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We didn’t know which stories we’d ﬁnd out there that weekend. But we did know that anything can, and does, happen during a six-hour parade. not. It wasn’t as if we wouldn’t be able to access the parade at all — we just wouldn’t be able to move freely among the participants. But stories do not present themselves neatly where reporters happen to be gathered. Only by immersing yourself in the crowd, watching for new and familiar faces and listening for interesting conversations, do you get to the heart of Pride — and our community’s stories. Take, for example, the trans marches that took place on June 27. Two made their way down Yonge Street, one ofﬁcially affiliated with WorldPride and

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The size and length of the parade, plus the extreme delay aggravated by the heat, had the most impact on the community groups who were waiting at the very end. I was marching with a group that supports LGBTQ+ people with disabilities. Our members were so excited to be part of the parade, but when we ﬁnally started to move down Yonge Street, it was already past 5pm, and we couldn’t help but feel that we were simply being rushed down the route to get it over with. Why is it that grassroots and community organizations are placed toward the back as wealthy (largely heteronormative) businesses, corporations and politicians march at the front, getting all the praise and media attention? Why is it okay to make people with disabilities wait for over two hours in the sun? I’m sorry to say this, but it feels like Pride Toronto has become a big, proﬁt-driven corporation that doesn’t care about the little guy and those who are doing the actual frontline work serving the most vulnerable in our community. ILA NEET DAILYXTRA.COM

Since I was actually in the parade with Toronto’s francophone community, I wasn’t able to see much of the other ﬂoats and contingents. So, I appreciate this video report [“WorldPride Parade Shows Its Activist Side,” dailyxtra.com, June 30]. A great angle:

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The Pride parade needs to be drastically scaled back [“WorldPride Parade Lasts Nearly Six Hours in Intense Heat,” dailyxtra.com, June 29]. Firstly, there is way too much overrepresentation from the public service, like the many various police forces and labour unions. It’s great these people want to participate, but they take up at least an hour of parade time and they aren’t the least bit exciting to an audience. It’s not a Labour Day parade. In fact, there was a lot of “gay” missing from what was once a “gay pride” parade. Secondly, let’s try to pick up the pace. There were so many long gaps that really killed the momentum. It’s ﬁne that they allow the College streetcars to cross, but that shouldn’t have any impact if they had a steady pace.

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While most people were sleeping or making their way home from the bars on the morning of June 29 — the day of the WorldPride parade — I was on my way to catch the streetcar to the Xtra offices when I got a text from my editor. “Can you write a quick story on Pride Toronto’s decision to bar reporters from the parade route?” it said. Fewer than 24 hours earlier, Xtra and the other 200-odd accredited media outlets covering WorldPride had been notiﬁed that we would be restricted to certain areas along the parade route, a change from previous years where media crews were free to mingle among the marchers. The casual observer might wonder what difference it makes whether journalists are with the marchers or

one not. If we had just interviewed the organizers and stayed out of the march, the story would have been about a division in the community. But by talking to people in the march, we could tease out the complexities of the story. Every person there chose to be in one of the two marches for their own particular reasons, some unrelated to the politics at play. Participants in this year’s unprecedented Pride parade similarly brought their own reasons and stories to Yonge Street, both in celebration and in protest. One group marched the length of the parade route objecting to the corporatization of Pride. Another carried signs that said “#NotJustTrojans,” demonstrating against Pride’s exclusive contract with just one condom brand. Some of these stories were predictable, others unexpected. We didn’t know which stories we’d ﬁnd out there that weekend. But we did know that anything can, and does, happen during a six-hour parade. That’s why I found myself calling Pride Toronto’s public relations team, and news desks around the city, while on a College streetcar headed east to our office just hours before the parade, trying to piece together the parameters and rationale for the media restrictions. Our concerns would turn out to be for naught. The restrictions were inconsistently enforced at best, a fact that became clear as I walked up and down the length of the route, interviewing people and snapping photos the whole way. But questioning the restrictions so that we could record your stories is part of Xtra’s commitment to connecting with the communities we’re here to serve. We want to hear your expressions of pride, protest and celebration, however complicated and messy they may be. We don’t want to stand behind a designated media gate and wait for your stories to come to us. We want to immerse ourselves in your pride.

