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Whatcott’s Pride FREE Electoral culture shock 20,000 AUDITED Vancouver Pride and the actual CIRCULATION don’t evoke sex as part of their queer We have built for each other a VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS GUEST EDITORIAL Church of the Flying Spaghetti Mon- TRISH KELLY identity. beautiful, loving community, and ster should jointly sue Bill Whatcott AUG 2014 14–27, In the vetting process, I gave Vision the edges seem to be expanding for #547 and his “followers” who participated in It’s Pride Sunday in Van- Vancouver a detailed list of the types of us, allowing us more representation this ruse [ “Anti-Gay Activist Slips into PLUS! couver, Aug 3. Coff ee in sex-positive work I have done, includ- in the broader societal context. And PRIDE NEWS Pride to Hand Out Fake Condoms,” & PHOTOS hand, I start the day off with an in- ing editing and contributing to several we keep sending out scouts beyond E7–13 dailyxtra.com, Aug 6]. It seems trivial, WHATCOTT’S terview on CKNW radio talking about gay and lesbian erotica publications the edges, each one carrying a little RUSE but considering the Supreme Court E8 my recent run and withdrawal from bit more of who we are and testing

and doing burlesque in pre-camera- @dailyxtra of Canada’s judgment against him, HOT& Vancouver’s upcoming municipal phone times, but it did not occur to acceptance. This time we have been this would seem to be a blatant case BUTTERED election. The rest of my day will con- me to make these things a big part of told that sex-positive performance facebook.com/dailyxtra of contempt of court — the Supreme Xtra’s annual guide to the Vancouver Queer Film Festival sist of writing op-eds and planning my candidate bio. In a nomination race art is too much of who we are and may dailyxtra.com Court, no less! E15 several forums on diversity and rep- with nine candidates, I was the only even undermine our ability to make at More Whatcott even admits it: “The Su- resentation in politics. Pride for me one with actual experience working decisions about off-leash dog parks preme Court found me guilty of hate today is about asking what’s next for on policy with the parks board. That or playground equipment. speech and I have been breaking that our community. seemed more important. And ulti- I’m not knocking our existing LGBT ruling ever since, and this is part of it,” For the 99 percent who didn’t get his We’ve come a long way, it’s true. Not he told Xtra. “I’m still out there. I’m disguised message, he was a positive only do we host the best annual party loud and not ashamed of my moral addition to the parade. And for the this city holds; we have also made As gay-friendly as we think our city is, a and theological protest. This is spiri- other one percent, he provided a living, strides in representation in Vancou- monologue of mine from a Fringe Festival tual warfare. This is a war against the breathing reminder that the fi ght isn’t ver politics. Back in 1986, Gordon Supreme Court of Canada and the ho- quite over yet. Price was elected to city council as play that I wrote and performed in 2000, in mosexual agenda.” Attempts to institute protocols that Vancouver’s fi rst openly gay council- which I talked about the invisibility I felt as a So I say take his word for it and take might prevent him from returning to lor. In 2002, Ellen Woodsworth, an him (and his fellow co-conspirators) the parade would mostly discourage real out lesbian, and Tim Stevenson, an young single person and admitted to a kind of to court. people from creating fun and random openly gay man and former MLA, self-love that included masturbation, became DAVID MYERS fl oats, and it probably wouldn’t prevent were elected to city council. Cur- what a blogger titled “Another Nail in the VANCOUVER, BC a hard-core protester from making his/ rently, we have Trevor Loke on the her way into the parade. parks board, Stevenson still on council Coffi n for Vision Vancouver.” This is disgusting. If you’re going to be a bigoted asshole, at least have the STEPHEN SAMUEL and, if we all vote, Vision parks board VANCOUVER, BC candidate Coree Tull, founder of the mately, I did not feel a need to focus representatives who have challenged balls to be honest about it. Fucking Double Rainbow Dodgeball league, on my sex-positive, queer life because the narrow frame of acceptance and coward. This guy gives us accepting, good may join Loke. I was told by Vision that it would not electability. They have fought hard BILL BARKER Christians a really bad name. I am a FACEBOOK With this smattering of queer com- be an issue. to get us where we are. I actually gay Christian. Nowhere did Jesus say munity representation in municipal But Vision was wrong. It became worry for them that the attention I Is that a closet door creaking open? It homosexuals shall be persecuted. He politics, why is it significant that I an issue. As gay-friendly as we think am drawing to