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Best of all was all those who took FEEDBACK the time, and considerable expense, to create wonderful costumes and floats. Fun was had by all. Obey the law with pride The Smith and Carlos cue I have looked at YouTube videos of How very accurately and appropri- the parade in Seattle, San Francisco ately stated by Mike (via dailyxtra. cal than that? and Toronto, and I am proud to say com and in Xtra #520 as Feedback) Let the gayest Games begin Not to be outdone, Putin, whose that Vancouver was more colourful and that “the law is the law is the law” signature is barely dry on the legal entertaining. Hats, or wigs, off to all! when it states that one cannot be nude and Carlos were suspended and ban- document that enacted Russia’s na- KEVIN YOUNG EDITORIAL in public. VANCOUVER, BC ished and faced heavy criticism and tionwide anti-gay gag law, has lately NATASHA BARSOTTI I also commend Ray Lam for taking even death threats. issued his own decree prohibiting the Vancouver Pride Society’s law- Shoeless and wearing Still, both men maintain they have “gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, Boycott Sochi abiding stand against public nudity black socks, athletes no regrets about that October day. marches and pickets” that are not part Anti-gay laws in Russia are reason in this year’s parade. As a matter of Tommie Smith and John Carlos “I went up there as a dignified of the Sochi Olympics and Paralym- enough to boycott the upcoming Sochi fact, public nudity should also apply mounted the podium at the 1968 black man and said: ‘What’s going on pics, from Jan 7 to March 21. Olympics [“Rainbows to Sochi, Rus- to women’s breasts. Olympics, accepted their 200-metre- is wrong,’” sportswriter David Davis To athletes such as American skater sia,” Xtra #520, Aug 1]. So, when Xtra editor Robin Perelle sprint gold and bronze medals, then quotes Carlos as saying. Jeremy Abbott — who says it’s “a little What a tragedy for the athletes and questions why we should follow the raised their black-gloved fists and Smith says the gesture “was a cry rude” to say “bad things about a coun- other participants in these Games. Can law [“Stripping Nudity out of Pride,” bowed their heads as the American for freedom and for human rights. We try that’s hosting the world” — I say you imagine realizing that in order to Xtra #520, Aug 1], I question how she anthem played. had to be seen because we couldn’t be you are beyond rude to think only of participate without objection, you can function as a responsible edi- Their now iconographic protest heard.” your medal aspirations while turning must abandon your conscience? tor, when in essence she approves of gesture initially went unremarked in In Russia 2013, the recently con- a blind eye to your host’s disregard for The atrocity that occurred recently anarchy? the midst of a packed stadium, notes cluded World Athletics Champion- its queer citizens. in St Petersburg, Russia, is intoler- After so many years when the gay a 2008 Smithsonian retrospective ships, where at least two Swedish The confluence of the passage of able. A handful of brave individuals community was identified as being marking the 40th anniversary of the athletes unveiled their own silent, Russia’s anti-gay gag law with the fast- attempted to have a Pride celebration. sex-obsessed, we have matured into athletes’ silent but powerful stand for rainbow-nails protest against anti-gay approaching Sochi Games has upped Protected by the police for a short a law-abiding part of society. “strength and unity” against poverty, laws, provided a test run of what the the voltage of the spotlight on the time, they were then violently arrested So why push nudity now again and racism and lynching. International Olympic Committee plight of queer Russians, gay rights by those same police, who did little to revert us, in the public’s view, to law- At the time, the US was in ferment (IOC) and Vladimir Putin could ex- activist Nikolai Alexeyev argues in an prevent them being beaten mercilessly breaking, unacceptable, public-sex- from the assassinations of Martin pect from athletes and spectators at opinion piece entitled “Fighting the by a waiting mob before they were organs displayers. Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, next year’s Sochi Games. Gay Fight in Russia: How Gay Propa- taken away to be processed. We live in a democratic society, the volatility of anti-war demonstra- The IOC has signalled that it will ganda Laws Actually Only Help.” A recent, online page featured where we obey the laws of the land, tions, and the beating of protesters penalize athletes who take their po- “The Olympics is a unique possibil- people joking about having to “butch and if we disagree with any of those by Chicago police at the Democratic litical cue from the Swedish athletes. ity for the Russian LGBT community it up” for Russian immigration of- laws, we can change them legally National Convention. Whether the Olympic body cares to and the world to be present and have ficials upon their arrival at Moscow through our elected representatives Back at the Mexican Olympiad, the admit it or not, the Games are politi- their voice heard,” he says. airport. Such behaviour from those — not by ignoring those laws or break- third athlete on the podium, Aus- cal — from the selection of host coun- What’s the IOC going to do if it who clearly enjoy the freedom that ing them. tralian Peter Norman, wore a badge tries to the disruption of communities is suddenly faced with hundreds of living on this continent affords. We JOHN VANDERLEE in solidarity as he claimed the silver and their social and economic pri- Tommie Smiths, John Carloses and VANCOUVER, BC could be Russian. medal. orities in favour of the Games, not to Peter Normans? Discipline and dis- Your readers may wish to contact Prior to the ’68 Games, there had mention the glaring optics of athletes, qualify every one of them? In spite of all said, this year’s Pride the Canadian Olympic Committee been talk of a boycott by African- dispatched like warriors to the battle- What will Russian authorities do parade was one of the best I have ever (olympic.ca) and the International American athletes to highlight the sys- field, to compete for honour and glory if athletes begin pulling out rainbow seen and participated in. Olympic Committee (olympic.org/ temic inequalities rending US society. for their countries. flags during opening and medal cere- All the segments flowed smoothly ioc). The IOC’s recent public state- For “politicizing” the Games, Smith What could be more nakedly politi- monies? Arrest and deport all of them? without long pauses (last year’s major ment about this situation in Russia Smells like... a self-inflicted boycott. complaint) and the crowd had to be the was truly lame. largest ever. It was very well organized, Freedom is not a guarantee. We The outcome that we seek is this — gay and lesbian Let the (gayest ever?) Games begin. from the crowd-control fencing along shouldn’t take it for granted. people daring together to set love free. the way to the many facilities and BRUCE HILLIER Xtra is published by Pink Triangle Press, at 2 Carlton St, Ste 1600, Toronto, M5B 1J3. Natasha Barsotti is Xtra Vancouver’s staff reporter. booths at the picnic/stage grounds. ROBERTS CREEK, BC

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6 AUG 29–SEPT 11, 2013 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS OKAY . . . CREEEE-PY! KNUCKLE- DRAGGER XCETERA CONFESSIONS AY CARAMBA! With California’s passing of a law that allows trans students access to changing facilities [You] and sports teams of their preferred gender, it turns out that what rightwing opponents only should fear most is . . . themselves. Fox News’s Greg consider as Gutfeld: “I would tell girls that I’m a girl trapped in marriage those a boy’s body, just so I could sneak into the girls’ relationships in bathroom.” Media Research Center’s Dan which the members have sexual Joseph (on hidden camera) to Virginia university relations looking at the face. student: “I’m a transgender, so that means And the winner for the most original argument against I have the man gay marriage? Mexican congresswoman Ana María parts but inside I feel more like a woman. I was just wondering, is it Jiménez Ortiz. According to her, that sort of thing “does okay if I go in there with you, and not occur between homosexual partners.” change and shower and stuff ?” LETAND WE’RE OFF . . . THE GAMES BEGIN Swedish high jumper Emma Green Tregaro painted her nails in rainbow colours in a show of support for gays at the recent World Athletics Championships, held in Moscow.

Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva said Tregaro was wrong to make such a gesture while competing in Russia. “We consider ourselves like normal, standard people. We just live with boys with woman, woman with boys.”

American middle- distance runner Nick Symmonds begged to diff er: “I want to say to Yelena, ‘You understand a very large portion of your citizens here are gay and lesbian people. They are standard people, too.’”

