since 2005 their monthly workshops and the annual NY Men Having Babies seminar provided […]

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“Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations” – on stage until November 17, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, October 11, 2018

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

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations plays a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement on stage until November 17 at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre. Before The Temptations became the greatest R&B group of all time (Billboard Magazine, 2017), they were just five young guys on the streets of Detroit. After getting discovered by Berry Gordy and signed to […]

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Rendezvous with Madness – Where Art, Film & Minds Meet – Oct 10 to 21, 2018

posted Tuesday, October 9, 2018

by: in Activism, Art, Charity, Disability, Events, Featured Events, Film, Music, Outdoors, Photography, Theatre, Toronto

FESTIVAL OPENS ON WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY WITH THE TORONTO PREMIERE OF CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY FEATURE THE SONG AND THE SORROW, ABOUT LEGENDARY CANADIAN SONGWRITER GENE MACLELLAN In July, the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival, the first and largest mental health film festival in the world, announced that it was dropping “film” from its title, and evolving into its next twenty-five […]

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“Love me out of it” – choreographed dance meets punk rock – Oct 11 to 20, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, October 9, 2018

by: in Dance, Events, Featured Events, Music, Theatre, Toronto

Set to the iconic music from the “Frantic City” album by Canadian punk band Teenage Head, the World Premiere of “Love me out of it” explores Laurence Lemieux’s long relationship to dance through various characters that come to life with every song from this classic 10-track release.  It’s presented by Citadel + Compagnie as part of the […]

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Public Image Ltd 40th Anniversary Tour – Oct 19, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Saturday, October 6, 2018

by: in Celebrity, Events, Featured Events, Toronto

In celebration of their 40th Anniversary, JOHN LYDON’s PUBLIC IMAGE LTD (PiL) are on the road with THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN: NORTH AMERICAN TOUR, kicking off in New Orleans on Tuesday, October 9. Also, THE PUBLIC IMAGE IS ROTTEN is a new career–spanning box set that was released, alongside a new documentary film of the same name, which will be screening in select cites to coincide with PiL’s North American […]

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Reelworld Film Festival opens with trans film, Roobha – Oct 9 to 14, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Friday, October 5, 2018

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

The 18th annual Reelworld Film Festival features inspiring films from creative filmmakers aiming to spark social change, empowering racially diverse and Indigenous filmmakers to tell important stories through film. These films address a range of social topics including gender identity, environmental issues, climate change, human rights, and gender equality. “The festival grows stronger each year because […]

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rIVerse are diversifying the LGBTQ music scene

posted Tuesday, October 2, 2018

by: in Activism, Music, Queer, Toronto

rIVerse are a Toronto-based, openly queer pop/R&B group and their mission is to REPRESENT THE UNDERREPRESENTED and use their music as the platform to share unique stories with listeners, and bring needed representation to mainstream media. Diversity fuels this mission — members who are different races, genders, sexual orientations, body types, religious backgrounds, etc, thereby […]

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Legends of Horror at Casa Loma – on until Oct 31, 2018 (Toronto)

posted Thursday, September 27, 2018

by: in Events, Featured Events, Toronto

Legends of Horror is an immersive theatrical interpretation of all of the classic horror figures, as guests make their way through a one hour, 2-km self-guided walking tour commencing in the lower gardens of Casa Loma and winding its way through Casa Loma’s darkest tunnels and spaces never before open to the public.  This immersive theatrical event […]

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