this issue may make sounds like Bill Whatcott was having said God is a loving God. So this minis- am no longer in the race? What does our city is, a monologue of mine from the voting public — the ones Vision such a good time at the parade that ter is not only a coward, but a liar and it say about politics that as a queer a Fringe Festival play that I wrote and anticipated would not accept a parks one of these years he may be marching manipulator, which is against the 12 candidate, my history as a sex-positive performed in 2000, in which I talked board commissioner who has talked in it for real. Maybe not, but I wouldn’t commandments. artist and activist made me a target for about the invisibility I felt as a young about desire — realize that these be surprised. JASEONWILLIAMPHIPPS DAILYXTRA.COM a smear campaign? single person and champions of our community actually 1DIZZY1 I think it says YOU CAN DRESS US UP . . . admitted to a kind have sexual lives. DAILYXTRA.COM something we can’t An Xtra town hall on the of self-love that in- As a community, one of the gifts we Good luck, Trish politics of being too queer All he really managed to do was spoof skim over. for public life cluded masturbation, have to off er other communities is our himself. Happy to see you haven't freaked out I think in my case Tues, Sept 9, 6:30–8pm became what a blog- knack for celebration. We use spectacle about this and wrapped yourself up SARAH there are some sexist Fountainhead Pub, 1025 Davie St ger titled “Another and celebration to show others how DAILYXTRA.COM in martyrdom, but consider this as a biases that compound With panellists Trish Kelly, Nail in the Coffi n for good it can feel to overcome shame to- place where more work needs to be Councillor Tim Stevenson, Jim He spent four grand to hand out anti- my vulnerability: our Deva and Romi Chandra Herbert Vision Vancouver.” gether, in community. Until the masses done. Bodes well for your political fu- society is still uncom- To see this in print lining our parade route understand gay literature to a queer and queer- ture --- good luck. ["What Trish Kelly's fortable with women who claim their in the context of a queer newspaper that our pride is not just spectacle, but allied crowd. Not exactly the best bang short political run says about electable sexuality and regularly shames and is mind-blowing. In our queer cul- an embodied statement that sexual for the buck. queers," dailyxtra.com, Aug 8]. silences women with accusations of ture, where sexual acceptance and expression and agency are everyone’s GORDON NORE PS: Really annoys me that a city that FACEBOOK sexual promiscuity. But I also think celebration are foundational values birthright, our queer politicians will wallows in fantasy sexuality on TV, the my short-lived run shows queer can- of our community, it seems absolutely never really be safe. It’s quite hilarious, really, that they internet, advertising, fashion, and just didates stand a chance as long as they bizarre. We still have a long way to go to true spend all this money and time at gay walking down the street, can't stand to equality. pride trying to dissuade gays who are have the subject discussed seriously, The outcome that we seek is this — gay and lesbian celebrating being gay to not be gay, personally and realistically by a live people daring together to set love free. Trish Kelly is a performance artist, com- while being disguised as gay. human being. munity activist and co-editor of With a MICHAEL BERARD DON HIX Xtra is published by Pink Triangle Press, at 2 Carlton St, Ste 1600, , M5B 1J3. Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. FACEBOOK DAILYXTRA.COM

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Dennis says the festival has received a wide Three films pulled, Out On Screen’s range of feedback about the complexities of the executive director issue, and recalls that last year’s festival program- festival head says Drew Dennis says the ming included a panel discussion entitled “Why feedback the festival has received is being and Why Not? Cultural Boycott?” that debated review underway tracked and will be part the merits of boycotting Israeli cultural products. of discussions that will “This is a conversation that the organization has take place this fall. been having, and will continue to have,” Dennis COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION OUT ON SCREEN NATASHA BARSOTTI says. “I’ve been listening, listening and listening to so many viewpoints. All of that is being tracked Three filmmakers pulled their films from this and will be brought forward to discussions in year’s Vancouver Queer Film Festival (VQFF) the fall.” following its decision to accept advertising from Dennis says the mandate of the organization a pro-Israel advocacy group, Yad b’Yad. is to bring communities together to provide a Patty Berne (Sins Invalid), Can Candan (My platform for safe, open and respectful dialogue Child) and Coral Short (We Don’t Want to