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8 AUG 29–SEPT 11, 2013 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS I believe we just created the largest kiss-in yet. Upfront Drew Dennis, VQFF E 14 Pride in New West Organizers invite Russian refugee to co-marshal annual walk

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Russian refugee Andrey Samstov walked the Russian ﬂag up New West- minster’s steep 6th Avenue Aug 17 to celebrate the Vancouver suburb’s fourth I’m just so annual Pride. Approximately 150 people joined impressed to see him, waving rainbow flags, wearing how open-minded elaborate costumes and carrying signs critical of Russian President Vladimir Canadians are Putin. and the rights Samstov arrived in Canada last month, fearing he could face a year in that you have. jail in Russia after being arrested for ANDREY SAMSTOV waving a rainbow ﬂag in a Moscow Pride parade in 2011. New Westminster and BC govern- tawa. I marched. I was 12 years old with ment officials, a native elder and the my placard, marching up Parliament local community welcomed him as Hill demanding for our rights. Can co-grand marshal of the annual Hills you imagine 40 years later what we’re and Heels walk from Columbia Street “It’s just so great to be welcomed into this environment,” says Russian refugee Andrey Samstov at New Westminster’s doing? We’re gathering and celebrat- to city hall. Pride celebrations, above, on Aug 17. AUDREY MCKINNON ing each other,” Laframboise told the “It’s mind-blowing. I’m just so im- crowd. pressed to see how open-minded Cana- ing,” he promises. “It’s not as big as the Vancouver one. some of the fun and the diversity of New Acting Mayor Jonathan Cote read the dians are and the rights that you have. In To Gould, Samstov’s presence offered The Vancouver one kind of seems to Westminster,” she said from where she proclamation, declaring it Pride Day in Moscow, in Russia, we don’t have those an important reminder to stand proud be very commercial and a lot grander. watched, near city hall, on 6th Avenue. New Westminster. He was joined by city kinds of rights there. So it’s just so great for those in other parts of the world So here, it’s just a great way of kind of She says she has always wanted to at- councillors and NDP MLA Judy Darcy. to be welcomed into this environment,” who aren’t allowed to celebrate their connecting with people one-on-one.” tend Vancouver Pride, so attending New Amrik Virk, BC’s minister of advanced Samstov, who is deaf, said through an sexuality outwardly. Volunteer Brian Winger agrees: “Be- West’s celebration gave her a glimpse of education, also addressed attendees, on interpreter. Cesar Torawholes, carrying the same cause we’re a small town, everybody the festivities, without the commute. behalf of Premier Christy Clark, who New West Pride has been growing #Putinmyass placard he carried in the knows somebody or is related to some- “This is just outside our backdoor, so it was not in attendance. annually, says Ian Gould, vice-president Vancouver Pride parade two weeks body,” he says. “It’s just a whole different was just easy to come and check it out.” “On behalf of the government of Brit- of the Royal City Pride Society. “Every earlier, says New West’s Pride celebra- feeling.” As Hills and Heels participants made ish Columbia, we walk with you, we year we’re getting bigger and bigger. tions feel different than the Vancouver For Lynn West, who moved to New it to the front steps of city hall, they respect you and Happy Pride Day,” This year, there’s probably three times parade, which organizers say drew more West about a year ago, Pride is a chance were greeted by native elder Sandra Virk said. as many people down here on the street, than 600,000 spectators again this year. for her to discover her new city. Laframboise, who delivered a blessing. Following the proclamation, the and I’m forecasting next year maybe “The New West and Surrey one “We actually saw it in the newspaper, “It warmed my queer heart to see all walkers were invited to the Pride Fes- we’ll have to close the street. are more community-based,” says so for sure came up in support and to of you walking up the hill. It reminded tival in Tipperary Park, where vendors “We’ll just keep building and build- Torawholes, who lives in New West. see what was going on and then enjoy me of 1971, the 28th of August in Ot- and a stage awaited.

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AGING rected through Vancouver’s Health problems and AIDS.” JEREMY HAINSWORTH Initiative for Men, Ablenas says. As a result, many gay men became The team’s goal is to review new data isolated and face speciﬁc challenges As the generation of gay men who about emotional, physical and health as they age, he says. felt the brunt of the early AIDS crisis challenges faced by senior gay men Ablenas says the decision to create in the 1980s ages, some community over the age of 60 in BC, to determine a research project was driven by con- leaders say more attention must be how to move forward in cooperation versations and anecdotal reports that paid to meeting the men’s current and with other agencies. “there was not a lot out there.” future needs. Members of that age group were He would like to see more social- This fall will see the launch of a new shell-shocked as their peers were support networks and