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Comment Under siege, now and then EDITORIAL Natasha Barsotti

The crime? A “homosexual” allegedly applying or wearing lipstick in public. It might even have been lip balm for all we know.

The details didn’t seem to matter to the incensed people who chased him into a store in a southern Jamaican parish and held him under siege for more than an hour.

As I watched the TV Jamaica report, I almost forgot about the man holed up in his refuge, so entranced did I become with the mass of people so willing and eager to hold him hostage. They clambered on top of cars and crates for a good sightline to the door. With mobile phones at the ready, they clamoured for him to come out and face their censure.

It was reminiscent of a scene from a Roman amphitheatre. All that was missing was a Caesar-like figure to turn his thumb up or down. And for what? Putting on lipstick, or possibly lip balm? Brushing his lips with his fingers? Why? Even a hint of “scandal” or a snippet of gossip fuels the rhythm of island life, and I don’t say this patronizingly. It often takes very little to arouse excitement and titillation, and before you know it, you have an audience angling

for the best vantage point to hear, view and provide running commentary on the unfolding theatre of the day.

I use “theatre” deliberately, because even in the midst of their outrage, laughter and remarks are bandied back and forth among the spectators, demonstrating a profound lack of concern for the terror they are unleashing.

In a way, the level of aggression and violence that is prevalent in countries like Jamaica and my own, Trinidad, where the murder rate is staggering, provides an apt backdrop to what went down in that carpark.

Not to draw a glib connection between a homophobic siege and the murderous violence that’s a byproduct of drug- and gunrunning. But it’s no surprise that such an act of casual aggression is possible, particularly in a climate where leaders lack the political will to address the long-festering issue of anti-gay discrimination.

What would have happened had the store turned the man away, instead of providing sanctuary and calling the police? Would he have suffered the same fate as teenager Dwayne Jones, who was chased, shot and stabbed in Montego Bay last year? Or as that hapless young man who was beaten and kicked by security guards at Kingston’s University of Technology, where yet another crowd gathered to jeer and cheer?

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Maybe I looked in the wrong places, but I found no follow-up stories or editorials in the island’s media condemning the “no lipstick” crowd’s actions.

No expression of disgust, however empty, from the minister of justice, nor from the prime minister, who can’t or won’t give “a timeline” for her plan to address the buggery law.

Lest we forget, gay Torontonians — who just hosted the world for Pride — have been in the same boat as that still-nameless lipstick man who fled his tormentors.

In October 1980, Xtra’s predecessor, The Body Politic, carried an editorial on the annual siege of Toronto’s gay St Charles Tavern, where thousands of people — “most of them young, most of them straight” — annually descended for Halloween with chants of “Kill the queers!”

The editorial concluded with a call to action that still applies to many of the world’s citizens who just gathered in Toronto to celebrate: “Every citizen, every elected official should share every gay person’s dismay at having to face, each year . . . humiliation and hate . . . passed over in silence, that has drawn no criticism, no condemnation, that has not moved one single elected official to say, ‘This is appalling and disgraceful. This must be stopped.’”

Happy WorldPride to the nameless Jamaican man and to everyone else still struggling to live freely.

Natasha Barsotti is the staff reporter at Xtra Vancouver.

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Feedback Cranky old men?

In her editorial [“Who’s Queer Now?” Xtra #542, June 5], Robin Perelle seems to suggest that the opposition to the term queer comes from a minority of angry gay men, especially older gay men. While age and gender appear to play a role in this opposition, permit me to offer a different interpretation.

The opposition to the term queer comes from mature gay men because they are reasonably content with their lives. They’re pleased with the amazing progress and acceptance they’ve seen in their lifetimes, they’ve survived the worst ravages of the AIDS epidemic, and most want to live quietly but openly with their partners, friends, family members and colleagues. What they object to is a term that is deliberately edgy, provocative and stridently leftwing. Many are non-political, while others are not leftwing. It’s not that they are refusing to “engage with change.”

Almost all have seen or engaged with enough change for a lifetime. The use of the term queer makes them angry because they see it as a backward step and as a descriptor for a political and cultural radicalism they don’t embrace.

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and gay liberation [“Lessons from the Parti Québécois,” Xtra 539, April 24], I think that the gay liberation movement has a far greater responsibility in the world.

I regard Quebec nationalism as a local issue whereby Quebeckers have the option to remain a respected minority within a stable country or to risk their security in order to become the majority in their own country. I regard this as a practical decision affecting a local population and not a moral one of global importance.

This is not the case for the gay liberation movement, which has the potential to change all of society, and for this reason I believe that all paths at the crossroads must be pursued. Of course we should always strive to maintain and improve our equality within Canada, but I think that we should also fight for those less fortunate members of the global LGBT community, until we are all equal citizens in the world.

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Toronto welcomes the world with Pride

Canada’s largest Pride celebration may have doubled in size as Toronto hosted WorldPride, June 20 to 29, with a three-day street party in the heart of the gay village, multiple open-air stages, endless parties, a 45-minute Dyke March, the longest Trans March the city has ever seen, and a nearly six-hour-long Pride parade with 12,000 marchers. Above, City of Toronto councillors march in the WorldPride parade along Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. QMI Agency/ernest Doroszuk

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Less fencing around Davie party Pride unhappy with street barricades: Lam PRIDE Matthew DiMera

The Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) says that it’s doing everything it can to address community concerns about this year’s Davie Street party but that changes to the province’s liquor laws that reduce required fencing around beer gardens likely won’t be implemented until next year.

VPS general manager Ray Lam acknowledges the complaints about the

extensive fencing at past events and says the society has reduced the street party’s fenced-in areas from four blocks two years ago to two blocks last year to a single fenced-in block planned for this year.

“We’re putting more of a focus on the open blocks this year. We’re trying to really activate Davie Street this year beyond just having a beer garden,” Lam says. “We are working towards reducing the amount of fencing that we have in the street, but right now we’re at the least amount of fencing we can have

and still have a beer garden.”

