Eric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals. He has major league aspiratns, but his path has been much lonelier than he would prefer.
Contents:
- WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE
- RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- BEST GAY CANADIAN FICTION
WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE
It's time we — pecially fellow gay men — start givg the Kid In The Hall the inic stat he serv. * canadian gay *
It stars John Labow and Henry Tarvaen as two U of T stunts who velop a quasi-romantic relatnship — which is heavily d given this was ma a pre-Stonewall world where gay romance was que lerally forbidn. Still, is wily nsired the first gay film ever ma Canada and has the further distctn as the first English-language Canadian film to ever screen at the Cann Film Ftival.
In the film, he velops a relatnship wh a teenage boy that, though non-sexual, an uproar bee of the then-very-mon stereotype that gay men were prone to pedophilia.
RIGHTS OF LGBTI PERSONS
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It's not jt bee of s grty portra of life 1970s Toronto and Rsell's unnny impersonatns of everyone om Barbra Streisand to Judy Garland to Bette Midler — 's also simply the fact that a movie wh such unapologetilly gay ntent didn't jt get ma but beme an ternatnal sensatn. Queeri is a weekly lumn by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queri LGBTQ art, culture and/or inty through a personal a Canadian gay man, if someone were to ask me to name our untry's tt natnal treasure, I would have to say that — personally — there are three rrect answers to that qutn: Céle Dn, Carly Rae Jepsen and Stt Thompson.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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Thompson, however, would be very unlikely to do the same — which ankly is a great gaynadian shame, bee he is one of the greatt gay ics of all time, anywhere.
BEST GAY CANADIAN FICTION
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Thompson walked to the bookstore, full Buddy Cole garb, and ma clear we shared a mutual annoyance regardg how gay Torontonians were choosg to spend their eveng. But also, for me, the time that I grew up — the time that I me of age —was a very different time for gay people. Especially for a gay man of my generatn the world today, bee thk of what we suffered through to get here.
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"As for how the world today treats openly gay ics, though Thompson is sure 's "1000% better, " there's still one major problem: there's still no openly gay male star edy. Like if a gay man is up there beg funny and he's not drag I thk most gay men feel like, 'Well, I'm as funny as he is. To me, 's somethg that I found very sad over my reer: how ltle gay men embrace me, and how ltle gay men embrace other gay men edy.
"Personally, I thk a very good start for gay men ( the media or otherwise) would be by helpg Stt Thompson she as bright as he possibly n. "We wele them, not bee we have a gay quota to fill, but bee they share our prcipl and polici, " he's said.
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