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Queer: echoes of hate, and pride GUEST EDITORIAL MATTHEW DIMERA

While observing Xtra’s June 18 town hall on the use of “gay” versus “queer,” I was struck more by who skipped the discussion than who chose to participate.

Where were the youth?

Granted, by hosting the event at the Fountainhead Pub, a certain subset below the age of 19 was automatically excluded. But, aside from two members of the invited panel, the 20-somethings who tend to embrace the word queer were absent. Earlier meetings of the discussion groups that led up to the town hall were also dominated primarily by people over the age of 40.

But many of the young people I’ve met in my communities, through LGBT youth groups, through university and through the reporting I’ve done for Xtra, identify strongly and passionately with “queer.”

One of the town hall’s panellists, Andrew Shopland, talked about the importance of intergenerational discussion — teaching and learning that goes both ways, between youth and elders. But that kind of discussion can’t happen when one party isn’t participating.

As participant after participant chimed in favouring the word gay or lesbian or some other as-of-yetunthought-of umbrella term, I wondered where the “queer” defenders were. Their absence raised an equally troubling question for me: are we still a single community? Is the disagreement over what we call ourselves a portent of a deeper, growing rift, or is it just a symptom of a generational difference?

I didn’t grow up during a time where “queer” was used as the slur de jour; “homo” and “faggot” were the insults most commonly heard in the halls of my suburban high school. So, I readily admit to not knowing what it feels like to hear the ugliness of the word queer from the mouth of homophobic attackers, like many gay and lesbian elders have.

And I sympathize with the idea that some words can’t or shouldn’t be reclaimed. As a mixed-race black man, I still refuse to use the N-word, aloud or in print, because of its abominable history.

I can’t speak for our gay elders and their lived experiences, and I understand the refusals of those who have rejected “queer” for themselves because they still hear the echoes of hate in the word. But, within those

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same echoes, I hear swells of pride and I hear myself.

I am gay, and I am queer. I am gay in that I am attracted to other men.

I am queer in the way that I see the world and in the way that I want it to change for the better.

However, I certainly don’t think we should be forcing the word onto an entire community who may not feel the same way as I do.

To me, queer is political. Queer is loud. Queer encompasses the L, the G, the B, the T and every other letter and number within our communities.

When people self-identify as queer, I hear two things: first, that they are referring to their gender or sexual identities and that they are committed to fighting against homophobia and transphobia; but second, that they are just as committed to fighting racism, ableism, sexism, classism and all other harmful “isms.”

To me, it signifies a resistance to the overwhelming corporate presence at our Pride parade and a resistance to pinkwashing by businesses and politicians.

Rightly or wrongly, that’s how many of the younger generation see the word and why they are so reluctant to give it up. Maybe that’s why they weren’t interested in joining the conversation.

Matthew DiMera is a freelance reporter with Xtra.

FEEDBACK Gay-panic defence Great reporting [“Dolan Badger’s Killer Sentenced to Three Years in Jail,” Xtra #544, July 3]. Clearly even if Dolan had made an advance, murdering him is not the defence. Plenty of chances to call RCMP or escape the situation. Dolan would not have aggressively tried to stop it. This should have gone to trial.

This is a huge miscarriage of justice, and something is wrong with the court system. The gay community should be outraged and in the streets.

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This is very touchy. Gay panic or victim blame? If William Robert Kootenay had been a heterosexual woman, there is no way that a piece like this would have ever been published or even written.

I would even go so far as to argue that no charges would have been laid. We would all be taking the accusation of rape at face value.

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Trans-unfriendly travel “Eight Great Summer Events for Women” [Xtra #544, July 3] listed tourist destinations from Toronto WorldPride to LaDIYfest in Berlin. While those two events welcome all women, two other listed events — the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival and FemiFest of London — forbid entry to transgender women.

In fact, they have made themselves famous for doing so, and serve as a kind of hub for transphobic organizing. The Indigo Girls recently boycotted Michfest for this reason.

I’m not sure what’s more galling:

that these festivals are willing to fight transgender communities or that they brand themselves as “feminist antioppression spaces” while excluding transgender women who not only experience sexism as do cis women, but are also marginalized, impoverished and over-incarcerated.

So it’s irking that these events are part of a queer-friendly travel guide.

It’s also irking that the article indirectly describes Femifest’s transphobia (“open to all women-identified people raised as girls”) either without grasping or without caring that this is a euphemism for “no transgenders.”