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focusing on the more political groups. It provides them with an opportunity to promote their message or mission (whether or not you agree with it). Plus, it rightly underlines that Pride isn’t just a party, but an opportunity to talk about issues. GILLES MARCHILDON DAILYXTRA.COM

It's always nice to see a cross-section of average people representing the gay community marching in these parades — along with their parents! But what was needed was much more spectacle, especially considering this was WorldPride! KEVIN BROWN DAILYXTRA.COM

Supermarket cruising I think it’s good if young gay men cruise each other while shopping at the Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens [“Cleanup, Aisle Two,” dailyxtra.com, July 4]. Loblaws is certainly a more welcoming, positive environment than other establishments on Church Street. For example, at Loblaws a young gay man is less likely to experience the soul-destroying depression that one gets by entering a dingy, dilapidated bar on Church Street. BRENT S DAILYXTRA.COM

Rob Ford’s new line Ford’s answer to everything now is that drugs and alcohol made him do it, and we’re supposed to believe and accept that [“Rob Ford Blames Homophobic Comments on Alcohol,

Rob Ford is going to try everything within his power to portray an image of meekness and affliction, right up to the election day. I couldn’t possibly say anything more succinctly or sternly eloquent than how the “shirtless jogger” put it. Rob Ford is a liar, a misogynist and a homophobe. We can forgive and even wish him well, but the man has no place in a leadership role. If he had an ounce of humility, he would step down now. JOHN IN TO DAILYXTRA.COM

I can’t speak for everyone in the gay community, but I know I would prefer he never showed up for any celebrations. DONNA SPERRY (FACEBOOK) HALIFAX, NS

Asexuality at Pride Part of me wants to ask why this was even a question [“Asexuality Conference Belongs at WorldPride, Says Organizer,” dailyxtra.com, June 27]. But the rest of me balks at the word “belongs.” There’s that sense of ownership or disownership, again. That’s the problem with colonial or umbrella-style activism: we either have to belong or we have to go away because we don’t belong. And if we do belong, then someone else gets to deﬁne us and tell us what we need. Trans people have seen this for decades. Don’t get me wrong: I believe in solidarity. But solidarity doesn’t require a mainstreaming of purpose or to have homogenous activism. Solidarity ideally recognizes that we are standing in unison with unique individuals who are not necessarily identical to us, but who we recognize common cause with and choose to support, anyway. Why is this such a tall order? It’s not like LGB activism is ﬁghting from behind and can’t afford to have anything more to be concerned about. MERCEDES ALLEN DAILYXTRA.COM

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Toronto city councillors march in the WorldPride parade along Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. QMI AGENCY/ERNEST DOROSZUK

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With more than 12,000 marchers and 300 ﬂoats, Toronto’s WorldPride parade lasted almost six hours June 29 — double the length and size of last year’s event. But despite the length, the heat and the humidity, spirits remained high throughout most of the parade, with both local and international contingents marching, dancing and, on a few occasions, roller-skating down Yonge Street. Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow, who has marched in the Pride parade for more than 30 years, told Xtra that it was the largest she has ever seen. MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM

“It’s amazing the number of people here,” she said, as people yelled greetings at her from the crowd. “It’s just phenomenal.” Likewise, fellow candidate John Tory was thrilled with the turnout. “It’s a celebration of how far we’ve come in Canada,” he said. Missing was Mayor Rob Ford, who returned to the job June 30 after a twomonth stint in rehab. Attending in his stead were at least two Rob Ford imitators who happily high-fived the crowd. “It was rained out at the cottage, so I thought I would pick this year to make it, finally,” quipped one. Thomas Mulcair, leader of the federal official Opposition, got into the spirit of the event with a giant NDP float where volunteers led chants of “Get down with

the NDP — sexy and progressive.” Though Justin Trudeau, leader of the federal Liberal party, had advertised on Grindr that he would be marching in the parade, he reportedly left to attend another engagement after greeting marchers in the staging area on Bloor Street. Newly elected Ontario Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne, however, the ﬁrst openly gay premier to be elected in Canada, did march in the parade, to applause from the crowd. While Pride has become a campaign stop for some politicians, there were many other political statements made during the march. One group walked the length of the route with a large banner decrying the corporatization of the event. Abuzar Chaudhary, one of the banner bearers, objected to Pride

Toronto “co-opting our communities.” The AIDS Committee of Durham Region (ACDR) continued its protest against Pride Toronto’s exclusive sponsorship agreement with Trojan brand condoms. Mark Hammann, the group’s manager of education services, helped organize the protest after Trojan did not respond to requests to supply his organization with condoms to distribute at the parade. Trojan did eventually provide 3,000 sanctioned condoms for ACDR to give out — all of which were gone before the group hit College Street, Hammann said. He said he finds it unethical to restrict condom distribution to just one brand at Pride. Some political statements were acts of presence and visibility. “There are

lots of bisexuals who don’t know that we are out there,” said Julie Bowring, who marched with the Toronto Bisexual Network. She wants other bisexual people to know that support exists for them in Toronto. Other statements were acts of love: Inspector Barbara McLean, of the Toronto Police Service, marched in the parade holding her partner’s hand. “I couldn’t feel better,” she said of WorldPride. Despite an announcement late June 28 that media would have only restricted access to the parade route and its marchers, many reporters were able to interview the participants and move freely among them. As a result, Xtra reporters were able to meet people like Lexus Jade. Originally from the Caribbean, Jade now lives in Edmonton and travelled here for WorldPride. Dressed as an angel, she said she and the group she was with wanted to spread a simple message: “Pride is for all of us.” To cap off the day, a rainbow appeared in the sky above Toronto after a brief rain shower soaked the postparade celebration, prompting a ﬂurry of appreciative Instagram photos and Twitter posts. XTRA! JULY 10–23, 2014 9