better health discussion group for senior gay men decimated in the early days of AIDS, outcomes. and a research project aimed at study- Ablenas says. But ﬁrst, he says, the research can ing their needs. After being rejected, in many cases, help determine people’s needs. Researcher Robert Ablenas is part by their biological families and sub- “That is in no way to say other orga- of a health team, along with Scott Har- jected to negative responses to their nizations are doing anything wrong,” rison and Trevor Corneil, that has sexuality, many of these men lost their he adds. “It’s about stepping up the received a one-year grant of $25,000 chosen families to AIDS, he explains. pace.” from the Canadian Institutes of Health “This particular generation has a Ablenas says the research team will Research. The funding is being di- cultural double whammy, with family focus on social-support networks and

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12 AUG 29–SEPT 11, 2013 XTRA! VANCOUVER'S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS business or some cheesecake business. Returning Sunday morning, it’s water, water, everywhere. It’s pouring down into the sports shop and down the stairs Mrs G’s revenge to the basement. So Gerry does the sensible thing and turns off the taps and, because he’s still on the go-go, he tidies A little cheesecake speed and polishes and cleans up everything so the place is spotless. Except, of course, and a lot of water for the pools and puddles of water. Come Monday morning, Gerry and STILL QQ Mary’s was doing a booming business, his main man Ron pass by on their way KEVIN DALE featuring flame-grilled burgers with to drop the keys off at the landlord’s of- MCKEOWN drag shows on the side. In the meantime, fi ce. Well, there’s police and fi re trucks Mrs G and her best sister Betty Durette and yellow tape everywhere! Mrs G pops A few months back, we (rhymes with Betty) had noticed a grow- into the sports store and innocently asks, shared a few stories about my friend ing interest in roller-skating, imported a “What the hell happened?” and “Where’s Gerry G — better known in some circles couple of hundred roller skates, and set all this water coming from?” as the water as Mrs G. These tales included the found- up as High on Wheels roller rentals on that’s backed up in the basement pours ing legend of Hamburger Mary’s and the Alberni Street. out the sports shop’s front door. openings (and closings) of a string of way- “So the cash was flowing,” Mrs G Gerry G (right) and lifelong companion Ron, circa 1972. COURTESY OF KEVIN DALE MCKEOWN But the taps upstairs at Blondie’s are too-gay clubs and boozecans, including remembers. “All we needed was some- “We’d never have made it if it weren’t cheesecake speed pick-me-up, Mrs G all turned off , and if there’s water all over The Music Room and The Downbeat. place to move our Downbeat custom- for cheesecake speed!” Mrs G says fondly. was ready to clean up the premises and the fl oors upstairs, Gerry sure doesn’t One episode told the story of the con- ers — we preferred ‘members’ because And that, of course, is yet another story. hand over the keys. “I’m thinking, Who know where it came from. “You must version of the Adonis Baths into The that’s how we got around all sorts of Blondie’s wasn’t open a month before needs this hassle? But by the time I get have had a pipe burst somewhere over- Downbeat and how that ended badly rules. John and Jim were closing the the owner of the sports store decided, there, I’m on the go-go and I’m pissed night. It was fi ne when I left yesterday.” when the cops fi gured out that all the Playpen North above the sporting- on the last Friday of the month, that off ! That little voice I hear now and then “I looked completely innocent. You booze was hidden in the water tanks goods store at Seymour at Dunsmuir, he didn’t like his new neighbours and, said, ‘Flood the fucker.’” know I did!” above the urinals. so we moved in, gussied it up, and the having control of the breakers in the Plugging the drains and turning on I hesitated about telling the following next thing we knew it was Blondie’s!” basement, turned off the power. all the faucets in the men’s room was Kevin Dale McKeown was Vancouver’s story in its fullest, but I believe that the Keeping the burgers fl ipping at Ham- “Well, we opened that night, and Sat- a good start. “Then, just to be a little first out gay columnist, penning QQ statute of limitations has run out on burger Mary’s, opening a new club and urday night too, in the dark! A couple of more evil, I did the same in the women’s Writes... Page 69 for the Georgia Straight pretty much all the misdemeanours overseeing a bunch of Betty’s boys out boom boxes, a box of candles, and I had room. Then I sat down at the bar and through the early 1970s. To add your admitted to, so what the hell? running the seawall skate patrol in satin a little party and made a little money. did a little more speed. You know I did!” memories to these stories, or to correct By the time the authorities forced the lime-green tennis shorts and little bee- You know I did!” And then Gerry left to take care of the author’s version of things, write him closing of The Downbeat, Hamburger striped caps made for a busy workday. But Sunday morning, following a little some burger business or some roller at [email protected].