I wish this oversight was the exception. Yet all too often transphobic policies get past LGB organizing without objection. I have hope, though. Forty years ago women’s liberation organizations excluded lesbians and bisexuals.

These polices and the community indifference of them were swept away in the tide of herstory — by which, I mean countless hours of education and activism. The same should happen here. On to a better future!

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Nanaimo City Council drops ban on ‘divisive’ events Mayor apologizes and reaches out to ‘men and women of all faiths’ FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION NATHANIEL CHRISTOPHER

Nanaimo City Council has rescinded a controversial decision to stop a webcast sponsored by Chickfil-A from taking place in a city-owned facility.

The original motion, passed May 5, had banned any events “associated with organizations or people that promote or have a history of divisiveness, homophobia, or other expressions of hate” from the Vancouver Island Conference Centre (VICC).

The motion specifically targeted Leadercast, which is sponsored by Chick-fil-A, hosted in Nanaimo by the Nanaimo Daily News, and streamed live online. Council voted to cancel the event just four days before it was scheduled to take place at the VICC in May. It rescinded the new policy banning “divisive” events on July 3.

“This is a very challenging time for Nanaimo,” Mayor John Ruttan says. “I think people who know Nanaimo realize that it is a very inclusive society, and we do everything we can to make people of all religious faiths and beliefs comfortable here.”

Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy ignited controversy in 2012 when he stated that his company supported the “biblical definition” of marriage. Since 2003, Chick-fil-A’s charitable arm, the WinShape Foundation, has donated approximately $5 million to anti-gay-marriage groups and other organizations that oppose homosexuality.

Chick-fil-A was scheduled to sponsor the Leadercast last year, but the Nanaimo Daily News pulled out after a public outcry from some members of the local LGBT community.

Ruttan says the situation escalated this year “largely due to Eastern media that caused a bit of a very political issue across the country.”

He says the original decision to deny the event’s organizers access to a city-owned space was not intended to “offend people of faith.”

Ezra Levant, of Sun News, brought national attention to the issue on his evening talk show when he repeatedly derided Nanaimo councillors who MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM

Pastor Darcy Sigglekow expressed concern that Nanaimo’s original decision to ban controversial events from city-owned facilities would wrongly identify him as “divisive, homophobic or a hater.” DARCY SIGGLEKOW

supported the motion as “bigots” and claimed they hate Christian values. He also denounced the motion as “the most disgraceful act of discrimination that I’ve seen in Canada in all my life.”

“Anytime there is a government vote to marginalize or ban ideas that some politicians think are divisive, gay Canadians should oppose that because

that is a tactic that is not liberal,” he tells Xtra.

“That is a tactic that grants political censorship to public office holders. That’s a tactic that’s been used against gays in the past and will be used against gays in the future if we set this precedent.”

The May 5 motion was introduced by Councillor Fred Pattje following a conversation he had

with Vancouver Island Rainbow Association vice-president ET Turner, who expressed concern about the event’s connection to Chick-fil-A and its inclusion of American psychologist and author Henry Cloud as a speaker.

“He’s a psychiatrist who is very strong on the fact that he believes that matters gay can be fixed with reparative therapy,” Pattje alleged of Cloud. “So that alone, apart from the connection with Chick-fil-A, was enough for me to make this motion.”

Xtra could find no evidence that Cloud either endorses or performs reparative therapy. Cloud did not respond to a request for comment.

“To me, this motion was not anti-Christian; it was anti-divisiveness and -homophobia,” Turner says, “but it has been turned around to being antiChristian by a small portion of the city population.

“If this was held in a private facility, we wouldn’t have had a problem with it,” he continues. “It was being put in a publicly funded and publicly owned facility. They weren’t putting it in a church or a hall — there are lots of halls in Nanaimo to have your function in. They chose, once again, to rent the VICC, which was built with taxpayer money and maintained with taxpayer money.”

Several Nanaimo residents expressed concern that the motion unfairly stigmatized Christians.

Pastor Darcy Sigglekow spoke to council June 16 on behalf of the Nanaimo Evangelical Fellowship, which he describes as an informational relational network of pastors from approximately 25 churches in the area.

“As I stated during our delegation to council, it was extremely concerning that the motion would wrongly identify me, or someone else who holds similar views on this issue, [as] divisive, homophobic or a hater,” he says. “We hold that the scriptures speak to the issue of homosexuality, and we hold an opinion that we would not be supportive of that lifestyle. But at the same time, as a Canadian, I respect and hold that other people disagree with my opinion, and that’s what makes our country great.”