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True to its roots Thousands turn out in 30-degree heat for Dyke March JULIE CRUIKSHANK

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Crowds lined Yonge Street June 27 in a public display of support for trans people, despite fears of divisions within the community. Two separate trans marches were scheduled to begin at the same time and follow much of the same route down Yonge Street. Organizers of Trans March Toronto, who chose to remain unaffiliated with WorldPride over concerns of commercialization, began their march at George Hislop Park, while the official Trans* Pride March started on Church Street before heading over to the main thoroughfare. (The asterisk indicates that “trans” is an umbrella term referring to all identities within the gender-identity spectrum.) Before the events got underway, people milled between the meeting points for the two marches, some unsure of where they were supposed to start. Others, like Alex Abramovich, one of the honoured individuals at the Trans* Pride March, expressed discomfort with the marches being divided. “There is so much controversy about the two marches,” Abramovich said. “So it’s kind of hard as the person who is grand marshal to get involved in those politics.” In the end, both marches, each with its own police escort, moved along Yonge 10 JULY 10–23, 2014 XTRA!

Street safely, while large crowds cheered them on for long stretches of the route. Trans March Toronto led the way, a decision that Trans* Pride team leader Christin Milloy said was made out of respect. “We respect everyone’s right to march,” she said. “I think it’s fantastic we have two trans marches.” Nicki Ward, the organizer of Trans March Toronto, was happy that the march was a safe and positive experience. She feels the trans community should march when it needs to, regardless of who approves it. “Trans March belongs to trans people ﬁrst, last and always,” she said. Kevin Beaulieu, the executive director of Pride Toronto, said that ideally, everyone would march together. But he was happy with how smoothly the event went. “The energy is wonderful,” he said. While official Trans* Pride March attendance numbers are not yet available, many participants said they thought this was one of the biggest ever in Toronto. “The growth is just unbelievable,” Milloy said. “It is really great to see all these people marching in solidarity, ﬁghting for the same thing.” For Monica Forrester, another honoured individual at the Trans* Pride March, the marches were an opportunity for trans people to be visible. “It’s a way of showing society that we exist,” she said.

Thousands of women made their way west on Carlton Street from Allan Gardens, then north up Yonge Street for Toronto’s Dyke March June 28, which ended with a rally in George Hislop Park. The route was almost the exact opposite of what it has been in previous years, a change team lead Laura Krahn said was made to reinforce the march’s political and grassroots origins. Groups marching this year included the Ontario Rainbow Alliance of the Deaf, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands, and the Toronto Fierce Femmes, who were this year’s honoured group. Political supporters, including Vancouver East MP Libby Davies, Toronto Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow were also in attendance to show their support for the women’s community.

“It’s absolutely wonderful to be in a space with all these powerful women,” Chow said. “Yet still, the transgender and transsexual folks have not had their bill pass the Senate, and so there is still work to do.” Sally Salvaterra has been part of the Trans March in the past, but this was her ﬁrst year joining the Dyke March. “It’s important for the trans people to be more represented and depicted. That way our presence becomes more normalized,” she said. “We become much more accepted.” Body positivity continues to be an important part of the Dyke March, with women of all shapes and sizes celebrating and embracing their differences. For Lauryn Kronick, who marched topless, it was an opportunity to assert the importance of women having autonomy over their bodies. “It’s a way to kind of say, ‘Fuck you’ to cisgendered men who take your photos without consent,” she said.

“I think body positivity is something that is celebrated by any person of any ability, and it’s just really liberating to be topless or even naked if you want to in the streets.” Many people brought their children to the march, including Gabi Trujillo and Inessa Petersen, who brought their four-month-old son, Gabriel, to the rally in Allan Gardens. “We always do the Dyke March,” Petersen said. “It’s important for us to be at Pride with our son because it’s important for him to know that we’re not the only family — he’s not the only one with two moms. “We’re really lucky to be able to be a lesbian couple and have a child and to have support for that,” she said. As the march wound its way through the streets, many women chanted slogans that included “Pride is not enough” and “Let’s get critical; our Pride is political,” reinforcing the grassroots spirit of the march. “Sure, we have things to celebrate,” performer Natalie Nox said, “but we are political. This is a political space — we take the streets, we reclaim them as ours, and that’s why we march.”