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Hosted by Deborra Hope, Global BC | David C. Jones, Auctioneer Join us for a special reception, to view & (re)unveil the Joe Average “One World – One Hope” quilt and the Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt, cocktails, entertainment With Yogi Omar (right) leading, hundreds lock lips in solidarity with gay people in Russia and with a live and silent auction. around the world, Aug 15. ANGELINA CANTADA Tickets: $45.00 Film fest kicks off with kiss-in For ticket information please go to “Tonight, I want you to join me in a kiss- in partners, festival-goers puckered “If I’m kissing a man, it’s just an act in,” executive director Drew Dennis told up for the freedom to love as camera of love, but in Russia, it’s propaganda, positivelivingbc.org/REINSPIRE the more than 700 people gathered for flashes popped around them capturing and you can get arrested.” opening night of the Vancouver Queer the moment. “I believe we just created Omar hopes more people will orga- or call 604.915.9255 Film Festival, Aug 15. the largest kiss-in yet,” Dennis said to a nize their own kiss-ins in the lead-up The festival launched its 25th season standing ovation. to the global event scheduled for Oct 11, TRIBUTE SPONSORSREMEMBERANCE TRIBUTE MEDIA SPONSORS with a high-spirited smooch session to The kiss-in’s organizer says it dove- National Coming Out Day. “The idea is SPONSOR send love and solidarity to gay people in tails with last year’s festival theme, that anybody can do this; it’s easy. Take Russia and around the world. Lovers and Fighters. “We are lovers, and a picture of yourself kissing somebody, With hearty applause, scattered this is how we fight,” says Yogi Omar, do a hashtag, plaster it all over social FOUNDING SPONSOR laughter and some initial nervous who organized Vancouver’s first kiss-in media, make sure anybody and every- rustling as people picked their kiss- outside the Russian consulate Aug 2. body gets to see it.” —Natasha Barsotti

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16 AUG 29–SEPT 11, 2013 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS That’s why I’ll never be a drag- Out inthe City queen Jesus. Coco Peru E21 The devil wears Jesus pathetically) intelligent megalomaniac who rose Did Pope Benedict to the top of a church that, as the world saw with the pedophile sex-abuse cover-up, he put before XVI resign because all else. It’s this adherence that leads me to wonder if Gawthrop’s theory — that homosexuality in the of the gays? Vatican drove Ratzinger to give up the papacy he vowed to serve for life — might not be as naive as IN PRINT the idea that the head of one of the world’s most RAZIEL powerful establishments could have really been so clueless to the homo goings-on within. The central idol of the Catholic Church is a naked “It may not have shocked or surprised him,” man in a BDSM pose, so is it any surprise the Gawthrop speculates, “but his whole thing is clergy’s gone gay? containment... You can just see him saying, ‘Well, In Daniel Gawthrop’s The Trial of Pope Benedict: where does [the homosexuality in the church] Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Rea- stop? I can’t contain this.’ You can see the control- son, Compassion, and Human Dignity, the author ling part of him, because he was all about control, describes what he sees as the two types of gay men having a conniption fi t because he’s exposed at who join the church: the Catholics who look to the having failed. I think it was cowardly. In a sense establishment as a state of grace to protect them he was giving up.” from their sexual truth while they hide behind vows Gawthrop’s theory is not without its flaws. of celibacy, and the much rarer “more confi dent soul For one thing, it contradicts another element of who enters the seminary in good faith and makes Ratzinger’s character: his convictions. Would he no attempt to hide himself or even his sexuality.” really let the gays win over, in his mind at least, It certainly seems as if some church offi cials Jesus Christ himself? aren’t bothering to hide anything — at least not And why would a man that Gawthrop describes very well. as thinking “he was above the media” be de- Some critics refer to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone’s stroyed by continued scandal? Surely his eight 2008 apartment-block purchase above Italy’s big- years as pope and previous experiences with his gest gay bathhouse (for a cool $30 million of your ambiguous predecessor John Paul II’s three- granny’s Sunday mass donations) as “the biggest decade papacy would have accustomed him to gay club in the world.” the media roller coaster. The bathhouse shrewdly markets itself with “He always did things by his own rules,” men dressed as priests getting it on with sweaty Gawthrop maintains. bears. Know thy neighbours. Was the 86-year-old arthritic Ratzinger really With new gay reports surfacing in the media willing to let the rainbow flag cover the cross and constantly, it’s diffi cult to deny that homosexuality be done with it? And does that mean the Vatican — a “threat to the future of humanity,” as Benedict will stop crucifying us? XVI warned — has infi ltrated the church. Maybe “I don’t think it’ll happen with Francis,” Benedict confused “humanity” with the Vatican. Gawthrop says. “But eventually, [the church] will “That’s what did it in for him; that’s why he quit,” have no choice but to accept [the gay community]. Gawthrop alleges. I think Francis was chosen because they saw him as “Imagine someone like him who