At a council meeting on June 23, Ruttan issued a formal apology and read a statement affirming the rights of “men and women of all faiths” to use city facilities in accordance with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and BC’s Human Rights Code.

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Testosterone and the gay men who take it medicinally HEALTH NIKO BELL

In our series on anabolic steroids and gay men, Xtra has looked at why young gay men are more likely to use steroids than their straight peers and how it might affect their health in the coming decades.

So far, we have looked only at illegal, recreational steroid use. Many gay men, however, take testosterone for medical reasons — from tackling HIV to genetic conditions to old age. In the third and final part of our series, we share their stories as well.

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n his late 50s, Mike realized he was more violent than he had ever been as a drug dealer.

In his years of peddling to feed his addiction, he never had to resort to violence. At six feet four inches, his mere presence was enough to keep danger at bay.

“I’m a charmer,” he says. “I’m a talker.

You make them laugh, you know? You only have to have the appearance of being intimidating.”

So why, then, after hitting rock bottom, after walking away from drugs with the seemingly miraculous help of a psychologist, after getting his real estate business back on track, was he suddenly so angry all the time?

“I was like a grizzly bear,” he says.

“You came near me or you stepped on

Prescribed by a doctor, testosterone can greatly enhance a man’s quality of life, both physically and emotionally.

“It was like someone was trying to tell me something,” he says.

That someone was a doctor, soon to become Mike’s GP, who diagnosed him with low testosterone. After running a few blood tests, he put Mike on a regi-

To be honest with you, with the way it keeps me mentally, I’ll probably stay on it for the rest of my life unless my doctors tell me no.

MIKE, TESTOSTERONE USER my paw or you said something to me the wrong way, I’d snap. It was irrational.

It’s a horrible way to be.”

A flyer came in the mail: “Do you have these symptoms?” He checked them all off, then crumpled it up and threw it away. The next week another came.

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men of 100 milligrams a week.

“My attitude changed immensely,” Mike says. “My family started to like me again. And I haven’t been charged with homicide.”

On testosterone, he regained control of his temper and his life. He was able

to strip away some extra weight at the gym. Mentally, he felt sharp. Physically, he felt back in his 20s.

“To be honest with you, with the way it keeps me mentally, I’ll probably stay on it for the rest of my life unless my doctors tell me no,” he says.

Mike worries sometimes about the health effects of testosterone injections, but his doctor — like many experts in the field today — says that low doses are relatively safe. His injections are a tiny fraction of what a bodybuilder might use.

And for Mike, testosterone prevented a much darker fate. “There’s nothing worse than being a grumpy old bugger,” he says.

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urray, a retired teacher, remembers how steroids saved his life, then almost killed him again. He was working in London when he was admitted to hospital with blood leaking into his brain. He

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had HIV, and his platelet count was so low he was hemorrhaging. The only thing that would save his life, a doctor told him hurriedly, was to raise his platelet count quickly. The only thing that would do that was a massive shot of steroids — larger, Murray says, than his nurse had ever seen.

The shot worked but created problems of its own. Murray also had diabetes, and the waves of testosterone coursing through his veins sent his blood sugar into uncontrollable loops.

One moment he would be violently ill, the next semi-conscious. For the next week, he checked his blood sugar every 15 minutes and took insulin six times a day.

Murray does not remember steroids fondly. “They are really horrible shit,” he says. “I think people who use steroids recreationally are really setting themselves up for a lot of problems. Like, if you have diabetes, I mean, you go blind.

You lose your feet. You die.”

avid, a hotel night manager in Ottawa, has soared and dived on a testosterone roller coaster his whole life. At 27, he was diagnosed with Klinefelter syndrome, a genetic condition caused by the unusual combination of two X chromosomes in addition to one Y chromosome. The extra chromosome comes with a host of challenges, including arthritis, poor coordination — David was never much of an athlete — and, most importantly, low testosterone.

His first testosterone capsules gave him the first hair on his chest and face, along with some disturbingly wild dreams. He took the capsules for seven years but then lost his extended health plan. No sooner had he stopped taking the drugs but his personality swerved for the worse.

“I had a lack of self-esteem,” he says.

“I wasn’t assertive. I was in a bad relationship. I was in my first gay relationship, and I allowed a man who was a little bit older than me to use me as his punching bag.”

David fell into depression and gained 100 pounds. His wake-up call finally arrived when he discovered his partner had been sitting on a latent syphilis infection for two years. He left, got a new job and started taking his medication again.