Lam says the smaller size of the beer garden means fewer costs for fencing and less financial risk to the VPS. This year’s admission price for the beer garden will be $10, down from $20 last year.

In addition to the one-block beer garden, there will be two blocks of free open space with carnival games. One performance stage will remain inside the fence, while another will be erected outside, in the Bute plaza. Lam says the rainbow intersection at Bute Street

and Davie will be turned into a kind of dancefloor.

Not everyone in the community is happy with the decision to keep a fenced-in beer garden. In an open letter circulated on social media, Vancouver resident Brad Teeter calls it an insult to the gay village.

“Please join me in stopping the partitioning of our iconic street,” Teeter writes. He says the “10-foot-high fencing sheathed with dense plastic” creates a “snobbish party during the otherwise remarkably inclusive, festive Pride Week celebrations.”

“Nothing about blocking public access to an iconic street from most of the gay community and almost everyone else comes remotely close to Pride,” he says.

Lam says that the VPS is still working with the city in the hopes of maybe

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reducing the height of the fences but that it’s still up in the air. But he hopes the new focus on the community blocks will assuage critics.

“I think something that a lot of people don’t understand is that we don’t like the fences either, but this is the framework we have to work within,” he says.

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The man accused of assaulting a Vancouver man with an umbrella was acquitted of all charges June 30.

Sunjeet Singh Minhas, 25, had been charged with one count of assault with a weapon and one count of uttering threats in connection with an alleged Davie Street gaybashing that took place in the early-morning hours of Oct 9, 2011.

Minhas bent down his head in relief and covered his face while a half dozen of his friends and family broke into

scattered applause immediately after the decision was read in Vancouver Provincial Court.

Travis James Johnston, whose lip was split open during the assault nearly three years ago, stood up and left the courtroom immediately following the decision.

Judge Jodie Werier read her decision aloud, saying that the Crown had not proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt. She said that while there was no question that the assault took place and that gay slurs were used, there was not enough evidence that Minhas was the perpetrator.

“The fact that homophobic slurs were uttered is shameful and concerning to me,” she said.

However, she rejected Johnston’s identification of Minhas to police, saying that he did so only after Minhas was in handcuffs. She described Minhas as soft-spoken and calm during his testimony.

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umah until the last minute, during the final days of the trial. Although a material witness warrant was issued for Rahnumah, he never testified in court.

Minhas testified that it was Rahnumah who threw the umbrella, then left the scene before police arrived. Minhas said that he didn’t show up until after the assault took place and that he had only been trying to prevent an altercation between his friends and another group of men that night.

He also claimed that he would never use homophobic slurs and that he supports his gay friends.

Outside the courthouse, defence lawyer David J Taylor expressed his happiness with the acquittal. “It was clear that there were some things done on that evening which everybody would agree are wrong. The defence case was simply that it wasn’t Mr Minhas who was at fault,” Taylor said.

“I think it’s up to the police to take some steps to trace down with a proper, thorough investigation who may have been at fault,” he added.

New Brunswick law society approves TWU The Law Society of New Brunswick voted to accredit Trinity Western University’s (TWU) proposed law school June 27.

Law society president John Malone acknowledged that the covenant requires students to act according to biblical values that prohibit sexual intimacy except within a marriage between a man and a woman. But, he said, the law society has a responsibility to represent all the communities that lawyers serve and to recognize both religious freedom and the right to sexual orientation without discrimination.

“No matter which law school they graduate from, all articled students complete law society training and evaluation,” he noted. “This includes the core aspects of professional responsibility, including non-discrimination. As well, the law society requires that lawyers not discriminate in their professional duties.”

For admission to TWU, students must sign a covenant agreeing to uphold Christian biblical teachings, including no premarital sex and no homosexuality. Failure to uphold these commitments, according to the student handbook, could result in discipline,

Higher beer costs are making BC’s new happy hour anything but in Vancouver’s gay village, as bar managers adjust to new liquor pricing regulations and thirsty patrons are forced to dig deeper into their wallets.

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sign its covenant. But members of the BC Law Society challenged the board’s decision at a special general meeting June 10 and urged the board to vote again. — Jeremy Hainsworth For more on these stories, go to dailyxtra.com.

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The man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the January 2013 death of former Vancouverite Dolan Badger has been sentenced to three years in jail by an Alberta judge.

William Robert Kootenay, 24, was originally charged with murder. He pleaded guilty to the less severe, included charge of manslaughter on Dec 11, claiming he was only protecting himself from a sexual assault that he says happened after a night of drinking, according to an agreed statement of facts filed with the court.

An Alberta Justice spokeswoman tells Xtra that Kootenay was sentenced on June 18 to 36 months, with four months’ credit for time served in jail prior to sentencing. He was also given a 10-year firearms prohibition.

“Nothing can bring Dolan back, and three years seems a small price to pay for ending such a beautiful life,” says Badger’s friend Duane Aucoin. “But it’s better than nothing, I guess.”

The statement of facts presented in the case said Kootenay was staying at the Admiral Inn in Whitecourt, Alberta, with his boss. It says he met Badger when he ran into two former acquaintances who were drinking with him in the lounge. The four eventually took a taxi back to the acquaintances’ house, where they kept drinking. Kootenay claims he awoke to find his pants

Nothing can bring Dolan back, and three years seems a small price to pay for ending such a beautiful life.

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pulled down and Badger lying on top of him, not wearing any pants. Kootenay says he pushed Badger off, then struck him in the face and abdomen with his fists and kicked him in the abdomen.

The following morning, police responded to a domestic assault call. A constable found Badger on the floor with no pants, a small towel over his genitals. The constable saw a large pool of blood around Badger and Kootenay on the phone yelling, “He tried to rape me.”

“That doesn’t sound like something Dolan would do,” Aucoin told Xtra last year. “He was a very respectful man who worked many years helping his gay family.

“It’s unfortunate that he’s unable to tell his side of the story and there are no witnesses,” he continued. “The gay-panic defence is just a validation that it’s okay to kill queers.”

