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Comment Who’s queer now?

EDITORIAL ROBIN PERELLE

I know they’re vocal, I know they’re angry, and I believe they’re a minority, though I can’t say how large or small.

They are the men who consistently challenge the word “queer� on our website, dailyxtra.com, and who often anger other readers with their vehement resistance.

They might easily be written off as cranky old men, as dinosaurs left behind by the evolution of our own community.

But when did we decide to leave some of our own members behind, particularly the ones who feel abandoned?

About the same time that I noticed the recurring thread of discontent in the comments section of our website, Reg Manning began questioning Pride here, albeit less toxically. He may be a cranky old drag queen, but the Manning I ďŹ nally met in person May 25 was completely willing to sacriďŹ ce a Sunday afternoon to take part in a warm and open discussion of our community’s differences, the words we use to identify ourselves, and why they matter.

The afternoon’s energy took me by surprise. When Xtra columnist Kevin Dale McKeown and I invited about 20 friends and strangers to contemplate community and listen to each other’s

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our community. We didn’t erase the generational and cultural gaps that are perhaps inevitably emerging as our movement evolves. But we truly listened to each other and emerged, I think, with new appreciation for each perspectives, I didn’t have the highest other’s perspectives.

I don’t have a deep commitment hopes. Having witnessed (and moderated) the vitriol online, I expected to any particular term myself. I used something less than a friendly and sup- “queer� as a baby dyke in the late 1990s, portive discussion. I couldn’t have been then shifted to “gay� when I joined Xtra in 2001, then warily tried on “bi� a few more wrong.

I didn’t initially put much stock in years ago when my life took an unexChief Al Houston’s welcome. It’s nice to pected but equally beautiful swerve. see a community that still cares enough Regardless, I don’t have a visceral opto get together and talk, he said. In his position to “queer.� But some members culture, friendship is founded on discus- of our community do. “Are they feeling left out?� Paul sion, on hearing each other with open hearts and open minds and welcom- Therien wondered with me after the ing each other’s words “with a warm discussion dispersed. “Or are they refusing to engage with change?� embrace.�

Either way, he said, the question Partway through the afternoon’s discussion, his words took on new should be “Why don’t they like ‘queer’?� meaning. As the members of each ta- Their views are worth hearing, as are ble shared their findings and others the views of those who embrace it. The younger generation listened attentively, may lack life expethen added their own WHO’S QUEER NOW? rience, he said, but views, a new underAn Xtra town hall on identity their views are no standing began to Wed, June 18, 6:30–8pm less valid. grow. More than an Fountainhead Pub, 1025 Davie St No matter what understanding — a Can’t make it in person?

Watch and participate in the town term or terms we ulwillingness to underhall live on dailyxtra.com timately embrace as stand each other; a a community, I think desire, even.

As participant Jen Sung observed, a real discussion — where we stop disour community is quick to call each missing each other and instead dare to other out in anger, and possibly in fear. listen — is overdue.

I hope you’ll join me June 18 for Xtra’s But this gathering felt more like calling town hall on the words we use as a comeach other in.

We didn’t come to a startling conclu- munity and why they matter. I look sion about what to call ourselves or forward to seeing you, and hearing your views, there.

The outcome that we seek is this — gay and lesbian people daring together to set love free.

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FEEDBACK Gay bullies Excellent article. I didn’t expect to see something like this in Xtra [“Raging Homos,� Xtra #541, May 22]. Andrew Sullivan has also written about this.

I’m not sure I would call it bullying or fascism or the “gay mafiaâ€? (Alex Baldwin), but it is something. It’s partly political, too. When people became too leftwing, they (rather strangely) become rightwing. And there will be a backlash eventually. People will get tired of it. Even gay people will get tired of it. We can do this without shrieking and pointing ďŹ ngers at everyone.

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School-board bullies The choice of her words sort of sums it up [“Vancouver School Board’s Proposed Trans Policy Update Draws Fire,�

Xtra #541, May 22]. “Those people,� as said twice by Cheryl Chang in her submissions to the Vancouver School Board depersonalizes every trans student. An “us versus them� scenario. “Try being a Christian in this town,�

Robin Perelle is the managing editor of Xtra Vancouver. For more on the May 25 discussion, go to dailyxtra.com.

she said. Really? You’re feeling bullied? Do you know what bullying is?

Shame on you as both a parent and a supposed Christian.

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RCMP at Wreck Beach The ďŹ rst question that sprang to mind — okay, after will the cops be nude? — was will the police be using any type of visual recording devices on the beach [“Uniformed RCMP Officers to Visit Wreck Beach Almost Daily,â€? dailyxtra.com, May 12]? If so, what assurances on safety of the data? @WISERISEINFO (DAILYXTRA.COM)

Obviously there’s no more crime in Vancouver for police to deal with.

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So they have solved all those missing aboriginal women cases and other serious crimes and now can focus on a bunch of middle-aged guys frolicking on a beach just because a few miserable types complained.

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CORRECTION

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by Bigotry� [Xtra #540, May 8], we mistakenly identified Aaron “Bud� Jenkins in a photo. Here is a clearer photo, in which Jenkins sits in the centre.

Xtra regrets the error.

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When the rude or cruel thing is said — the lambasting, the gay bashing, the hate — I say, ‘Take it all out of my house!’

Those negative words climb into the woodwork and into the furniture, and the next thing you know they’ll be on my skin.

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OR SÉPARATISTE? The editors of French magazine Marianne adorned a recent cover with an array of penises to illustrate a survey about French people’s relationship with politics and sex.

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BC reevaluates HIV funding HIM stable, others lose staff and have to restructure HIV SHAUNA LEWIS

A lengthy reevaluation of HIV government funding in BC has solidified funding for the Health Initiative for Men (HIM), whose programs were found to effectively reach men who have sex with men, identified by the province as a key demographic meriting ongoing, targeted prevention.

Wayne Robert, executive director of HIM, says Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) put out a request for proposals under BC’s new HIV guidelines requiring all local organizations to submit their programming to new scrutiny based on specific criteria, such as peer support, caregiving and gay men’s sexual health services.

Robert says VCH deserves credit. The new guidelines specifically acknowledge that men who have sex with men continue to account for the majority of new HIV infections in BC. Including gay men’s sexual health services was a “complex issue” because of the many questions surrounding the effectiveness of drugs and prevention as cure, Robert says. But VCH got behind HIM’s mandate and continued to fund programs specifically for men who have sex with men, as long as they are proven to be effective.

HIM’s accessible testing clinics, community engagement and outreach were all found to be effective tools to diagnose gay men sooner and prevent HIV transmission. VCH renewed funding for HIM’s programs at $850,000 annually, which accounts for nearly 71 percent of the organization’s total annual budget.