His personality reversed. He became more confident, more dominant and more reckless. He switched from bottom to inveterate top. “There’s nothing passive about me anymore,” he says.

His new hormones have also made him firmly non-monogamous.

“Because of the testosterone, I don’t think there’s a man out there who could take the amount of sex I require,” he laughs.

Even though his shots are for a medical condition, David doesn’t tell his friends, or even the front-desk staff at his clinic, what he’s injecting into his thigh every week. They think he’s taking B-12 vitamins. A tacit silence surrounds testosterone, he has found, from his nurses to his doctor.

“I’m not sure why the stigma, to be honest,” he says. “You’d think a guy my age getting testosterone shots would be a normal thing, but it’s always been that way.”

Although he dislikes the stigma, when David read Xtra’s coverage of young gay men using steroids, he was shaken.

“Tell the young men that they don’t know what fire they’re playing with,” he says.

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BC Law Society delays new TWU decision The Law Society of British Columbia delayed making a new decision July 11 on whether to allow graduates of Trinity Western University’s (TWU) proposed law school to practise in BC. The BC Law Society had initially agreed to accredit the graduates in April, but a membership petition forced a special general meeting in June to reconsider the matter. Members at that meeting overwhelmingly urged the society’s board of directors to rescind its earlier approval and vote again.

The board’s approval in April was based largely on a 2001 Supreme Court of Canada decision that upheld TWU’s right to teach Christian values and to insist that its students sign a covenant

Surrey Councillor and Acting Mayor Judy Villeneuve reads the city’s Pride Week proclamation July 6 at Holland Park. DAVID P BALL

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‘Three-flagpole excuse just an excuse,’ speaker says at Pride PRIDE DAVID P BALL

Despite disappointment with Surrey City Council’s refusal to raise the rainbow flag again this year, Pride organizers say a strong showing by city officials at the July 6 festival in Holland Park is a sign of positive things to come.

“It was good to see their turnout,” Surrey Pride Society vice-president Shawn Ewing tells Xtra. “They’re certainly willing to have conversations, not only about the flag issue, but about the festival itself and helping to grow it. Out of the controversy of the flag has come some new ground to work with.”

The city’s ongoing reluctance to raise the rainbow flag was mentioned in many of this year’s speeches from the stage in Holland Park, although many speakers also acknowledged the city’s Pride Week proclamation and its financial support.

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flags, they say.

“We did not vote against flying the Pride flag. That’s been misreported a number of times,” Councillor and Acting Mayor Judy Villeneuve tells Xtra.

“We did a lot of research on flag policy and what has been our policy . . . But I appreciate the Pride organizers bringing to our attention the fact that different communities would like to have a flagpole actually outside city hall.

We’ll move in that direction. It would be lovely to have a community pole.”

In his recent travels to Canadian cities of various sizes, Mr Gay Canada says, he’s learned that other communities have had no such problems with protocol. “There’s always a solution,” Christepher Wee tells Xtra. “The threeflagpole excuse is just an excuse.”

“I don’t understand why our provincial government in Victoria can fly our flag, but there’s a problem here in Surrey,” he adds.

Wee suggests either having corporate sponsors donate funds toward a new, fourth flagpole for community events or raising the rainbow on the same pole as the current City of Surrey flag.

agreeing to uphold Christian biblical teachings, including no premarital sex and no homosexuality. Though many board members expressed their distaste for the covenant, they said their hands were tied by the existing legal decision.

Attendees at the special general meeting June 10 disagreed, saying the society is responsible for setting the legal course in BC. Law society directors faced three possible motions when they reconsidered the issue on July 11. One director suggested the board accept the special general meeting’s resolution and reopen the vote in September.

Another suggested the issue be put

to a binding referendum of the full membership of the society, some 11,000 lawyers. A third suggested the decision be suspended until pending BC, Ontario and Nova Scotia lawsuits related to TWU’s proposed law school are heard in December.

TWU has said it is suing the law societies of Ontario and Nova Scotia for refusing to accredit its graduates, while the BC government faces a lawsuit of its own from gay plaintiff Trevor Loke, who says its approval of TWU is discriminatory.— Jeremy Hainsworth For more on these stories, go to dailyxtra.com.

A different kind of dentist House of Teeth is Sean Sikorski’s new vision in dentistry STOREFRONT Spend a few minutes with Sean Sikorski and you quickly realize he is not your typical dentist. After 13 years serving the dental needs of residents in Canada’s poorest postal code, he is about to make a move to East Broadway with his new dental experiment, House of Teeth.