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Pride bars men’s group from parade CAFE told its work may ‘contravene spirit of Pride’ HG WATSON

Just days before the WorldPride parade, organizers revoked the permit of a local men’s rights group to march because, they said, the group’s work may “contravene the spirit of the mission, vision, and values of Pride Toronto and WorldPride.” Pride Toronto notiﬁed the Canadian Association for Equality (CAFE) of its decision by letter the week of June 24. CAFE, whose website says that the organization is committed to achieving equality for all Canadians, has been associated with several controversial events over the last two years. In 2013, the group brought American men’s rights speaker and author Warren Farrell to the University of Toronto for a lecture. Farrell is the author of The Myth of Male Power and Why Men Earn More. The group was also forced to cancel a concert celebrating a holiday dubbed “Equality Day” that was supposed to take place on the Toronto Islands, at Gibraltar Point, on June 1. Artscape, which owns the space at Gibraltar Point, was unaware

of CAFE’s controversial connections until furor over the concert was raised on social media, according to a report in the Toronto Star. Artscape officials asked the group to hold their event elsewhere. Kevin Beaulieu, the executive director of Pride Toronto, told Xtra that concerns about CAFE’s activities were raised in the lead-up to the parade. “A decision had to be made quickly in the interest of the comfort and safety and ability of groups to participate in the parade,” he said. Pride Toronto sparked outrage in 2010 when it attempted to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from marching in the parade. Though the group’s presence remains controversial to some, Pride Toronto eventually relented after furious community members pointed out the fallacy of censoring even unwelcome views in a parade founded on free expression. Eleanor Levine, a CAFE board member and spokesperson, said it’s been misrepresented as an organization that hates women. “We are not anti-women,” she said. “We are absolutely inclusive.” Despite the loss of its permit to march,

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CAFE members posted images on Twitter of themselves marching in the Pride parade with the Sherbourne Health Centre June 29. TWITTER

CAFE members slipped into the parade with the Sherbourne Health Centre, which, according to its director of human resources, was unaware of the group’s affiliation with the men’s rights movement. “Had we had time to conduct

any background research, we would have politely declined their request to join us,” Graeme Imrie said. For more on this story, go to dailyxtra.com.

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Tegan and Sara close WorldPride It couldn’t have been more appropriate: WorldPride 2014 in Toronto ended with a huge rainbow. The clouds opened at Yonge-Dundas Square during the closing ceremonies June 29, drenching revellers but failing to dampen their spirits. After the downpour a rainbow appeared, arcing over the square where thousands had gathered to celebrate the ﬁnal day of WorldPride. The 10-day festival wrapped up with a huge outdoor concert that featured performers Cece Peniston, Robin S, Rich Aucoin and Tegan and Sara, who closed off the celebrations with a high-energy set that included their Juno-winning hit “Closer.” As the festivities got underway, the Pride parade was still marching by on Yonge Street, well into its fourth of six hours. When the crowds later poured out of Yonge-Dundas Square to enjoy the late-night festivities and prolong the end of WorldPride for a few more hours, a lone protester stood sullenly, holding a Bible-themed sign and appearing to miss the point spectacularly. — Julie Cruikshank

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Face to face with Kathleen Wynne Xtra sits down with Canada’s first elected gay premier POLITICS MARGARET WEBB

Midway through WorldPride celebrations, on Tuesday, June 24, Kathleen Wynne, the first openly gay person elected head of government in Canada, was sworn in as premier of Ontario. In the days following, she made appearances at a number of WorldPride events: The 519’s Starry Night on Thursday, the Pride and Remembrance run on Saturday morning (she did the five kilometres in 31 minutes, 26 seconds) and the parade on Sunday afternoon. In the midst of it all, she took time to sit down with Xtra. Here are some excerpts from that interview. Xtra: First female premier of Ontario, first openly gay premier in Canada, and first openly gay head of state in the entire Commonwealth. This seems to me like an LGBT Obama moment. How do you feel about that? Kathleen Wynne: Well, I’m excited about it. It’s hard, when you’re in it, to think that its impact will be as broad as it probably will be. But I know from the last 16 months having been in this role that there are so many girls and parents who are looking at me and feeling good because it changes the view that they have of what their daughters can do, and for the kids, it changes their view of what’s possible. And that’s a wonderful thing.

Canada’s first elected gay premier doesn’t think she would be leading Ontario’s government today had she not come out and been true to herself.

We both came out in 1991, which was the same year that a seminal Canadian film called Thank God I’m a Lesbian came out. You’re a member of the United Church, I understand. Do you thank God you’re a lesbian?