Other organizations, such as AIDS Vancouver and Positive Living BC, were less successful in the reevaluations.

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I think they’ve done a good job of retuning the system.

WAYNE ROBERT, ED OF HEALTH INITIATIVE FOR MEN John Bishop, executive director of Positive Living BC, says his organization lost 10 percent of its funding and had to eliminate a staff position as a result of the government’s reevaluation of its HIV funding.

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funding from VCH and had to eliminate a staff position as a result.

“We took a small reduction in our allocation,” says executive director John Bishop, “but the lion’s share of the funding was contained.”

Brian Chittock, executive director of AIDS Vancouver, says his organization was “very successful” in the process, though staff cuts and program restructuring are now underway.

The new programming shifts the emphasis to prevention, something Chittock says VCH hasn’t previously funded for AIDS Vancouver.

“Young gay men in BC are still the number-one group of people becoming infected with HIV, so we’re trying to stop that from happening,” he says.

The reevaluation was an arduous process, Robert says, but he’s satisfied with the end result. “I think they’ve done a good job of retuning the system,” he says, referring to VCH. “There was a recognition that something had to change,” he says. “In the past, we were dealing with a lot of people who were extremely ill with late-stage AIDS. Now we’re looking at treatment as prevention, with an emphasis on testing and holistic health.”

Robert thinks the gay community has benefited overall from BC’s Seek and Treat for Optimal Prevention of HIV/ AIDS (STOP HIV/AIDS) campaign, from which the province’s new HIV funding strategy emerges.

“It’s targeted and tailored,” he says,

“and everyone can receive care, especially for the gay guys and what they need.”

Supporters of the $48-million STOP HIV/AIDS pilot program, launched in 2009, say it allows health professionals to diagnose HIV and treat people sooner through enhanced testing strategies and outreach, thereby reducing the risk of transmission.

The program was piloted in Vancouver and Prince George but expanded in April 2013 to include other regional health districts across the province.

Bishop says he is thrilled that the province’s new Hope to Health initiative will allow other regional health authorities to expand their HIV detection, prevention and education services and says “the philosophy behind the program is an absolutely great plus.”

But, he says, more cash should have been allocated to the program when it transitioned from a two-district program to provincewide. “The program was enlarged in scope, but the money wasn’t,” he explains.

A spokesperson for the BC Ministry of Health says funding to the program has not been cut and has even increased since pre-STOP levels.

“While some agencies may be receiving a decrease from what they received at the height of the pilot project funding,” Kristy Anderson says, “most have received a net increase from funding levels prior to the pilot. In fact, Vancouver Coastal has received a net increase of approximately $6 million for HIV.” Miranda Compton, manager of HIV/ AIDS Services at VCH, clarifies that the $6 million has been pooled between VCH and Providence Healthcare, which runs St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver’s West End, as they decided to merge their Hope to Health funding.

“Following the completion of the [STOP] pilot, and when we received the Hope to Health funding starting in 2013, we determined that rather than using the funding for strictly new strategies, we would redeploy all our HIV funding to the important initiatives that we now know will be most effective, and we did that with the full support of community agencies,” Compton says.

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Oasis managers resign Future of Davie Village lounge uncertain as allegations arise of late and unfair pay GAY SPACE MATTHEW DIMERA

Just two months after the Davie Village’s Oasis transitioned from a gay lounge to a restaurant and bar, its new management has left the building.

Now-former general manager Glen Calizon confirmed that he and his business partner, Brent Chow, are no longer managing Oasis but declined to answer questions when reached by phone May 27, citing an unspecified ongoing investigation.

Current and former Oasis employees had taken to airing their complaints on Facebook in recent weeks, alleging that many staff were not being paid properly or on time.

“I can honestly say I have never seen a work environment so poorly taken care of. Staff have left in droves since the newest reincarnation of this old establishment,” Guy Herrington wrote

in a May 24 Facebook post.

“I have personally witnessed missing pay, bounced checks, no check stubs (meaning the staff have no idea what they are getting paid per hour, how many hours they were paid for, deductions taken or holiday time banked),” he alleged.

Herrington and his partner, Jason Athen, both worked for Oasis before and after the new management took over the club. After their own negative experiences, and hearing complaints from fellow employees, the couple sought advice from a lawyer and from the BC Employment Standards Branch.

Since he went public on social media, Herrington says that Oasis owner Thuy Dinh has now addressed some of the complaints about missing pay but that other concerns remain unresolved.

In a May 7 interview, Calizon said Oasis was no longer financially feasible solely as a gay nightclub. He told Xtra

that after five years of trying to make a go of it, Dinh had been ready to sell Oasis on Craigslist before Calizon stepped in and suggested a way to salvage the business: make it “an all-inclusive establishment.”

Calizon said Oasis wasn’t abandoning the gay community; it was “just widening the net in terms of our target audience.”

When reached by phone on May 27, Dinh said she would call back later but has not yet returned Xtra’s call.

Vince Marino, co-owner of the PumpJack and Junction pubs on Davie, questions the idea that gay venues in Vancouver are no longer financially viable.

“We’ve never considered changing that, and we don’t see that ever happening. Everybody’s welcome, but we’ve always been a gay establishment.”

He credits some of that success to their support of the gay community.

“Our pubs are gay-owned and operated, and we’ve always been part of the community,” he says.

The Oasis lounge, which just two months ago tried to transition to a restaurant and bar, is one of a dwindling number of gay venues left in the Davie Village.

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Fountainhead manager Randy Newburg attributes his pub’s longevity partially to a combination of good hiring and its longstanding support of gay or-

ganizations, particularly the gay sports leagues. “They in turn come out and support us, and it makes for a more diverse crowd,” he says.

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St Paul’s repurposes AIDS ward St Paul’s Hospital’s Ward 10C, opened in 1997 at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Vancouver, will no longer serve as a dedicated AIDS ward. It is instead being repurposed to serve people living with the virus and related illnesses, the BC government announced May 27.

“It was not that long ago that HIV/ AIDS was a death sentence and those who came to this ward at St Paul’s were here to die,” says Dr Julio Montaner, director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS at St Paul’s.

At the epidemic’s peak, Montaner says, BC saw 650 to 700 cases per year.

Now, there are fewer than 50 new cases each year.

In the last five years, he says, Ward 10C has treated more HIV-positive people dealing with complications from living with the illness. “This is actually more and more a ward to address the longevity-related issues that emerge among people who are either affected or at risk for HIV,” Montaner explains. “Today, Ward 10C will provide treatment, support and care for those living with HIV-related issues.”