“I am borrowing a page from Paris Is Burning and Alexander McQueen,” explains Sikorski, who is busy getting his new idea for dentistry ready for an end-of July opening.

“I didn’t want to go back to a private practice, and I didn’t want to open a clinic. I wanted something else. I decided to open a ‘house.’”

His inspiration comes in part from a piece of gay history he calls beautiful and unique and in part from his passion for art. “I’m about to graduate from Emily Carr [University of Art and Design], and that is how the House of McQueen comes in to play,” he explains. “The House of Teeth is being created not only to care for people, but to be creative and push boundaries.”

While reinventing his dental practice might sound like a risky venture, for Sikorski it is just another in a long line of challenges undertaken with a desire to do the right thing.

“It is just as much about good dentistry as it is about good humanity,” he says.

And while Sikorski freely admits that he isn’t exactly sure what the House of Teeth will look like when it opens, there is little doubt it will put a smile on your face.

The House of Teeth is being created not only to care for people, but to be creative and push boundaries.

Dentist Sean Sikorski is planning a late-July launch for his new project, the House of Teeth on East Broadway Street.

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I wasn’t just hit by a heatwave at The Fox; I was also hit by a wave of inspiration. Raziel Reid E16

‘Same Love’ soprano comes to town Mary Lambert headlines upcoming Vancouver Folk Fest MUSIC DENISE SHEPPARD

With 122 million YouTube views and counting, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s two-year-old ode to “Same Love” has touched people around the world, but few lives have changed as dramatically as Mary Lambert’s.

Lambert, who wrote and performed the “I can’t change, even if I tried” chorus on Macklemore’s hit, has, in about 20 months, gone from crooning in coffee shops to singing a duet with Madonna at the Grammys and jamming with Jennifer Hudson at the MTV Video Music Awards.

The songwriter/slam poet lives in Seattle and this month is coming north to headline the Vancouver Folk Festival.

Lambert’s road to stardom started with a latenight phone call from her friend Hollis WongWear, who had just contributed a chorus for Macklemore & Lewis’s song “White Walls.”

“We were in the poetry world together,” Lambert says. “She was VANCOUVER such a big supporter of my work and FOLK FESTIVAL suggested me for the song. I think Fri, July 18–Sun, July 20 Jericho Beach Park the boys had tried everybody. I was thefestival.bc.ca a last resort because they had run out of options!”

Lambert laughs. “I wrote the hook in about two hours, they loved it, and I loved it too! It was a match made in heaven.”

That it was: while Macklemore’s supportive, anti-homophobia lyrics are deeply compelling, Lambert’s gorgeous soprano singing “she keeps me warm” is an integral part of the track’s appeal.

Less than a month after the CD’s release, Lambert and the band were fast-tracked to fame. When the group performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen introduced them as “my new heroes.”

Lambert’s life hasn’t been the same since.

As the Spider-Man saying goes, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Lambert continues to push emotional envelopes in her own solo career, living as an out, proud lesbian, writing a size-empowerment spoken-word piece entitled “Body Love,” and speaking publicly in interviews Mary Lambert’s life has changed dramatically as a survivor of sexual abuse and other traumas. since writing and performing the chorus for “As soon as you can put that first card down and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s hit “Same Love.” say, ‘This happened to me’ and be open about it, She’s performing at the Vancouver Folk Festival on Sunday, July 20. VANCOUVER FOLK FESTIVAL it really becomes healing, both for you and for

I think the boys [Macklemore & Ryan Lewis] had tried everybody. I was a last resort because they had run out of options!

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the other persons,” she says. “We are harbouring a lot of guilt as survivors, and that is complete bullshit. I want to eradicate that as much as I can in my career.”

Though she’s hard at work on her first fulllength solo record, dubbed Heart on My Sleeve and intended for release in October, Lambert says she’s thrilled to play the folk festival for the very first time.

“I’m so excited. I believe I’ll have my band up there with me. I love Vancouver so much!” she says.

Other LGBT performers slated to play this year’s festival include longtime folkie Ferron, who will not only perform as she’s done many times since

the festival began in the late 1970s, but will also join a group of First Nations women as they honour their ancestors’ spirits with song and drumming on opening night.

Bluegrass fans can warm to the roots-infused sounds of Ashleigh Flynn & the Back Porch Majority. Flynn’s most recent CD, A Million Stars, features a collection of stories involving noteworthy — but under-noticed — groundbreakers and genderbenders from the Wild West.

