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Pride takes over T.O. W hen thousands of visitors hit town for the planet’s premier LGBTQ rights and culture festival, it’s time to get serious. That’s why in this special glossy supplement, we take a hard look at disturbing human rights issues in far-​off countries and back here at home.

But, hey, we can never forget to celebrate. We've got the goods on every Pride event and an intimate interview with Laura Jane Grace, the trans lead singer

Over 100 ways to celebrate leading up to June 29's ­gigantic parade

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A Club Called Rhonda Three-floor epic

house and disco dance party. 10 pm. $10.

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

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Outdoor screening of the 1996 film by Stephen Elliott with Hugo Weaving, Terence Stamp and Guy Pearce. Live drag performances and makeup applications from 8 to 9 pm, followed by the film. Free. St James Park, 120 King E. s­ tlawrencemarketbia.ca.

Soulpepper presents Tony Kushner’s epic about seven characters in NYC during the AIDS crisis in the 80s in a two-part show about human reactions to the epidemic. Runs to Jul 12, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank By norMan SuSan g. CoLe, House WiLner, Lane. 416-866-8666, ­soulpepper.ca.

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10 pm. $5. The Beaver, 1192 Queen ­facebook.com/events/710103919045652.

ParKer W. and JuLia LeConTe Bent Lens: Pride On Screen Pride film festival. To Aug 17. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net/bentlens. both here and there An exhibition of work

by Israeli artists runs to Aug 1. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171.

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Under The Covers78 Belle Jumelles and Titus Androgynous host a party for butches and Rating: nnnn of Bloor all stripes performances and Apr 25, 9:30femmes pm, The Hotwith Docs Cinema; Apr dance party.

8 pm. $10 29, 12 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. or pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975See cover story and review, page 10.

8555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com. cabinet of queeriosities Installation art by Julius Poncelet Manapul. Tour 3-4 pm Jun 26, closing event 7-10 pm Jun 27. Studio 386, 386 ­juliusmanapul.blogspot.ca.

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NOW WorldPride Guide 2014 pm. Runs to Aug 17. Free. MOCCA,952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

Pan-Canadian Youth Solidarity Project Exhibition Showcase of the artwork of the

competition finalists’ artwork. Exhibit runs to Nov 15. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ­youthsolidarityproject.ca.

Patrick Lightheart The photographer’s colourful images celebrate being out. Free. To Jun 30. Akasha Art Projects, 511 Church, 2nd fl. 647-348-0104.

Pride In Canada Exhibition by 11 artists. To Jul 5, noon-7 pm, gala from 6 pm on Jun 27.

Free. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. ­artprojectcanada.com.

Pride Of Place Exhibition of 18 gay Canadian artists. To Jul 30. Urban Gallery, 400 Queen E. 647-460-1278.

Pride Walk: Discovering Toronto’s ­LGBTQ Heritage Heritage Toronto boutique walking

tour. Today 6:30 pm; tomorrow 2 pm. $20.

Pre-register for location. ­heritagetoronto.org. proof 21 The annual show of emerging photographers takes a gender-and-identity theme in honour of WorldPride. Reception tonight 6 pm. Runs to Jul 26. Free. Gallery 44, 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941.

Push Forward Push Back Public art intervention in the park. Starts Jun 26 at 11:59 pm, runs to Jun 29. Free. Allan Gardens, Carlton and Sherbourne. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Queer Geek Mixer Gamers party with SEGA rock band Villainest. 9 pm. Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen W, back room. ­torontogaymers.ca.

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Queer Pagan Punk: The Films Of Derek Jar-

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Camp Fires: The Queer Baroque Of Leopold L Foulem, Paul Mathieu And Richard Milette Exhibition exploring the concept of

“camp” in the work of the francophone Canadian ceramic artists. To Sep 1. $6-$12. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

Celebration Of Love A mass wedding ceremony celebrates WorldPride Toronto with more than 100 same-sex couples tying the knot. 2 pm. Free for qualified couples (marriage license fees extra). Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. ­prideweddingtoronto.com.

A Chorus Queen Three drag queens try to achieve their dreams in this musical. To Jun 28, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $35-$49 (proceeds to the Toronto People With AIDS Fdn). Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House. uofttix.ca/acq.

A Club Called Rhonda Three-floor epic house and disco dance party. 10 pm. $10.

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042 Confessions Of A Fairy’s Daughter Alison Wearing performs her comic musical monologue about growing up with a gay dad in the 80s. To Jun 28 Wed-Fri 8 pm, Sat 2 & 8 pm. $28. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place. f­ airysdaughter.com.

Drag Queen Day Tours Raise the sails, sing sea shanties, fire off the cannon and more. 1 & 3 pm. Queen’s Quay Terminal, 235 Queens Quay W. tallshipcruisestoronto.com. (em)bodied love Photos by Sly Sarkisova look at queer and trans people’s relationship to their bodies. Reception tonight at 8 pm, runs to Jun 29. Feminist Art Gallery, 25 Seaforth. ­facebook.com/events/280440475469586.

Fan The Flames: Queer Positions In Photoraphy Exhibition examining the play of gender in photography and video. To Aug 24. $11-$19.50, free Wed after 6 pm. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

Filmed With Pride Showcase as part of the ReelHeART International Film Festival featur-

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ing Cindy Abel’s doc Breaking Through and other films. 3 pm. $12, stu/srs $8. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­reelheart.org.

Fluid Group show by bi-identified photographers. To Jul 2. Project Gallery, 1109 Queen E. projectgallerytoronto.com.

Follow The Yellow Brick Road Screening of When I Knew and other short films celebrating ­LGBTQ culture. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Long Branch Library, 3500 Lake Shore W. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Francis Bacon And Henry Moore: Terror And Beauty Art by British greats Bacon (who

was queer) and Moore (who was straight) examines the impact of WWII on their work, to Jul 20. $16.50-$25. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

Generations Of Queer Exhibition focusing on queer storytelling, with work by Robert Flack, John Greyson, Elisha Kim and Kiley May. To Jun 28. Free. Onsite @ OCAD University, 230 Richmond W. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH An East German transgender rocker moves to America to start a band and find love in this play by John Cameron Mitchell. Opens today and runs to Jul 12, see website for schedule. $50. 100A Ossington. ­lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Hit Parade The Transmission Commission Collective puts on this art show celebrating queer creativity and responding to global violence against ­LBGTT2QIA people. Free. Reception 6 pm, runs to Jul 6. P|M Gallery, 1518 Dundas W. 416-937-3862.

Imaging Home: Resistance, Migration, Contradiction; Queer And Muslim Photos

and documents on the meaning of “home” in the context of homophobic and racist oppression, plus Samra Habib’s photos of queer Muslims who’ve found peace with their sexuality. Runs to Oct 5. Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, 34 Isabella. 416-777-2755.

incident Light: Gendered Artifacts And Traces Illuminated In The Archives Middle

Eastern and South Asian artists explore attitudes to gender and sexuality in archives from their regions. To Jul 27. Blackwood Gallery, UTM, 3359 Mississuaga N. 905-828-3789.

international grand marshal & human rights reception Global human rights leaders are congratulated at this cocktail reception. 6:30 pm. Innis College, 111 St George. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

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just me and allah: photographs of queer muslims A photography exhibition runs to

Jul 9. Free. Parliament Street Library, 269 Gerrard E. queermuslimproject.tumblir.com. karen miranda augustine The Outgraced exhibit explores the sexual and the sublime through female iconography. Reception 7 pm.

Runs to Jul 19. Free. A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond W #110. 416-979-9633. landed: Together In Canada Multimedia installation about ­LGBT immigrants by Sarah Foy. To Jun 29. Free. Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. ­landedtogether.ca.

Laugh Out Proud James Adomian headlines this comedy show with host Robert Keller and others. To Jun 28, Thu-Sat 8 pm, late show Sat 10 pm. $25. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, ­yukyuks.com.