I do. I thank God that I am who I am. I feel blessed to have had the particular set of circumstances that have led me to be in this office. I believe that coming out helped me to tap into who I really am. There’s a spirituality attached to that, and I’m quite sure that had I not come out, I wouldn’t be the premier of Ontario, because I wouldn’t have been able to tap into my whole being. So I thank God for the opportunity to be who I am. Symbolic gestures: so much of politics seems to be about those little important gestures. With you and Jane on the

campaign trail, how much discussion did you have around how you were going to present your relationship?

Well, we didn’t have much discussion because we’ve been at it quite a long time, so there are norms that we’ve just established. It’s interesting: I was asked about election night and — there was a hug and not a kiss, right? And that was a hard question because I was being asked, “Why not a kiss?” and I have to say that I am who I am. I try not to be defined by those — either public displays of affection or not, whatever particular comfort level Jane and I have with being in public and recognizing that the people that I’m with and that I’m interacting with have a certain comfort level, too. I want everybody to feel that they can interact with me, that there isn’t a barrier, that

we’re not excluding, you know? So we are as affectionate as we choose to be in public, and our relationship is very strong. She was with me every single day on the campaign, and that was a very clear message to people about who we are as a family. We have a publicly funded [Catholic] school board that doesn’t recognize your relationship or your family. How do we move forward on this?

Very intentionally. I have had meetings with the cardinal, before he was the cardinal, because I was minister of education at that time, and he came in and met with me, and I know that there are challenges still. And it’s one of the things that worries me. But it’s also one of the things that we have to accept and we have to push on. I think it’s very good that the Ontario

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English Catholic Teachers Association is going to be marching in the Pride parade, despite criticism on that. I think it’s very important that teachers see themselves reﬂected in their organizations and in our curriculum. So I have been very clear, and our minister of education is very clear, that our equity policies and our legislation that’s in place applies to everyone. So the right for kids to form gay-straight alliances at schools — it’s absolute. We now have to push that and make sure that those schools and those school boards are safe, not just for the kids, but for the adults, and not just for the teachers, but for the parents and for all of the people who are associated with them. Watch the full interview on dailyxtra.com.

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The rich, and sexually confusing, traditions of Japanese theatre HISTORY BOYS MICHAEL LYONS

In his book Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan, author Gary Leupp describes a scene from the 1742 kabuki play Narukami Fudo Kitayama Zakura. Danjiro, a rakish ronin — a class of masterless samurai — seeks an audience with a lord. While waiting, he is attended by Hidetaro, a beautiful adolescent who offers him tobacco. They discuss Hidetaro’s martial training and Danjiro, complimenting the youth’s beauty, offers to teach the boy horseback riding; he accepts enthusiastically. The ronin squeezes Hidetaro between his thighs, explaining, “Press tightly against the flanks of your mount, thus,” and continues to suggestively simulate good riding technique. A kiss is rebuked, Hidetaro flees, Danjiro laughs and glibly apologizes to the audience for his “shameful” behaviour. When a woman arrives with tea, Danjiro assaults her with innuendo, playing on slang where “tea” refers to sex with a prostitute. She exits in disgust, and Danjiro turns to the audience, lamenting, “That’s two cups of tea I’ve been denied!” Japan has a long, rich history of homosexuality or, more often, bisexuality, usually with strong pederastic leanings. Hierarchical elder-youth relationships were common in monasteries, between samurai and their apprentices, or among the middle class and sex workers. The misadventures of Danjiro typify the delightful sexual perversity of the kabuki stage, all the more titillating because, no matter what combination of partners, all the roles were played by men. Ironically, kabuki — the written characters that make up the word individually mean “song,” “dance” and “skill” — was founded by Izumo no Okuni, a minor Shinto priestess. She was sent from Izumo to Kyoto to perform sacred dances and songs as a means of soliciting donations. Known for her great beauty and sensuous dancing, Okuni started performing on the dry riverbeds of Kyoto around 1603; she attracted a following of female misfits and prostitutes, to whom she taught her craft. These first actors of kabuki

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played both the male and female roles in erotic skits, and they also often sold themselves after performances. This art form became popular in red-light districts, with brothels picking up talented prostitutes and forming allfemale troupes, which became known as onnakabuki. All-male troupes were also popular, especially youth troupes, known as wakashū-kabuki; their actors were just as likely to double as prostitutes. This was at the beginning of the Edo period, during which the Tokugawa shogunate ruled. The military dictatorship’s means of controlling the people was a rigid class system with limited opportunities for social climbing. The shoguns didn’t like the mixture of classes at the popular kabuki performances, from farmers to samurai to royalty, so they banned women from kabuki in 1629, giving rise to the onnagata. Onnagata, Japanese for “womanform,” were heavily made up and intricately dressed male kabuki actors who played all the female roles, speaking in falsetto. Much like drag as we know it today, onnagata represented an impossible fantasy of femininity. The shoguns’ ban did little to stop the thirst of the masses for kabuki performances and their patronage of the

