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SAFE SPACES

Where can queers gather?

LGBT GAMERS ESports embraces the rainbow

Virtual Pride Craig Takeuchi examines parallels between LGBT history and the modern pandemic

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Five blunt wraps to make rolling joints less frustrating

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There are some parallels between how people are living their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic and the long and sad history of antiqueer discrimination.

by Jon Cranny

By Craig Takeuchi

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ESPORTS

Meet three LGBT gamers, one broadcaster, and two league founders blazing new pathways in the hypercompetitive world of ESports.

By Mike Usinger

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REAL ESTATE

Coun. Rebecca Bligh says the city must rethink the use of public spaces to ensure that the LGBT community isn’t beng left behind.

By Carlito Pablo

King Palm mini size leaves (left) are biodegradable and slow burning; Juicy Jay’s hemp wrap variety pack (right) comes in six fruity flavours and includes a scoop card to collect crumbs of weed.

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or a lot of us, rolling joints is a pain in the butt. If you don’t know what you’re doing, they can become loosely rolled, which makes them hard to keep lit and can create canoeing (where only one side of the joint burns, resulting in a canoelike shape), or they can be rolled too tight, so it’s hard to pull smoke through.

Want to add a filter? That’s another challenge in the whole process. Buying pre-rolls is usually a good option, but sometimes whoever rolled your weed didn’t grind it up enough and you end up wasting some of the joint with uneven chunks of cannabis. That’s where blunt wraps come in handy. They are empty cones that you just stuff your weed into and get to smoking without the frustration.

We’ve put together a list of five great wraps to check out.

KING PALM MINI SIZE LEAVES

These are hand-picked natural leaf rolls of the Cordia genus (borage family), cleaned with purified water. King Palm uses its collective of farms across Southeast Asia, allowing no toxic fertilizers or artificial flavours. The wraps are biodegradable and have a corn-husk fi lter, plus a bamboo stick for easy weed packing. These rolls are slowburning and come in packs of 25.

JUICY JAY’S HEMP WRAP VARIETY PACK

If you like to add some extra flavour to your smoke, grab some fruity rolls to enhance each pull from the blunt. This variety pack is 100 percent hemp, with no tobacco. Getting the variety pack allows you to try six flavours that the company produces, including Black N’ Blueberry, Mango Papaya Twist, Natural, Tropical Passion, Strawberry Fields, and Grapes Gone Wild. Once you find the flavour you like, there are options to order that one flavour on its own. These can dry out, so it’s best to keep them in the package until you use them. Every order comes with a WENEED doob tube and a scoop card to help you collect the little crumbs so you don’t waste any of your cannabis.

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KINGPIN PURE HEMP WRAPS

Kingpin uses “perfect fold technology” that makes each roll identical and a sticky lip that eliminates the need for glue or excessive licking to complete your roll. The packaging is resealable to keep the wraps as fresh as the day you bought them, and they are vegan and tobacco-free. For an easy, fullflavoured blunt, these are a great choice.

BIOROLL BUNDLE

This four-item bundle comes with three packs of pre-rolled ebony leaf wraps and 10 feet of hemp BioWick. Both the leaf wraps and the hemp wicks are coated in beeswax, creating a nice, slow burn when smoking.

These are hand-rolled and tied without any toxic glues or any bacteria that saliva can transmit to blunts that require licking.

The wraps are vegan and non-GMO, with no dyes, chemicals, or preservatives. You don’t have to worry about them drying out because these don’t require any humidity after they get to you.

CYCLONES HEMP CONE WITH WOODEN TIP

These naturally toasted hemp blunt wraps are tobacco-free with two different f lavours to pick from (Wonderberry or Sugar Cane). The funnel shape that Cyclones wraps are famous for is hard to get right on your own. You can get that cool shape easily with these wraps. The company launched in 2004 and has been a mainstay on store shelves since then.

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Pride history offers insight for pandemic struggle

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Archivist Ron Dutton (shown, left, in 1995) draws upon LGBT history while Vancouver Pride Society executive director Andrea Arnot says queer groups are pulling together during the pandemic.

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Adapting to adversity. Not knowing who might be a threat. Seeking out safe spaces. Being unable to see your loved ones in person before they die. Working with others to overcome obstacles. Sound familiar? Although these are common experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re also true of many LGBT lives. Numerous parallels exist between the two, and, as Vancouver heads into its first-ever virtual Pride Week from Monday (July 27) to August 2, this is an opportune time to reflect upon what those similarities may teach us as we struggle to advance into an ambiguous future.

Vancouver activist and archivist Ron Dutton, who is 72 years old, knows a thing or two about local LGBT history.

Dutton began collecting material— photos, articles, posters, audio and video recordings, and more—documenting what was known as Vancouver’s gay liberation movement in the 1970s, creating the B.C. Gay and Lesbian Archives in 1976. Then in 2013, he donated the sprawling collection of more than 750,000 items to the City of Vancouver archives.

On the line with the Georgia Straight, Dutton recalled living in a “toxic environment” where antiqueer discrimination was the norm.

“We were all criminals,” he said about how the Canadian Criminal Code deemed homosexuals prior to 1969.

With shades of today’s pandemic experiences, he described how queer people had to identify safe people and places and had to look out for each another to “try to live lives as normally as circumstances permitted” or else face dire consequences “as enormous as going out without a mask into a crowd at the beach is today”. Yet he was “gobsmacked” at how old queer people at bars spun stories about surviving even more intensely homophobic and transphobic times than his own.

