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Five years before homosexualy was ostensibly crimalized Canada, when same-sex sexual activy was still punishable by a multi-year prison sentence, Jane Rule published Dert of the Heart. As an adolcent, Tremblay found himself a Québéis a predomantly Anglo untry and a gay teen a largely tolerant society. Shane had a mandg stage prence and routely donned flamboyant getups and elaborate makp, never seekg to nform — even an era when homosexualy was illegal Canada.

Her 1962 sgle “Any Other Way” beme a top 10 h Toronto, s lyrics rife wh double entendr like “Tell her that I’m happy, tell her that I’m gay, tell her I wouldn’t have any other way. Melancholic and mp, Stimson’s exhibns and performanc wield humour and homoeroticism as tools for pg wh the lonial vlence that his practice is ultimately always nontg. Upon watchg his baby boy beg breastfed, Loudon Wawright III penned the tongue--cheek track “Ruf is a T Man” — which assumed an ironic new meang when that boy grew up to be gay.

Wawright has been equally forthg about his homosexualy om the outset of his mil reer, fg his lyrics wh drama, explic queer sire and heartache. Followg the release of his but album, Wawright moved to New York Cy’s Chelsea Hotel to wre his sophomore effort, where he spiralled to a perd plagued by dg addictn. After gettg treatment, Wawright exprsed the belief that he was pecially sceptible to addictn as a gay man: “Years of sexual secury, the low-gra discrimatn you suffer, the need to belong — speed tak re of all that one send, ” he told the New York Tim.

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The one-time liberte (he formerly subscribed to the “Wilan school of homosexualy”) eventually settled down and started posg operas — a ftg send act for a peformer who’s built his reer on songs of yearng and thwarted sire. AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Je Zontal were my mentors, my iends and my gay dads. I moved to Toronto om Vanuver the late ’80s, after graduatg wh a Bachelor of Fe Arts om UBC, and after the ath of my father om liver ncer and many of my gay iends and lovers om AIDS.

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