Part of the idea, he adds, is to further destigmatize HIV. John Bishop, chair of BC’s Positive Living Society, says the ward “will still be the home ward for people living with HIV and AIDS.” — Natasha Barsotti

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“Grand marshals inspire us with their courage, conviction and dedication,” the Vancouver Pride Society said May 30. “Each year, up to three outstanding individuals from the LGBTQ community are recognized and celebrated during Pride Week and lead our entries during the Pride parade.”

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Guess who has eyes for you How the government’s surveillance bill will invade your privacy MATTHEW DIMERA

E CAN EITHER STAND with us or with the child pornographers.”

With that infamous statement, former public safety minister Vic Toews sparked an inferno of public outrage in 2012 against the controversial Bill C-30, which ostensibly promised to protect children from internet predators.

Twelve months later, the Harper government dropped the bill after its first introduction to the House of Commons. Then-justice minister Rob Nicholson said it was dead and wouldn’t be coming back.

“We will not be proceeding with Bill C-30, and any attempts that we will continue to have to modernize the Criminal Code will not contain the measures contained in C-30,” he promised reporters in February 2013. “We’ve listened to the concerns of Canadians, who have been very clear on this.”

The Conservative government kept that promise for almost 10 months. In November 2013, Justice Minister Peter MacKay resurrected 10 JUNE 5–18, 2014 XTRA!

parts of Bill C-30 and slipped them into the newly packaged Bill C-13, this time under the auspices of combating cyberbullying. Opponents are concerned that these bills will allow the government to invade your privacy. The truth is, it’s been happening for years.

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he federal government asks Canadian telecommunications companies for private customer information an average of 1.2 million times a year, according to documents released in April by the federal privacy commissioner. Those numbers were obtained by the commissioner’s office in 2011 and represent the responses of nine telephone and internet companies that “represent a substantial proportion of Canada’s telecommunications customer connections.”

The nine companies provided their responses in aggregate through an intermediary law firm so that none of their answers could be attributed to any individual company.

From those 1.2 million requests, the telecoms handed over private customer information at least 784,756 times. The real number is likely higher, since only three of the nine companies

disclosed how many times they had complied with government requests. It’s also unknown how many of those requests were made without warrants.

In March, the House of Commons also learned that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) made 18,849 requests for customer data between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013. Of those, the majority were requests for “basic subscriber information,” and 99 percent of them were provided without warrants. That basic subscriber information includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, internet protocol addresses and local service providers.

Other information requested by the CBSA included geolocation (cellphone tower locations), call detail records (date/time of calls, calling number, called number, redirecting number, length of call), text message content, voicemails, cell tower logs, websites visited and personal identification info like dates of birth. In all but 13 of the cases, the individual customers were not notified that their information had been accessed.

The CBSA disclosure came after NDP MP Charmaine Borg made an official inquiry in Parliament as to how, why and how often federal agencies accessed Canadian telecom data.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) did not disclose how many requests their agencies had made. The RCMP said they were unable to answer because they don’t keep centralized records of the requests they make to telecoms. CSIS also declined to answer Borg’s questions.

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hen we use telephones, mobile phones, desktop computers, laptops, tablets or other computing devices, we leave behind a digital trail of metadata. Metadata is information about other information. It’s the data created by communications devices and telecom service providers.

In her paper “A Primer on Metadata: Separating Fact from Fiction,” Ontario’s privacy commissioner, Ann Cavoukian, explains the significance of these digital crumbs.

“Metadata includes information that reveals the time and duration of a communication, the particular devices, addresses, or numbers contacted, which kinds of communications services we use, and at what geolocations. And since virtually every device we use has a unique identifying number, our communications and internet activities may be linked and traced with relative ease — ultimately back to the individuals involved,” she writes.

Government officials in both Canada and the US have repeatedly defended the collection of this information as “only metadata.”

Their position is that while the content of emails or phone calls should be private, the rest is fair game.

But many experts argue that metadata is far more revealing than the actual content of our calls and emails. Even supposedly aggregate metadata isn’t that anonymous. A 2013 MIT study showed that only four time-and-location data points were needed to uniquely identify someone in 95 percent of cases.

Sometimes whom you call is just as revealing as what you’re saying. What if you call a rape hotline, a domestic violence hotline, an addiction hotline or a support line for gay teens?

What secrets would your cellphone reveal about you right now? What about your internet history? The more data someone can access, the more that person can learn about you. In isolation, a few bits of data may not say much, but start to piece them together and they begin to paint a vivid picture: where you live, what time you wake up, what time you leave for work, where you work, how you get to work, who your friends are and how often you talk to them, how close you are with your family, what time you go to bed.

When you then pair that information with a second or third person’s data, that image can reveal much more.

If your phone spends every night at the same location as another phone, then it likely indicates you have some kind of relationship with the other phone’s owner.

If you make a call to a gay men’s health centre and then later that week your phone visits that centre, what could that say about you? Or if you start making regular phone calls to a doctor who specializes in HIV, or one who specializes in cancer?

Or if you visit a psychiatrist frequently?

What if you’re making latenight calls to someone who isn’t your spouse?

If every Saturday night you visit a gay nightclub and afterward your phone spends the night at a different location, never at the same place twice, what could someone infer about you or about your personal life? What could they infer if you never call back the people at whose places you stayed overnight?

Do you use any dating or hook-up apps? OkCupid?

Grindr? Squirt? Scruff ? All of the above? How often? Whom do you communicate with?

Do you have a type?

Now take all that information and combine it with your internet history.

Which news sources do you read? The National Post? Sun News? The Globe and Mail? Do you visit gay-themed websites?

What about porn? Do you have specific tastes or fetishes? Twinks? Bears? Twinks who dominate bears? How often do you watch porn and for how long?

Privacy experts say that all sorts of details about people’s personal lives can be inferred by where they go and how they interact with others, both in person and online: including but not limited to health/medical history (abortions, HIV status), sexual orientation, sexual practices, religion and politics.

The futurists who predicted Orwellian government-owned surveillance were partially wrong.

Governments don’t need to create their own massive surveillance apparatus when they can just compel corporations to turn over what they know about their customers.

In this current data age, information has become a valuable and monetized commodity to big business. Many companies you deal with — from the supermarket to your bank — collect swathes of information about you so they can learn how to make more money from you. But once that information is in the hands of corporations, it takes only a short jump for governments to access it as well.

What secrets would your cellphone reveal about you right now?

What about your internet history?

details of its operations and tradecraft,” their written response explained.

In January, the CBC reported that classified documents released by American whistleblower Edward Snowden showed that Canada’s electronic spy agency tracked thousands of airline passengers for days after they left a Canadian airport by using WiFi information from their wireless devices.

Despite these revelations, the Conservative government insists that concerns over invasions of privacy are unfounded and that Canadians have nothing to worry about.

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Stephen Harper told the House of Commons in April.