He later realized that these “survivors” developed skills, including a “massive sense of humour”, to use against adversaries and bad experiences and “had somehow come through it with a sense of who they were”— something that British Columbians could keep in mind amid these difficult times.

To change things for the better, Dutton said, activists needed to find commonality despite not everyone agreeing with everything—in the same way that everyone doing their part, despite differences, is essential during the pandemic.

A “crucial” lesson Dutton feels that queer activists of that time learned was how to transform anger into action.

“There’s nothing that teaches you faster than I actually can do something: I’m not alone; I’m not weak; I have skills; I have a voice,” he said. “And until you exercise all of those, you don’t actually own them.”

Although he said anger works effectively as motivation, he added that “once you’re mobilized, it needs to be replaced by something other than that” by “turning that energy toward resolving the problems”.

In particular, he said, the examples of Black Lives Matter and the climate-action movement among youth “gladdens my old gay-liberation heart”.

Yet when it comes to Pride and BLM, police participation in Pride has been a contentious and divisive issue for years.

“I’m hopeful that what comes out of that is a greater degree of understanding and willingness to move forward in a better way,” he said. “I wish we could find ways within the community to make our voices heard without it turning into a fight.”

Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) executive director Andrea Arnot said she constantly receives questions about how Pride can be inclusive if they are banning groups like the police from the parade.

“I say that the Vancouver Pride parade is about LGTBQ2SAI+ folks feeling

included, safe, and the sense of belonging in Canadian society,” she explained by phone. “It is not just about inviting anyone into our parade….It’s about furthering the rights of queer and trans folks and the sense of belonging in community. So if our QTBIPOC [queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and people of colour] folks don’t feel safe with police participating in the parade, it’s the one day of the year they should feel safe to be exactly who they are and celebrate that.”

However, the lack of police presence at the parade may not be as visible this year as the event goes virtual.

The VPS will livestream four hours of programming, kicking off at noon on August 2 with a history of Pride spanning more than 40 years. Arnot explained that all parade applicants submitted digital entries, either photos or videos along with messages, that will be edited together with an accompanying soundtrack for a virtual parade, and it’ll all be viewable on Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube.

Among the numerous events in this year’s Pride Week lineup are some unique collaborations, including a partnership with the Vancouver Writers Festival to

present cocktail-hour readings showcasing queer authors and another with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for Symphonic Pride, featuring eight VSO members alongside queer performers and musicians.

There’s also a Pride Art Walk until August 3, involving five locations downtown and in the West End that participants can visit using instructions and a map on the Vancouver Pride app.

Despite all the challenges the pandemic has created, an upside has been that Arnot, who is a board member of the national Pride organization Fierté Canada Pride, has seen Canadian Pride organizations, which previously competed for the same sponsors and government funding, helping each other out more than ever.

“Queer and trans folks…have faced other crises in the past throughout the years and different issues that have come up where we’ve needed to pull together and advocate, and I think there’s a sense of resilience, and finding one another for support for resources for working together, and I think those qualities have come out during this pandemic,” she said.

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Here are six LGBTQ+ gamers who are making the virtual world of ESports a better, more diverse place.

tracked and apologized to Andrews. The company also announced it was providing over 1,000 game masters with “sensitivity training”.

SARA ANDREWS

Gamer, EVO As announcements go, it was a sweetly put and endearingly giddy bombshell. When certifiable EVO legend Dominique “SonicFox” McLean ascended to the Game Awards podium to accept the player-of-the-year trophy in 2018, they seemed a bit overwhelmed.

After proclaiming that they were surprised to have won and disclosing they got into gaming to meet friends and find an accepting community, they removed their cobalt-blue fox head and made a revelation.

It went like this: “As you guys also may know, or may not know, I’m also super gay.”

That was immediately followed by “Super shout-out to all my LGBTQ friends.”

Not done there, McLean came out in 2019 with a nonbinary declaration. Taking to Twitter, they wrote: “I hope you all accept me for me regardless of how I appear! That is all I could ever ask for!” Fans did just that, leading SonicFox to follow up their tweet with “So many friendly replies.”

Gamer, World of Warcraft Sara Andrews might not have been the first World of Warcraft player to create a queerfriendly guild within the game. She became something of a cause célèbre, though, when Blizzard Entertainment tried to shut down her attempts to recruit new members.

In 2006, Andrews used WoW’s in-game chat system to invite LGBTQ+ gamers to her guild, called Oz. This prompted an email from a Blizzard customer-service rep, who warned Andrews that she was in breach of the game’s terms of service. The rep told her: “While some language in and of itself may not be offensive, it may incite certain responses in other players that will allow for discussion that we feel has no place in our game.”

In other words, Andrews was in trouble not because of anything she said or did, but because homophobes might not like it. How dare she! Blizzard quickly back-

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JAMES “STRESS” O’LEARY

ESports commentator Scary as it is for some, there can be something tremendously empowering about coming out. Welsh ESports broadcaster and commentator James “Stress” O’Leary discovered that after making a bold leap.

After embracing ESports as a way to distract himself from a breakup, he eventually found himself a fixture on European League of Legends broadcasts. But even as his profile grew as a member of the LEC team, he kept his private life private.

As O’Leary revealed to the website Gayming in an interview, that decision bothers him today. “I never pushed the fact I’m gay on broadcast, and it pains me every time I think about it,” he said. “I really wish I’d had the courage to stand up and fight for our community to be more inclusive.”