Kootenay offered little resistance when he was arrested for assault, the statement says. A sexual assault test found no evidence of semen in anal or rectal swabs.

Whitewater RCMP Staff Sergeant Rodney Koscielny said at the time of Badger’s death that the case was not considered a hate crime. “Hate was not involved. It was not a gaybashing,” Koscielny told Xtra. “It was a fight that went wrong.”

Badger, who lived for years in Vancouver, was working as a support and outreach worker with the HIV Network of Edmonton, according to his LinkedIn page.

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Are we ‘gay’ or are we ‘qu Xtra hosts town hall on the words we use and why they matter COVER STORY Matthew DiMera

Participants in Xtra’s June 18 town hall at the Fountainhead Pub seemed largely divided as they tackled the questions of what words we use to describe ourselves and how we are evolving as a community.

After a rocky beginning plagued by technical sound issues, moderator Robin Perelle, Xtra Vancouver’s managing editor, rebooted the discussion by asking the panellists how they identify.

Andrew Shopland, facilitator for YouthCO’s Mpowerment program for gay, bisexual and trans young men, told the audience he uses both terms.

“When I first came out, the word that was given to me was gay. I was a guy, I liked guys, and that was the word I was given. It was my only choice. But it never really felt like it fit completely,” he said.

“In my early 20s, I started to explore who I was and fell in love with some folks that made me question, ‘Am I gay?’ I found the word queer, and when I put it on, all of a sudden I could move around in it. It fit comfortably. It felt like me, and the people I saw wearing it, they felt like me, too,” he continued.

Panellist Reg Manning (Empress II

Mona Regina Lee) cracked that because of the lengthy technical issues, his identity had changed and he was now a drag queen personified. He said he would never use the word queer.

“To me, queer is a word that is derogatory, and people have used it on me in the past to bring me down, so that word sticks in my craw and I can’t get rid of it. The more the community uses the word queer, the more difficulty I have in accepting it,” he said. “As time goes on, things change, and I know the word queer has changed its meaning. However, it still means a bad thing to me.”

Paul Therien, founder of Canada’s Q Hall of Fame, said he looked at all the different words that have been used to describe the community before settling on the letter Q for the hall of fame. “We did struggle with it,” he says. “When we put the question to people from across the country, nobody could give us an answer: Who are we? What do we identify as?”

Ron Rosell, a member of the audience, likened the LGBT-plus acronym to a constellation of distinct communities. “They are communities that touch one another at the point of civil rights or [are] interacting with a world that is more heteronormative,” he said.

Manning delved into some of the history of the word gay, explaining that originally it wasn’t seen as gendered, so calling it the “gay community” wasn’t an issue at the time. “We are now fighting two things,” he said. “One: should we separate and go our own separate ways?

Or should we stay together and protect what we have and not lose it? I think it’s important for us to stick together.”

Panellist Jen Sung, program coordinator for Out in Schools, identified herself as a queer woman of colour.

She spends a lot of time working in high schools in BC and says “queer” is the word she hears most among youth to identify themselves.

“They use it strategically, they use it personally, and they use it as a very politicized, activist way of reclaiming a word which has been used so negatively,” she said.

Shopland pointed to the importance of listening to the experiences of older people who still have negative reactions to the word queer. He also advocated for intergenerational mentorship — youth communicating and listening to elders and vice versa.

Perelle asked the audience how the community can evolve when some members embrace the change toward

“queer” while others feel excluded by it.

Molly, another audience member, said she remembers the negative connotations of the word queer but understands that it’s being redefined. She focused on the need for unity within the community. “The larger community’s biggest issues are freedom and human rights, and I think the only way that we’ve been able to achieve, and will continue to achieve, significant movement in human rights and freedom for all — we have to be a cohesive community.”

Some groups within the larger community may want and need their own terms, she continued, but the larger community also needs to identify as a whole.

“If ‘queer’ is becoming a more accepted word — and isn’t still conjuring up in people’s minds the old definition of the word — and it works for the majority, I see it as an all-encompassing word,” she said.

“It doesn’t matter to me what word we use,” audience member Pat Hogan said. “We can get really hung up on words, but I think we should be easy on each other and not get on each other’s case because we’re not being politically correct.”

Manning provoked a strong reaction

from the audience when he said he is “married to an Oriental man” and is a “rice queen.”

“Do you really think the rest of the world thinks it’s wonderful that we’re queers? I don’t think the rest of the world is going to embrace us because we’re all queers. Now, it’s very nice to take old words and make them our own, so why don’t we just call ourselves the Ku Klux Klan?” he suggested.

After being challenged by several online participants, Manning said he had chosen his words intentionally.

“I used them purposefully because I felt you all would have heard them before and you all know how offensive they are, and I wanted you to understand how offensive I find the word queer,” he said.

Another man in the audience said that he had come to the town hall to support the use of the word queer, but his mind had been changed by the comments he had heard. “I would hate to say that I’m going down to the ‘Queer Centre.’

Wouldn’t that sound strange?” he asked.

“Just think of what John Q Public is going to think.”

“Nobody should have words used on them that hurt them,” audience member Morgane Oger said. “Maybe we should come up with an inclusive word

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a false dichotomy that doesn’t actually exist, and it disappears a lot of people that locate themselves somewhere on that binary or outside of it. And it especially disappears our trans folks, as well as our two-spirited and our asexual community. Maybe queer is not the perfect term. I myself like rainbow glitter unicorns, but it’s kind of long.”

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that doesn’t exclude others that we haven’t thought about already. LGBTQand-so-on is a limiting term. It talks about a specific set of people that seems to be always growing.”

“I identify mostly as queer, because I’m anti-binaries,” another woman in the audience said. “We’re all on a spectrum, and I feel like gay and lesbian, homosexual, heterosexual — it sets up

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Results from Xtra Vancouver’s 2012 sex survey, where respondents predominantly preferred the term gay.