“Law enforcement and other investigative agencies always seek warrants when they are required to do so,” he continued. “There is independent surveillance, independent oversight, to make sure that these laws are respected.”

The government maintains that while warrants are needed to read the contents of emails and texts, or to listen to voicemails, they aren’t needed for what they claim is information more akin to what might be written on the outside of an envelope or in a phonebook.

Critics aren’t so quick to dismiss the importance of snooping through our digital crumbs.

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ot surprisingly, Bill C-13 and its predecessor, Bill C-30, have awoken opponents from all directions of the political spectrum. Even after public outrage forced the government to kill Bill C-30, privacy advocates remained on guard that the Conservatives would try again.

Last fall, more than 50 Canadian organizations joined the Protect our Privacy coalition, under the coordination of openmedia.ca. Members include the right-leaning Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the Canadian Constitution Foundation, as well as a slew of more progressive groups, including Xtra’s publisher, Pink Triangle Press (PTP).

“More than ever, Canadians need strong, genuinely transparent, and properly enforced safeguards to secure privacy rights. We call on Government to put in place effective legal measures to protect the privacy of every resident of Canada against intrusion by government entities,” the coalition’s founding statement reads.

When the controversial Bill C-30 was first tabled, it was briefly called the Lawful Access Act before being retitled the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. But aside from the title, the bill didn’t actually include any mention of children or predators.

So when MacKay introduced C-13, the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, last November, championing it as a much-needed tool to combat the scourge of cyberbullying, for many privacy advocates there was a distinct sense of déjà vu. “[Cyberbullying] is clearly a case of the worst form of harassment, intimidation and humiliation of young people, which resulted in a feeling of hopelessness, that there was no other way out, and they took their lives,” MacKay told Parliament.

Openmedia.ca’s executive director, Steve Anderson, welcomes the sections of the bill directed at cyberbullying but says there’s little in the bill to address it. Instead, he says, the bill focuses, once again, on government access to private information.

“There are proposals in this legislation that are common sense and that nobody would disagree with. Yet by having most of this legislation consist largely of failed online spying proposals that Canadians have already clearly rejected, the government is doing great disservice to an issue many citizens care deeply about,” Anderson said in a press statement.

“Our consultation with legal experts suggests that this legislation could enable state authorities to force telecoms to keep our sensitive private information in giant unsecured databases,” he said. “What’s more, it could give a range of authorities access to the private lives of almost any Canadian, even if they are not suspected of any wrong doing. It could open the door to suspicionless surveillance. That why it’s so important that the government address the concerns Canadians have by strengthening the privacy safeguards in this draft legislation and removing all the off-topic content.”

NDP justice critic Françoise Boivin worries that the Conservatives are using a popular and sensitive issue to shield some of the bill’s other provisions from criticism.

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TIPS TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS ONLINE Between the potential threats of government surveillance, criminal hackers and corporations, protecting your online privacy can seem like a daunting task (especially if you’re starting from scratch). Here are four beginner tips to start shielding your data from prying eyes.

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Use a personal virtual private network (VPN).

For a monthly fee, you can subscribe to a VPN service, which creates a secure tunnel online between the VPN server and your computer or device. It masks your IP address and encrypts all your internet activities. Any websites that you visit will see the IP address of the VPN server and not yours.

It also allows you to use public WiFi safely. Be sure to

do some research to find a provider within your budget that doesn’t keep logs of your activity and will protect your anonymity.

2

Disable GPS and WiFi on your phone until you need them.

While your cellphone company can figure out your approximate location using cell towers, GPS can provide your exact location.

When WiFi is enabled on your phone, it broadcasts detailed information about your device, so turn it off when you’re not using it.

3

Stop using public WiFi. While public WiFi may be convenient and free, it also leaves your information vulnerable to hackers.

Never ever use public WiFi to access private information such as banking, social media or email.

4

Reconsider what you share on social media sites.

Facebook’s entire business model is based on collecting and using your personal information, and if they have it, then they can share it with the government. If you’re not prepared to give up all social media just yet, then do your best to stay anonymous.

Use pseudonyms when you sign up to make it harder for searchers to find you. Also, create a new email account for each website you join, so all your accounts can’t be connected or identified through a common email.

— Matthew DiMera

Two of the most controversial elements from C-30 — warrantless mandatory disclosure of basic subscriber information and the requirement for telecoms to build intercept capabilities in their systems — have been removed. Privacy advocates like Michael Geist still say that C-13 should raise alarms for Canadians. A University of Ottawa law professor, Geist is one of the country’s leading experts in internet law.

“We now know that many of the kinds of surveillance capabilities that I think he government people were envisioning claims that Bill C-13 and concerned about, when is entirely different they were thinking about from its predecessor Bill C-30, may already be in and that the contenplace,” Geist says. tious portions have He notes that the govbeen removed. ernment has been trying to Xtra’s request for an interintroduce similar and review with Justice Minister lated measures for years; Peter MacKay was declined. first under the spectre of Instead, a spokesperson fighting terrorism, then provided links to an online combating spam, then child statement called “Myths and endangerment and now Facts.” cyberbullying.

According to the DepartAccording to Geist, Bill ment of Justice, “The Bill C-13 has two significant isdoes not contain the former sues that would affect CaNDP JUSTICE CRITIC Bill C-30’s controversial nadians’ privacy. First, it FRANÇOISE BOIVIN amendments relating to lowers the evidentiary bar warrantless access to subfor the government to get a scriber information and telecommunication warrant for your metadata. Under C-13, these infrastructure modification. It simply aims to warrants would be available if officials have provide police with the necessary means to fight “reason to suspect” that an offence has or will crime in today’s high-tech environment while be committed, instead of the current “reason maintaining the judicial checks and balances to believe.” needed to protect Canadians’ privacy.”

Second, it grants immunity to telecoms that

“Nobody is against giving better tools to the police to make sure there is no cyberbullying happening,” Boivin tells Xtra. “But that bill is so much more than that.”

She accuses the Conservatives of stonewalling critics’ valid concerns about privacy intrusion.

“With this government it’s so hard to get the actual answers,” she says. “It’s more like [they’re] laughing at the opposition for even raising the issues.”

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Nobody is against giving better tools to the police to make sure there is no cyberbullying happening.

But that bill is so much more than that.

provide your personal information voluntarily.

As it stands now, companies can either provide your information voluntarily during a normal police investigation or they can tell police that a warrant is needed before they will cooperate.

This immunity would eliminate the threat of lawsuits launched by consumers concerned about their privacy and essentially give corporations no reason not to hand over your information when requested by the government.

Ken Popert, the president and executive director of Pink Triangle Press, thinks that gay Canadians should be especially concerned about the government’s push for increased spying powers.