O’Leary continued: “I know that at any time, countless number of LGBTQ+ identifying viewers were watching, and by hiding myself, I wasn’t out there telling each and every one of them that they are welcome.”

His advice, now that he’s an openly enthusiastic spokesman using his platform to push for inclusion of LGBTQ+ gamers in ESports? “Be yourself to whatever degree you’re comfortable with,” he said. “It’s not easy to be openly LGBTQ+ anywhere in life, and no one should hold it against you if you’re not ready to show the world who you are. That being said, try to be surrounded by people who you can be true to yourself around, you’ll be a lot happier for it!”

home how far we still have to go. Consider the steps that had to be taken for Frostbite, the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament that took place in February on Twitch.

When unranked May “Mystearica” Peterson squared off against Japanese heavyweight Takuma “Tea” Hirooka, tournament organizers delayed the chat messages written by viewers watching the bout online.

Specifically, they were weeding out and nuking transphobic and other negative comments directed at Mystearica. The Pittsboro, Indiana-based ESports athlete is transgender. She officially revealed her status in January, posting on Twitter “hi. please refer to me with she/her pronouns from now on, for however long is left. thank you”.

In an interview with the Indiana Daily Student this April, Mystearica noted that the months after the Twitter announcement have been mostly positive ones, including in the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate community, where she’s now ranked 97th in the world.

“Everyone has been very supportive of me and it’s been very good,” she said. “It’s been a weight off my chest to be honest because when I did it I was really scared.”

GARRETT PATTIANI AND RUSS WHITE

Cofounders, Federated Gaymers League In January 2019, the Sin City Classic Sports Festival drew thousands of athletes to Las Vegas. Alongside hockey, soccer, and running events, last year’s edition saw LGBTQ+ gamers going head-to-head in Fortnite and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

For that, you can thank Garrett Pattiani and Russ White. The pair, founders of the Federated Gaymers League, organized Sin City Classic’s first ESports tournament.

Pattiani sees ESports as a way for LGBTQ+ gamers to express themselves. “You can be anybody you want to be. You can create avatars to mimic how you identify, you can change your name and change your hair color,” he told the Washington Blade. “These esports communities create a space where you can be your true self and offers the gamer the ability to explore identities.”

Pattiani and White intend to expand the ESports presence at the Sin City Classic. They seem to be on the right track.

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Gamer, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate As a society, we’ve come a long way in regards to LGTBQ+ rights and acceptance.

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Show your Pride in rainbow sneakers, masks, and more

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PRIDE WILD

uring Pride Week, rainbow goes with everything. It’s a tradition that dates back to Gay Pride Day 1978, when Gilbert Baker’s flag first flew in San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza. Since then, the symbol has become ubiquitous during Pride around the globe—on every wearable item imaginable. Here are some stylin’ ways to show your colours this year.

Get loud and proud with a rainbow tutu; we found one with LED lights at amazon.ca ($13.99), or as part of a convenient set that comes with tights and long gloves to match ($23.99, amazon.ca). Still too subdued for you? Fork out for flowy, multicoloured butterfly wings ($12.99). And if Vancouver weather turns drizzly for your socially distanced day out, don’t forget your rainbow umbrella ($17.63, amazon.ca).

SNEAKER PRIDE

Adidas has gone above and beyond with its 2020 collection of Pride sneakers. In a collaboration with Athlete Ally and Stonewall, its shell-toe Superstar features rainbow accents on the iconic three stripes on one side; on the other, an artful trefoil graphic is filled in with a patchwork of LGBTQ+ f lags—a nod to the diversity of community ($110 at adidas. ca). Make more of a splash with high-top Pride Chuck Taylors ($75 at converse.ca).

Using the “More Colour, More Pride” mantra, it expands its Pride rainbow to include brown and black stripes to symbolize and emphasize inclusion. The words DIVERSITY EQUALITY LOVE shout out from the outsole.

Adidas Superstar Pride sneakers feature a trefoil graphic with an artful collage of LGBTQ flags; right, Make Vancouver’s COVID mask comes emblazoned with a rainbow skyline and “Van Pride”.

SHIRT PRIDE

We’re loving the positive messaging on Pride T-shirts at Etsy, where Canada’s PinkMermaidDesigns spells out “Love Is Love” over multicoloured figures holding hands, or creates its own rainbow barcode over the word “PRIDE” ($29). Throw patriotism in there with PyesplaceCom’s black Canada Pride shirt, with a maple leaf rising up through the colours ($22.99), or purchase a real souvenir of this crazy time: “PRIDE 2020: the one where we had to gay at home”, by WhiteWolfeDesign ($22.99).

Meanwhile, Make Vancouver, which do-

nates 20 percent of Pride-themed sales to Qmunity, puts a rainbow block-letter PRIDE graphic on a black baseball shirt ($29), a white tank top ($29), and white tees ($25). For something wildly different, check out the same shop’s Hummingbird Pride design, by local artist Leah Day, which features the West Coast bird splattering multihued paint behind it as it soars ($29). Pair one of the tees with Adidas’s Pride Pacer Shorts—an old-school blast from the ’70s past, white emblazoned with a badge featuring a mosaic of LGBTQ+ flags ($35, adidas.ca).