Leave It To Beavers – Lesbian Pride Comedy Show All-female, all-queer

comedy with Janine Brito and DeAnne Smith. 8 & 10 pm. $20, adv $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­leaveittobeavers. bpt.me.

Legends Of N.Y. Nitelife Retrospective of more than 60 classic images from 1987-90 by nightlife documentarian John Simone. To Jun 29. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555.

Lust by SPUD1 Art show opening with live burlesque performances and music by DJ Barbi­. 7 pm. $5. Studio Bar, 824 Dundas. ­facebook.com/events/1449202298657939. manifesto festival Showcase of musicians, dancers and artists. 6-11 pm. Allan Gardens, Sherbourne and Carlton. ­themanifesto.ca.

MSM (Men Seeking Men) Dance-theatre piece inspired by electronic music and transcripts of online chats between men who seek men online. To Jun 29, see website for schedule. $10-$20. Winchester Theatre, 80 Winchester. ­msmtoronto.bpt.me.

Open Doors, Open Dialogue Community tours of HIV programs. 4-6 pm.

Free. ASAAP – Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention, 120 Carlton, ste 315. asaap.ca.

over the rainbow: Seduction and Identity Artists Stephen Andrews, Elle

Flanders, Andy Fabo and Attila Richard Lukacs discuss the current exhibition. 7

man Works by the British filmmaker, artist and activist are a historical document of queer struggle. To Jul 5. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net/bentlens.

Queer Walking Tour Guided walk through the heart of the Gay Village capped by a patio martini. To Jun 29, 10 am-2 pm. $35. Rainbow High Vacations. Pre-register 1-800-387-1240, ­rainbowhigh.torontoworldpride.com.

Relationship Intimate snapshots by Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst depict the arc of their real-life love story. To Jun 29. TTC Platform screens. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Ross Watson Homoerotic paintings by the Australian artist. To Jun 29. Free. IX Gallery, 11 Davies #101. 416-461-3828.

The Sex Offensive Art exhibit celebrating ­LGBTQ communities around the world. To Jun 29. Free. Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, 984 Queen E. 416-504-7142.

Shameless Karaoke Sing all your favourite queer anthems from Queen or Britney. 10 pm-2 am. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

(SH)OUT Exhibition celebrating the diversity of the human condition by sculptor Jane Hook. Opening reception Jun 21, 2-5 pm. Runs to Jul 11. Canadian Sculpture Centre, 500 Church. 647-435-5858, c­ ansculpt.org.

SING YOU HOME The Book club discusses Jodi Picoult’s story about a lesbian fighting for the right to use frozen embryos from her ex-husband. 7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Skin Flicks: The Films Of Bruce LaBruce Retrospect-

ive of the filmmaker’s works including Hustler White, Otto and Up With Dead People. To Jul 3. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff. net/bentlens.

Sky Yard Sunday Designs by queer indie duo Barbie’s Basement Jewellery and a performance by Liza Minnelli impersonator Jennifer Wells. 3 pm.

Sky Yard @ Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042 ext 244.

Steers & Queers: Night Of 1,000 Dollys Celebrate

country’s favourite drag queen, Dolly Parton, with live music, DJs and a choir. 9 pm-2 am. $12. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Starry Night: Love Is In The Hair Drag Ball with Adore Delano, Courtney Act, Bianca Del Rio, Darienne Lake, DJs Freemasons, Rosabel, the Cube Guys and DJ Mado. 7 pm-midnight.

Free. Cawthra Square Park Greenspace, beside 519 Church. g ­ reenspaceto.org.

Stiff Cocks Performance by Keith Cole and music by DJs Colin Druhan, Peter Merriman, Miss Margot and Nicole Greenspan. Doors 10 pm. $5 sugg (PWA Friends for Life Bike Rally benefit). The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. ­facebook.com/events/495463807333686.

Taboo Yardies Screening of Selena Blake’s documentary about Jamaica’s tourist-friendly “One Love” façade versus its persecuted ­LGBT community. 9:30 pm. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. tiff.net/bentlens.

10X10 Opening Reception Exhibition of work

by LGBTQ photographers. 7-10 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

$15. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. gardinermuseum.ca.

Temperature Party hosted by hip-hop artist and actress Temper. 10 pm-4 am. $35, adv $20. Mojo Lounge, 1305 Dundas W. ­inthelifeprideweekend.eventbrite.com.

Trans pride March A community-led political march leaves from the North Pride Stage at 8 pm, preceded by a rally at 7 pm. Free. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Trans Pride Showcase DJ Triple-X, the Cliks, Crackpuppy, and Against Me! with hosts S Bear Bergman and Tobi Hill-Meyer. 8-11 pm.

Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Wannabe Spice Girls tribute concert. Doors 9:30 pm. $19.50. Adelaide Hall, 250 Adelaide W. facebook.com/events/798972850114278.

Welcome To Manada! All-male burlesque troupe Boylesque T.O. perform tributes to iconic Canadian figures. 10 pm. $25-$30. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. m ­ anada.eventbrite.ca.

Lesbians hit the streets for the Dyke March June 28.

10 Queers In 10 Years: A Decade Of Local Heroes Retrospective of Inside Out’s short

film showcase of Toronto filmmakers and video artists. 7 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net/bentlens.

T-Girl WorldPride Party T-Girl go-go shows with DJ Todd Klinck. 8 pm. $10-$15. Goodhandy’s, 120 Church. g ­ oodhandys.com.

That’s So Gay: On The Edge LGBTTI2QQ artists explore their experiences of identity.

Opening reception tonight, 7-10 pm. To Jun 27, noon-5 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

WorldPride Drag Race Celebrity Cruise

Celebrate at a harbour cruise with RuPaul.

8-11:30 pm. $115. Queens Quay Terminal (foot of York). t­ ickets.­mariposacruises.com.

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Talk by Jessica Danforth from the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. 7 pm. Free. Spadina Road Library, 10 Spadina Rd. 416-393-7666.

Vicious Bitches Gavin Crawford and Sharron Matthews lampoon all things gay in this musical comedy show. 8 pm. $25. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

VIVA CABARET – A TRIBUTE TO THE GREATEST DIVAS Yury Ruzhyev performs satirical drag

parodies of gay icons. 8 pm. $20-$25. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. rushow.ru.

What It Means To Be Seen: Photography And Queer Visibility/Zanele Muholi: Faces And Phases Photos from the Black Star col-

lection curated by the AGO’s Sophie Hackett plus Muholi’s black-and-white portraits depicting South Africa’s lesbian community. To Aug 24. Free. Ryerson Image Centre, 33 Gould.

416-979-5164, ryerson.ca/ric.

What Makes You Proud? Interactive community art installation and ­LGBTQ barbecue for all ages. 4 pm. Free. Family Service Toronto, 355 Church. f­ amilyservicetoronto.org.

WorldPride Mystery Date Night Dinner in the dark and martinis with your mystery date.

To Jun 29, see website for info. $85. Rainbow High Vacations. Pre-register 1-800-387-1240, ­rainbowhigh.torontoworldpride.com.

WHEN THE SUN COMES OUT Lesbian chamber opera by Leslie Uyeda and Rachel Rose about a love affair between a married mother and a gender outlaw. Today and tomorrow at 8 pm. $15-$35. Ernest Balmer Studio, Distillery District, 55 Mill. ­w tscotheopera.bpt.me.

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Sweeden’s Italove, TQ and Synthgo alongside DJ BPM play Nu Italo disco and more. 9 pm-2 am. $40-$50. Adelaide Hall, 250 Adelaide W. ­ticketriver.com.

Truth/Dare: A Satire This song-and-dance recreation of the Madonna backstage doc features creators Salvatore Antonio and Adamo Ruggiero plus Damien Atkins, Keith Cole and others. To Jun 29, Thu-Sun 9 pm. $20-$25. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. t­ icketwise.ca.