Marry) with a diversity of viewpoints. issued statements criticizing inclusion of the ad Turje, co-director of the short Hands in the in the festival’s guide. Mik Turje, another direc- Dirt, decided not to withdraw the film from the tor whose film Hands in the Dirt was screened festival “as an act of good faith” that the issue will at the festival, also wrote a public letter to the be addressed in the fall. VQFF — as did a number of advocacy groups, Turje acknowledges that the VQFF has no posi- including the Simon Fraser Public Interest Re- tion on the issue, yet says in a Facebook post that search Group (SFPIRG), a student-run social “choosing neutrality in a situation of oppression justice centre; Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is a form of complicity.” (QuAIA); and queer, trans and intersex people The Gaza crisis is a queer issue, Turje argues, of colour organizations (QTIPOC) — expressing because the “project of pinkwashing” involves disappointment about the publication of the ad LGBT people and cultural producers have a in the festival’s guide. responsibility to use media for social justice. The ads, they say, are part of a bid to “pink- “Though the mandate of the VQFF may end at wash” Israel’s image to distract attention from celebrating queer lives through film, your moral its treatment of Palestinian people and instead obligation does not,” Turje says. focus on the country’s gay rights record. They Dennis says it’s been reassuring to have conver- have variously called on the festival to apologize sations with directors like Turje. “They recognize for including the ad, develop a policy about pink- the value of being able to bring their film, their washing, adopt a boycott, divestment and sanc- topic, their issue because there are so many con- tions (BDS) strategy toward Israel and undertake versations that we can be having around the films.” self-education about Palestinian human rights. Asked if the festival intends to adopt any of the Salaam Vancouver, a queer Muslim group, and policy approaches outlined by the film directors Trikone Vancouver, a queer South Asian group, and advocacy groups, Dennis reiterates that the also withdrew as community partners of the festi- festival has heard the feedback and concerns, and val because of the inclusion of the ad in the guide. those will be part of board discussions. “As a queer organization and me as a South Dennis notes that funds received from the Asian queer, I really don’t want us to be used to Acceptance of the ad is not a signal that the its advertising and programming honour its ad will go to Just Vision, an organization which justify the settler colonialism in Palestine which festival has taken “a position about the Israeli/ mandate to celebrate queer lives through film, says its goal is to help foster “peace and an end is pinkwashing. We need to make sure that our Palestinian conflict,” says executive director Drew Dennis notes, adding that much of that work to the occupation by rendering Palestinian and queer organizations know what’s going on so Dennis in a July 28 statement on the festival’s will take place in the fall. (See Guest Column Israeli nonviolence leaders more visible, valued they know they are being used,” Trikone’s Fatima website. (Full disclosure: Xtra ran a similar Yad on page 10) and effective in their efforts” through film and Jaffer told Xtra. b’Yad ad in its July 31 issue.) In her statement, Berne says she appreciates multimedia platforms. Salaam Vancouver’s Imtiaz Popat, who spoke “The feedback we’ve heard loud and clear has the VQFF’s effort to think through what she calls Yad b’Yad’s volunteer chair Jonathan Lerner briefly before the screening of Moroccan film highlighted for me that VQFF does not currently its “organizational lapse,” and that it’s now trying says the group is “deeply hurt” by the festival’s Salvation Army, stresses that his group is not have an advertising policy equipped to deal with to develop a protocol about the ads it accepts. But, decision to “treat our ad and our ad revenue dif- calling for a boycott of the festival, but wants the the complexities of this issue,” Dennis writes. she says, the deeper issue is that community mem- ferently,” and calls the action discriminatory. festival to change its approach. Dennis says the festival’s board and staff do bers have approached the festival before about its In his letter to festival organizers, Candan says not review every single advertisement before internal education on Palestinian human rights. With files from Nathaniel Christopher. he withdrew his documentary because the festival publication. She suggests that the festival’s acceptance of the had not taken a “public and vocal stand against The organization’s board and senior leader- ad seems to indicate that they have not engaged For more on this story, the Israeli government’s unacceptable policies.” ship team are undertaking a review to make sure in those discussions. go to dailyxtra.com.

MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 28–SEPT 10, 2014 7 Who’s in Burnaby’s new coalition? icy for schools. Despite several protests “It is an irresponsible act to pass this Gay-policy opponents small that attracted hundreds of opponents, the policy,” she told Xtra at the time. “Ad- policy was unanimously adopted by the ministration, regulation and strategy part of BFC: spokesperson BCA-dominated school board. BCA sub- in this policy — it opens a big window sequently won the mayoral race and took for the pro-gay community to recruit, POLITICS to change the culture with transpar- every seat on the school board and city recruit, recruit our children into their NATHANIEL CHRISTOPHER ency, accountability and cooperation.” council for the second election in a row. camp. In the meantime, they ignore the Hancott, who abandoned his cam- Hancott downplays Parents’ Voice’s health risks behind it and the medical- Two leaders of the 2011 battle against paign for the Conservative nomination involvement with the new coalition and expense burden in this country.” the Burnaby school board’s anti-ho- in the Burnaby North–Seymour federal says they are not a “big part” of BFC. Hancott says that even though mophobia policy are running for office riding to run for mayor, says he had no “I would say that human rights, dig- Leung’s statement was neither useful in the municipal election this November. knowledge of Parents’ Voice’s stance on nity, acceptance and respect are pretty nor helpful, she has a right to her beliefs. Former Parents’ Voice president and LGBT issues or the contentious debate big issues,” says BCA trustee Larry “Heather is a parent and her kids are spokesperson Heather Leung and for- that took place prior to his current Hayes, who was chair of the Burnaby in Burnaby schools, and all parents are mer school trustee candidate Helen campaign because his children were school board in 2011. “And guess what, entitled to their beliefs.” Ward are running for school board and enrolled in private schools. Mr Mayoral candidate: these are your Former Parents’ Voice candidate, Helen While Hancott deems the passage of city council as part of the Burnaby First “I believe everyone is equal, and that people. Your team are people who have Ward, who is running for city council the anti-homophobia policy a “foregone Coalition (BFC), which was established is the premise of our policy,” he says. “I shown to have those Neanderthal ideas. with the Burnaby First Coalition, says conclusion” and says he has no plans to to challenge the ruling NDP-affiliated don’t know what happened in the past So I think it’s something he certainly the school district’s anti-homophobia revisit it, BFC council candidate Helen policy should be amended. Burnaby Citizens’ Association (BCA). or the politics of it. We had discussions should be taking a lot more seriously.” NATHANIEL CHRISTOPHER Ward says it should be amended to clarify BFC mayoral candidate and spokes- on lots of issues, and that’s not an elec- BFC school board candidate Heather the rights and duties of parents with re- person Daren Hancott describes the tion issue as far as I’m concerned. We Leung, former president of Parents’ speakers or events taking place in their spect to the education of their children. new party as a pro-business, pro-sus- are a multi-issue party. That issue has Voice, did not agree to Xtra’s request child’s classroom. “The incursion of the state into the tainable development and pro-outreach not come up in any of the meetings I for an interview. In her campaign biog- Leung does not define what might family sphere is increasing,” Ward alternative. “I’m going to try and do have had with the general public, door raphy she says she will protect parental count as controversial, but in June 2011, says. something that needs to happen to en- knocking or during policy formation.” rights and the moral integrity of chil- she described the passage of Burnaby’s sure that Burnaby is better represented Parents’ Voice formed to fight the pas- dren and ensure parents are notified anti-homophobia policy as “the darkest For more on this story, at city hall,” he says. “In general, I want sage of Burnaby’s anti-homophobia pol- in advance of any controversial lessons, day of the Burnaby School Board history.” go to dailyxtra.com