“The deeper issue here is that the whole politics of equality do not address the content of our sexual and emotional lives, and those are the things that remain vulnerable to surveillance abuse,” he told Xtra in October.

“There is a reason why Facebook has privacy settings and a reason why people use them,” he continued. “The very fact of what Grindr actually is would upset a lot of straight people if they understood it. It’s treated in the press as a humorous thing in a way but could be put to other purposes.”

Popert thinks the mere suggestion of surveillance could scare people into silence. “We belong to a community that has a long history of being subjected to unbenevolent surveillance by government agencies,” he points out. “Now they want to keep an eye on everyone, not just us.”

“There’s a deeper question of why the government wants to know anything about us, let alone to the extent it seems it’s willing to go into the details of our personal lives,” he says.

He dismisses the common argument that only people who have done something wrong should be worried about heightened government surveillance.

“Anybody who says that sincerely is stupid, and I think that an awful lot of people just say it cynically as an easy way of characterizing people who are opposed to this kind of surveillance as having criminal intentions,” he says.

“What you think is wrong might not be the same as what the government thinks is wrong,” he notes. “There’s an awful lot of things that aren’t wrong that we do that we might not want everyone to know about.”

He also worries about the potential for abuse by individual police or government employees who could use the system for their own personal gain, pointing to recent instances of police officers caught using databases to spy on former romantic partners.

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ill C-13 made it through its second reading in Parliament at the end of April and is now under the scrutiny of the House’s justice committee.

Earlier this year, MacKay told reporters that he hopes the new bill will pass this spring and become law before Parliament recesses near the end of June. While that timeline may be overly ambitious, the government has indicated that it’s willing to extend Parliament’s sitting hours to prioritize its passage.

So far, MacKay has shown no signs of willingness to amend or remove the bill’s most contentious components.

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Hitting a career high Comedian Darcy Michael co-stars in new CTV sitcom Spun Out TV MARK ROBINS

After years of hard work on the standup comedy circuit and a short-lived stint as a talk-show host, gay comedian Darcy Michael is finally hitting a career high costarring in CTV’s new sitcom Spun Out. “Between this and my standup, I am having the time of my life right now,” Michael says from his home in Ladner, BC, where he lives with his husband, Jer, and their 15-year-old daughter.

When he first got the script for CTV’s Spun Out sitcom, about a dysfunctional public relations firm run by Kids in the Hall alumnus Dave Foley, Michael confesses, he barely glanced at it. It wasn’t until his talk show faltered that he dug the script out of a suitcase and auditioned for the part of Nelson. He didn’t get it. But he was offered the role of Gordon.

“I couldn’t even remember who Gordon was,” says Michael, whose first reaction after looking at the script again was to lament Gordon’s lack of lines in the pilot. “But you know what?

I have a 15-year-old daughter to feed, so I said yes, and I was on a plane four hours later.”

Filmed before a live studio audience in Toronto, Spun Out is a multi-camera sitcom about a struggling writer who ends up working at a PR firm. Gordon, it turns out, is the “office weirdo,” as skilled at non sequiturs as he is at knitting.

“I love my stupid, idiot character, as he is so different from me,” Michael says.

Aside from a long-sought glimmer of financial security, one of the best parts of working on the sitcom is the chance to work with Foley. Michael says he’s amazing to watch at work. “He has every right to be an asshole and he isn’t. The man is a national treasure.”

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secrets, but he won’t be the one to break ranks. “Other than all the sex that Dave and I have on set?” he says with a laugh.

Joining Foley in an episode for a reunion of sorts with the other members of Kids in the Hall was an experience that Michael says left his inner 12-yearold “fan-girling.”

“I’ve worked with all of the members of Kids in the Hall at some point, but this was my first opportunity to work with all of them at one time,” he says.

“Seeing how they work together was an amazing experience, as they would talk over each other for 15 minutes and then would say, ‘Okay, let’s do it,’ and the rest of us would be standing around going, ‘Do what?’”

Michael and the rest of the cast are waiting to hear whether Spun Out will get the nod for a second season. Michael says he’s just happy to be able to look his parents in the eyes and finally say, “It was all worth it.”

Spun Out premiered March 6 and now airs nationally on CTV, Fridays at 8pm.

Darcy Michael (bottom right) co-stars in CTV’s new sitcom Spun Out with (clockwise from top) Holly Deveaux, Paul Campbell, Dave Foley, Al Mukadam, Rebecca Dalton and JP Manoux.

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The top three finalists for the Mr/Miss Cobalt competition were Valynne Vile, Anna Propriette and Shanda Leer — a trifecta of dumpster divas, creative visionaries and unapologetic alcoholics.

Any of the three performers would have represented The Cobalt well, but this year the title belonged to Valynne.

She’s a versatile, inventive and fully conceptualized character. I used to think she was like Sharon Needles, without the ego. She’s not. Unlike Sharon, Valynne isn’t a one-trick pony.

But during week two of the competition, it was Shanda Leer who shone, especially when she took to the mic.

Being a witty orator is a drag-queen art, and Shanda has it mastered. She is campy, captivating and quick on her feet, no doubt from the practice she’s been getting as the spokeswench of East Van’s popular monthly Rough Trade party.

I went to the third installment of the 1970s disco at The Fox Cabaret on Main Street — the perfect venue for a party as hot as the sex gays were having in the ’70s.

Of course, the decade wasn’t all bareback sex and feathered hair. Don’t forget the game-show renaissance! Rough Trade played its very own rendition of Match Game with a panel of celebrity guests, including The Patron Saint of East Van, Jaylene Tyme; Empress XLIII, Kiki Lawhore; Ms Cobalt 2012, Lady Jem; media boy Cory Ashworth; and comedian/writer Cynara Geissler.

The Fox is a former porn theatre that has been reinvented as a come-hither hotspot for the trendy partier. It has a retro feel mixed with the energy of the hip Rough Trade crowd. It packs a big house, has comfortable places to sit and, most importantly, has a huge dancefloor where you can get sweaty to DJ Daniel Pitout’s “Hot Stuff.”

Speaking of which, can I get some of Daniel’s hot stuff all over my face?

The Nü Sensae drummer wasn’t on Out magazine’s most eligible bachelors list for nothing.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t work up the nerve to ask him if he’s still eligible.

I am completely inept at meeting guys

Mr/Miss Cobalt runner-up Shanda Leer and sexy DJ Daniel Pitout join Raziel for a little Rough Trade. TALLULAH

On Grindr, I have no qualms about asking a perfect stranger to shove his cock up my ass before I’ve even introduced myself, but in real life I’m like a lady, or some shit. when I go out. On Grindr, I have no qualms about asking a perfect stranger to shove his cock up my ass before I’ve even introduced myself, but in real life I’m like a lady, or some shit.