Where The Trees Stood In Water Opening reception for an exhibition of Cyanotype prints tracing the transformation of the Entertainment District. 7-10 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Women’s Flat Track Rollerderby: Clam Slam All-queer Pride game with GTAR co-

hosting with TorD. 7 pm. $15, adv $12, kids free. Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main. ­gtarollergirls.ticketleap.com.

WorldPride 2014 Exhibition and High Energy Youth Solidarity forum (exhibition runs to Nov 15). Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

WorldPride HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE L­ GBTTIQQ2SA human rights advocates from

around the word meet to discuss anti-sodomy laws, intersex persons, sex work activism, the politics of pride parades and more. To Jun 27.

Details/register at wphrc14.com/program.

Friday, June 27 The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The

Desert Screening of the 1994 film starring Hugo Weaving and Terence Stamp. 6 pm.

Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Babylon World Weekend Homage to the celebrated Club Babylon from the Queer As Folk series, with DJ Sumation. 9 pm-6 am. Fly Nightclub, 8 Gloucester. f­ lynightclub.com.

The Big Bollywood Disco Queer South Asian pride party. 10 pm. Club 120, 120 Church. ­facebook.com/events/577198409044236.

Bitch Salad WorldPride 2014 Comedians include Steph Tolev, Laura Di Labio, Katherine Ryan and the Cheeto Girls with host Andrew Johnston at this annual show. 8 pm. $25. Bud-

dies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416975-8555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Buddies After Hours Party with DJs K-Tel and Triple-X. Doors 10:30 pm. $15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

The Case Against 8 Screening of the film by Ben Cotner and Ryan White about the historic case to overturn California’s prohibition of same-sex marriage. Today 6 pm; tomorrow 1 & 6:15 pm; Jun 29, 1, 3:30 & 8:45 pm; Jun 30, 6:30 pm. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. ­filmswelike.com/films/caseagainst8.

DRIP WorldPride At Smith: DJs Bok Bok & Girl Unit, Lowell (DJ set), Etyan Tobin, Kristie Muller and others. 7 pm-5 am. $15. Smith, 553 Church. At House Maison: DJs Henry Krinkle, Figgy, Gingy, Rory Them Finest and others. 7 pm-5 am. $15. House Maison, 580 Church. ­facebook.com/DripParty. electric circus Party with DJs Ketsup, Vanessa and Pammm. Doors 11 pm. $5, free before midnight. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. ­facebook.com/events/224555961087396. rFamily Pride Activities for families of all kinds include children’s entertainers, a style zone, and arts and crafts. 10 am. To Jun 29.

Free. Church Street Jr Public School, Church and Alexander. w ­ orldpridetoronto.com.

Friday Night Live @ ROM Music by Starving Yet Full, DJ Deko-Ze, Amy Hef, DJ Sammy, popup food, tours of the galleries and more with a ROM Proud theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl.

I DO AT THE CARLU Group wedding for gentlemen, with musical performances and a wedding celebration. Today and tomorrow 7 pm.

$25. Carlu, 444 Yonge. t­ hecarlu.com.

One World: To Frankie With Love Outdoor show dedicated to artist Frankie Knuckles, with performances by Hector Romero and Paulo & Jackinsky. 5 pm-midnight. Free. Cawthra Square Park, beside 519 Church. g ­ reenspaceto.org.

Orange & Black Dance Party Come as your favourite character, prizes for best costume.

“What Dyke Looks Like” photo exhibit by Kristy Boyce and music by DJ Quinces. 9 pm to 3 am, $20-$25. Marquis of Granby, 418 Church. ­brownpapertickets.com/event/694256.

Play The Parks With Pride Sara London performs soulful house music. Noon-1 pm. Free.

Trinity Square Park, 10 Trinity Sq. ­pridetoronto.com.

Pop Goes Pride MTV presentation with Carly Rae Jepsen, hosted by Phoebe Dykstra and Lauren Toyota. 7 pm. Wellesley Stage. ­wp14to.com.

Pride Street Fair Vendors, arts and crafts, entertainment and more. Today 6 pm-2 am; tomorrow noon-2 am; Jun 29 noon-11 pm.

Free. Church and Wellesley Village area. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Proud voices Readings. 7 pm. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Regretro: My So-Called Pride Edition Turn back time at this party with a 90s-themed photo booth, TV/movie projections and music

by DJs Wei Back, Party McFly and Case of Base. 10 pm. $5, free after 11 pm. Henhouse, 1532 Dundas W. ­henhousetoronto.com Summer Camp On The Plaza WorldPride open-air concert with Maylee Todd on the plaza; subversive art exhibit Camp Fires: The Queer Baroque Of Léopold L Foulem, Paul Mathieu And Richard Milette inside. $20, adv

party with water fountains, DJs Chus & Ceballos, DJ Aron, DJ Kitty Glitter, Sofonda Cox and Carmer Carrera. Noon-8 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Babylon World Of White Homage to the celebrated Club Babylon from the Queer As Folk series with DJ Kidd Madonny. Suggested attire white and wild. 9 pm-7 am. Fly Nightclub, 8 Gloucester. ­flynightclub.com.

Big Pride Sing-Along: Get Loud! Get Proud!

LGBTQ chorus Singing Out perform at this interactive concert. 7 & 9:15 pm. $15. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. singingout.com.

Buddies After Hours Party with Fay Slift, Diana Lopez Sotto and DJs K-Tel and Triple-X. Doors 10:30 pm. $15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

cherry bomb pride: Out Of This world

Party for queer women and friends with four DJs, two levels of dancing. 10 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. $20, adv $15. ­facebook.com/events/304983356324518.

Clean, Sober And Proud Substance-free space offering supportive group meetings throughout Pride weekend, plus entertainment by Sapphire Dance, the GLAM Pride Game Show Revue, Blurred Lines and others.

Today and tomorrow. Free. Paul Kane Parkette, 58 Wellesley E. ­facebook.com/ events/293310164167959.

Community Mural Project – Celebrating Queer & Trans Newcomers Explore your

creativity and share your story through art.

2 pm. Free. Allan Gardens, Carlton and Sherbourne. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Cream: Official Carole Pope Afterparty

Rock n’ roll dance party with Carole Pope, DJs Peaches and Vee Stun, and a fundraiser for the film Rough Trade. 10 pm. $25-$50. Wrongbar, 1279 Queen W. wannacream.me.

Crush WorldPride Party DJ duo Arche & Avril Incandenza. 10 pm. $10. Club 120, 120 Church. club120.ca. continued on page 9 œ

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Learn more.

Happy Pride Week!

Continue the celebration by moving ahead in your career. Classes are available at U of T St. George, U of T Mississauga, U of T Scarborough and online.

For a free copy of our course catalogue, or to register, email learn@utoronto.ca, call 416-978-2400 or visit

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(Church Street Jr Public School, 83 Alexander) 10 am to 5 pm Chris McKhool, Jerry Jeremiah, S Bear Bergman, Voces Poeticas, Laughter Yoga, Toronto Fire Services

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(Wellesley and Maitland) 2 pm I Know You Got Soul: Estelle, Deborah Cox, Jully Black, House of Xtravaganza, Neon Hitch, Reverse, DJ Kitty Glitter

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(behind Buddies In Bad Times, 12 Alexander) 3 pm Alterna-Queer showcase: DJ Triple X, Hervana, Unfinished Business, Sister Hyde, Andrew Harwood, Zoo Owl, No Pants Society, Rob Ford & the Disney Princesses, Judy & IGBY Trash Cabaret, Pantychrist, Ginger Coyote, Sid’s Kids, Lydia Lunch, Pansy Division

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(Church and Maitland) DJ & Diva Central 2 pm DJs Hector Fonseca, Cajjmere Wray, Barry Harris, Martha Wash

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(1 Dundas9E) Molson Canadian Yonge-Dundas Square (Church St Jr Public School, 83 Alexander) Trans Pride Post-March Showcase 10 am to 5 pm S Bear Bergman, Jerry Jere10 Allan Gardens 8 pm Against Me!, the Cliks, S Bear Bergman, miah, Voces Poeticas, Laughter Yoga, Toronto Tobi Hill-Meyer Fire Services