“female” stars. What was between the legs of the performers meant little to the audiences — if anything, androgyny and gender confusion simply provided further titillation — and onnagata were often rented out to clamouring male and female clientele. Onnagata were banned in 1642, replaced by wakashū, adolescent male roles often played by youths, and these were eventually banned as well. The bans on onnagata and wakashū roles were eventually lifted, in 1644 and 1652 respectively, on the condition that actors had to take pains to make themselves less attractive, but this did little to dispel the erotic power of the onnagata. A number of images from kabuki’s heyday depict the infinite erotic combinations the form could afford. A print by 18th-century artist Suzuki Harunobu, for example, shows a man who finds his mistress in bed with an onnagata. Is he filled with murderous anger or disgust? Nope: he climbs into bed with him, fucking the woman while masturbating the other man. Social climbing may have been unheard of in Tokugawa Japan, but kabuki theatre shows how different classes always find ways to come together. History Boys appears in every issue of Xtra. TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS

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HOMEMADE HUMPING Phil, from across the office. Katie, who lives next door. Michael, your friend. There are people in all our lives whom we’d love to see on video, naked and acting out their dirty fantasies. And Dan Savage is making it happen. In 2005, the syndicated columnist and co-creator of the It Gets Better Project challenged his Paciﬁc Northwest readers to “get their hands dirty” creating homemade porn. Seeing friends, colleagues and neighbours in amateur porn really struck a chord with people (the dirty beasts!) and the subsequent sold-out audiences resulted in the creation of the annual Hump! festival. With few limits placed on the submissions, the Hump! festival prides itself on representing a wide range of interests, involving people of various orientations and gender identities. Savage says it’s not just an “amateur porn festival,” but a “celebration of sexual diversity.” Nearly a decade after its inception, Savage’s annual mélange of smut is about to hit the road as the Hump! tour. MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM

Entrants submit five-minute shorts for a chance to win cash prizes. The inaugural tour, which will soon arrive in Vancouver and Toronto, comprises 20 of Savage’s favourites from the recent crop of submissions, as well as some audience picks from over the years. The Hump! tour provides a rare opportunity for people to broaden their porn horizons. “It’s rare for people to watch porn that takes them outside their comfort zones; it’s rare for people to watch porn that, if they were home alone in front of the computer, they wouldn’t choose to click and watch,” Savage says. “At Hump! straight people watch gay porn, vanilla people watch kinky porn, gay people watch lesbian porn. And people laugh, they gasp, sometimes they cover their eyes. But at the end of every ﬁlm, people clap and cheer.” — Jeremy Willard The Hump! tour is Sat, July 12, 7pm and 9pm, at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor St W. humptour.com

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PUTIN ON THE RITZ The Winter Olympics in Sochi was a creepy affair. The pomp and glitz of an international sports event didn’t change, and certainly didn’t obscure, how cruelly that country treats its queer people, but rather created a sleazy effect; you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. But at least a lipstick-wearin’ pig would be cuter than Putin and his country’s laws. Wrong Note Rusty drew inspiration from the Sochi Olympics for Putin on the Ritz, an act he is performing at the upcoming Toronto Burlesque Festival. “The Olympics tried to dress up and put spit polish on a lot of really awful shit,” Rusty says. “I’m a big fan of visual puns, and the idea [of the act] is to really take the piss out of this really dark and serious thing and show how creepy it is.” Decked out in top hat, tails, white gloves and a Vladimir Putin mask, Rusty wafts onto the stage and prances about to the foppish strains of Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the

Ritz,” gradually stripping down to just his hat, socks and mask. His act juxtaposes the vile — Putin’s face — with the glamorous — a frothy classic tune — to create a surreal atmosphere that mirrors that of the Sochi Olympics. However, unlike the Olympics, Rusty’s act has a payoff: he’s dead sexy and his performance concludes with a delicious helping of his breathtakingly smooth ass. The festival includes everything from Rusty’s brand of political commentary to acrobatic stripping to humour. Attendees will also ﬁnd queer content in performances by Dew Lily, Belle Jumelles, Johnny B Goode, Alexander Mansﬁeld, Percy Katt and Obskyura. — Jeremy Willard

Wrong Note Rusty strips down at the Burlesque Festival. RUTH GILLSON

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Xtra raises a glass to our favourite sexagenarian COVER STORY JP LAROCQUE