I see is a community,” Perelle said, as she wound down the town hall. “I see a community with very different points of view, with very different experiences, coming from different places, choosing very different words to describe themselves and each other, but still a community that’s willing to come together and share.”

“Are we a community?” she asked the

audience and panellists.

For Therien, the answer was a definitive yes. “Community is about finding and celebrating your differences and uniqueness to develop and create strength. From community you find

safety, you find safe haven, you find commonality, and you are afforded the opportunity to enrich your life,” he said.

“I don’t know if we’re a community, but we’re definitely a family,” Shopland said.

Watch the video of our town hall at dailyxtra.com/xtraqueer.

Read Xtra’s series on the word queer at dailyxtra.com.

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When the lights came on at 1181 at 4am, it could have been a rainbow. Raziel Reid • 14

For Olympic luger John Fennell, coming out was an obstacle as big as the mountains he races down

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Sitting in his luge at the start handles of the World Cup run in Latvia in January, 18-year-old John Fennell felt like he was suffocating.

“I was very anxious. I was breathing deeply and thought to myself, ‘How the hell can I be brave enough to go down this mountain if I’m not brave enough to be who I am?’”

Fennell made the Canadian Olympic team and competed in the Sochi Games one month later.

He doubts he would have made it that far had he not spoken several months earlier to openly gay Olympic swimmer Mark Tewksbury.

“I said, ‘I don’t know if I can go to Russia. I don’t think I can go,’” he recalls of his life-changing conversation with Tewksbury. “He’s integral to my success and continuance in my sport. I could not see myself going forward had I not reached out and him giving me the advice that he did. He’s, in all honesty, one of the best human beings I know.”

Without Tewksbury, things “may have played out much differently,” Fennel says. “I might have felt the need to have retired after the Olympics.

But hearing the things he has to say about the way sport culture is now, it really reformed my preconceived notions of how you’ll be treated for coming out.”

Buttressed by Tewksbury’s advice and support, Fennel reached out to some of his teammates and the Canadian Olympic Committee and entered the Sochi Games with a clear mindset, knowing he had people on his side.

Fennell grew up within view of the ski-jump tower built for Calgary’s 1988 Winter Olympic Games. Though he never really hid his sexuality, he dated girls in high school while he slowly sought to better understand himself.

He says he feared what would happen if he came out. “I would have to quit my sport,” he says he believed then. “People who were my friends wouldn’t want to be my friends anymore.”

Pre-Olympic season is stressful enough, he says, without the added burden of wrestling with coming out. It was “taxing and emotionally weighing. I had short tempers. I was snapping really quickly, even during our team debriefing.”

The lead-up to the Games was “definitely terrifying,” he says. “I had worked so hard [to] qualify for something, and having that feeling that I had to give that up, that was the hardest part.”

Added to that stress was the international pres-

After my events finished, I told myself, ‘Okay, John, you’re going to deal with this.’

John Fennell races down a luge track. The now openly gay athlete placed 27th in his first Olympic competition, in Sochi this February.

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sure being brought to bear upon Russia and the possibility that the Games’ host country, which had only months earlier passed anti-gay legislation, would be less than welcoming.

“I was terrified,” Fennell recalls, though his experience in Russia turned out to be only positive.

“It was very safe. I didn’t feel scared at all.”

Fennell competed in Sochi and finished 27th in his first Olympic competition. “After my events finished, I told myself, ‘Okay, John, you’re going to deal with this.’

“I came out to my team leader, Sam Edney. He’s very close to Anastasia [Bucsis, the Canadian Olympic speed skater who came out before the Games]. Sam put me in touch with her in Russia, and she became one of the most useful people that I have ever interacted with.

“We had numerous long talks,” he says. “She put me in touch with other athletes who were

dealing with this. She stepped up to be a personal role model for me, and what I told her recently is ‘I want to be able to help athletes like you helped me. You made me feel safe and proud of who I am.’”

When Fennell came home, he came out to his friends, family and the rest of his team. “Everyone’s been overwhelmingly supportive and there for me,” he says.

Gay youth need a voice in sports, he says now, encouraging athletes in their early teens to stick with their sport and not quit just because of their sexual orientation.

“There’s still, particularly in sport, a need for role models,” he notes. “It’s one thing when professional sports like basketball and football players are coming out, but there’s a whole plethora of different athletes who are experiencing this. You don’t have to be someone famous to come out.”

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Nightlife unites after East Side Pride From Main Street to Davie, queens and kings converged

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Canada has never been more gay than it is this summer. As WorldPride took over Toronto, Cher brought her Dressed to Kill Tour to Vancouver June 27.

I didn’t buy tickets because once you start getting in free to review events, paying begins to feel like being robbed.

Evidently Cher and opening act Cyndi Lauper did not need the press because I didn’t get approved to review the Dark Lady — the biggest mistake of her career, obviously.

However, I did live vicariously through all the drag queens on my Facebook feed who went to the concert dressed in Cher drag and got swarmed by fans wanting photos. There are a few Vancouver queens who do Cher well, but it’s Myria Le Noir and Jaylene Tyme who really make me believe.

Missing both WorldPride and the Cher concert was leaving me with little will to live, but all I needed was some help from the Pride Society (okay, and a pitcher of sangria) to bounce back.

The annual East Side Pride took place on June 28. Previously held at McSpadden Park, the celebration now covers Grandview Park. The location switch is smart: McSpadden is tucked away off Commercial, whereas Grandview is right on the Drive and attracts passersby from the street.

Spearheaded by Vancouver Pride Society event coordinator Christopher Hunte, the daylong celebration was hosted by the Queen of East Van, Isolde N Barron, and featured musical performances by Clara Shandler, Stephanie Hunter, Sarah Wheeler, Animal Atlas, Jess Cullen, Jaylene Tyme, The Brokeback Brothers and Jenny Magenta, along with DJ T and the drag kings of Man Up. There were stalls set up around the park with items such as jewellery and handmade bags for sale, as well as local groups and non-profit exhibitors and plenty of visual history, timelines and

Raziel and Isolde N Barron get some fresh air in Grandview Park June 28 for East Side Pride’s annual tribute to Stonewall. Danny Gray Fox

nostalgia to help put it all in perspective.

