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posted Thursday, November 3, 2016
Legendary performance artist Keith Cole just closed two exhausting runs at the AGO in #HashTagGallery Slut which he describes as a threesome between himself David Buchan and Tom Thomson. It was as exhilarating as it was perplexing as gay porn star Ryan Russell periodically broke the canoe-based suicide to berate him. It was beautiful to watch their interplay, but also […]
posted Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Want more Ryan time? WATCH RYANTIME TV FOLLOW @RyanRussellXXX facebook.com/PornstarRyan LIVE AT THE AGO Legendary Toronto performance artist Keith Cole presents a work that considers legacy and memory, collapsing time, space and identity. Join us for an epic three-way between Keith Cole, Tom Thomson and David Buchan. Featuring drag sensation Maria Delmonte, porn superstar Ryan Russell and queer filmmaker Raymond Helkio. There […]
posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Death isn’t exactly a fun topic for a discussion. Who really wants to talk about death at a dinner party and it certainly makes for awkward casual talk. But then what do we do when someone we love passes? Almost five years ago I lost one of my best friends to Cancer. Dean’s death was a horrific experience […]
posted Friday, August 19, 2016
Originally from Ohio, Shirley U. Jest left her job teaching and moved to New York in pursuit of her true love, performing. I met Shirley as a contestant in Marti Gould Cummings’ Drag Suicide, but after winning New York’s Next Top Drag Queen she’s now host to her own nights in addition to working events throughout the big apple. Her latest project […]
posted Tuesday, July 19, 2016
“The love that dare not speak it’s name has become the love that won’t shut up.”–from TOLLER – Sky Gilbert Sky Gilbert is a queer writer, actor, director, filmmaker, academic, and drag performer. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, he studied theatre at York University and at the University of Toronto, before co-founding of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, He has written and produced […]
posted Saturday, July 16, 2016
Oh that crazy cast of RAID: Operation Soap is up to it again with their latest (and free) offering, RAID: The Soundtrack. This delicious assortment of music is from the QueerPride performance during Buddies In Bad Times Theatre’s pride season. Produced by The Reading Salon, the album features tracks written by Raymond Helkio and David […]
posted Saturday, July 16, 2016
Johnny Salib is an award winning actor, composer, sound designer and playwright from Toronto. He has mounted four original plays and has four music albums out, but recently he was the dramaturge/assistant director of Terrible Parents by Sky Gilbert as well as starring as Chad in RAID: Operation Soap during this years QueerPride Festival at Buddies In Bad […]
posted Saturday, July 2, 2016
Please don’t tell my boyfriend, but I’m in love with another man. It all started during this year’s trans march when I went down to try and grab a quick interview with Aydian Dowling, this year’s International Grand Marshal. If you don’t know who Aydian is, a quick Google image search will get you all the eye candy you […]
posted Monday, June 27, 2016
How do queers mourn the death of someone they love? With brunch of course! If you haven’t heard already, Toronto’s beloved Videofag is closing up shop and so they’ve been holding funeral services (yes, that’s plural) to help our community mourn. I went to the brunch service to deliver the following eulogy in honour of this tragic […]
posted Thursday, June 16, 2016
Thorgy Thor (pronounced ‘th’ with an orgy) is a drag performance artist, host and musician reining from Brooklyn. Finishing sixth on season eight of RuPaul’s Drag Race, she was only one of two queens representing New York City and she was just here as part of Pride month co-hosting RuPaul’s Battle of the Seasons Afterparty at Fly 2.0 […]
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