Well, at the very least I can admire from afar. Daniel and Shanda are also serving Redneck Sundays at The Bourbon all summer long.

There is a mechanical bull, and it will be ridden. And if Cameron Mackenzie Deveau is there (with a cow-patch cape, of course), then you will be ridden, too.

I’ve seen the bruises and heard of the ball pain, so I opted not to climb that particular beast (believe it or not I’m talking about the bull, not Cameron), but I quite enjoyed watching Bourbon bartender James clutch that thing

with his godly thighs as he held on for dear life.

Jem fed Shanda a hotdog — while she was in the middle of performing her number. Good thing Shanda is used to having meat shoved down her throat.

How do you really think she got so far in the Mr/Miss Cobalt competition?

When she started gagging, I realized why she hadn’t taken home the crown . . .

Speaking of sucking dick, I feel that taking a piss at The Bourbon is a sexual experience. It’s like one urinal for all, and everything is just hanging out for everyone to see. The $10 cover is totally worth it. It’s cheaper than the bathhouse! Just spend the night at The Bourbon’s urinals. You’ll see more dick than a Junita Werk bukkake.

Junita performed alongside Shanda, although you’d never know it because The Bourbon has no stage lights. It should be noted, however, that the bathroom is very well lit.

It was kind of magnificent when the whole crowd held up their phones to give Junita her light. Not that anyone needs to see that busted face illuminated. I was about to write “Just kidding, love ya bitch” next to that last line, but why start lying now?

No, but seriously, rednecks are so cute when they’re not really rednecks and they’re actually a bunch of gay guys in cowboy boots they bought just to come to this party. Check it out.

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Wed, June 4 Heat Stroke Vancouver Jax hosts jack-off parties for guys who enjoy masturbating together. 7–10pm. Club 8x6, 1775 Haro St. $10 with locker. 8x6.ca

Thurs, June 5 Gay and Bisexual Men’s Bereavement Support Group This support group for men grieving the loss of a samesex partner meets the second and fourth Thursday of every month. 7–9:30pm. Qmunity, Room 610, 1033 Davie St. Free. qmunity.ca #1 Hits The Vancouver Men’s Chorus brings you current and past faves. 8pm. Runs until June 14. Performance Works, 1218 Cartwright St. $35 at vancouvermenschorus.ca.

Technoromance DJs Lord Caligari, Princess Sparklebat and Lord Segfault offer a range of dark electronic music, along with sexy sci-fi burlesque. 8pm.

Electric Owl Social Club, 928 Main St. Tickets $6 at ticketfly. com. electricowl.ca Helicopter The Junction’s new night features the strippers of fantasymen.ca. Doors at 11pm.

The Junction, 1138 Davie St. $5. junctionpub.com

Fri, June 6 Show Tunes Night 1181 presents its monthly ode to show tunes, hosted by Alan Woo and Jenn Mickey. 6–9pm.

1181, 1181 Davie St. No cover. facebook.com/showtunesyvr Dressing on the Side Freedom Cabaret presents the return of Symone Says. Doors 6pm, show 8pm. Lux Lounge, 1180 Howe St. $7. luxlounge.ca

femmeness in every form through song. 8pm. The Wise Hall, 1882 Adanac St. Tickets $20 at eventbrite.com. femmecitychoir.com Electric Circus ’90s Dance Party Isolde N Barron hosts, DJs Kasey Riot and G Luve spin, and Lady Jem and Shameless Amus perform at this ’90s party. 9pm–2am. The Cobalt, 917 Main St. $9. thecobalt.ca Monroe The Saturday night dance party has relaunched and is going full force in its new location. DJs Adam Dreaddy and Kristina Cash spin. 9pm– 2am. Heaven’s Door, 1216 Bute St. $5. tfdpresents.com

queens. 8–10pm. Celebrities, 1022 Davie St. $10 donation at door for bingo cards. celebritiesnightclub.com

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Redneck Sunday Come on down to The Bourbon for a new summer party featuring queer DJs and performers, including Shanda Leer. 9pm–midnight.

The Bourbon, 50 Cordova St. $10. thebourboncountry.com

Gay Poz 30-Something Positive Living hosts a discussion group for 30-something, HIV-positive gay men every Thursday.

6:30–8pm. Positive Living, 1107 Seymour St. Free. positivelivingbc.org

Joan-Eleveneightyone Joan-E hosts an evening of drag fun and special guests, followed by DJ Mumbles. 10:30pm–3am.

1181, 1181 Davie St. No cover. facebook.com/1181lounge

Mon, June 9 The Bobbers The queer improv-comedy troupe is back in the Davie Village with a whole new show. 7–9pm.

Heaven’s Door, 1216 Bute St. No cover. heavensdoor.ca BiFocus This peer-led social and support group for bi- and pansexual people meets the second and last Monday of every month. 7–9pm. Qmunity Generations, 1033 Davie St. Free. qmunity.ca

Leather Den for Men The Vancouver Men in Leather host a play party in a large space with multiple areas. 8pm–2am.

Club 8x6, 1775 Haro St. $10 VML members, $15 others. meninleather.homestead.com

Tues, June 10

XOXO Big Roger Events presents a semi-monthly club night, launching tonight with DJ Lee Harris (London).

9pm–3am. Rain Ultraclub (formerly Sonar), 66 Water St. $20 advance at Little Sister’s, 1238 Davie St or showclix.com. bigrogerevents.com.

Shame Spiral Peach Cobblah brings some East Side debauchery to her favourite West End cocktail lounge for a night of drag, perverse games and true shame spiral stories.

9:30pm. 1181, 1181 Davie St. No cover. 1181.ca

Sat, June 7 Puppy Mosh Join the pups and their handlers as they romp, play with toys and socialize.

Puppy gear is admired but not required. 2–4pm. The Junction, 1138 Davie St. No cover. vanpah.com Femme-Stravaganza The debut of Vancouver’s new choir celebrating self-identified

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Men on Men A weekly discussion group for men who love or have sex with men.

Every Tuesday, 6:30pm. Gordon Neighbourhood House, 1019 Broughton St. checkhimout.ca

Wed, June 11 Gay & Grey Join this group of gay senior men every Wednesday for friendly, supportive discussions. 7pm.

Roundhouse Community Centre, second-floor boardroom, 181 Roundhouse Mews.