Perhaps the most poignant aspect of this year’s East Side Pride was that it fell 45 years to the day after the 1969 Stonewall riots. I still think the best way to honour the Stonewall uprising is with stone-cold cock, but a day of empowerment at the park works nicely, too.

With so much Pride being invoked in Toronto, East Side Pride coasted on the cross-country vibrations and spread across the city, as the witches of East and West joined forces for the night.

And there wasn’t even any melting!

Unless you count glitter mustaches.

Not only did Nicki Ravange and Lady Jem bury the hatchet (and not in the back of each other’s corsets, surprisingly) to host Monroe at Heaven’s Door, it was a true union of East Van and West End over at The Junction, with Peach Cobblah, Iona Whipp, Babette St Asia Co-Taylor and Kiki Lawhore filling in for Carlotta Gurl’s Absolutely Dragulous show while she was out of town.

Meanwhile, on Main Street, the Rough Trade: Freddie Mercury ManGlam party was going off at The Fox with hosts Shanda Leer and Isolde N Barron (the old bitch sure gets around,

doesn’t she?) calling on every drag queen and king at the venue to join them onstage. I was expecting some kind of “We Are the World” group number, but I think mostly Isolde was just drunk and wanted to show off her many, many offspring.

After the shows, there was a congregation at 1181 that blurred all East/ West lines completely. Which is a good thing, because no one at 1181 could walk in a line if their life depended on it.

Best look of the night goes to the extravagant Beardoncé, who had a glam outfit paired with a big, bushy beard and who didn’t bother to tuck.

Whether it was laziness or brilliance, the juxtaposition of her old-school drag sheen and masculinity made for a fascinating visual.

Between getting groped by drag queens and making out with a DJ, I realized that you don’t need to be at WorldPride or on the floor of a Cher concert to feel like you’re a part of something special.

When the lights came on at 1181 at 4am, it could have been a rainbow . . .

Or am I just doing too much MDMA? #HappyPride

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Thurs, July 3 Rainbow Support Group

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Timberline Vancouver’s countrywestern dance group meets every Thursday. Dancers of all levels are welcome. 7pm. St Paul’s Anglican Church, 1140 Jervis St. $10 donation partially benefits A Loving Spoonful. timberlinedance.org Ivy Winters at Liberace As a contestant on the fifth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Ivy Winters won Miss Congeniality. Doors 9pm.

Celebrities, 1022 Davie St. $5. celebritiesnightclub.com

Fri, July 4 Leather Den for Men Vancouver Men in Leather host a large space with multiple areas to play on the first Friday of each month.

8pm–2am. 8x6, 1775 Haro St. Members $10, non-members $15. meninleather.com Freedom USA ME Events offers music, hot men and a patio, all with a nod to our neighbours down south.

10pm. Heaven’s Door, 1216 Bute St. meeventsandmanagement.com

Sat, July 5 Monroe 1 Focusing on fun throwbacks, pop music and hip hop, Monroe celebrates its first anniversary. Marilyn’s Happy Hour runs 6–9pm; party goes until 2am. Heaven’s Door, 1216 Bute St. No cover before 11pm, $5 after. tfdpresents.com Dancing on the Edge Vancouver’s contemporary dance festival features the debut of What Belongs to You, a piece about desire and the senses. Festival runs until Sat, July 12; What Belongs to You repeats Sun, July 6. 8pm. Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St. Tickets $24– 30 at dancingontheedge.org.

Electric Circus ’90s Party Isolde N Barron hosts, with performances

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9pm–2am. The Cobalt, 917 Main St. $9. thecobalt.ca

Sun, July 6

Telling It Bent Workshop The frank theatre company presents a writing workshop for queer, trans, two spirit and questioning youth aged 14 to 25. Every Tuesday until Aug 26, 7–9pm. 111 W Hastings St, Ste 220. Free. For more information and to sign up, go to thefranktheatre.com or email youth@thefranktheatre.com.

Redneck Sunday Shanda Leer hosts a new Nashville-inspired weekly party. 9pm–midnight. The Bourbon, 50 W Cordova St. $10. thebourboncountry.com

The Bobbers Vancouver’s queer improv troupe brings comedy to the Village. 7–9pm. Heaven’s Door, 1216 Bute St. No cover. heavensdoor.ca

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Tues, July 8

Condom-Packing Party The Health Initiative for Men is gearing up for Pride season and needs all hands on deck to get ready for the festivities. Help prepare free condom packs while chatting with other volunteers before sharing a meal from one of our community restaurants. 6–9pm.

HIM main office, 310-1033 Davie St. checkhimout.ca

Men on Men This weekly discussion group for men who love or have sex with men meets every Tuesday at 6:30pm. Gordon Neighbourhood House, 1019 Broughton St. checkhimout.ca Shame Spiral Peach Cobblah brings 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.

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Wed, July 9 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 queens. 8–10pm.

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

Thurs, July 10 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

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their allies to embrace diversity and make new friends, with performers, workshops, contests, music, yoga, a swimmable lake and a hot tub.

Runs until Sunday.

Birken Lakeside Resort, 9179 Portage Rd, Birken, BC. $85 per person for weekend.

Call 604-763-2726 or email crystal@ runningwildproductions. co. facebook.com/ runningwildproductions AJ’s Café Join other HIV-positive 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 Show Tunes Night Sing along to clips from your favourite musicals, throw your napkins in the air for Evita, and shout out those Mommie Dearest lines. 6–9:30pm. 1181, 1181 Davie St. No cover. 1181.ca Butch: Not Like the Other Girls Author SD Holman will be in attendance to sign her new book and to introduce some of the models featured in the book, which is based on last year’s exhibit.