As Patricia Wilson hands me a drink, I pause to take in the space around us. An otherwise straightforward one-bedroom in the heart of the Church-Wellesley Village, Wilson’s apartment is designed with an eye to the nurturing but tough-as-nails persona for which she is famous. “Be careful. I make them stronger than at the bar,” she warns. Towering piles of art books, Marshall amplifiers and other hard-rock artifacts sit alongside rubberized dog toys and a blossoming summer patio where Wilson and her partner enjoy their meals. The juxtaposition between these elements could be jarring, but here it all makes perfect sense. Reclining in an Adirondack chair, she stops midway through a particularly salty tale to call attention to a falcon on the horizon. This is her personal oasis, cobbled together from the disparate influences that make her whole. Whether serving up drinks to partygoers as bar manager at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre or as the lead guitarist in her band, Crackpuppy, Wilson has been a visible presence in Toronto’s LGBT community for well over two decades. Her unapologetic, no-nonsense attitude makes her an easy punk role model, with a middle finger aimed firmly at authority and with any number of stories about alcohol-fuelled benders in many of the city’s most famous rock clubs. Still, beneath the tough exterior lies a benevolence that is incredibly disarming. A selfdescribed spiritual person, she refers to the young Buddies patrons as her “queer kids” and spends a good portion of our time together petting her black Labrador retriever and making jokes about her 60th birthday. “I never thought I’d make fucking 60,” she explains. “Seriously, I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ll be behind the fucking bar at Buddies with an oxygen tank and a fucking walker, ’cause there ain’t no way I get to retire.” The birthday milestone has given Wilson a chance to reflect on her life. And as she opens up about her journey, it is clear that both spiritual and musical components have always been at play — even if their origins are somewhat surprising. She takes a certain pleasure in revealing that growing up in Windsor, she and her siblings MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM

were encouraged to study classical piano at the nearby Ursuline School of Music, a Roman Catholic conservatory. “All the kids in the family took piano lessons. I think I started playing in Grade 2. You’d go to the convent and play with the nuns. It’s true! Some of us went further — my sister’s a very good visual artist. But she still loves her piano.” The time at the conservatory had a huge impact on Wilson’s development as both an individual and a musician. Still, she isn’t shy in noting the important inﬂuence of Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg, William S Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac. In fact, it was in the aftermath of the Beats — and during the burgeoning counterculture of the late 1960s — that Wilson ﬁrst began experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs. She considers the experience to be revelatory and quit school at 16 to move into what she describes as a “hippie-rock place.” She remembers getting to a point where she was doing LSD daily. “[LSD] is the best drug I’ve ever done in my life. It changed my life. It made me realize how much more we are as human beings . . . Mind you, I was done [with it] by the time I was 19 because it kept giving me the same message. But it made me realize what was important to me.” While the message had a lot to do with Wilson’s evolution as a musician, a central part of it was also an awareness of her identity — something that she had struggled with throughout her young life. And although she acknowledges that gender was inextricably linked to that personal journey, she is hesitant to make her experience be entirely about her transition or transsexuality.

“I mean, maybe I’m just a tranny redneck. It was then that Buddies changed her life. Maybe I don’t like new things. I don’t know. Hired directly from Windsor, Wilson joined the But I’m exactly who I am now as when I was theatre company as a publicist at the George 16 years old. I was at the Clarke [Institute of Street location. She felt an immediate investPsychiatry] shortly after they opened [in 1966]. ment in the organization’s mandate. I had already known at that point that I was — I “Buddies is very important to me because it’s don’t think they called it ‘transsexual’ back then. about the kids and the art. I’ve always felt really They called it ‘fucking deviance.’ But I already strongly that we get to save lives because there knew I was a deviant.” are so many kids that don’t get to have a queer Wilson is careful not to experience. They get beat up at the breakfast minimize the importance table over their Wheaties because they’re too of her surgery or the role queer for their dads or their brothers. And I feel that it played in saving that we’re a refuge for them.” her life two decades ago. And she feels a special kinship for queer Still, she wishes more emyouth who are targeted because of their phasis would be placed on differences. self-discovery and provid“I always make sure that the kids I know ing young trans people who can’t walk down the street without getwith the opportunity to ting second looks or getting bashed — those understand themselves are the ones that I take care of. My queer kids. fully before submitting That what I call them. My fucking queer kids.” to the pressures and exSo what’s next? Wilson is currently performpectations of mainstream ing and recording new material with Crackculture. puppy. The band, which Wilson co-founded “I think it’s important to with Drew Rowsome back in 2003, has a new be who you are, and learn lineup of musicians and a different sound. And who you are first. If you after two successful performances at Worlddon’t, then you have to Pride (including one in Yonge-Dundas Square go through the fact that alongside The Cliks and Against Me!), the band you’re ﬁghting two monwill be playing the Spread Eagle event at the sters,” she says. “You’re Black Eagle later this month. fighting the monster of “We now have [guitar player] Mark Crossley, self-awareness and the [drummer] Cathy Marchese, Drew and myself. monster of trans at the So the sound is completely different. I would say same time, and that means we’re closer to punk than we were before. More both of them are going to metal; maybe compare it to Ozzy Osbourne. That suffer.” kind of thing.” After years As she leans back in her Adironof shuffling bedack and stares out over the horiCRACKPUPPY tween Windsor zon, I ask if she has any thoughts on PLAYS SPREAD EAGLE and Detroit in the significance of her upcoming Sun, July 20, 8pm the early 1970s, birthday. The Black Eagle Wilson finally “I mean the fact that I’m playing 457 Church St took the famed music with the band that I’m in now crackpuppy.net Route 66 across and jumping around . . . I’m thankthe United States in 1976, travelling ful, but age doesn’t really matter. with a group of musicians she jokingly refers It really doesn’t.” to as “very, very bad people with no morals at She pauses. all.” Settling in Los Angeles, she became ﬁrmly “I mean, I suppose the good thing about being entrenched in the rock music scene before 60 is that if I ever wanted to take the subway eventually moving back to Windsor to become I can get a discount because I’m old. That’s a an arts administrator in the early 1990s. good thing, I guess.”