Bingo for Life Joan-E hosts this weekly Friends for Life fundraiser, with prizes, cheap drinks and snappy drag

Bingo, Booze, Blasphemy Isolde N Barron and Peach Cobblah present a bingo night on the East Side. 7–11pm. Anza Club, 3 W 8th Ave. $10 cover includes bingo dabber, your first game and a chance at prizes. zeezeetheatre.ca

Fri, June 13 AJ’s Café Join other HIVpositive gay men every Friday for this free social support group sponsored by Positive Living BC. 3–6pm. The Junction Pub, 1138 Davie St. positivelivingbc.org Fiesta Mexicana The Gay and Lesbian Assisted Sports Society brings you a Latin DJ, erotic male dancers and all the hot and horny men you can handle in this men-only party.

8pm–2am. Club 8x6, 1775 Haro St. $15. 8x6.ca Friday Night Social The Vancouver Men in Leather host their monthly social in the back of the PumpJack, for everyone from the curious to the serious.

9pm until late. PumpJack Pub, 1167 Davie St. No cover. meninleather.homestead.com Brain Candy Celebrate the sci-fi/fantasy nostalgia of yesteryear with hosts Shanda Leer, Anna Propriette and Junita Werk. 10pm. Astoria, 769 E Hastings St. $7 with costume, $10 without. theastoriapub.com Freedom Friday ME Events presents a new night showcasing local

and international DJs and celebrating love, respect and tolerance. Tonight: DJ Quest.

Midnight. Lux Lounge, 1180 Howe St. $10. luxlounge.ca

Sat, June 14 Pride Week Nanaimo Kick off Nanaimo’s Pride week with a picnic in the park.

11am–3pm. Bowen Park lower picnic shelter, Nanaimo. Free. nanaimopride.org The Empress Ball Honour the legacy of the late ted northe and crown a newly elected Empress of Canada. 6–10pm. Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St. Proceeds to benefit the ted northe bursary fund. Tickets $50 at Little Sister’s, 1238 Davie St, or empressball.org.

Out in Harmony Vancouver’s queer choir invites you to enjoy the rhythms that permeate our lives. 7pm. Unitarian Church of Vancouver, 949 West 49th Ave. $15 general, $10 concession at Little Sister’s, 1238 Davie St, and at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds. outinharmony.org Cherry Pop A new monthly party with sex, stripping, glitter and grit, hosted by Isolde N Barron. 9pm–1am. Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main St. $12. foxcabaret.com Hustla Kick off some serious summer beach time with scantily clad hip-hop homo shenanigans. 9pm. The Cobalt, 917 Main St. $12. thecobalt.ca Hardcore Steamworks presents an amateur sex show. 11pm. Steamworks, 123 W Pender St. Memberships $6–65, lockers $8–14, rooms $12–50. steamworksbaths.com

Sun, June 15 Reset Sunday ME Events presents a monthly social with lighter sound and a fresh mood.

3pm. Heaven’s Door, 1216 Bute St. $7. More info at vint. edward@gmail.com.

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Grape escapes 10 great wine destinations in North America AEFA MULHOLLAND If you’re looking for a grape escape, don’t trot off to Tuscany, sashay to Sancerre or race to Rioja. Those in the market for a vine time can stay this side of the Atlantic; the varieties and vintages of North American wines get ever more extensive as more states and provinces become the toast of the wine world. You’ll now find tasting flights much closer to home, many of them in places you mightn’t have imagined — from Nova Scotia to Texas.

Valley, 1 Annapolis Nova Scotia Wine country: Vines have been grow-

ing in Nova Scotia since the 1600s, and there are more than 70 vineyards across the province’s seven wine regions.

Vintage: Try a cool-climate classic: burnt amber Pomme d’Or dessert wine from Domaine de Grand Pré.

Visit: Wines sparkle at L’Acadie Vineyards, an organic winery in Wolfville.

Wine pairing: Wolfville’s Blomidon Inn serves local vintages and seafood in a stately Victorian room.

Peninsula, 2 Leelanau Michigan Wine country: Didn’t think of the Midwest as a must for wining and dining?

Michigan has more than 100 wineries in four wine regions. Try the ice wineries of Upper Michigan’s Leelanau and Old Mission peninsulas, where riesling and cabernet franc grapes grow at the same latitude as Bordeaux and Piedmont.

Vintage: Give Chateau Grand Traverse’s medal-winning 2011 dry riesling a swirl.

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vineyard, Ciccone Vineyard and Winery, where tastings cost $5.

Wine pairing: Finish the peninsula tour at Leland’s octogenarian Bluebird Restaurant & Bar, where Leelanau and Grand Traverse wines complement local walleye, perch and trout.

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Wine country: With 32 wineries and a wine region almost as big as Nova Scotia, Texas has made good use of cabernet sauvignon, sauvignon blanc, chenin blanc and riesling grapes during the state’s brief 38-year wine career.

Vintage: Becker Vineyards’ spicy red blend Prairie Rôtie captures the essence of Hill Country heat.

Visit: Try southwestern ports, cabernetsyrah blends, cabernet sauvignons and chardonnays at Becker Vineyards, outside rustic Fredericksburg.

Wine pairing: Tuck into Thai-Texan fusion fare at August E’s in Fredericksburg. The owners also have a bed and breakfast — Ebers’ Rock House — on an old homestead just outside town.

Wine country: At just over 40 years old, the wine industry might be youthful in La Belle Province, but with an enticing selection of dry, sparkling, fortified and late-harvest wines made over six wine regions, it’s a fine place to hit the wine trail.

Vintage: Savour L’Orpailleur’s vanillanuanced white Reserve, made from seyval blanc and vidal grapes.

Visit: Try whites, reds and sparkling delights at L’Orpailleur in Les Cantons de l’Est — the Eastern Townships — in Dunham, just north of the Vermont border.

Wine pairing: Dunham’s Homei Bistro, and its Asian-influenced Québécois fare, makes a perfect wine-route stop.

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Estate Winery offers syrahs, chardonnays and several Bordeaux-esque reds.

Wine pairing: Hester Creek is where the first valley wines were planted in 1968, so they know a thing or two about wine.

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Lakes, 5 Finger New York Wine country: There are three distinct wine trails to explore in the Finger Lakes — Keuka Lake, Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake — and more than 100 wineries.

Vintage: The area is known for producing the United State’s best riesling. Try a deliciously dry and floral bottle from Ravines Wine Cellars in Hammondsport.

Visit: Hip Hammondsport is home to Dr Frank’s Vinifera Wine Cellars, the original Finger Lakes winery, open year-round.

Wine pairing: You’ll find the best local wine list at the Village Tavern in Hammondsport.

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Wine country: It’s not all coffee and craft brews around here; a new winery opens every two weeks in the second most productive wine state in the US. Vintage: Sample sumptuous 2009 Walla Walla syrah from Trust Cellars.

Visit: Make an appointment to quaff signature cabernet sauvignon at converted farmstead Abeja Inn. Wine pairing: The quaint yet slick Whitehouse-Crawford Restaurant in Walla Walla has a huge list of local vintages and a tasting room next door.