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(Church and Isabella) Trans Friday June 27 7 pm 7 to 11 pm BlackMarch Queer Youth Showcase: March Saturday June 28 2 pm Yonge-Dundas Stage Black ToDyke The Future (11Dundas WorldPride pm E) Paul Kane ParketteMarch Sunday June 29Noon to 8 pm Aqua’s Mega T-Dance: Chus & (Wellesley west of Church) Ceballos, Carmen Carrera, DJ Aron, DJ Kitty 7 pm Community Connections At Clean SoGlitter, Sofonda Cox ber & Proud Place

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(Church and Wellesley) 2 pm Community Cabaret: MixHER Showcase w/ Jada Hudson, Marsha Monster Mellow, Jenna Syde, Donnarama, Carlotta Carlisle, Demanda Tention, Chris Edwards, the Snatch Sisters, Jade Elektra, Nikki Chin, Vitality Black 7 pm brOWN//Out – Queer South Asian program 8 pm Ménage À Trois – francophone show

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(Church and Wood) 11 am Church On Church Street: MCC Toronto Choir, Thom Allison, Julie Michels, Rev Brent Hawkes Dirty Disco 2 pm Don Berns AKA Dr Trance, Robb G, Adam K, Ticky Ty, Chiclet, Robb G, Andy Reid, Deko-ze, Jelo, Dave Audé

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(Church and Wellesley) Community Cabaret 2 pm Broadway Baby Amanda Roberts, Nerd Girl Burlesque, Calgary Kings, Boylesque TO, Tigger St James, Teran Blake, Ala Mode, Bunni Lapin, DESTINASIAN, Mahogany Browne, Ivory Towers, Michelle Ross, TDK, ILL NANA/ DiverseCity Dance Company, Dolly Jones, Shushmita Rai, Alisha Van Horne

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(Wellesley and Maitland) Still I Rise: Blockorama 16 Noon to 11 pm Syrus Marcus Ware, Ashley Bea, Troy Jackson, Ill Nana, Urbanesque, the Kiki Ballroom Alliance, Vitality Black, Wesley Dykes Darling, Crystal Waters, DJs Tameka, Roxanne, Pleasure, Nik Red, Carma, Craig Dominic, Blackcat

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(1 Dundas E) Closing Ceremony 5 pm Tegan & Sara, Rich Aucoin, Cece Peniston, Hunter Valentine, Robin S, Swamperella, God Des & She

Babylon WorldPride Finale Homage to the celebrated Club Babylon from the Queer As Folk series with Hector Fonseca and DJ Shawn Riker. Fly, 8 Gloucester. ­flynightclub.com.

Buddies After Hours Party with DJs K-Tel and Triple-X. Doors 10:30 pm. $15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com/pride2014.

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DRIP WorldPride At Smith: music by DJs

Brenmar, Shaydakiss, Prince Innocence (DJ set) and others. 7 pm-5 am. $15. Smith, 553 Church. At House Maison: music by DJs Le Youth, Dickystixxx, Olenonly and others. 7 pm-5 am. $15. House Maison, 580 Church. ­facebook.com/DripParty.

Dyke March Celebrating the diversity and passion of LGBTTIQQ2S women and trans folk with a rally at Allan Gardens (Carlton and Jarvis) at 1 pm and the march at 2 pm.

Free. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Float Like A Butterfly Boxing, beer and beats by DJ Matty Ryce. Today and tomorrow, noon to 10 pm. $10-$20. Paul Brown Boxfit, 40 Wellesley E. ­paulbrownboxfit.com. franco fierte Francophone stars perform. 5 pm. Allan Gardens, Sherbourne and Carlton. worldpridetoronto.com.

Glitterati Party hosted by transgender mogul Amiyah Scott. 9 pm-4 am. $40, adv $20.

Courthouse, 57 Adelaide E. ­inthelifeprideweekend.eventbrite.com.

Homo Night In Canada Queer comedy from Susan Fischer, John Hastings, Shawn Hitchins, Elvira Kurt, Catherine McCormick, Richard Ryder and others, hosted by the B-Girlz. 8 pm. $25. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Hotnuts – A Whole New WorldPride Nomi Ruiz, DJs Jeremy Glenn, Produzentin, Das Hussy and hosts Mary Messhausen, Buzz Huneedew and Peg Zilla. Doors 10:30 pm. $15, adv $12. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. ­hotnutsworldpride.eventbrite.ca.

Igby Lizzard And Judy Virago The drag queens perform a sidewalk cabaret. 1 & 3 pm.

Drake One Fifty, 150 York. 416-363-6150.

International Travel Showcase Outdoor showcase with national and internation destinations along with their local Pride/LGBTQ organizations. Gould & Victoria Streets. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Late Night Queer Cabaret Performance by Boy­lesque, DJ sets by Fritz Helder and Light Fires and more. 9:30 pm. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Liberation And Perspiration Dance party with music by DJs Sis n Bro and Mary Mack and workout video remixes by Adrienne Crossman. 10 pm. Free. Henhouse, 1532 Dundas W. ­henhousetoronto.com

Lipstick Jungle Pride dance party with DJs

Francesca Lombardo, Kim Ann Foxman and others. 1 pm-midnight. Free. Cawthra Square Park Greenspace, beside 519 Church Community Centre. ­greenspaceto.org.

Madonna Vs Britney Video Dance Party All Madge vs All Brit video spun live. 10 pm. No cover. ­WAYLA. Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-9015570, ­waylabar.ca.

The Main Event! Matinee World Tour DJ party with Rosabel and Freemasons. 1 pm-1 am. $10. Fly, Ryerson Quad, Gerrard between Church and Yonge. 416-410-5426, ­greenspaceto.org/main-event. pride and remembrance run A 5K run or 3K walk to benefit Egale Canada Human Rights Trust, Fife House, and the Pride and Remembrance Foundation. 10 am. Corner of Church and Wellesley. ­priderun.org.

Proud voices Readings. 7 pm. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. worldpridetoronto.com. rRainbow Family Stories Bring the whole family and celebrate Pride Week with an ­LGBTQ edition of Saturday Stories. 10:30 am.

Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Soultry Jazz Brunch Performances by Ashley Bea, Ken Morgan and Sean Stanley. Noon5 pm. $45-$50. The ­Berber Social, 49 Front E. ­inthelifeprideweekend.eventbrite.com.

SS Steamworks Pride Weekend Cruise

Cruise the harbour to music by DJ Deko-Ze and DJ Nick Bertossi plus performances by Ray Gunn, Jon Shield and Aleks Buldocek.

Noon-4 pm. $75. stamworksbath.com/cruise.

Subspace Black light party UV body painting and music by SquidLid and DJs Miso and Warmuffin. 10 pm. $20-$25. Opera House, 735 Queen W. ­subspacelive.ca.

TOASTR PRIDE EDITION Three DJs including KLR and Sticky Cuts playing hip-hop, trip hop, trap, dancehall, top 40 and mashups on the main floor; DJ Marina and cellist Megan Ballantyne upstairs. 9:30 pm. $25. White Elephant, 366 Queen E. ­facebook.com/toastrTO. under the hood Dyke Day after-party with underground DJs Linguist, Chiclet, Hey! DW and Arts&Crafts. 10 pm. $10. Bassline Music Bar, 865 Bloor W. 416-732-7513. yonge-dundas pop-up party Performances by international talent perform and a dance party. 8 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

Sunday, June 29 Alterna-Queer Performances by DJ Steve

Rock, Unfinished Business, Zoo Owl and others on an outdoor stage. Free. Alexander Parkette, 12 Alexander. ­facebook.com/ events/846597032034613.

Lizzard and Judy Virago plus DJs Nino Brown & Sammy Royale. 10 pm-2:30 am. $10. Round Venue, 152s Augusta. 416-451-6346. church on church street The Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto Choir, Thom Allison, Julie Michels and Rev Brent Hawkes host a Sunday morning Pride service. 11 am.

