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ALDIA: A World Where Gender Is Meaningless

posted Friday, March 24, 2017

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

Wyvern is a kids book by author Kyle McGiverin, featuring illustrations by trans artist Toby Medeiros. The story is as much about a kids journey through the world of Aldia as it is about visibility. I interviewed Kyle about the book and his personal experiences with the trans community. Raymond: How much of your own childhood is […]

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WE THREE QUEENS of (dis)Orient Are

posted Monday, March 13, 2017

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

A broke writer and his rent-boy lover move in with a scrappy old widow and discover that inter-generational living is anything but easy. Based on the article in GUTS Magazine, We Three Queens show creator’s Michael Young and Tom Cable Rees were inspired to turn their story into a web series and share the eccentricities of such […]

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Donnarama and Mamarama

posted Monday, February 6, 2017

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

I love Donnarama, there I said it. Years ago I asked her to work for an event that I was doing for what back then was Dominion grocery stores. She wasn’t as well known as she is now, but I knew of her and thought she was really unique. She showed up to the event on […]

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Getting Freaky with Ben & Glen

posted Friday, February 3, 2017

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

Do you remember the drag trio The Fabulous Freaks? Imperial Court of Toronto honourees Amanda, Sylvia and Felicia (aka Glen, Ben, and Mark) could turn any room into an instant party that was as classy as they could be trashy, making a name for themselves for fifteen years until 2010 when Felicia passed away at […]

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“Nirvanna the Band the Show” coming to VICELAND February 2, 2017

posted Monday, January 30, 2017

by: in Comedy, Film, Music, Toronto

Two lifelong best friends and roommates are planning the greatest musical act in the history of the modern world – if only they could book their first gig – Featured on Rolling Stone’s list of the ’25 Most Anticipated TV Shows of 2017,’ Rogers Media original series Nirvanna the Band the Show takes centre stage – well, sort […]

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Alec Butler’s “Rough Paradise” – Living Life Shamelessly

posted Wednesday, January 18, 2017

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

Can you tell if a painting is a work of fiction? Can you spot a non-fiction sculpture? What about theatre, do you know when it’s based on reality? And if reality is subjective, does it even matter? Could reality be whatever we take away from an experience? This combination of fact and fiction, what author Alec […]

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“Workin’ Moms” premiering January 10th, 2017 on CBC

posted Monday, January 9, 2017

by: in Celebrity, Comedy, Film, Lesbian, Montreal, Toronto

The CBC has been doing quite well recently with their comedy series. First “Schitt’s Creek” took off a couple years back and will be heading into its third season later this month, then “Kim’s Convenience” debuted earlier this year and already has been confirmed for a second season. Now there’s a new kid on the […]

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Catching Up With Amanda Roberts

posted Saturday, January 7, 2017

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

Amanda Roberts will be celebrating 50 years of age this July and she’s done it all; Pride stages, Miss Canada Continental, fundraisers galore, including the Queens Cares for The 519, The Monster in NYC, and working on Queer As Folk. Her local shows have included Crews & Tango, Woody’s/Sailor, and the roving French space Tapette, where she performed at […]

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Glad Day Books: Literature with Flavour

posted Thursday, January 5, 2017

by: in Activism, Art, Art Gallery, Bar/Club, Charity, Comedy, Disability, Drag, Events, Fashion, Film, Gallery, Music, Queer, Theatre, Toronto

Glad Day Books, Toronto’s longest-running bookstore and always an awesome place to drop around and visit, has turned overnight into one of the hottest places to hang out in all of Toronto. With an espresso machine, many metres of red granite bar surface, talented bartenders, bright new tiles with neon pink grout, tables with a […]

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Six Reasons To FML Mondays

posted Monday, December 19, 2016

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

Rolyn Chambers is the designer of the weekly FML event posters that parody famous movies with a decidedly queer bent. Held inside Flash on Church, the weekly party has been going strong for 6 years. Pole dancers make way for this wildly diverse crowd that take over the space with drag queens, club kids, art fags, […]

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