has basically a reformer. They saw someone who might be able made it his mission to clean the Vatican of ‘its to convince the world there might be some change, Filth’ — meaning [gay people] — to suddenly be even if it’s superfi cial from our point of view.” confronted with these three big dossiers compiled Some change, albeit potentially superfi cial, has by cardinals coming back to him with reports say- already been reported since Francis became pope. ing, ‘I’m sorry, your Holiness, but tons of Vatican When asked by journalists about gay men joining officials are being blackmailed by, you know, the priesthood, he said, “If they accept the Lord hustlers, and oh yes, there’s a big bathhouse, and Daniel Gawthrop, author of The Trial of Pope Benedict, and have goodwill, who am I to judge them? They oh yes, Bertone approved it.’ believes the last pope stepped down because he shouldn’t be marginalized. 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MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 29–SEPT 11, 2013 17 COVER STORY MARK ROBINS Quiche, trolls & killers Xtra’s picks of the Vancouver Fringe Fest

The 2013 Vancouver Fringe Festival may very well be the year of the lesbian. With a Sapphic update to a Norwegian fairy tale, the story of a group of 1950s widows who worship eggs, and the return of a lesbian romantic comedy all 5 Lesbians part of this year’s lineup, women’s stories are defi nitely at the forefront. Eating a Quiche This year’s lesbian tales join a long tradition of queer stories and per- formers that have graced the Fringe Fest’s stages for nearly three decades. Real men might not eat it, but the mem- “The Fringe loves queers. We always have,” says executive director David bers of the Susan B Anthony Society for Jordan. “We are proud to have had queer ‘theatrati’ like Michael V Smith, the Sisters of Gertrude Stein downright Morgan Brayton, Berend McKenzie, Denis Simpson and many others walk worship it. the Fringe stage in the past. We look forward to seeing new queer artists this In the black comedy 5 Lesbians Eating year continue the long history of the Fringe as part of the queer community.” a Quiche, audiences get an opportunity Here are Xtra’s queer picks for the Fringe. For full festival listings, go to to sit in on a meeting of a 1950s wom- vancouverfringe.com. en’s organization whose motto — No Men, No Meat, All Manners — suggests they have more in common than just savoury pastry. VANCOUVER “It’s not about men- FRINGE FESTIVAL hating,” laughs producer Sept 5–15 Various locations and actor Beth Gunderson. vancouverfringe.com “It’s about a group of women coming together and holding on to something that is precious.” Beth Gunderson stars in 5 Lesbians That something precious includes a Eating a Quiche. RANDALL COSCO reverence for the egg, which they de- clare to be “as close to the Lord Jesus as a piece of food can get.” And while it takes the possibility of an apocalyptic event during the Cold War to get these women to fi nally admit their forbidden love, Gunderson insists the play still holds many truths today. “In a way, not a whole lot has changed when you look at how people are con- trolled by fear,” she says. “As a gay community, we still are oppressed. These women have a strong friendship that helps them overcome their fears.” LITTLE BASKET THEATRE COMPANY Proof once again that art imitates life, the friendships shared by the women The Last Piece of 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche are mir- Jacqueline Korb’s lightweight ro- eral are not very good, let alone one rored in real life. “The cast are all con- mantic comedy The Last Piece gets that has two lesbians as the central nected to each other with friendships a return engagement at the Havana characters,” Korb told Xtra in 2011. extending over 20 years,” Gunderson Theatre. Last seen two years ago, it “I thought, How hard would it be to explains. “For one of our cast, being tells the story of two women who write a love story, a good romantic able to perform is even on her bucket meet in a bookstore and suddenly comedy for two women, and thought list, and her dream of acting onstage fi nd themselves on a date. using books would be a good way to before her 50th birthday this year is “Recent romantic comedies in gen- bring two people together.” coming true.” BLACK ROOK THEATRE/M ZAMBERT 18 AUG 29–SEPT 11, 2013 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS Confessions of a Fairy’s Daughter When Alison Wearing fi rst cracked Wearing and her two brothers during open her father’s diary, from a box the week. recovered from the basement, she “There weren’t any models for this knew that she was on to something. at the time,” Wearing says of her fa- “The very fi rst page of the diary had ther’s dual life. “The popular thinking an entry that said, ‘Last night I made at that time was that the parents stay out with a Roman Catholic priest.’ It together for the children. They tried was at that point that I knew I had a that, but it didn’t work, so they even- gold mine,” she says. tually divorced. He lived a very Jekyll A one-woman show that has since and Hyde existence at the time.” been turned into a book, Confessions With her father’s blessing, Wearing of a Fairy’s Daughter tells the story has crafted a tale that not only re- of growing up with a flamboyant fl ects compassionately on her father’s father who lived a double life in the coming-out journey, but on her own, 1970s, as a gay man on the weekend too, as she gradually came to terms and as a seemingly straight father to with being a fairy’s daughter.