South Stage, Church and Wood Streets. ­mcctoronto.com.

Disco Disco Pride dance party with DJs Dimitri from Paris, Horse Meat Disco and others. 1 pmmidnight. Free. Greenspace, Cawthra Square Park, beside 519 Church Community Centre. ­greenspaceto.org.

DRIP WorldPride DJs Hercules and Love Affair (Andy Butler DJ set), Bruce LaBruce, Members only and guests. $15. House Maison, 580 Church. f­ acebook.com/DripParty.

Go Hard “Swag 2 Da Roof 5” World Pride party. $15. Club 120, 120 Church. club120.ca.

Holy Trinity Church The LGBTQ+ Anglican congregation welcomes Nigerian gay rights activist Davis Mac-Iyalla at this service. 10:30 am. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Sq. ­holytrinitytoronto.org.

House Of Ladosha X DRIP Performance by La’Fem Ladosha, and DJ sets by Juliana Huxtable and Michael Magnan. 7 pm-5 am. $15 at the door. Smith, 553 Church. 416-926-2501.

The Lady Oiye’s Tea Dance Low-key gathering off the parade route for a cool respite. 3-10 pm.

Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

Main Event Party outdoors to music by the Cube Guys, Rosabel, Freemasons and O’Halley Brothers. 1 pm-1 am. $10 (in support of the 519). Ryerson Quad, Gerrard E between Church and Yonge. g ­ reenspaceto.org.

March With Pride Parade! Congregation Shir Libeynu march as part of the interfaith contingent with the Rainbow Railroad theme. 1 pm.

Bloor East at Church. shirlibeynu.ca.

Ne Plus Ultra Party hosted by Ariane Davis of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta. 9 pm-3:30 am. $20 adv. Thompson Hotel, 550 Wellington W. ­inthelifeprideweekend.eventbrite.com. rPFLAG WorldPride Family Brunch Hot buffet, raffle prizes and more. 9:30-11:30 am. $13. Pogue Mahone, 777 Bay. pflagbrunch@ gmail.com.

Proud voices Readings. 7 pm. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. worldpridetoronto.com.

Treehouse Party The T-dance of the summer with Isaac Escalante, Alain Jackinsky and others. 1 pm-1 am. $10. Ryerson Quad, corner of Church & Gerrard. g ­ reenspaceto.org.

WorldPride Closing Ceremonies Singer/ songwriter duo Tegan & Sara and others perform at the closing ceremonies. 5 pm. Free.

Yonge-Dundas Square. ­worldpridetoronto. worldPride Parade The annual parade of floats, marching bands and music starts at 1 pm at Bloor and Church, heads west to Yonge, and south on Yonge to Yonge-Dundas Square.

Free. ­worldpridetoronto.com.

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HIGH ALERT: homophobia in Uganda peaks

In the wake of anti-gay legislation and escalating violence­, Activists show unimaginable courage By KEVIN NAULLS

You don’t forget the first time you watch a person beaten to death on camera. The cacophony of cracking bone, the wriggling body in its death throes and the enthusiastic camaraderie of the mob I’m watching aren’t part of a Faces Of Death resurgence. These are real people swarming Ssekasi John, a queer Ugandan businessman, just days after the African state’s controversial AntiHomosexuality Act (AHA) became law in December 2013.

Evidence of Uganda’s homophobic violence has proliferated online, where you can see bodies charred, brutalized and bloodied in real time.

Ugandan queer rights activist Rich­ard Lusimbo works for Sexual Mi­norities Uganda (SMUG), an LGBTQ rights organization that conducts surveys to document human rights violations empirically. After

being outed twice by newspapers, he says he’s received death threats and fears doing even the most mundane tasks like shopping or socializing.

“It’s very difficult,” Lusimbo repeats over and over again in a soft, fatigued lilt. He rarely leaves his home, relying on friends and some family – the few who have come to accept his sexuality – to run errands for him.

In 2011 – well before hate crimes were officially legitimized by recent legislation that makes life imprisonment the punishment for homosexuality – his fellow Ugandan queer activist and SMUG leader David Kato was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in his home in Bukasa. In 2010, Ugandan tabloid Rolling Stone printed Kato’s name along with 99 others to out them as homosexuals, complete with home addresses and the instruc­tion to “hang them.”

Rolling Stone editorial director Giles Muhame told Uganda’s Daily Monitor, “[Kato] brought death upon himself. He hasn’t lived carefully.

Kato was a shame to this country.”

Don’t assume the homophobic onslaught is confined to Uganda.

Kenyan Justice Monica Mbaru tells me that in 2010, while Kenya underwent constitutional reform, members of the Christian evangelical right made sure there was a strong Chris­tian element within the review process. This led to what she calls “a spirited campaign to ensure Article 45(2) was part of the passed constitution, which included the ominous provision that ‘Every adult has the right to marry a person of the oppo­ site sex, based on the free consent of the parties.’”

Mbaru adds, “The Ugandan act on anti-homosexuality is a convenient template that Kenya can adopt without much work going into it, as we share a common law jurisprudence.”

To the detriment of homosexuals in Kenya, “The evangelicals cut across [borders] to share their wealth of information.”

Indeed, many credit American evangeli­cals with Africa’s homophobic surge. Right-wing Christian activists have immersed themselves in African culture, taking positions continued on page 13 œ

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of power: they’re lawyers, doctors and teachers, wielding their influence through monetary support of anti-gay lobbyists.

Wherever these laws go into effect, the impact will be shocking.

Lusimbo points me to a SMUG study released last May, From Torment To Tyranny, which shows that between December 20, 2013, and May 1, 2014, 162 cases of anti-gay discrim­ination in Uganda were reported, 24 of which involved physical threats. And that says nothing of the silent victims who fear they can’t speak out without persecution – and they can’t, by law.

One woman was attacked and arrested, her house burned to the ground. A 17-year-old boy was severely beaten by his parents, who threatened to inform the police of his sexuality before throwing him out. Being gay, gay “touching,” discussing homo­sexuality and broad-

casting material that sways public opinion about the current state of homophobia are all offences punishable by sentences up to life in prison, leaving queers legally powerless and socially silenced.

It’s easy to feel self-righteous.

Western queers and allies are privileged, and in North America many battles for queer rights have been won. But the reality is that LGBTQ freedoms even in Canada are new and not yet entrenched. (See sidebar, this page). We must condemn public lynching and are naturally angered by African homophobia, but we’ve had the time to create a countercul­tural movement, whereas Uganda has not.

I out my own privilege in a recent interview with Toronto minority activist and refugee lawyer El-Farouk Khaki. I wonder if Ugandan queers can become radicalized, given their fear and isolation. My idea of radicalization is admittedly

modern, involv­ing Pride marches, witty signs and ACT slogans.

Khaki quickly puts me in my place: “Just being there is radical,” he says when we sit down to discuss his role as supervisor of Pride Uganda Alliance International, a coalition that supports Ugandan refugees seeking to immigrate to Canada. Of course he’s right: Ugandan queers face loss of access to HIV/AIDS testing and life-saving drugs, an imported anti-gay ideology, incarceration, assault and death.

Not everyone on this side of the Atlantic is comfortable just watching the news. Trans Quaker activist Talcott Broadhead co-runs the New Underground Railroad out of Olympia, Washington. The mostly Quaker group organizes a complex network of revolutionaries in and around Uganda who help queers safely cross the border.

The impetus to start a donationfunded underground operation with a system of safe houses came from a note from a friend in Jinja. Broadhead shared this letter with me: “The Ugandan police are so busy lately, in just 10 hours they have been able to arrest eight people for either being gay or involved in gay activities. If they are lucky they might be produced in court, or will just disappear and never be seen again. If you think that’s too sad, since Monday, three people have been killed for gay-related issues. If the world doesn’t do something more, more people will be killed every day.”