MASK PRIDE

And finally, the ultimate Pride 2020 fashion accessory: the COVID mask. We dig Make Vancouver’s adjustable white original, with a filter pocket for added protection, a big PRIDE spelled out in rainbow hues, and proceeds going to Qmunity ($16). For the same price, check out a black version with a heart-shaped rendition of the Vancouver skyline drawn out in the colour spectrum, and VAN PRIDE dancing in the clouds above it. Meanwhile, paddlevancouver.ca has a quartet of cool designs; our favourites are the rainbow-lips version and another that asserts “LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE” over the symbolic colours ($16). g

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LGBT residents lose safe public spaces in pandemic

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robably like many, Alvaro Prol is looking beyond the pandemic.

Prol has started to imagine life post–COVID-19 from his unique perspective as one of the biggest movers and shakers in Vancouver’s nightlife scene.

For the cofounder of entertainment giant Blueprint, the health crisis presents an opportunity for the city to review rules around cultural spaces like nightclubs and performance venues.

“It’s just a very hard place to have creativity happen because of a very uptight city when it comes to regulations,” Prol told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview.

His big concern is that venues in the city are assigned less capacity compared to similar places in other jurisdictions, especially in eastern Canada.

“We lose some 25 percent of revenue because of that,” Prol said. “So I think the city needs to, in general, now more than ever, to just make sure that they pay a lot of attention to culture.”

These same public spaces are vitally important for members of the LGBT community.

Blueprint’s properties include Celebrities, a storied nightclub in the Davie Village that is historically home to the city’s queer population.

Because of the pandemic, Celebrities is operating as a pub and with limited capacity. There is no more dancing, and a maximum of six people are allowed per booking. Guests are to stay at their assigned table; mingling with other tables is discouraged.

According to Prol, there is a “window” for the city to review capacity regulations.

He believes that this could prime cultural spaces when things “come back” after the pandemic is over.

Prol also suggested that this initiative includes an assessment of how outdoor areas like parks are used for events.

“We have a lot of talent,” Prol said, “and

we just have to do things differently and maybe look at regulations a little different and help keep creativity flourishing.”

As one who identifies with the LGBT community, city councillor Rebecca Bligh is ready to receive suggestions.

Bligh, who is a mother to two, noted that the pandemic has cut off a lot of queer people from public spaces that provide them safety and support.

“We know that when we feel disconnected, depression and mental-health concerns are elevated,” Bligh told the Straight by phone.

Places like the Qmunity resource centre for the LGBT community have moved online.

We have a lot of talent and we just have to do things differently – Blueprint cofounder Alvaro Prol

According to Tim Agg, interim executive director of the West End–based nonprofit, Qmunity will continue operating remotely but is moving to reopen in-person services.

Like Prol, Bligh is convinced that as the city responds to the pandemic, it could also use this time to rethink indoor and outdoor public spaces.

For Bligh, this will benefit queer people who have yet to be fully accepted at home by their families because of their identity.

“We need to help amplify the voices of that community beyond the existing structures, especially in a pandemic, and

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Coun. Rebecca Bligh worries about the mental-health consequences for LGBT Vancouverites when they can no longer gather in safe spaces in the community. Photo by Kyrani Kanavaros

I would be very open to hearing feedback from folks in the community,” Bligh said.

As with Bligh, John Paul Catungal is a member of the LGBT community. He’s an assistant professor at UBC’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.

According to Catungal, nightclubs and pubs are places where queer people have built communities in relative safety.

“These are affirming spaces,” Catungal told the Straight by phone. Catungal also noted that public spaces in general mean different things to different people.

While the City of Vancouver has implemented measures to expand spaces during the pandemic—like more patios for pubs, bars, and restaurants—the academic noted that these are consumer spaces.

“It requires people to buy to be there,” Catungal noted.

According to Catungal, city builders need to pay attention as well to public spaces like libraries and community

centres, where everyone, including queer people, can access different services without paying money.

“We can talk about commercial spaces, like pubs and bars and clubs and that kind of thing, but LGBT spaces are also spaces like social-services spaces and community organizations,” Catungal said.

Without doubt, the virus has changed the night scene at Davie Village.

Byron Cooke is the general manager of the Junction, which is famous for drag shows in the LGBT-friendly enclave.

“We can’t operate as a nightclub. We don’t have dancing within the venue. We don’t have our drag shows. We don’t have our live shows that we formerly had,” Cooke told the Straight by phone. “We’re just operating as a basic pub with a patio.”

He said no one knows when things will become like they used to be.

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Financial planning can secure LGBT peace of mind

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by Charlie Smith

ays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people often have a tougher time dealing with bigots in America than their counterparts north of the border. And American LGBT people can’t benefit from a universal, single-payer health-care system like Canadians.

But there’s one area where sexual minorities in the U.S. have an advantage: they don’t have to wade through nearly as much research to find LGBT-friendly financial advice. That’s because GuideVine.com enables Internet searchers to find U.S. advisers tailored to their preferred sexual orientation.

So why would someone want to seek out someone with expertise in LGBT financial planning? Even after same-sex marriages have been legalized, there several reasons, according to New York City–based blogger and financial adviser Jim Marrocco. First of all, there’s a higher potential for surrogacy and adoption among same-sex couples compared to heterosexual couples. And that can create challenges to the pocketbook.

“The good news is that, particularly with adoption and surrogacy, you can be very thoughtful about the timing and really plan for when it makes the most sense to start your family,” he writes.