7–9pm. Little Sister’s, 1238 Davie St. Book is $37.95. No cover. sdholman.com Laugh Your Sexy Ass Off Kitty Nights presents two nights of world-class burlesque and comedy

Fri, July 11 Running Wild Camp Out A threeday camp for LGBT people and

Ivy Winters at Liberace — Celebrities, Thurs, July 3.

starring comedian Scott Thompson (of Kids in the Hall). A different show each night. Also featuring The Wet Spots, Cass King, John Woods and Watermelon. 8pm tonight and Saturday. Rio Theatre, 1660 E Broadway St. $35– 45 at ticketstonight.ca. kittynights.com Vancouver Men in Leather Social Vancouver Men in Leather host their monthly social in the PumpJack’s newly renovated space.

Membership renewals and sign-up will be available. 9pm. PumpJack Pub, 1167 Davie St. No cover. pumpjackpub.com

Sat, July 12 Wiggle 20 The annual wearable art and performance festival returns for its 20th birthday. With performances by Carlotta Gurl, Joan-E, Quanah Style, Conni Smudge, Vera Way, Crystal Precious, House of La Douche and many more, plus DJ Mumbles. 7–10:30pm.

Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main St. Tickets $20 at Little Sister’s, 1238 Davie St and ticketzone.com.

Cherry Pop Join Jane Smoker, with special guest Lady Jem, as they pop the drag cherry of local virgins every month and celebrate stripping, sex, glitter and grit. Next to be popped is Daniel Pitout as Sheila Tackeyew.

10:30pm–2:30am. Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main St. $12. Search “Cherry Pop” on Facebook.

Mon, July 14 Human Rights Leadership for Youth Camp 2014 This four-day workshop helps youth aged 13 to 17 develop knowledge, insight and leadership skills around human rights issues through discussions, films and guest speakers. Runs until Thurs, July 17. 10am–3pm. 319 W Pender St, Ste 430. $25 per person (scholarships available). Contact Don Wright at dwright@amnesty.ca for more information.

Wed, July 16 Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender Theatre artist Lisa Wolpe celebrates genderbending in Shakespeare as she reinterprets some of the male roles she’s played over the years, including Hamlet and Iago. 8pm. Orpheum Annex, 823 Seymour St. $20; $15 for students, seniors and arts workers at northerntickets.com.

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Vintage vacatıons Airstream trailers, reborn motels and other retro stays Aefa Mulholland

If you’re nostalgic for childhood vacations in travel trailers, caravans or motels but time has tempered your tolerance for campfire fare, cramped quarters and drab, done-in décor, fear not: a dazzling array of dapper, designconscious cabin camps, trailer parks and motels has stepped into the spotlight over the past few years.

For a streamlined stay with style, there are now a slew of reconditioned Airstream options from which to choose.

The gleaming mid-century marvels have reclaimed their place in the hearts of holiday-makers, from upstate New York to Colorado to Cape Town to the foothills of the Pyrenees in France.

With its nine retro 1940s and 1950s trailers, Bisbee, Arizona’s Shady Dell RV Park takes you back to a time when the Cold War was still hot and Tupperware was tops. The diminutive coppermining town in the Mule Mountains is unexpectedly LGBT-friendly and has a lively Pride every June.

Things also stay firmly with one foot in the ’50s in the Belrepayre Airstream and Retro Trailer Park in Mirepoix, France. Europe’s first such camping creation, the park offers an array of 10 models of Airstreams, ranging from the 1940s to the 1970s. There’s also an aluminum diner and a restaurant/bar with a vinyl-only music policy.

For an even hipper take on tin-can tourism, breeze into Berlin’s Huettenpalast, where a cache of quirky cabins and vintage trailers have come home to roost in an old factory in the Neukölln area of the city.

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be found in Cape Town on the rooftop of the Granddaddy Hotel , where seven Airstreams nestle alongside mailboxes, barbecues and an expanse of AstroTurf.

Another option that boasts both cabins and trailers comes courtesy of Kate Pierson, of The B-52s. Kate’s Lazy Meadow motel in Mount Tremper, New York, near Woodstock, adheres to the moreis-more school of décor, with nine rustic, over-the-top suites and five similarly spaced-out Airstream trailers. In Kate’s own words, “You’ll find mind-blowing mid-century modern/space-age/rocketyour-socks-off décor.” And that’s an understatement. It’s co-owned and managed by Kate’s life partner, Monica Coleman.

You’ll find plenty more parks farther west. It’s another slice of life in the past lane at Utah’s Shooting Star Drive-In. Eight trailers, including John Wayne’s digs from the set of The Searchers, an Airstream-only drive-in section and a posse of classic cars from which to watch films from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s are all on the bill at this eccentric Escalante station.

A ccommodations at Astoria’s Sou’wester, in the Pacific Northwest, range from a Silver Streak and a Spartan Manor to a Potato Bug and an African Queen.

At Colorado’s Starlite Classic Campground in the Royal Gorge, 45 minutes from Colorado Springs, Winnebagos, Tee Pee trailers and Sportsmen are just some of the constellations of camping quarters.

Motels have mutated far from the original utilitarian conformity of the

reassuringly similar rooms they were known for in the 1950s. Today’s boutique motels and reborn motor lodges offer distinctly different destinations.

A couple of the most memorable motels are in Portland, Oregon. The Jupiter is a renovated motor inn in the happening Burnside neighbourhood. Offering rooms on the “chill” or “bar patio” sides, depending on your reasons for coming — and your tolerance for noise — the 80-room, pet-friendly place also entices guests with its Doug Fir restaurant and music and club venue. The in-spot frequently hosts local luminaries, including Beth Ditto and Penny Lane. Portland is also home to The Modera, which benefited from a multimillion-dollar midcentury refit in 2008 and is now a luxe haven of impeccable hospitality on the light rail line.

North of the border, in Vancouver, the Burrard Hotel opened in 1956. Fifty years later it cast off its rough reputation and morphed into a sleek modern hotel with loaner bikes, gym passes and oodles of attitude. It’s an excellent address for downtown and gay-village social shenanigans.

