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WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE

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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.

BCE MCCULLOCH EXPLAS HOW 'THE KIDS IN THE HALL' KEPT THEIR GAY COMEDY EDGY IN THE 1980S

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There's no other explanatn for gay men g out to see another gay man!

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"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. 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.

KIDS THE HALL ALUM STT THOMPSON ON HANNIBAL AND WHY BEG GAY IS NOW BORG

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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. "There's lot's of famo gay women edy, but not gay men, " he says. I thk the level of self-loathg wh gay men is a lot higher than people thk.

And as a rult gay men have a very difficult time givg up for other gay men.

STT THOMPSON OFFERS A TIMELY REVIS WH FEARLS GAY SOCIALE BUDDY COLE

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We're a stage when gay men only seem able to give up for women or drag queens, but not other gay men. 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. ' Gay men all thk they're hilar and I have to rm you, they're not.

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.

STT THOMPSON ADVIS GAY YOUTH TO FIGHT BACK

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We gay men "need to take a hard look at ourselv the mirror. "Gay men need to look at themselv and go, 'Why n I not let another gay man she? ' You ask any gay male edian and I'm pretty sure 99% of them would agree wh me.

Remember, gay men are still let's be hont, the gay media is absolutely guilty too.

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"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.

But when me to the LGBTQ+ muny, a very polarized view was still reflected the Canada though, a gay sociale ma to the CBC airwav: the vehement "macho queen", Charl Budrick (Buddy) Cole — a character created by Stt Thompson jt before he joed the Kids the Hall troupe. Canadian" and a keen observer, no nonsense monologist who addrs stereotyp, tells outrageo stori and shar his trigug life experienc — all the while pokg fun at everythg and everyone cludg his own sexualy and the gay muny.

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Kids the Hall st members, Stt Thompson and Bce McCulloch talk to CBC Comedy about Buddy Cole and what he did for Thompson (who himself intifi as gay), the impact of Buddy's unnny abily to nonchalantly brg important issu to light and how the character, that at the time of s ceptn was not endorsed by the general public, was actually All terviews were adjted for ntext, clary and watchg edi is 'important medice'Bce McCulloch: I had met Mark McKney Calgary and we had worked together a different edy troupe.

20 YEARS LATER, GAY IN BUDDY COLE IS MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER

BM: He me about at the time when, the early '80s, wasn't that easy to talk about homosexualy and crazy gay stori.

So he kd of took on a larger than life character and I thk part of was to not be aaid to be kd of a feme gay man wh crazy wild stori. For a gay man om my generatn, everythg was about hidg, everythg was about provg that you are a man and that you weren't a f-g.

I was workg very hard to hi all of the thgs si of me that gave away to the world that I was gay. Bee for my generatn, was absolutely adly to be known as gay. Particularly my generatn, all gay character were basilly the difference wh Buddy is, he ridiculed.

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