While Broadhead’s efforts have resulted in 70 LGBTQ people finding safe houses or asylum, she notes, “Sadly, one gay man we had in hiding committed suicide.” SMUG’s new report corroborates this: at least 17 cases of suicide have been reported to date, including one 17-year-old boy who swallowed rat poison and overdosed on pills. In February, just two months after AHA came into effect, eight suicides were reported in a two-week period.

This crisis is escalating by the day.

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The death knell doesn’t toll so loudly in our own backyard any more, and thus we often view news of homo­ phobic discrimination and injustice elsewhere as evidence that other cul­ tures are ­archaic.

But Northwestern University an­ thropologist Melissa Minor Peters noted in a 2014 interview with The Bilerico Project that countries like Ca­ nada and the United States “exagger­

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ate or trumpet their gay rights record in order to justify military and econo­ mic meddling in other regions, while papering over [their own] egregious human rights violations.”

In February, shortly after Uganda’s AHA was passed, Foreign Affairs Min­ ister John Baird made Canada’s pos­ ition clear in an official statement: “This act is a serious setback for hu­ man rights, dignity and fundamental freedoms and deserves to be widely condemned.”

But how can Canada take aim at the state of human rights abroad when we have our own ongoing his­ tory of violations?

Refugee lawyer El-Farouk Khaki makes a point of reminding me that many people come to Canada to es­ cape terrible conditions in their country, only to face discrimination within our borders.

“I’ve had Ugandan and other cli­ ents who had to go to Fort Mc­ Murray and Nunavut to get jobs de­ spite their language and education.

“When people come to Canada, they face racism as well as homo­ phobia. Their own ethno-racial-na­ tional communities may not be a support. People are often forced to continue living in a cycle of poverty because their qualifications may not be recognized, and they lack that dreaded and elusive ‘Canadian ex­ perience.’ Then they are forced into the closet, looking for work in their ethno-racial-national communities.”

Outright violence is still a major factor here, too.

Statistics Canada reported in 2011 that hate crimes based on sexual orientation rose 10 per cent, follow­ ing a 13 per cent increase in 2009. In both years, the most violent hate crimes largely targeted people be­ cause of their sexual orientation.

Learn the names of the victims: in 1985, Kenneth Zeller was murdered in High Park by five youths; in 2001, Aaron Webster was assaulted and killed by four people in Vancouver’s Stanley Park; in 2009, 62-year-old Ritchie Dowrey was assaulted in Vancouver’s Fountainhead Pub; again in 2009, Chris Skinner died after he was beaten and run over by an SUV in Toronto (note: despite Skinner’s friends’ insistence, police refused to identify this as a hate crime); in 2010, the house of a gay couple in Little Pond, PEI, was fire­ bombed and destroyed.

This condensed history lesson shows that our own rights and free­ doms are fragile.

The United Nations first discussed LGBTQ rights in 2008, and the UN approved a resolution affirming the rights of LGBTQ people for the first time 2011 – and it just barely passed, 23-to-19, with three abstentions.

(Mauritius was the only African state to approve the initiative.)

Canada is a leader on LGBTQ rights and freedoms, but sodomy was only decriminalized in 1969, while samesex marriage only become a nation­ KN wide reality in 2005.

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Justin Romanov IS Bringing the fight against Vladimir Putin’s oppressive anti-gay law to Canada

By CYNTHIA McQUEEN Photos by DAVID HAWE

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ustin Romanov says coming to Ca­ na­da was like a fairy tale. He feels safe, respected and comfortable as a gay man here. He’s even found love since his arrival eight months ago.

After celebrating his 19th birthday this month, he’s excited about his first Pride experience in Canada. “It’s a really good time for fun, but we should remember that in Africa, Rus­ sia, the Middle East and Jamaica, the majority of people hate gay people,” he says. In some African countries, 98 per cent of the population think homosexuality is unacceptable.

“I think many people forget about this.”

But not Romanov. Since he arrived here, three gay teenagers he knew in Russia have committed suicide.

Less than a year ago, his life in Rus­ sia was endangered by hate. When he came out to his family at 14, his fath­ er beat him so severely that he lost vision in his right eye. When he was 15, his parents sent him to a psychia­ trist who told him being gay was not a sexual orientation, but a scheme by the U.S. media to destroy Russia.

“It’s so stupid,” Romanov says, sweeping his blond hair away from his crystal blue eyes.

Though homosexuality was re­ moved from the Diagnostic And Sta­ tistical Manual Of Mental Disorders in 1986 and the World Health Organ­ ization recognized homosexuality as continued on page 16 œ

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a sexual orientation in 1993, Russian psychiatrists continue to diagnose it as a mental health disorder, a stigma that prevents those diagnosed from getting jobs.

And, worse, Vladimir Putin’s new law banning the “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relationships” to mi­nors has reignited widespread homophobia.

Showing his indelibly courageous spirit in the face of fascism, Romanov was arrested for his LGBTQ activism three times before he left Russia – once for writing a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev and blogging about gay rights and twice for break-

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ing the anti-propaganda law.

“I was 17 years old,” he says. “How was I communicating homosexual propaganda to myself? I’m gay, so I’m always speaking and thinking like a gay person. It’s totally illogical,” he says, throwing his arms in the air.

Every time he was arrested, the police told him he would wind up dead or that someone would rape him with a bottle, which Romanov says is a common anti-gay crime in Russia.

Last May in Volgograd, a 23-yearold man was found with his skull bashed in after he was raped with sev­eral beer bottles. Investigators said the crime was motivated by

homophobia – an anomalous ac­ know­ledgement in a country racked by anti-gay, conservative sentiments.

His death spurred a series of protests by gay activists across the country.

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ladislav Slavsky, a 17-year-old gay activist still living in Russia, took part in a protest in Armavir.

The simplicity of the resisters’ strategy to avoid arrest was poetic. “We wrote our signs in English because the police can’t read them,” he says. They read “Help us” and “Russia is killing us.”

Slavsky lived in Sochi during the 2013 Olympics, ground zero for demonstrations against Putin’s oppressive law. He helped organize protests during the Games against the anti-gay group Occupy Gerontophilia. OG lures gay teenagers into “ambush meetings” where they are humiliated on video that is then shared on the pop­ular Russian social media network VKontakte. Shortly before the Olympics, OG’s social media page was shut down for invading the privacy of minors, but that didn’t stop a group of boys from terrorizing local teens.

When Slavsky realized he knew the 16-year-old homophobe who was posting videos of gay teens in Sochi, he threatened to tell the boy’s parents. The boy stopped.

But then the group filtered all of their homophobic hate onto Slavsky, and the daily beatings began. First with fists, then with rocks, and then they started pouring bottles full of urine on him.

He went to police, who told him he was stupid for being openly gay.

He found no support anywhere he turned.

After someone from his school hacked his social media page and out­ed him as gay, students and teachers said they hated him and that his only future was as a prostitute. The school psychiatrist told him he was gay because he had either been raped by a man as a child and liked it or was raped by a woman and didn’t like it.

“I have never been raped,” Vlasky says, laughing at the absurdity of the explanation.

He had to write his final exams at the ministry of education to avoid re­ceiving failing marks from his teachers.

Although his parents supported him, he had to move into his own apartment for the last few months of school to escape the daily attacks.

Now that he’s graduated from high school, he wants to leave Russia, but doesn’t yet know where he’ll go or how he’ll get there.

Romanov and Vlasky are just two of the brave youths involved with Chil­dren 404, a social media campaign started by journalist Elena Kli­ mova to support gay youth. The number “404” refers to the internet message “Error 404 – Page not found.”

According to the documentary Children 404, there are currently about 2.5 million LGBTQ children and teenagers in Russia, but the group has received only about 1,700 letters from youth – children not found indeed.

Khana Kochetkova is an administrator for the social media page. Although she came out to her mother in 2011, the social pressure associated with Putin’s 2013 law has strained their relationship.