Young love can last longer if it’s not accompanied by financial stress. Photo by Rawpixel.com

Estate planning can be another financial minefield for unmarried same-sex couples. Marrocco states on his blog that without estate planning, legal rights can transfer to a parent rather than a partner following a life-threatening health issue or a sudden death. “Estate planning is about taking care of the ones you love during the scenarios described above,” he writes.

Wealth management involves developing strategies to protect and grow assets throughout one’s life. Ellen Ford Krider, an RBC wealth-management adviser, states on her company’s website that couples used to do a lot of planning before same-sex marriage was legalized to achieve similar outcomes as heterosexual couples. But after marriage, she suggests that some of these

mechanisms can be dismantled.

“Taxes shouldn’t be a reason to get married or not, but (tax treatment) is something to be aware of,” Krider says. “The major thing is supporting the community and understanding that just because they can, not all gay couples will want to get married. Either way, planning becomes very important.”

There are several blogs devoted to LGBT financial issues. Fix the Game, is run by two Toronto lesbians in their 30s who advocate frugal living to achieve financial independence and early retirement. Another Canadian blog, Solitary Diner, describes the author as the “Frugalish Physician”. Yet another, Modern FImily (that’s not a typo), is run by a lesbian couple in their 30s with a child. And another, Our Freedom Years, is written by two lesbians who say they’ve achieved financial independence and are travelling across Europe with their two little dogs. None of these bloggers reveal their surnames.

Perhaps the best known blog is Debt Free Guys, run by John Schneider and David Auten. They’ve achieved a fair amount of fame for pioneering the “debt lasso method”, which involves consolidating obligations and then automating payments to reduce credit-card debt. g

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OutsideIN website set up to assist men who are not out

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The LGBTQI2S+ community has long been at the forefront of the global movement for human rights, and in the face of this year's incredible challenges, this has been no different. The lessons learned from the queer community’s activism around community care in health emergencies have been instrumental in our COVID-19 response.

Going forward, we must also acknowledge the impact of systemic racism on queer people of colour, and commit ourselves to better protect Black and Indigenous Trans Lives, and Black and Indigenous Queer Lives. #BuildingBackBetter after COVID-19 also means that we must support queer artists and queer spaces that are the heart and soul of the queer community. It is my rm believe that with the right commitment and values, we can emerge as a stronger, more resilient and inclusive Canada.

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ere’s a roundup of LGBT health initiatives from Vancouver, including a new outreach resource and awareness campaign for men who have sex with men (MSM) who may not be out, this year’s queer male health conference in Vancouver, and an online peer-connection group for LGBT elders.

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Health Initiative for Men launched a new online resource and awareness campaign for men who have sex with men but may have varying degrees of being out. (OSTILL/Getty Images)

One of the challenges that queer health organizations face is connecting with MSM who may not necessarily identify with terms such as gay, queer, bisexual, two-spirit, or trans, or who may identify as straight.

In an effort to bridge the gap, a Vancouver-based nonprofit organization for B.C. queer male wellness, Health Initiative for Men (HIM), launched the website OutsideIN (outness.ca/ ) to provide information and resources to MSM or men who may have different degrees of being out to others.

The site is being accompanied with an awareness campaign to develop understanding and empathy among LGBT communities about MSM who may be at a different level of being out than they are but may still seek access to resources for their sexual health.

In a release, HIM health-promotion program manager Simon Rayek explained that while coming out may not be a solution for everyone, individuals in these situations may be experiencing unique stressors.

“Between 10 and 25 percent of men who have sex with men in Canada say they have never ‘come out’ to anyone, including

their doctors,” Rayek stated. “These men experience a number of health inequities compared to their more ‘out’ counterparts; they have lower sexual health literacy, lower testing rates for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, weaker social networks, higher rates of social isolation, and increased stress levels.”

Rayek added that many health organizations may not recognize or address these inequities.

The website provides not only information about outness but also resources for sexual health—including testing, confidentiality concerns, and clinic locations— mental health; social health, including workshops and community dialogues; and stories from various men.

QUEER MALE HEALTH SUMMIT

Like most other events this year, the 2020 edition of the annual summit, a yearly conference about queer male health held by Vancouver’s Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC), will be presented virtually from November 4 to 6.

In response to current issues—including COVID-19, police violence, and racism—this year’s summit will tackle issues of resistance and responsibility.

CBRC has issued a call for submissions to participate in this year’s event, including for short oral presentations, panels, workshops, and discussions, as well as community consultations from community workers, healthcare providers, practitioners, counsellors, see next page

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Queer Film Festival moves to digital, opens with Pier Kids

by Janet Smith

Pier Kids, which follows the lives of queer and trans kids of colour in New York City, opens the film festival with a virtual Q&A by African-American director Elegance Bratton.

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he Vancouver Queer Film Festival has released a robust lineup spanning movies from as far away as India and Georgia, as it moves to a digital format for its 11-day celebration.

The theme? “Still Here.”

The event runs August 13 to 23, with more than 60 films from 10 countries in its 32nd annual offering. The program also includes virtual visits from filmmakers, local directors, and local artists, as well as virtual parties and postscreening Q&As. Curated by artistic director Anoushka Ratnarajah, the fest opens with director Elegance Bratton’s Pier Kids, a raw and affecting guerrilla-style documentary that follows the life of Black trans woman Crystal LaBeija and other queer and trans youth of colour at the Christopher Street Pier in New York City. Bratton, himself queer and African-American, will be joining the fest at a virtual Q&A along with producer Chester Algernal Gordon.