Guitar legend Nina Gerber (who has played with Jackson Browne, Bruce Cockburn and Nanci Griffith) will also be performing alongside singer/ songwriter Eliza Gilkyson.

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Taking Root A more stable Queer Arts Fest regenerates

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or Rachel Iwaasa, Re- as Russia, Iran, Hong Kong Generations means cul- and Trinidad to speak visutivating new connections ally about their particular across age, boundaries, experiences. experience and borders.

“We’re not that much different on “This year our focus another level from some of the things is on mentoring tight relationships,” that people in different parts of the the artistic director of Vancouver’s world experience,” Laiwan says. “They multidisciplinary Queer Arts Festival just might be different in scale, and they (QAF) says. Whereas previous festivals might be different in terms of spectacle. have facilitated shorter workshops and It’s not about comparing us, saying that mentorship programs, this year’s pro- we have it easy here compared to there, grams will last longer and, she hopes, but to be able to say, ‘In what ways can go deeper for participants and men- we be better allies or have better nettors alike. works around this?’”

One such participatory workshop One of the more controversial — and spent two months encouraging gay well-known — of the visiting artists is refugees and immigrants to express South African “visual activist” Zanele themselves through painting, assisted Muholi. In her home of South Africa, by mentors from Jordan and Colombia. lesbians, especially black lesbians, live The results will be shared during the in daily fear of violence and death. Using festival along with an international almost an anthropological portraiture art exhibition, curated by multidisci- approach to photography, Muholi has plinary artist Laiwan, called Queering documented lesbian lives, deaths and the International, which relationships in South Afwill feature the work of rica, including her own, QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL established and emerging since 2006.

Wed, July 23–Sat, Aug 9 gay artists from around Her work has been Roundhouse Community Centre the world. publicly derided at home; 181 Roundhouse Mews “Art is meant to expand in 2009, it was called queerartsfestival.com our perceptions, expand “pornographic” and “imour worldview,” Laiwan moral” by then-minister says, “and I think it won’t do that if we’re of arts and culture Lulu Xingwana. It not including people from everywhere has also been widely appreciated and in the world. That is my interest here, exhibited, including in a current solo to bring all of those worlds into this show at Ryerson University in Toronto. exhibition at the Roundhouse.”

Other notable artists exhibiting at A prominent figure in Vancouver’s art Queering the International are Canascene since founding Or Gallery in 1983, dian filmmaker John Greyson, who Laiwan has brought together 21 queer was detained in Egypt in 2013, and Tejal artists from backgrounds as diverse Shah, an Indian lesbian video artist

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who describes her gay- and feministfocused art as “political” in a country where homosexuality was recriminalized last year.

Many refugee artists living in Canada will also be featured in the show, offering unique perspectives as newcomers and, at times, outsiders to Canadian society. “I see the project solely as a seed; it’s like a beginning,” Laiwan says.

“The show really celebrates the variety of experiences that people come from.

So it’s not homogenous, it’s not simple; a lot of the stories are very complicated.”

Another group of artists attempting to tell heretofore untold stories is Cor Flammae, an all-queer professional classical choral group dedicated to queer-focused content that bills itself as Canada’s first such ensemble.

Managing director Missy Clarkson was so inspired by a performance at last year’s Queer Arts Festival that she quickly rounded up 21 eager singers and two composers from Vancouver’s professional choral scene.

The timing was right, she says. “They came out of the woodwork and word spread . . . I could tell that there was a need, because the answer was always resoundingly, ‘Yes, I want this, this is my dream, let’s do it,’” she says.

Clarkson and co-founders Madeline Hannan-Leith and Amelia Pitt-Brooke brought the idea of a Cor Flammae festival performance to the QAF board, and the answer, again, was a resounding ‘yes,’ she says. “They said, ‘We don’t have

Octogenarian Colin Tilney, a pioneer in the early-music movement, will perform a solo harpsichord recital on Friday, July 25 at the Queer Arts Festival. BELLE ANCELL

the money, and we don’t have the room, but we’re going to find some money, and we’re going to make some room.’”

The choir’s performance on July 24 is meant to highlight hidden stories from classical music’s queer history, but that’s not the only objective of the group’s

formation: it’s a way for queer choral singers to open up and be themselves while practising their art, where often it’s one or the other, Clarkson says.

“People don’t necessarily feel entirely welcome to be their full selves. There’s a lot of erasure,” she explains.