Through Children 404, Kochetkova’s mother met another parent and came to terms with her daughter’s sexuality.

Kochetkova says her case is rare, “because most parents don’t accept their gay children. You can count on one hand the letters we receive from parents,” she says.

Most are from teenagers who are told being gay is wrong; they are beaten and have suicidal thoughts.

Because Russia has so few LGBTQ organizations, there isn’t much Children 404 can do. “In some cases, we’ve managed to find adult LGBTQ activists so teens have support in their hometowns, but most of the time we’re just trying to get them to accept them­selves.”

There are psychiatrists friendly to the project who help some of the teens, and Children 404 occasionally receives a second letter thanking the group for their help. But that doesn’t happen often.

One of those friendly psychiatrists made all the difference when Klimova was charged under the anti-propaganda law. He argued that Children 404 is a support group for suicidal teens, not a propaganda group. Eventually the case was dismissed and Kli­mova acquitted. Hers was the first case tried since the anti-propaganda law was enacted last year, and one of six that have been dismissed by Russian courts.

In Canada, Romanov remains ac­ tive in the Children 404 community and regularly receives letters and phone calls from youth searching for ways to leave Russia.

He was lucky. His mother helped him get out. She sold her house to pay $11,000 for his student visa that brought him to Canada.

She wasn’t always so supportive.

Although she’d always accepted gay people, he says she couldn’t deal with having a gay son. She even hired a female prostitute to try to change his mind. When that didn’t work, she fi­ nally made peace with it and has been his rock ever since.

“If she didn’t understand me, I think I would have committed suicide when I was 16,” he says.

Other teenagers are kicked out of their homes and come from poor families. “They have a hard life,” he says.

In a 2012 poll, 74 per cent of Russians said homosexuality should not be accepted by society, but Romanov and Slavsky say in reality that figure is much higher.

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Under the current system, because gay Russians are denied education and jobs, raising or saving $11,000 is next to impossible.

For Romanov, the road to freedom from Russia has just begun. He filed his refugee claim this month, a process that will likely take more than a year. With the help of local organizations the 519 and Supporting Our Youth, he’s hoping for success.

“When I have Canadian citizenship, I want to burn my Russian passport,” he says, waving his arm over the table as though he’s fanning the flames.

Before he lights that match, he’s starting another figurative fire at the school where he’s learning English.

Gay and here to stay

According to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, 357 people applied for ­refugee status based on their sexual orientation in 2013.

Unsurprisingly, the countries with the most claimants are the same that have the strongest anti-​gay views.

According to a Pew Research study that polled over 35,000 people in 39 countries on whether society should accept homosexuality, Nigerians were Africa’s most averse, with 98 per cent of respondents answering no.

Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act in January, which criminalizes both same-​sex unions and membership in gay rights organizations.

Last year, 54 Nigerians applied for refugee status based on their sexual orientation.

AIDS-​Free World says that Jamaica has improved its homophobic ways because now only 80 per cent of the population describe themselves as such.

Thirty-​nine people sought refuge here from the country whose “murder music” lyrics describe killing homosexuals in patois.

The majority of Jamaicans see no reason to repeal its anti-​sodomy law, enacted in the 19th century.

Russia had the most negative attitude in Europe, with 74 per cent of respondents against homosexuality, according to Pew Research.

Just under 30 people came to Canada ­seeking refuge from Russia’s oppressive anti-​ CM gay law.

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He wrote the principal a letter asking why his school wasn’t an LGBTQ- positive space. The authorities responded that at ESL schools where stu­dents come from United Arabic Emirates, Saudi Arabia and countries in Africa where homosexuality is not only rejected but punishable, gay rights are not discussed or addressed for fear that students won’t attend. In response to arguments like these, Romanov says, “I would rather live free. That’s why I came to Canada.”

After a discussion with the principal, “I put rainbow flags up at school. Everybody knows I’m gay,” he says.

For this reason and many more, he says, “I love Canada.”

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Not only is the issue of LGBTQ homelessness on the agenda at the Human Rights Conference, but Toronto is finally tackling barriers to queer and trans youth in accessing the shelter system.

“I’ve seen the most gains in the past year in all the eight years I’ve been working in this area,” says Alex Abramovich, one of the few Canadian researchers studying why LGBTQ youth are overrepresented in the youth homeless population.

Abramovich will participate in a panel discussion at the WorldPride Human Rights Conference on Friday (June 27) at the University of Toronto alongside homeless youth advocates from Detroit, New York City and Jamaica.

Earlier this week, a working group struck by council last year submitted a report to the Community Recreation and Development Committee recommending council gauge community interest in operating an emergency shelter or transitional housing for LGBTQ youth. The Shelter, Support and Housing Administration (SSHA) is supposed to report back on financial feasibility in 2015.

The report builds on the city’s 2013 street needs assessment, which provides an annual one-night snapshot of homelessness in the city.

Crucially, the group also recommended that the SSHA develop new emergency shelter standards that take into account the needs of LGBTQ homeless youth, to be implemented next year.

The report notes that LGBTQ youth end up on the street due to conflict and rejection at home and school. They experience higher rates of violence and harassment than their straight peers, despite shifting societal attitudes and legislation such as the 2012 amendment to the Ontario Human Rights Code extending protection from discrimination to trans people.

Barriers in the shelter system include homophobic and transphobic staff and shelter users, inadequate washroom/shower facilities and incapacity to support youth dealing with complex issues like gender transitions.

For the first time, surveyors in Toronto asked people using shelter services if they identify as

LGBTQ. In the youth system, 21 per cent of respondents answered yes, providing advocates with their first concrete numbers on the issue since a 2000 study that found 25 to 40 per cent of Canadian homeless youth identify as queer or trans.

However, advocates believe the real number is higher, since LGBTQ youth fleeing abuse or rejection at home may not self-identify and do not always visit shelters for fear of en­countering violence and transphobia.

“We need to work on the whole shelter system and implement these changes so it becomes a safer and more supportive place,” says Ab­ram­o­vich, who credits recent media at­ tention with putting the issue on the agenda.

“We also need to create separate transitional housing for LGBTQ youth. This is something that’s been done very successfully in the United States.”

Abramovich wants a national stra­t­egy to combat the problem, in part because data on the percentage of home­less youth who identify as LGBTQ is lacking. Attention to the issue varies from province to province: Alberta has been progressive, and in To­ronto, youth homelessLearn why youth leave home in the first place, says Jama Shelton.

Researcher Alex Abramovich says the queer youth homelessness crisis requires a national strategy.

ALWAYS OPEN ALWAYS PROUD ness outreach agency Eva’s Initiatives is creating a toolkit for shelters across the country.

Speaking on the conference panel with Abramovich is Jama Shelton, who worked for nine years at New York City’s Ali Forney Center, which provides housing and services for queer and transgender youth, before becoming director of the True Colors Fund’s Forty To None Project.

In the U.S., LGBT youth make up 3 to 5 per cent of the overall population, but advocates believe up to 40 per cent of the country’s 1.6 million homeless youth identify as LGBTQ. New York City is one of several jurisdictions that provide housing or services aimed specifically at LGBTQ youth. Shelton is now working with U.S. federal agencies and departments to come up with strategies for ending LGBTQ youth homelessness as part of the government’s plan to end overall youth homelessness by 2020.

This year, the U.S. government be­gan a pilot program to count homeless youth and ask them about their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Shelton has had some success convening interdepartmental meetings between federal agencies and ser­vice providers to discuss prevention and early intervention strategies.

“There’s movement in some regions of the country,” says Shelton. “I’m much more hopeful than I would’ve been three years ago.”

Forty To None provides support to communities like Cincinnati, Houston, Nashville, Miami, Chicago and Seattle where local agencies are already tackling the issue. Shelton’s goal is to help bring local schools, child welfare agencies and juvenile justice organizations to the table to do thorough assessments of young people in their systems.

At WorldPride, Shelton will push a holistic approach.