I MEAN, MAYBE I’M JUST A TRANNY REDNECK. MAYBE I DON’T LIKE NEW THINGS. I DON’T KNOW. BUT I’M EXACTLY WHO I AM NOW AS WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD.

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Showing our Pride An epic week such as WorldPride produces epic moments, and we wanted to commemorate some of them with the collection of images on the following pages. It was extremely difficult to choose from the thousands of pictures taken by these talented photographers — for many more that we could not include, go to dailyxtra.com and check out our WorldPride slideshows. PHOTOS BY ADAM COISH N MAXWELL LANDER ALEJANDRO SANTIAGO TANJA-TIZIANA SPENCER XIONG

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Love is love PHOTOS BY ADAM COISH INTERVIEWS BY JULIE CRUIKSHANK

To ring in WorldPride, more than 100 couples converged on Casa Loma June 26 for a mass same-sex wedding held by the City of Toronto. Many of them were Toronto residents who jumped at the chance to be part of the historic event and get hitched at Casa Loma. Others had travelled from around the globe for the opportunity to marry, particularly if they couldn’t do so legally at home.

N Couples of all ages took advantage of the opportunity to get married, from those whose relationships have stood the test of time . . .

NJohn Freeman and Mark Sloan were affected by the diversity of those who took part. “Everybody coming together; all the religions coming together. It was very nice,” Sloan said. “We’ve been together for 20 years, and we always sort of felt that was enough,” Freeman said. “And yet, as we started planning to be here, it got to be so much more than that. There was a crowd doing the same thing, but at the moment we gave our vows, it was just the two of us.” 22 JULY 10–23, 2014 XTRA!

N Dana Willams and Jennifer Blavignac, together for a year, decided they couldn’t pass up the opportunity to marry in a way that would send a strong message to the international community. “That’s, I think, part of the reason that we decided to get married maybe sooner than we were planning, because it is important.” AN XTRA SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT

N Michael Demers and Jordan Henry hail from Michigan, where same-sex marriage is not yet legal. They came to Toronto to marry after waiting more than eight years. “I’m just excited to be a part of it,” Demers said. “I’m happy that we get to get married along with a bunch of other people and just show that, you know, love is love.” TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS

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. . . to younger couples just beginning their lives together.

E Richard Leslett and Colin Gunther always wanted to marry but couldn’t at home in Australia. “We’re very happy to do it here,” Gunther said. “Moreso in Toronto because it’s just an open and free society. We thought Australia was, but coming here and seeing this was just — it was mind-blowing.”

N Dana Murphy and Shannon St Germaine met at a Halloween party and got engaged almost right away. “Short engagement, but deﬁnitely the one,” Murphy says. The pair say they hope their marriage will bring good ﬁghts and good makeups, and they plan on having children within a few years. “With everything you’ve been through in the past, when you meet that one person and you get that feeling, you know you never want to let them go.” MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM

N Mae and Michelle Brand have been married for three years. Theirs is the classic story of a couple who met, hated each other, then fell in love. “I thought she was a snob; she thought I was a snob. Secretly, we loved each other.” They had originally planned to marry in Las Vegas with their friends and family but lost a close friend the day before the ceremony. Instead, they married at city hall. “Then when this came up, we thought this would be a really fancy way to get all dressed up and make it special.”

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