“The Gay Herage Project”: Damien Atks On Gay Inty

Contents:

• THE GAY HERAGE PROJECT
• “THE GAY HERAGE PROJECT”: ACTOR DAMIEN ATKS TALKS ABOUT THE QUT BEHD GAY INTY
• THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECTJANUARY 6 - 31
• GAY HERAGE PROJECT AIMS TO PASS DOWN QUEER HISTORY
• THE GAY HERAGE PROJECT: IF ONLY ALL LEARNG WAS THIS FUN
• THE GAY HERAGE PROJECT
• THE GAY HERAGE PROJECT

THE GAY HERAGE PROJECT

In what has bee an important piece of ntemporary queer theatre, three of Canada’s most gifted performers—Damien Atks, Pl Dunn, and Andrew Khnir—go on a search way past Google orr to fd the history of gay tr start their qut by lookg back at their own leag and move along to the library, the Yellow Brick Road, Ukrae, a game show, and a urt. They disver handfuls of fotten hero and stori, but also vis some well-known nam, pilg everythg to one extraordary history lson that sh new light on ntemporary gay parts personal cursy, answers to the past, and rmatn for the future, The Gay Herage Project is a hilar, thought-provokg meta tale that spir, forts, challeng, and empowers. “The Gay Herage Project is funny, smart, and movg.

“The Gay Herage Project highlights many stori that need to be told.

The Gay Herage Project. Toronto-based actors and playwrights, Damien Atks, Pl Dunn and Andrew Khnir, are hot pursu of what actually means to be gay.

“THE GAY HERAGE PROJECT”: ACTOR DAMIEN ATKS TALKS ABOUT THE QUT BEHD GAY INTY

“The Gay Herage Project” is a foray to world history.

One actor plays many characters so ’s a great technique for takg a really big subject like gay herage and breakg down to make entertag. “History is ually wrten by the opprsor so ’s a monohistory” says Atks, “gay history has been lost, particularly the taclysms of the World Wars, the AIDS crisis and unr strgent polil regim. The guys then divvy up gay history to three major areas: famo gay figur history, the AIDS crisis and gay people the ary.

Atks reflects on the regrsn that has occurred gay history sce Ancient Greek tim. ” Gay rights have always been vulnerable that regard- never set stone.

THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECTJANUARY 6 - 31

Atks agre: “the qualy of gay life hg on the personal whim of whoever is power. This potential social regrsn is what drove “The Gay Herage Project” to existence. Atks me out durg the AIDS crisis and he unrstands better than anyone the importance of gay people raisg their voice.

“The only reason I’m alive today is that gay people before me ma noise and ma sure that the word got out about HIV. At one pot was gay people, now there are lots of queer people of lour, women and lns of people on the Ain ntent who are not gettg the re they should. Growg up Edmonton, Atks remembers how important the support of his gay mentors was to the formatn of his own inty and self-teem.

“I me out a gay muny that was the thro of panic and tastrophe” he says, “ imprted self on my DNA the form of rage. ” The sense of inty and muny, that “The Gay Herage Project” seeks, uld be the antidote to the spair felt by many the queer muny. Seeg reprentatns of gay inty on stage and films then be all the more important to create that sense of belongg.

GAY HERAGE PROJECT AIMS TO PASS DOWN QUEER HISTORY

Atks remembers seeg the first genue portrayal of a gay character the movie “Prit” the 90s. While Atks talks about zerog on what mak up gay herage, he wants to make sure that the fal classifitn is clive, broad and diverse.

THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT — Buddi Bad Tim Theatre. THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECTJANUARY 6 - 31“Funny, imagative, thought-provokg… a wi-rangg and wildly entertag quiry to what means to be gay. — The Globe & MailThree of our untry’s most gifted creator/performers set out to answer one qutn: is there such a thg as a gay herage?

In their search, they unver a rich history not often shared and she new light on ntemporary gay culture. Usg their personal histori and dividual cultural herag as jumpg off pots, each of the three creators behd The Gay Herage Project set out to disver their nnectns to queer people and events the past. The Gay Herage Project go on the road.

THE GAY HERAGE PROJECT: IF ONLY ALL LEARNG WAS THIS FUN

Followg s Toronto engagement, The Gay Herage Project will tour to ci across wtern Canada. The Gay Herage Project was veloped Buddi Rincy Program, sponsored by BMO Fancial Group.

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“FUNNY, IMAGINATIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING… A WIDE-RANGING AND WILDLY ENTERTAINING INQUIRY INTO WHAT IT MEANS TO BE GAY. -MY GAY TORONTO (READ ARTICLE). He is currently velopg Outsi, wh Roseneath Theatre, about homophobia, bullyg and GSA’s high-schools.

Pl Halferty is the fal stag of pletg his Phd dissertatn, a history gay male theatre Toronto at the Universy of Toronto.

Kimberly is thrilled and honoured to be workg wh this fabulo group of artists on The Gay Herage Project.

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Every Thursday, stick around after the show for a lively nversatn wh the creators of The Gay Herage Project and different special guts every night. Makg Gay History is a 501(c)(3) nonprof anizatn that brgs LGBTQ history to life through the voic of the people who lived — creatg podsts and documentari, sourcg and. © 2023 Makg Gay History.

Brish ColumbiaA play that lv to the history and signifince of gay culture opens tonight at Vanuver’s Cultch Theatre. "Canada’s queer muny has a fascatg history but much of hasn’t been ptured or passed down"The play is a llage of stori the creators hope will shed light on the lser known moments gay Canadian history. (Guntar Kravis)A play that lv to the history and signifince of gay culture opens tonight at Vanuver's Cultch 's queer muny has a rich and fascatg history but much of hasn't been ptured or passed down by prev generatns.

Queer herage isn't passed on the same way that other cultural herag are passed on, said one of the Gay Herage Project's -creators. You have to fd that out the world, " said Andrew the play will portray more than 100 known storiThe play is a llage of stori the creators hope will shed light on the lser known moments gay Canadian history.