“In the States the service model has been reactive. ‘We need more beds and shelters and we need more things for young people once they’re on the street,’” she says. “I don’t disagree with that message, but I also think there’s a lot of work we could be doing upstream to prevent young people from ever needing the bed in the first place.”

Meanwhile, in Jamaica, homeless advocates

face similar obstacles but are also up against a pa­triarchal culture exacerbated by the Caribbean country’s colonial-era anti-sodomy law.

Attitudes have shifted in the past five years, and queer Jamaicans who are able to pass as straight are often able to live in their communities, says human rights activist Yvonne McCalla-Sobers, another panelist.

However, poor LGBTQ people who insist on living openly as gay or trans remain marginalized. Six months ago, she founded Dwayne’s House, a Kingston-based outreach organization that serves the 20 to 40 LGBTQ youth living in the city’s sewer system after being evicted from their home last year.

“They are at the bottom of the pile in the LGBT community. They are at the bottom of the pile in the wider community,” she says.

In Kingston, there is one overcrowded night homeless shelter and one day shelter for adults only. Dwayne’s House provides food and clothing as well as legal, medical, dental and educational services, and intervenes when youth run afoul of police.

In April, Jamaica’s minister of youth and culture announced in a Facebook post the government’s intention to create new services for homeless LGBTQ youth. However, the issue is opposed by fundamentalist churches and thus politically unpopular in Jamai­ca.

“This is not an area that will help politicians at the polls,” says Mc­Calla-Sobers.

Her next step is to secure property and funds to establish a drop-in centre that can provide psychological counselling and educational training. After that, she hopes to establish a drop-in shelter and eventually residential housing.

“I have sons of my own. I became involved because I felt there was a need. The problem won’t go away, and in fact will worsen if they don’t have help or feel there’s somebody caring for them,” she says. “It’s not human to live in a storm drain.”

Here at home, the problem of LGBTQ homelessness will persist after the glow of WorldPride fades, and community groups and city staff must continue refining a made-in-Toronto solution that the rest of Canada can learn from.

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WHAT'S HER SECRET? THREE TORONTO DRAG QUEENS DISH ON THEIR FAVOURITE SHOPS, PRODUCTS AND TRICKS FOR BECOMING FABULOUSLY FEMININE.

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"Drag is an expensive career/hobby, so a big thing is affordability. My first fashion was the formal wear my sister left in her closet when she moved away. Luckily, I fit in her size. I love thrift shopping, and you can find some great treasures if you really try. My favourites are VV Boutique (Value Village) and Goodwill."

"I style my own wigs for the most part. Right now I'm wearing three. I have a short wig on the bottom, a bump at the back of my hair that I pin in and then a nice fall of hair that blends in with the base hair. The result looks like I have a shaved side and all this length. It's called stacking wigs."

"The internet has been my best friend. I've learned hair and makeup techniques by watching different YouTube videos and trying them out. When I first started out I learned a lot from a wonderful queen called Blanche Babcock who does video tutorials on YouTube (youtube.com/user/ blanchebabcock)."

"I buy Kryolan TV Paint Sticks, thick foundation that's used for stage makeup, from the Complections Store (110 Lombard, 416-968- 6739, complectionsmake-up.com). The most important thing is your base. You need a really thick foundation. The old drag queen saying that Covergirl doesn't cover boy is very true."

"I've learned to carve my own hip pads out of foam via YouTube tutorials. I've gotten away with crafting them from foam I bought at Walmart (900 Dufferin, 416-537-2561, and others, walmart.ca). Then I go to my father's house to use his really sharp kitchen knives. I hear an electric turkey knife's actually best for carving hip pads, but I haven't been able to get my hands on one."

"We all wear three or four layers of tights to cover and conceal the lines from our hip pads. It's hard finding the right shade sometimes, so l like to layer darker and lighter tights to even out the skin tone. Right now I'm wearing deep beige with very light pink on top. Capezio is a great dance tight brand, or whatever's on sale at Malabar."

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"This wig was made by my drag mother [an experienced queen who takes you in and teaches you about the craft]. It's three or four wigs stitched together, and a big task to even put on because it's not a traditional wig and I have very little hair. I make a band around my head with pieces of elastic and then bobbypin the wig to the band."

"I've been going to this hair store called ClorĂŠ Beauty Supply (1126 Bloor West, 416-5882800, and others, clorebeauty.com). A lot of queens go there. It's more of a black hair store, but it's got tons and tons of wigs, hair and products. I go to the costume stores as well, but the quality can vary."

"ClorĂŠ has a great line of ethnic makeup called Black Opal. I only use their products for my foundation and powder. The coverage is really good, and you can find your shade, which can be hard for black girls. For eyeshadow, I swear by Ben Nye, which you can buy at Malabar (14 McCaul, 416-598-2581, malabar.net)."

"When you perform, you don't wear what an ordinary girl would wear. Also, I'm a big girl, so I can't just go to the plus-size section at Forever 21. Most of my stuff is either made by my drag mother, or I shop from other queens.

One favourite store is Axiom Ladies Boutique (592 Yonge, 416-598-9393); a lot of queens shop there. It's supposed to be a regular women's store, but the fashion is just so eccentric and great for the stage."

"Shoes are a big challenge because I'm a thick guy and my feet are a women's size 14. There is no regular shoe store that carries that size, but luckily there's Kleen Air Dancing Shoes (513 Yonge, 416-966-2097), which carries up to size 16. The boots I'm wearing right now are 16s because I'll be doing so much dancing during Pride. Though a queen with size 10 feet can go to a normal store and drop $50, a 16 from Kleen Air runs me over $200."

"Boobs, for me, can be made of anything. There was a time when I stuffed my bra with my own boxers. My boobs right now are fabric. I cut old tights and stuff them with soft velvet, roll them, then put another layer of tights around them and put them in a tight bra."

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"A good corset can make any outfit work. I wear corsets under my garments to suck me in and give more of an hourglass shape, as well as hide lines from undergarments and pads. I've had a lot of my corsets made by Dwayne Collins at DeLish (2116 Queen East, unit G, 416-​ 698-​6784, ­delishclothing.com)."

"For wigs, Mikah Styles (mikahstyleswigworld.com) knows his stuff. Just because someone is a hairstylist doesn't mean they know how to work with wigs – that's a big misconception. It's about finding the balance between looking real but still being over-​the-​top. It's also about knowing how to combine wigs with textures – it's very easy to fry them, or they might not hold their styles."

"I'm a big Make Up For Ever girl.

I love their pan sticks and concealers. Makeup preference depends on what you grow up with in the drag world. Make Up For Ever is what my first drag mother, Nicolette Brown, used. Ben Nye also has a lot of great pots for different powders and shadows, and, of course, MAC is the go-​to for lips."

"You're better off using foundation more geared toward theatre than what a traditional woman might wear.

Facial hair and the beard line are the two biggest things to cover up, so I use two different pan sticks, one that's flesh tone and one that's pure white, and blend them for my highlight zone. Then it's all about having a really good loose powder and just beating that. When you hear queens talking about beating our faces in, we're literally beating our faces with a powder puff."

"I order my jewellery from another performer, Nova Starr, who runs Fierce Drag Jewels (fiercedragjewels. com). She makes the drag sets for Drag Race and Miss Canada Ultimate. She knows what she's doing, knows colours and is one of the very few jewellers certified to use Swarovski."

"When I'm doing pageants or shows, I order my nails from Pinky's Nails (688 Richmond West, 647-​787-​9521, pinkysnailsto.com). They custom-​design everything and sell the best queen-​size press-​ons, so you don't have to wear them for everyday life."

"I'm wearing a breastplate that's made by Boobs for Queens (boobsforqueens.com). It does up around my neck, and I can wear things that are low-​cut. You just have to powder it down and try to get it as close to your complexion as possible. When I'm wearing something that doesn't require that, I use shoulder pads. Another good thing that works well is getting pantyhose and filling them with rice."

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