Thursday, August 13, 2009

Canadian Gay News Headlines (T13T-4)

Ask any of the actors andcrew about their experience making the film The Portside and you’ll find their zeal for the project contagious. “It felt magical,” says actor Taylor Stutchbury of the Leaping Thespians theatre company.  “It seemed like everybody fel...
“I guess Mother Nature was a drag queen and she’s looking down on us today because it is absolutely beautiful out here,” drag entertainer Symone said. “I think it’s our biggest Pride ever! The floats were amazing and people have been so receptive,” she added.
Saturday morning was hot.  Very hot. And the scorching heat had people grabbing any slip of shade they could find at McSpadden Park, the starting point of Pride weekend’s Eastside Dyke March. The sixth annual installment of that event looks sparse and unpromisi...
Sarah Waters has a lot to answer for. In 2002 the BBC adaptation of her first novel, a sexy lesbian romp called Tipping the Velvet, got mainstream Britain talking about strap-on dildos. The media sensed a cultural “moment” and suddenly newspaper columnists were noting that lesbianism wa...
For 30 years, the people behind Toronto’s Buddies in Bad Times Theatre have been a vanguard of queer artistic expression in Canada. Buddies is billed as the largest queer theatre company in North America and the only one with a permanent venue.
Federal New Democrats are meeting this weekend in Halifax for the party’s 23rd policy convention, dubbed HFX09 — the first in three years. “This convention is a pre-election event for New Democrats,” says NDP nat...
Xtra.ca's Michael Pihach travelled to Montreal over the August long weekend for Divers/Cité, the city's gay arts and culture festival. The Visit GayTalkRadio, a 24/7 LGBTQIA Independent Internet Radio Station
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