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“It was really interesting to see how comfortable people got so quickly because we didn’t have to pretend,” says Missy Clarkson, managing director of queer choral group Cor Flammae, which will debut at the Queer Arts Festival on Thursday, July 24.

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“It was really interesting to see how comfortable people got so quickly because we didn’t have to pretend, because you’re usually wearing a muumuu with shoulder pads, and maybe you want to be wearing a suit, and maybe you’re singing and pretending that you don’t have a same-sex partner.

“We have a comfortable connection to each other, to the composers,” she says. “We just want to do justice to the experience of the music, and hopefully that’s what we do.”

Colin Tilney, who turns 80 this year, has emerged as a leader in the last few decades of classical music, performing pieces with the instruments for which they were originally composed. The early-music pioneer, whose body of work includes a long list of prestigious harpsichord and piano recordings, doesn’t open up readily, preferring to keep his private life private.

“Having been conventionally married for the first half of my musical life, with two daughters, it’s not likely that I should have experienced discrimination,” Tilney says in an email to Xtra.

He and his current partner married three years after Canada legalized samesex marriage. “When my partner, William, retired in 1988, the RTO [Retired Teachers of Ontario] allowed us joint medical coverage under common law,” Tilney says. “When we married in 2008, it was partly to confirm what we feel for each other and partly to set our future life together on a firmer and clearer foundation.”

Despite his reserved demeanour, Tilney reveals that one of the highlights of his career was “delighting my partner on our first meeting by playing him Scarlatti in the nude.”

Tilney’s upcoming QAF performance, entitled Colin Tilney Celebrates LXXX, will include music by Scarlatti, as well as by Bach, Couperin and South African lesbian composer Priaulx Rainier.

Having lost, then regained, three quarters of its federal funding last year and more recently received stable operating funding from the BC government as well as a five-percent increase from the federal government, Iwaasa says the festival is financially secure for now.

Still, she hopes community members will contribute to the festival’s future to shift its reliance away from government funding. “One of our goals this year is to talk to our audience and community, who aren’t necessarily used to thinking of the Queer Arts Festival as a place where they can go for their taxable donations,” she says.

“It would be fair to say that we are one of the fastest-growing cultural festivals in Canada,” she says. “We have an incredible pool of artists to choose from.

It makes it very easy to curate a festival that’s going to be amazing. It’s not hard to find great queer artists.”

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The Wiggle inferno Despite the heat, the House of Venus still inspires BLITZ & SHITZ

RAZIEL REID

Oh my god, why was there no air conditioning?

I don’t care if it’s bad for your vocal chords; I’m not Whitney Houston, although if you don’t cool down the clubs, I will full-out crack attack your sadistic ass.

The crowd at Wiggle 20 at The Fox was as sticky and listless as a dick that has just come and gone soft in a very, very warm asshole. I may not be Whitney, but I almost became Madonna in that YouTube video (“Madonna Being a Bitch”) where, in a clipped English accent, she demands her assistant bring her a fan because she’s

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so hot she can’t possibly do an interview.

Menopausal lady of the manor Madonna is my absolute favourite!

I could’ve used a fan, and an assistant for that matter, at Wiggle. As I melted, I pretended The Fox was a steam room at a bathhouse, which wasn’t that hard to do when Carlotta Gurl started deepthroating the mic.

Wiggle had all the ingredients: drag queens, dancers and the wearable art synonymous with the House of Venus.

But despite the appropriate mix, Venus didn’t fully rise. I give it half a woody out of one, even though there were many fabulous moments that got my blood flowing.

I desperately wish Michael Venus lived in Vancouver all year round. Our scene needs him! Not only do I adore his vacuous, ethereal demigod drag counterpart Cotton, but the House of Venus is full of innovation. I wasn’t just

hit by a heatwave at The Fox; I was also hit by a wave of inspiration.

The highlight of the night was Vera Way, who makes drag the ultimate craft project and always has a surprise. She performed the same lines of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on repeat as sung by all the divas, from Gwen Stefani to Bette Midler. She had a wig for each singer, and her impressions were hilarious.

I was expecting more out-of-the-box drag performances, though, because when I interviewed Michael ahead of Wiggle’s anniversary, he said queens usually step up their game when visiting Venus. It isn’t supposed to be like a night on Davie, but it kind of was.

Joan-E’s toilet humour fell as flat as her live voice. Carlotta Gurl did “Donatella” and didn’t stand a chance — after Jane Smoker slayed the song while snorting a bag of cocaine at an Artpop release party, why even try? And also,

I’m not sure Gaga at Wiggle is good judgment. Is this The Junction?

