It's time we — pecially fellow gay men — start givg the Kid In The Hall the inic stat he serv.
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- WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE
- JOHN BETJEMAN: NATNAL TREASURE, GAY INTHIS ARTICLE IS ONLY A PORTN OF THE FULL ARTICLE. IF YOU ARE ALREADY A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER PLEASE LOG. IF YOU ARE NOT A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE FOR ACCS TO ALL OF OUR NTENT.
WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE
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. I highly spect if I took a poll of say, 1000 other gay Canadian men, Ms. 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.
— wh Buddy Cole that timate settg would be somethg I uld easily fd a gaggle of fellow gays to e wh me. 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.
There's no other explanatn for gay men g out to see another gay man! "The gay men who ma that choice were not disappoted. "I feel sorry for young gay men today, " Cole screamed as he opened his monologue, marti hand.
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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. You uld not really be an openly gay ic and fely not an openly gay stand-up edian.
Especially for a gay man of my generatn the world today, bee thk of what we suffered through to get here. "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.