LEAPING THESPIANS The Troll and the Three Lesbians Gruff A traditional Norwegian fairy tale gets months with mentors and fi ts nicely a lesbian makeover in a site-specifi c into the Leaping Thespians’ commit- production of The Troll and the Three ment to expand its audience base. Lesbians Gruff that will take place “We’ve always wanted to be in the under the footbridge of the False Fringe, as it is where people will go Creek Community Centre on Gran- to see a group that they’ve never seen ville Island. before,” producer Stephanie Kemp Inspired by the 19th-century Scan- says. “It really fits in with what we dinavian fable Billy Goats Gruff , this want to do, to help take us to our audi- Leaping Thespians story follows a troll ence rather than them always coming who feeds off the negative energy of a to us. We’re trying to branch out, and QUICK PICKS community of lesbians. this site-specifi c show really suits us.” A 51-year-old mother, art- “It doesn’t quite follow the Billy The seventh original show from Van- ist and teacher named Goats Gruff story,” writer/director couver’s lesbian theatre company, The Tasha Diamant embodies Karen White explains. “Where Billy Troll not only breaks down the fourth vulnerability by appearing Goats is a story about throwing your wall between audience and actors in a naked and unscripted in buddy under a bus, this story is more unique setting, it also provides an op- The Human Body Project, a about building community.” portunity for audience interaction.“We piece of experiential the- Part of the Fringe Fest’s Onsite pro- even have people making entrances in atre literally stripped to its gram, The Troll and the Three Lesbi- boats, a horse race, a real campfi re and most essential. Audiences ans Gruff is the culmination of seven live music,” White enthuses. MINDY GOUGH have been known to join Diamant by removing their own clothing. QHe may Model Wanted identify as straight, but John Grady knows what it is like In March 2011, 29-year-old Jason Dow ed hints of a “certain intimacy” and tive of the young killer, Model Wanted to be bullied, having been paid a Saint John teenager with cash other images found on Dow’s camera begins with the murder and gradually called a “faggot” for most of and beer to pose for photos in various of teens masturbating and having peels back the playwright’s hypothesis his life. Little Pussy explores stages of undress, CBC reported two sex, Taylor has created what he calls a of what life may have been like for the the years of torment at the years ago. “what if” story about what might have teen, and what might have motivated hands of his bullies and how Around midnight the teen texted a transpired that night between Dow the murder he committed, including he fi nally fought back. QGay friend saying he was going to kill Dow. and his murderer. a confused sexual past and the possi- actor Paul Cosentino’s Bad After chasing him down the street, the “At fi rst it was as simple as just not bility that his past may have been too Connections? follows the teen stabbed Dow five times with a knowing what was going on that night,” much for him to handle. intersecting lives of nine kitchen knife, leaving him for dead in Taylor says. “I was curious as to what “I don’t think of him as a young mur- eccentric New Yorkers, in- a pool of his own blood. The teenager they might have talked about that derer. He is a pretty normal kid that cluding a cardiologist who eventually turned himself in and was night, how provoked the teen was, what gets caught up in these awful circum- is married to a woman while sentenced to two years in a youth de- lines were crossed. Was the teen homo- stances,” says actor Jesse LaVercombe, dating a gay yoga instructor. tention centre for manslaughter. sexual, or did he go into that night who plays the teenager. QAfter a successful run at Reading the reports of the murder wanting something or resenting it and “He really gets stressed out about the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, in the media, playwright Step Taylor just needing the money? There were these things that suddenly escalate queer puppetry duo Mind became fascinated by the unanswered so many ways it could have played out, to life and death. There is a repressed of a Snail brings its latest questions and the lack of detail that and I couldn’t determine what those sexuality that he is dealing with, and show, Against Gravity, back emerged in the media about the mur- were based on the articles that I read.” while he plays ‘straight,’ there are lots to home audiences. der. With media coverage that includ- Told from the hypothetical perspec- of undercurrents about being gay.” NATIONAL THEATRE SCHOOL MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 29–SEPT 11, 2013 19 THE D OG D UDES » Training » Behavior Modification Tickets now on sale at » Walking/hiking vancouverfringe.com! » Daycare/Boarding » Experts in correcting anxious, aggressive, Fringe Box Office powered by dominant, & obsessive behaviours