The VQFF will also feature two special presentations of queer women’s history: Ahead of the Curve, a documentary about the history of Curve magazine, the longest-running lesbian, queer, and bisexual women publication in history; and Long Time Comin’, Dionne Brand’s 1993 documentary that charts the work of two Black queer Canadian artists—folk-jazz singer-songwriter Faith Nolan and multimedia visual artist Grace Channer. It will be followed by a panel of local Black queer femme activists, scholars, and activists.

Elsewhere, the Coast Is Queer returns, spotlighting the work of emerging and established local queer filmmakers. And international programming spans A Worm in the Heart, a documentary shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian Railway and capturing the stories of the LGBTQ community facing oppressive laws across Russia, Mongolia, and China, as well as Vietnam’s Goodbye Mother, a family dramedy. g

researchers, elders, teachers, advocates, and others who want to contribute.

Submissions can be based on research, programming, policy initiatives, advocacy, activism, grassroots responses, or community-based actions involving MSM in Canada or abroad.

Two areas that CBRC will be looking to address are persistent disparities experienced by and within queer male communities and what responsibilities health-care providers, organizations, and researchers have to improve equity.

More information and a list of topics, themes, and issues are available at the CBRC website.

The submission deadline is August 7.

RAINBOW REACHES ELDERS

While social isolation can protect seniors during the COVID-19 pandemic, the negative impact of social deprivation remains a concern and can affect queer elders, who may feel as if they’re going back in the closet or may not have anyone in their immediate social bubble who is LGBT. Like most other social groups, Rainbow Roundtable, which launched in 2018 to help queer people aged 55 years and older connect with peers, has gone virtual by holding discussions, presentations, learning opportunities, and other sessions on Zoom.

For more information, visit its Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube web pages or call their information line at 604-677-4747. g JULY 23 – 30 / 2020

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Many gay dating apps share private information

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by Natalia Manzocco

ueer dating apps are leaking data that can be used by antigay and antitrans governments to oppress LGBTQIA+ people around the world, a new report has found.

In a report released July 14, cybersecurity firm Recorded Future outlines the security holes in a number of popular dating apps, details how governments and agencies around the world are targeting LGBTQIA+ people, and offers advice for users seeking to protect themselves.

Recorded Future analyzed five popular gay dating apps catering either largely or exclusively to the queer community. Of these, it said, Scruff “is doing the most proactive work to secure the data of its users”.

Scruff’s current security policies include including randomizing location data, issuing alerts when users travel to countries with antigay policies, cutting ties with brokers that sell location data, and creating internal advertising and analytics operations to avoid sharing customer data with outside parties.

“By contrast, OKCupid, Grindr, and Tinder have been found to collect user data—including users’ exact location, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, polit-

A recent report found that several queer dating apps—including Tinder, OKCupid, and Grindr— shared user data with “at least 135 different” third parties. Photo by Sushil Nash / Unsplash

ical beliefs, drug use, and more—and share that data with at least 135 different thirdparty entities,” the report states.

“Recorded Future observed multiple instances of broadly defined cyberattacks (including targeted cyberattacks, censor-

ship, and surveillance) targeting LGBTQIA+ communities and individuals in Russia and Eastern European nations. Surveillance and censorship was widespread across Russia and Eastern Europe with many nations passing restrictive legislative

policies against open expression of LGBTQIA+ content online.”

The report also offers a number of examples of both law enforcement and criminals using dating apps to entrap members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

In the future, the authors write, data exposures—such as those that hit Grindr and Jack’d in recent years—are likely to occur again, worsening the problem further.

“These apps will almost certainly continue to share data with third parties and only user pressure, or a substantial fine for breaching data privacy laws, is likely to make these apps reconsider,” the report adds.

Meanwhile, other developers are using app-based platforms to enhance the safety and security of LGBTQ people worldwide. Dandarah, an app codeveloped by a Toronto professor, was created to help trans women in Brazil avoid dangerous situations and connect with mentalhealth support.

“The lingering social stigma towards the LGBTQIA+ community and the growing influence of evangelical Christian groups in Brazil and Central America pose the greatest threats to LGBTQIA+ rights in the region.” g

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f food tastes better outside, then camping in B.C.’s wilderness must make for some damn tasty dinners. If you’re planning on spending time in a tent this summer and you happen to love wine, however, you might be wondering how to go about selecting stuff to consume by the campfire. Take my word for it: even excellent vintages suffer when sipped out of a plastic cup or enamelware glass.

And unless you’re a camping gourmet like the Straight’s Mike Usinger, who uses dry ice to keep perishables perfectly cold in the cooler, chances are you won’t be serving wine of any colour at the ideal temperature.

What are wine lovers to do when it comes to camping in good taste? We canvassed a couple of local experts for ideas.

Gene and Shelly Covert, the formidable duo behind Covert Farms Family Estate, an organic farm and winery in Oliver, recommend packing a small KeepCup. One of several reusable drinking vessels produced by a leading Australia B corp of the same name, the pair’s pick is made of blown tempered glass and cork. “It offers durability, but has a nice feel for drinking wine without the lid on,” Gene Covert tells

Restaurant wine director Shiva Reddy prefers vintages that pair well with campfire smoke.

the Straight. “The cork grip is also fitting.”

Shiva Reddy, executive wine director of Osteria Savio Volpe and Pepino’s Spaghetti House, suggests a visit to MEC.