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Clockwise from far left: Hotel Modera, in Portland, Oregon; the funky Thunderbird Motel, in Savannah, Georgia; Astoria’s Sou’wester, in Washington State; the Granddaddy Hotel, in Cape Town, South Africa; Kate’s Lazy Meadow in upstate New York.

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Elvis, Dean, Marilyn and Frank’s old favourite, Palm Springs, is another time capsule of a town, with its dozens of impeccably restored mid-centurymodern motels, a cool clutch of gay resorts and a stunning backdrop of the 3,000-metre San Jacinto Mountains.

So line up the martinis, relive the glory days of this oasis in the desert and avail yourself of the hospitality of super chic moteliers, such as the folks behind the quirky 170-room Ace Hotel & Swim Club, the exquisitely retro Orbit In or the fun Century gay resort.

Savannah, Georgia’s funky Thunderbird Motel has budget boutique billets within strolling distance of the 24 lush, Spanish-moss-draped squares that this southern city is famed for. It’s also just a 10-minute saunter from the infamous Club One, the haunt of notorious drag queen Lady Chablis, star of the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Meanwhile, one of the most atmospheric accommodations in LGBTfrequented Rehoboth Beach, in Delaware, is the snappy Crosswinds Motel. Centrally located, contemporary and affordable, it reopened in 1998, and

rooms were renovated from top to bottom in 2012.

Down south, two divine destinations lure lovers of luxe vintage lodgings. The Belmont Hotel, home to BarBelmont, Smoke Restaurant and fantastic downtown skyline views, in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas, is a favourite with queer travellers and other fashionconscious folks. Austin, Texas’s Hotel San José is a boutique bungalow that opened in the 1930s and now appeals to visiting arts, music and design people.

It’s crammed to its groovy gills during South by Southwest. Any time of year, grab a seat at Jo’s coffee shop and watch the action on bustling South Congress.

So, whether you fancy a redone retro room on wheels or an old-school roadhouse with every modern trapping, with all these options to choose from, it’s time for a vintage vacation.

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Alberta’s two biggest cities have plenty to offer LGBT travellers

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Calgary

There’s more to Calgary than the stereotypical cowboys and oil barons. But if your tastes run to cowboys, you’ll find plenty of those, too. In fact, the classic gay film Brokeback Mountain was filmed here. Still, Cowtown is a thoroughly modern and cosmopolitan city with lots for visitors to enjoy.

You won’t have any trouble finding country-western bars in Calgary, but if you want to freshen up your wardrobe with some authentic cowboy gear (or heck, if you want to spice up your love life with some authentic cowboy gear), you’ll find plenty of shops selling cowboy boots, jeans, Stetsons, leather gloves, spurs and everything else you’ll need to rope a cowpoke in the shops on the Stephen Avenue pedestrian mall.

You’ll also find the usual shopping mall stores, a good mix of bars and restaurants, and some cheap food trucks.

The mall ends at Olympic Plaza, where medal ceremonies for the 1988 Winter Olympics took place.

For more fine dining, interesting independent retail options and the bulk of the city’s nightlife, take a stroll along 17th Avenue SW. A more bohemian experience focused on cafés rather than bars can be found in the Kensington neighbourhood north of the Bow River.

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is a 90-minute drive west, near Drumheller: the Royal Tyrrell Museum, which houses a magnificent collection of more than 100,000 dinosaur fossil specimens that were found in the Alberta Badlands.

If you’re visiting in the winter, it’s worth making a trip to Canada Olympic Park. The facility is open year-round for training and recreation in various sports, but on certain days in the winter, the bobsled and luge track is open for visitors. It’s one of only two bobsled tracks in Canada. Sign a waiver and hit the ice — if you dare! It’s also fun to watch athletes train on the ski-jump and half-pipe courses.

Calgary’s gay nightlife scene includes the old stalwart Twisted Element, which hosts drag performances, amateur strip nights and popular dance parties on the weekends. There’s also the Texas Lounge, a small basement bar that’s re-

ally more like the lobby of a bathhouse, which you enter through a rear parking lot off 17th Avenue. The local scene magazine is the monthly GayCalgary and Edmonton, which has up-to-date event listings.

But if you’re looking for your Jack Twist, your best bet is at Calgary’s premier gay summer event, the Canadian Rockies International Rodeo — better known as the gay rodeo. The five-day event takes place in nearby Strathmore and features all the ridin’, ropin’ and racin’ you could wish for.

Sure, it’s somewhat overshadowed by the annual Calgary Stampede, which is the city’s premier event and one of the biggest rodeos in the world. But it’s nowhere near as fabulous.

Pride 2014 celebrations in Calgary take place Aug 22 through Sept 1. Visit pridecalgary.ca for more information.

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Top, the Calgary skyline. Above, the pirate ship inside the West Edmonton Mall.

Edmonton If Calgary is Canada’s Dallas, then Edmonton is the Great White North’s Austin — a hip, artsy and active city with a strong pioneering spirit not quite sullied by its great oil wealth. With a strong arts scene, shopping that could keep you busy for days, and a thriving gay and lesbian scene, there’s plenty to keep visitors busy in Edmonton.

Start with a stroll down Whyte Avenue in the Old Strathcona neighbourhood. This part of town features lots of quirky independent shops, nice restaurants and a bar and pub scene frequented mostly by a college-aged crowd. It can get pretty rowdy on weekend nights.

On the north side of the river lies the downtown core, thick with office towers and government buildings. The sprawling grounds of the Alberta Legislature make for a pleasant stroll, and the massive, colonial-style building itself is quite beautiful. At night the grounds are a popular spot for gay cruising and for straight teenagers to sneak off and make out, but be warned — police patrol the area frequently.

The North Saskatchewan River valley is the largest urban parkland in North America — larger than 20 Central Parks.