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20 AUG 29–SEPT 11, 2013 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS how she says it, or sings it — like the fellow human beings from their sex- tongue-in-cheek passion with which phobia, fear and shame.” she performs the number “Life Sucks, “Because we grew up living outside Fuck You!” the box, we learned not only to accept “I’m not sure if I mentioned,” she our sexuality, but how to have fun said after flipping off the crowd one with it!” she said. “And why shouldn’t Drag-queen divinity final time, “but I’m available for chil- we? Why shouldn’t we have fun? dren’s parties.” That’s what drives the homophobes Peru is a master monologist and crazy.” Coco Peru saves at The Stanley was both poignant and droll while Coco Jesus is determined to change taking on heavy issues like gay op- the world one sequin at a time and BLITZ & SHITZ and bring it forth, and, well, that’s why pression, something she faced being have fun doing it. She knows that RAZIEL I’ll never be a drag-queen Jesus...” the boy “who always wished for girl “the future is in the hands of the Violent tendencies aside, Coco things, always got boy things” at children,” and even if she isn’t getting “The people who walk Peru is divine. The Holy Mother of Christmas every year as a kid. booked for children’s parties, it hasn’t around with ‘God hates Laughter was brought to Vancouver “When I was growing up in the stopped her from teaching them a fags’ signs are the same people who by Christopher Logan to help raise Bronx in the 1970s,” she reminisced, thing or two. believe Jesus had long blond hair, self-publishing funds for his glamor- “I’d hear things like, ‘You know what Take the story she told of her young blue eyes and was a Christian. Poor ous coffee-table book DRAG. they should do, they should take all nephew quizzing her one day on why Jesus. She must be spinning in her The show was a combination of the fucking homos and ship them off she dresses up as a girl: grave,” Coco Peru said, wryly, in her standup comedy, nostalgic stories of to some tropical island somewhere “You know how you get dressed up New York accent, to the packed crowd Peru’s childhood and musical numbers — Fruity Island!’ Well, when I was a on Halloween?” Auntie Coco asked. at the Stanley Theatre. sung live. The encore included “The kid and I’d hear shit like that I’d be “It makes you feel happy, right? “I have this fantasy that if Jesus Chance to Sing,” which was composed terrified, but now, I’m like, a tropical “Well, dressing up makes me feel were to come back, he’d tap one of the by Billy Goldenberg and performed island? Just for gays? Far away? When happy, too. But,” she added, with a ‘God hates fags’ people on the shoul- originally in Bea Arthur’s one-woman does the next boat leave?!” theatrical shrug, “I just don’t wanna der and say, ‘Excuse me, hi, I’m Jesus. show up until her death, when Billy “The reason these homophobes wait until Halloween!” I’ve been spinning in my grave for the passed it on to an honoured Peru. hate us so much isn’t because they Her nephew thought about it for past 2,000 years, and I finally decided I started off making mental notes of fear us,” she said. “They’re jealous. a moment and, maybe realizing how to come back because I just wanted to Peru’s funniest moments but ended We have what they want. Sexual lib- much waiting for Halloween sucks, say, ‘Shut the fuck up!’ By the way, I’m up having to pull out a recorder be- eration, self-expression, huge porn simply replied, “Okay” before running a Jew, and this here is a Jew ’fro.’ cause there were just so many. She hit collections! We celebrate it, and that’s off to play. “And then I’d like him to take their the crowd with one line after the next, Once terrified of the homophobes’ why, my darling, if we want to cre- “I do what I can,” Peru told the threat to ship all gays off to a tropical sign and beat them with it until it and upon transcribing the recording, island, Coco Peru (right, with Raziel) ate real change we can’t run away to audience with a wink, before break- broke. But Jesus wouldn’t do that; I realized that her true genius is in the is now tempted to catch the next boat. Fruity Island. We have to stay here ing out in a song fittingly christened he’d be able to see the good in them delivery. It isn’t just what she says; it’s VICTOR BEARPARK in the trenches and help liberate our “Nobody Does It Better.”

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