Okanagan, 7 South British Columbia Wine country: Stretching from Kelowna to the US border; don’t miss wine towns Osoyoos, Oliver and Penticton.

Vintage: Taste the unusual tannat-syrah blend Dead of Night from Moon Curser Vineyards.

Visit: Small but stunning Painted Rock

Wine country: Of the two most famous American wine regions, Sonoma offers a more laid-back, less expensive take on wine tasting than neighbouring Napa.

Vintage: Of Sonoma’s 72 wine grapes, chardonnay stands out. See what you think of La Follette’s Sangiacomo.

Visit: Save money to buy bottles with free tastings at Cline Cellars. Take a picnic and eat on the grounds.

Wine pairing: Every Wednesday night at Scopa, in chic Healdsburg, a local winemaker works the floor as a server, closing the circle between producer and connoisseur.

9 Niagara-onthe-Lake, Ontario Wine country: One of Ontario’s four established wine areas, Niagara-onthe-Lake is where winemaking began in the province. Three dozen wineries sit within minutes of each other, making for easy touring.

Vintage: One of Niagara’s best bottles is Hidden Bench’s 2009 chardonnay.

Visit: Tiny Five Rows Craft Winery is hard to find but worth the effort.

Wine pairing: Newly located to the lakeshore, farm-to-table classic Treadwell has a huge patio right on Queen Street.

Valley, 10 Willamette Oregon Wine country: This is pinot noir country; luscious reds abound in the 300 wineries and six appellations of the valley.

Vintage: If you can find a bottle, savour lush, bold pinot noirs from Miura.

Visit: Head away from the hordes and explore the range at A Blooming Hill Vineyard, a winery in Cornelius, north of Portland.

Wine pairing: Southwest of Portland, Dundee Bistro boasts the best Oregon pinot noirs along with similarly local edibles.

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Wickedly good theatre in Old Blighty London’s West End strikes a distinct chord with gay audiences STORY BY TED FLETT

As home to some of history’s most revered playwrights — William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde — it should come as no surprise that Old Blighty’s capital boasts an impressive theatre scene. North Americans might be spoiled for choice, with Toronto’s theatre district and New York City’s Broadway, but London theatre promoter Jonathan Mountford says his home impresses in its own distinct way, justifying the trans-Atlantic trip for theatre buffs.

“London’s West End has always been and continues to be the world centre for theatrical excellence,” Mountford says. “The standard of theatre is high, given the massive pool of producers

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Mountford’s passion for theatre is evident. As he describes the scene and what’s hot onstage, a deep smile forms.

He rubs his palms and his heel begins to tap beneath the table. He says London’s ideal combination of talent supply, audience standards and history make the city “the hands-down best place to create new work and revive classics.”

Classics onstage in the West End — the nucleus of London’s theatre scene — include The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables and The Mousetrap, which have been attracting a stream of theatregoers for decades.

New works help to mix up the London theatre offer. The Bodyguard, a musical adaptation of the famous Whitney Houston flick, stormed onto the Adelphi Theatre stage in late 2012 and has been impressing audiences ever since.

Updated choreography, song performance and additional Houston hits give the production a modern feel without upstaging the vacillating love story between megastar Rachel Marron and her bodyguard, Frank Farmer.

Musical adaptations of Roald Dahl’s Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have quickly become big hits for families and children at heart.

Matilda impresses with eye-popping sets and a talented cast of youth, but centre-stage is the evil head mistress, Miss Trunchbull, played as hideously wicked as her chin mole by Montrealer Alex Gaumond in drag.

Despite the absence of a big gay production in the West End since Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which closed in 2011 after a three-year run at the

Palace Theatre, Mountford insists there is still plenty to appeal to a gay audience.

He points to Miss Saigon, which opened this spring in London.

“Any play or musical that deals with the idea of repression or a hidden secret seems to relate strongly to a gay audience,” he says. “Miss Saigon, for instance, tells the story of forbidden love and the battle for the right to love anyone you choose — a right the gay community is still fighting for.”

Theatre critic and blogger Scott Matthewman agrees that the post-Priscilla scene resonates for gay audiences.

“Wicked, for example, has a huge gay following, partly because it features two divas but also because it’s a story about accepting difference,” he says. “So it doesn’t have to be a great gay show; it can be just a great show to make that connection with a gay audience.

“In so much of theatre, you bring your own experiences to it, and there are elements of a play that will resonate with you as a gay person rather than a person next to you based on what you’ve been through in your life,” he says.

Matthewman attributes the quality of London theatre to its breadth. While the West End is the focal point for tourists, there are also fringe, off-West End and repertory theatres like Shakespeare’s Globe. “The one thing that characterizes the London theatre scene is the size of it. The West End is massive, but all over London there are lots of theatre spaces producing really great stuff,” he says.

Top: With two divas and a story about accepting difference, Wicked has great camp appeal. Above, Walking tours by the Society of London Theatre weave through Soho, the Strand and Covent Garden, where you’ll find the stage door of the famous Drury Lane, also known as “The Royal.”

“Also, the lines between West End and off-West End are blurred because some playhouses are just as big as West End theatres. If you go further afield, you can see something just as good in a more intimate setting for less money and have a great night out.”

Above the Stag Theatre sustains itself by catering specifically to the gay market with queer productions, from dramas to comedies to pantomimes.

“We are the only full-time professional LGBT theatre in the UK,” artistic director Peter Bull says. “We are primarily a producing house, although we occasionally welcome visiting productions.

“The most important people at our theatre are the audience,” he says. “We must give them what they want, which is to be entertained. That doesn’t mean we can’t present something controversial or challenging, but it must be of a high standard.” The company’s summer show is a revival of Bathhouse: The Musical, which, Bull says, “doesn’t pretend to be high art, but is just a feel-good summer audience pleaser.”

In a city that sets such a high standard for theatre, paying attention to audience response is critical; Londoners value steak over sizzle. Remember that this is where Andrew Lloyd Webber’s highly anticipated 2011 Phantom sequel, Love Never Dies, was coined “Paint Never Dries” and closed within 18 months. And Viva Forever, the superhyped 2012 Spice Girls musical, closed within seven. Meanwhile, on Broadway, musicals like Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will blunder along filling seats despite negative reviews.

Londoners, Bull notes, are not easily impressed. “We tend not to applaud the scenery and every entrance, which seems to happen whenever I see a Broadway show.”

Even when their stages are empty, London’s theatres are noteworthy attractions. Walking tours by the Society of London Theatre weave through the theatre areas of Soho, Covent Garden and the Strand, highlighting the architecture and personalities behind all sorts of theatres, from Victorian to modern. Some, like Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the National Theatre, also offer backstage tours.

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