Conni Smudge brought the camp during her performance, but on the mic she was like a drunk aunt at a family wedding who won’t end her toast, which was somewhat understandable since the nostalgia was running deep both on- and offstage.

Just because those three ladies are Vancouver landmarks and have been performing at Wiggle since its inception doesn’t let them off the hook. This was a grand show, and as its pillars, I think they could have carried a heavier weight.

Am I speaking too much T? I should always write this column when I’m strung out! Now excuse me while I go hide from the seven-foot men in dresses . . .

Other performers included Crystal Precious, the rapping burlesque diva with awe-inspiring confidence. And

wigs off to House of La Douche for those dance moves in that heat. Jonathan Kol and Ikue Ueno had the audience boiling over.

The models walked like whimsical zombies, and the music by DJ Mumbles was flawless. Peeka Boo took to the catwalk with Lippy Willow, Pussy Willow’s new drag persona. She’s a doll whose East Van summer is being documented

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Cotton Venus may not want people to know that she actually feels, but it was hard for her not to be overcome with emotion for her little freak show that could. Rumour has it the next decade might see Wiggle go international. Berlin is calling, and so, 20 years on, Venus may still peak yet.

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with special guest performers Myria Le Noir, Oliv, Imelda Mae Santos, Buster Cherry and more. Doors 6pm, show 8pm. Penthouse Nightclub, 1019 Seymour St. $20.

Big Joy This award-winning documentary traces the life and career of James Broughton, a leading figure in American avant-garde cinema and a pioneering voice in gay liberation.

Screens tonight at 6:30pm and Wednesday at 8:20pm, preceded

by Broughton’s erotic landmark The Bed. The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St. $9–11 at thecinematheque.ca.

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Thurs, July 17 Fruit Camps Get outside with the Health Initiative for Men’s one-hour outdoor workouts for gay guys at all fitness levels.

Work out Monday to Friday in the evening and Saturday mornings, rain or shine. 6:30–7:30pm.

Sessions offered sometimes at Nelson Park, sometimes at the Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews. Free. For location, visit checkhimout.ca.

dungeon, with 12 play stations in the main space and four discreet stations for those who like more privacy. 8pm–1am. WISE Hall, 1882 Adanac St. $20. rascals-club.com

Sat, July 19 Rascal’s Club Pride Masquerade Party This BDSM/fetish play party features a fully equipped

For all our Pride listings, check out Xtra’s Ultimate Pride Guide, inserted in this issue and available online at upgvancouver.com

Tomboy: The Relaunch

Mon, July 21 Condom-Packing Party

The popular party for girls who like girls is moving to a new venue on the East Side and will take place the third Saturday of every month. Megan Sehn hosts, with resident DJ Kasey Riot, guest DJ Cherchez and some sexy burlesque.

9pm–2am. Fox Cabaret, 2321 Main St. $5. kaseyriot.com

Pride is coming and the guys at the Health Initiative for Men could use a hand packaging condoms and lube for distribution. 6–9pm. HIM office, 1033 Davie St, #310. checkhimout.ca

Sun, July 20 Passing of a Legacy Chief and Princess XXXVI proudly present One Heart, One Beat, One Drum,

Queer Arts Festival opens — Roundhouse Community Centre, Wed, July 23. Full details in our Ultimate Pride Guide.

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My Life As a Transgender Woman Gayle Roberts, a retired Vancouver teacher, shares her experiences in this intimate talk. 11:30am–12:30pm.

411 Seniors Centre Society, 704333 Terminal Ave. Free for 411 members, $5 for non-members; lunch included. Call 604-684-8171 to register. 411seniors.bc.ca

Wed, July 23 The King of Escape A rambunctious and unabashedly carnal comedy, by French screenwriter/director Alain Guiraudie, about a 16-year-old schoolgirl who becomes smitten and runs away with a gay, middle-aged tractor salesman.

6:30–8:30pm. Runs alternate nights until Sun, July 27. The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St. $9–11 at thecinematheque.ca

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A free, drop-in writing workshop for queer, transgender, two spirit and questioning youth aged 14 to 25.

Runs until Tues, Aug 26. To register and for more information, go to thefranktheatre.com.

Joan-E hosts this weekly benefit for the Friends for Life Society.

8:30–10pm. Celebrities, 1022 Davie St. Entrance by donation. celebritiesnightclub.com

Submit your event listing to oitc.vancouver@dailyxtra.com. Deadline for the July 31–Aug 13 issue is Wed, July 23.

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