That’s where you can find the BPA-free GSI Glacier Stainless Nesting Red Wine Glass. “The stem screws onto the bowl, and when done you can unscrew and cover the bowl back up with no mess,” Reddy tells the Straight. “Do note they are a little weightier if you’re really going deep into the woods.” In other words, at 91 grams, this is a glass for car camping, not backcountry exploring.

It’s hard to say what variety of wine is ideal to bring along for a weekend of 24/7 fresh air by a riverbank or in a dense forest. “A late afternoon refresher is definitely a rosé or dry white, while later on as the temperature drops a more fullbodied red is nice around the campfire,” Covert says.

When stocking up on supplies, do you go for something cheap and cheery or will you splurge? For the former, the smell of a campfire would immediately take Reddy to Barone di Valforte Pecorino Abruzzo, a fresh, structured white.

If money were no object, she’d opt for Biondi-Santi Riserva Brunello di Montalcino 2006, an elegant Sangiovese that’s said to have hints of eucalyptus and, appropriately, wood smoke.

Canned wine is an altogether different way to go. The South Okanagan’s Castoro de Oro Estate Winery is a made-in-B.C. option; it recently released its own line of wine in the can, with Heart of Gold (white blend), Pinot Duetto Rosé, and Merlot.

Another canny pick is BABE Wine, founded by Instagram celebrity Josh “the Fat Jewish” Ostrovsky and partners. Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest brewer, purchased the brand last year, and Labatt, A-B’s Canadian subsidiary, recently introduced it to Canada. BABE comes in three sparkling varietals: Pinot Grigio, red, and rosé. It makes for easy, unpretentious drinking.

“Me and the two other founders definitely enjoy wine, but we’re mediocre domestic beer guys at heart,” Ostrovsky told Forbes magazine. “So we thought, ‘Why can’t wine be cold, fun, inclusive and not annoying?’ So we decided to create the Bud Light of wine.”

When asked why canned wine was better than bottled, he said: “It fits in the cup holder of your Nissan Sentra UberX, you can shotgun it, do I even need more reasons?”

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VAG shows B.C.’s bounty of midcentury craft and design Modern in the Making pulls together most comprehensive exhibit ever of era’s furniture, ceramics, and more

by Janet Smith

Left to right: An installation view of sleek furnishings and textile works at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia; a 1970s raku pot by late artist Wayne Ngan (from John David Lawrence’s collection); and a black-and-white 1960s dress by designer Mary Chang (from Ivan Sayers’s collection). Photos by Ian Lefebvre

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ritish Columbia has long been celebrated as an epicentre of modernist architecture. But what did people decorate those sleek glass-and-wood homes with? What did they sit on, and what locally created fashion and jewellery did they wear?

It turns out the province was also a unique hotbed of homewares and apparel, as the massive new Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia shows. With more than 300 works of ceramics, furniture, jewellery, weaving, and more finds made between 1945 and 1975, the show is the most comprehensive overview of this region’s midcentury craft and design ever assembled.

“It has not been mapped out in any considerable way in this province—kind of shocking but true,” VAG interim director Daina Augaitis says at a virtual tour of the exhibit. “It was a remarkably creative period in the province’s history, with multiple ways that modernism was enacted here in B.C.” The result illustrates how widely the creative scene here interpreted modernism. A modular, gold-upholstered Airfoam Lounge Chair by Earle A. Morrison Ltd. might sit alongside a formline silver bracelet by Robert Davidson, a serene raku pot

by Wayne Ngan, or a glam tricolour swimsuit by designer Rose Marie Reid.

“It’s really the diversity of how modernism landed here—the materials that are here, how cross-disciplinary it was here,” Augaitis explains in an interview with the

Straight, pointing out that waves of postwar immigration from Europe and Asia brought new craft techniques and ideals to a place that was already rich with a reinvigorated Indigenous craft movement. “They sort of invented new hybrid forms.”

It took Augaitis and guest curator Allan Collier, with the help of associate curator Stephanie Rebick, two years of intrepid research, tracking down old show catalogues, and finding family descendants who had inherited key pieces.

It has not been mapped out in any considerable way in this province.

– Daina Augaitis, VAG

“It was remarkable,” Augaitis relates.

“Many of the artists have indeed passed away, so then they have the materials split up between the children; you find one and you get the material from the different siblings and you go and look and get more stories.”

She adds that many of the families had cherished the pieces for decades and were overjoyed to see the work of their elders finally

recognized in a gallery setting.

“Even Allan, as a collector, has often thought of his work as a rescue mission. He started many decades ago and a lot of times it was just getting tossed out in the laneway or would show up in the Sally Ann,” Augaitis says. “So a lot of his work started out as salvaging, and he started filling his home. And before you know it he’s got one of the most important furniture collections in the country.”

The team has organized the exhibit chronologically, tracing the functionalism of the 1950s, when there was an increased demand for a wide range of domestic objects to complement the new West Coast modern architectural style. That leads into the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s here, and the textiles, fashion objects, and visual artworks that blur the distinction between design, craft, art, and even performance. You’ll see a photo of artist Evelyn Roth wearing her funky Video Armour, a minidress, pair of boots, and floppy hat woven out of discarded video tape, as well as Setsuko Piroche’s cascading woven Dizzy Dome. In furniture from this era, check out Niels Bendtsen’s iconic, cushy Ribbon Chair, made in 1975 of tubular steel, cotton canvas, and polyester fill.

