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Contents:
- WHY STT THOMPSON IS CANADA'S TE GAY NATNAL TREASURE
- FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE CELEBRI, HOT COUNTRY SGERSGAY MALE COUNTRY SGERS: EIGHT OUT AND PROUD COUNTRY STARS
- GAY TORONTO
- THE TE NORTH LGBT: NEW POLL REVEALS LANDSPE OF GAY CANADA
- THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
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.
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— 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. "There's lot's of famo gay women edy, but not gay men, " he says.
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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. We're a stage when gay men only seem able to give up for women or drag queens, but not other gay men.
THREE OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATERS E OUT — 2 GAY MEN AND 1 QUEER WOMAN
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.
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?