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The End Of Wonderland – navigating life as a trans artist and fetish icon

posted Friday, May 19, 2023

by: in Film, Queer, Streaming Online, Trans

The End of Wonderland follows Tara Emory, a veteran performer who has worked independently in the sex industry since the early 2000s. Facing impending eviction from her massive studio, Wonderland, Tara must confront her family’s past of compulsive hoarders, her art, and herself. SNAPSH|OT REVIEW  This is a very candid documentary that follows the daily […]

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Healing Through Art Therapy focused toward racialized and LGBTQ+ communities – May 17/18, 2023 (Toronto)

posted Monday, May 15, 2023

by: in Art, Queer, Toronto

Join Certified Art Therapist Phuong Nguyen for two sessions of Healing Through Art Therapy workshops inspired by Kapwani Kiwanga’s exhibition Remediation. In these workshops, participants will use materials found in the natural world and investigate their relationships with the land around us while exploring themes of strength, restoration and solidarity. This group workshop will serve […]

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Velvet Jesus – a man confronts his stepfather about his childhood, divulging the dark secrets of their past relationship

posted Thursday, May 11, 2023

by: in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Velvet Jesus tells the gripping story of a man’s desperate journey to discover the truth about his past. Along the way, he uncovers secrets about himself that will forever change the course of his life. Available from Breaking Glass Pictures. Available from Breaking Glass Pictures.

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EL HOUB – Inspired by a true story, a Moroccan man comes out to his family

posted Sunday, May 7, 2023

by: in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

EL HOUB tells the story of Moroccan-Dutch Karim (Fahd Larhzaoui), who tells his parents (Lubna Azabal and Slimane Dazi) that he is attracted to men. After years of keeping up appearances, the word is finally out. The difficult days that follow evoke beautiful and poignant memories. He realizes that he has to confront his family to […]

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Vivek Shraya tours Canada to support new release, ‘Baby, You’re Projecting’

posted Thursday, May 4, 2023

by: in Music, Queer, Toronto

Vivek Shraya, is touring a few select Canadian dates in support of her upcoming visual album Baby You’re Projecting, out May 12 via Mint Records. Produced by and co-written with frequent collaborator James Bunton (Donovan Woods, Ohbijou), it’s described as a break-up album that explores Vivek’s tenuous relationships with men.  The tour announcement follows the […]

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You Can Live Forever – the longing lust of lesbian love

posted Thursday, May 4, 2023

by: in Film, Lesbian, Queer, Streaming Online, Theatre

You Can Live Forever tells the story of Jaime (Anwen O’Driscoll), who lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario during the 1990s, and loves sci-fi, The Cure and getting high. And unbeknownst to anyone around her, she’s gay. When her father dies and her mother suffers a breakdown, she’s sent to Quebec’s Saguenay region to live with […]

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Toronto’s queer “Witch Prophet” release new dreamy trip-hop album

posted Wednesday, May 3, 2023

by: in Music, Queer, Toronto

Toronto’s Witch Prophet have released a new album Gateway Experience, pulling us deep into her mind by questioning the connections with our brains, music, dreams, seizures, god and otherworldly abilities, The first single is the alternative RnB/hip hop track Energy Vampire, featuring Toronto based rapper DillanPonders, a deeply layered song about nightmares, beings that roam those […]

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Honouring Trans Musician Jackie Shane’s Toronto Legacy With Commemorative Plaque

posted Sunday, April 30, 2023

by: in Activism, Art, Music, Queer, Toronto

Fans and the public are invited to contribute to a fundraising campaign to celebrate and honour musician Jackie Shane with a commemorative plaque in downtown Toronto. Shane was a pioneering trans soul singer who packed nightclubs and electrified the Toronto music scene in the 1960s. This campaign seeks to raise funds to erect a plaque near the […]

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Joyland – challenging Pakistan’s patriarchal society, and the right to be who you are

posted Monday, April 24, 2023

by: in Film, Queer, Trans

Adapted from his award-winning short Darling, JOYLAND is the debut feature from writer-director Saim Sadiq, that explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society. Gentle and timid, Haider (Ali Junejo) lives with his wife Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq), his father, and his elder brother’s family in Lahore, Pakistan. Following a long spell of unemployment, […]

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The Gray: A Wilde Musical in Concert offers a Toronto centric take on The Picture of Dorian Gray- April 20 to 22, 2023

posted Sunday, April 16, 2023

by: in Queer, Theatre, Toronto

The Gray: A Wilde Musical is inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic, The Picture of Dorian Gray,  follows a young singer-songwriter determined to be a star, as he enters the hottest rock nightclub in Toronto’s Gay Village in the late 70s, David’s Disco. Catching the eye of Basil, a closeted photographer, Dorian gets a picture taken […]

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