One aspect that sets the exhibit apart is the way it displays Indigenous craft and design alongside modernist works that draw on Asian and Scandinavian or other European styles. In the era covered, there was a slow return of potlatching and a rebirth of traditional craft. Key pieces of weaving

appear here, including those of the Salish Weavers Guild and Nuu-chah-nulth artist Nellie Jacobson’s grass buttons and traditional baskets. Elsewhere, Bill Reid cufflinks show how that artist was the first to use semi-precious stones in Haida jewellery.

“It is about the complications of modernism,” Augaitis sums up. “Modernism was about the breaking with what came before—and that has more to do with the people than a glorified hierarchy. If you think of Indigeneity, it’s important to acknowledge that we know there were longstanding traditions here, and let’s look at them in relationship to the other work.…I think we have to look at the exhibition from the lens of today and look at the gaps and try to fill in these gaps of what was going on.”

What’s perhaps most striking about the exhibit is how so many of these items look as stylish today as they did in their own, groundbreaking era. Look no further than Mary Chang’s impossibly chic, bell-sleeved black-and-white dress, from the collection of fashion historian Ivan Sayers, or Helmut Krutz’s curvy, orange fold-down couch, with its minimalist steel and teak arms and legs. The sleek aesthetic and celebration of handmade elements put forward by these diverse mavericks speak directly to today—proving that in Vancouver, modern may still very much be in the making. g The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Modern in the Making: Post-War Craft and Design in British Columbia until January 3, 2021.

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Cap U hires students to offer technical support

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by Charlie Smith

ne of the biggest transformations in postsecondary education has been the move away from classroom learning.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced institutions to figure out new ways to convey complex concepts to students.

But those enrolled in colleges or universities have a range of skills and aptitudes when it comes to working with virtual platforms.

That’s one reason why Capilano University has decided to hire five student digital ambassadors to assist their peers.

One of them is Josie Buno, an international student enrolled in business administration. “I enjoy teaching students the technology because I am an IT professional back home in the Philippines,” Buno told the Straight by phone.

Prior to coming to Canada, Buno was a manager at a major newspaper, the Philippines Daily Inquirer, helping set up systems for business and classified advertising.

One of her instructors advised students to improve their communications skills, which explains why she decided to become a digital ambassador.

“We provide technical support for students using digital platforms like Webex,

Capilano University started a peer-to-peer support system after it found the move to virtual learning exposed a lack of technical savvy with some students. Photo by Iris Wang / Unsplash

eLearn, Microsoft Teams, Altera, and ePortfolio,” Buno explained. “It’s a new position, so we are finding ways to help students.

“We’re also creating tutorials, videos, and FAQs [frequently asked questions] for digital learning,” she added. “We’re also assisting faculty in creating resources for students.”

Laura MacKay, director of Capilano University’s Centre for Teaching Excellence, oversees the program. It’s available from 10

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help support students in navigating that online environment,” MacKay said. “So it’s very student-driven.”

To her knowledge, it’s the only peerto-peer student tech-support program in B.C.’s public postsecondary system.

“UBC has something called ‘tech rovers’, but those students support faculty,” MacKay said.

She pointed out that instructors often think about what type of help students need.

But sometimes, she added, the students’ understanding of their own needs is very different. “The key thing, from my perspective, is it changes the dynamic of students as ‘recipients of information’ to students as partners in that learning process,” MacKay said. “And that’s a big deal. We can’t keep having this sort of hierarchy where they’re recipients of what we decide.”

For her part, Buno said it’s also not a one-way information highway between the digital ambassadors and the students.

That’s because sometimes the digital ambassadors don’t know the answers to a student’s question, so they have to conduct their own research.

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Film captures famed photographer’s complexity

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HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL

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d IN GERMAN DIRECTOR Gero von Boehm’s new documentary about Helmut Newton, the controversial photographer calls himself “a professional voyeur”. And that seems like an apt description of his iconic shots from the ’80s and ’90s—typified by black-and-white shots of blond supermodel Nadja Auermann, all fishnet legs, sky-high heels, and soulless stare.

But as this spirited bio reveals, the reality of the man and his work is infinitely more complex. Like sex itself, it’s complicated.

Let’s start with the strong, intelligent women who praise him here—Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Rampling, and Isabella Rossellini, all of whom posed for him. Muse Grace Jones makes frequent appearances, saying with a laugh, “He was a little bit pervert, but so am I, so it’s okay,” then adding he was “never vulgar! Never vulgar!” In an industry where #MeToo has outed more than its share of creepy photographers, Newton stood out as someone who made his subjects feel safe; Auermann and Claudia Schiffer are among the models who sing his praises here. On the other hand, we have opponents like Susan Sontag, seen giving Newton a withering takedown on a French TV panel.

This famous photograph of David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini was shot by the controversial title subject of Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful. Photo courtesy Helmut Newton Foundation

Newton’s personal history further complicates the picture. You can see the influence of Weimar Republic Berlin, where he grew up, in the style of his work. But consider that Newton was a Jew whose family was forced to flee Nazi Germany—and that he was a huge admirer of propagandist Leni Riefenstahl. His images tend to represent women

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As you’ll see in widescreen, gelatinsilver-print detail, Newton was prolific as hell, as acclaimed for definitive portraits of Margaret Thatcher, Dennis Hopper, and Jean-Marie Le Pen as he was for images of naked women splayed in sleazy hotels.

“The photos were frightening, but there was always a sense of humour,” Rossellini observes, her comment never ringing more true than in Newton’s image of a raw roasting chicken in high heels.

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