The valley cuts deeply through the city along a meandering path, and it’s lined with recreational trails, park spaces, golf courses and wildlife areas. Included in the river valley system are the four glass pyramids of the Muttart Conservatory (a biosphere hosting plants in different environments), the Edmonton Valley Zoo and the costumed historical experience at Fort Edmonton Park. In the summer months, you can cross the valley in the High Level Bridge streetcar

for some excellent views.

At night, you can take in a fine show at the Citadel Theatre or the new Winspear Centre for Music. The Varscona Theatre in Old Strathcona has been hosting the weekly drag soap opera DieNasty for more than 20 years — it’s an Edmonton institution frequented not only by the gays.

The gay scene, such as it exists in Edmonton, is centred on Jasper Avenue in downtown. The combo pub/ dance club Woodys/Buddy’s attracts a mixed, casual crowd, while the more stylish dance club is the upstart Flash nightclub. Weekly listings can be found in the local free magazine GayCalgary and Edmonton.

Finally, no trip to Edmonton can be considered complete without a stop at the massive West Edmonton Mall. The West Eddie (as the locals call it) was long the biggest mall in the world but now must settle for being the biggest mall in North America. You could easily spend days exploring it — it has a built-in hotel for when you get tuckered out. There’s also an indoor water park, a petting zoo, cinema, roller coasters, skating rink, mini golf, two night clubs, a comedy club, several large restaurants, indoor skate park, 24-hour gym, dinner theatre and a billiards and arcade complex. Among the more than 800 shops are several Edmonton-exclusive shops and the only Simons store outside of Quebec.

Edmonton celebrated Pride in early June. Check edmontonpride.ca for details for 2015.

For maps of both cities and listings of interest to LGBT travellers, go to dailyxtratravel.com.

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Summer has finally hit and things are heating up. On top of the incredible social smorgasbord for women that’s on offer during summer’s plethora of Pride celebrations, there’s also a captivating collection of women’s events happening around the world, from Greek island antics to steamy Florida fiestas.

Girl Splash

Provincetown, Massachusetts July 22–26 provincetownforwomen.com

Just one of the five fantastic women’s events that happen in this LGBTadored Cape Cod town each year, Girl Splash has a hectic calendar of daily dance parties already lined up, from the opening kickoff party and Friday’s tea dance and deck party, all the way to the closing White Party on the Sunday night.

Spend your days exploring the dunes, schmoozing on a schooner as it sails past Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod, going on an all-women’s whale watch, or mingling with the many, many women to be found roaming the colourful streets of P’town, and spend your nights at a bonfire in the dunes or on the dancefloor.

LaDIYfest Berlin, Aug 1–3 ladyfest.net

A spinoff from the original LadyFest events, this alternative women’s and trans festival takes a hands-on, opento-all approach to entertainment. Last year’s event started off with a vegan barbecue at the Tempelhofer Feld, an abandoned airport, where barbecue sites are tucked between runways. It’s definitely a unique spot to grill tofu.

Along with the array of film nights, concerts, parties and live music on the schedule, this fest stands out from the crowd with options that include drumming lessons and haircuts. Cutting edge, indeed.

Lesbomonde Reunion Montreal, Aug 2 diverscite.org

Following up on 2013’s event, which was without doubt the best ladies’ beach party in Canada, held on the sands of the St Lawrence River, this year Lesbomonde covers up and heads indoors for this super-hot girl party on the islands of the St Lawrence. Details are still to come, but book early for this one.

Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Hart, Michigan, Aug 5–10 michfest.com

Depending on the weather, Michigan can be equal parts mud and music, but the six-day extravaganza is always an amazing experience that attracts nearly 10,000 women to 650 wooded acres in the state’s northwest. Affinity groups abound, with activities and workshops for pretty much any interest you can dream up. Daytime programming tends to offer music and comedy, early evening acts include theatre and dinnertime dramatics, while the night stage boasts the big draws, with this year’s heroines including Elvira Kurt, Bitch and Melissa Ferrick. Presumably, Jewish lesbians won’t want to miss the Isle of Klezbos all-women klezmer sextet.

Taking over the Rumors all-suite boutique resort, this weekend-long celebration is Sin City’s most alluring women’s event. Parties by day and night, pop stars, comedy, poker and a parade are just some of the enticements on the table for those who want to strike out for Nevada this September.

The 14th International Eressos Women’s Festival Skala Eressos, Lesbos, Greece Sept 6–20 womensfestival.eu

Workshops and walks, massages and reiki, art and photography workshops and exhibitions, outings and safaris, plus the company of women from all over the world are just some of the draws of this event at the ultimate lesbian destination. Folk music from Greece, Turkey and other areas of the Mediterranean lines up alongside DJ nights, fashion shows, open-air cinema showings and rock-climbing demos. Run by Sappho Women, this is definitely the only women’s festival on this list that offers the opportunity to learn how to master Greek dancing.

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Women-only, feminist antics take the podium at this political festival in East London. Open to all women-identified people raised as girls, events are aimed at feminist activists, writers and creatives. Events include comedy, live music performances, speakers and workshops.

Womenfest

Key West, Florida, Sept 4–7 womenfest.com

The tropical island delight of Key West, the southernmost point in the continental US, puts on this steamy social booking every September. A wonderfully walkable island, dotted with sixand seven-toed cats and free-roaming chickens, Key West is a quirky wee place with a decidedly LGBT ambiance and a character all its own. It even proclaims itself The Conch Republic, although everyone’s too laid-back to actually make any serious efforts toward independence. Highlights of Womenfest include eco tours, jet skiing, snorkelling and dolphin-watching trips, golfing among the palm trees, drag shows, yoga, speed dating, karaoke, comedy, cocktail parties, concerts and contests. The Bourbon Street Pub, an LGBT mecca, has a hectic itinerary, including the Beach Blanket Butch and Babe Bash, complete with tiki bar and hot tub, and the Burly Burlesque Show, while women-owned resort Pearl’s puts on the pool parties and Itsy Bitsy Bikini Contests.

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