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Bad Hair Quebranto The Way He Looks Venezuela/Peru/Germany, 2013. Dir: Mariana Rondón Mexico, 2013. Dir: Roberto Fiesco Brazil, 2014. Dir: Daniel Ribeiro

Junior is nine years old and has stubbornly curly hair. Coral Bonelli began life as “Pinolito,” a child actor in Leo is a teenager like any other, grappling with his first He wants to have it straightened for his yearbook the rough- and-tumble film industry of 1970s Mexico. feelings of sexual attraction while trying to wrestle picture, like a fashionable pop singer with long, ironed The son of a mariachi and an actress, he was a natural a bit more independence from his over-protective hair. This puts him at odds with his mother Marta, a performer—a passion his adoring stage mother, Lilia, parents. The only difference is that he is blind. When young, unemployed widow. Already overwhelmed by soon steered into a winning film career. After the a new student Gabriel arrives in class, a whole new what it takes to survive in the chaotic city of Caracas, movies gave way to the demanding cabaret circuit, world suddenly opens up right in front of him. As Leo Marta finds it increasingly difficult to tolerate Junior’s “Pinolito” announced he would henceforth be a becomes aware of his feelings for Gabriel, it is hard for fixation with his looks. woman—surgery and hormone treatments to follow. him to know if the arm Gabriel holds out to him is just With the aging Lilia standing by, Coral copes with social one of friendship or something more. FRI, AUG 29 | 7 PM | THE CINEMATHEQUE prejudice and an already unforgiving show business SUN, SEPT 7 | 3PM | THE CINEMATHEQUE environment. THURS, SEPT 4 | 7:15PM | VANCITY THEATRE FRIDAY, SEPT 5 | 9PM | THE CINEMATHEQUE TUES, SEPT 2 | 9:15 PM | THE CINEMATHEQUE TICKETS Available online at www.vlaff.org and at our festival box office at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St.) from August 29 (5pm–9pm Weekdays, 1pm–9pm Weekends)

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New Westminster’s fifth annual Pride festival drew thousands, with organiz- ers and participants describing the event as the Royal City’s biggest and best to date. The Aug 8 to 16 festival, which in- cluded more than 20 events, culmi- nated with a party on Columbia Street, featuring three performance stages and three beer gardens that extended from the bars onto the street. Event organizers estimate that the Aug 16 street party attracted more than 10,000 people, compared to the 1,300 who at- Miz Adrien charms tended last year’s festival. a young fan at the New Between 2010 and 2013, the festival West Pride festival Aug 16. was held at Tipperary Park near New NATHANIEL CHRISTOPHER Westminster City Hall. “We knew we were going to be grow- ager of Gamedeals Video Games, says (HIM), which has supported New West ing, and the idea was really to give the the event doubled his Saturday sales. Pride since 2010, used the event to City of New Westminster and the busi- “We’ve had people of all ages come spread the word about its new clinic at nesses down here a real opportunity to in, from older gamers to brand new 40 Begbie Street in New Westminster. move and grow with us,” says New West kiddie gamers, who were all just Acting mayor Jonathan Cote, who Pride board member Shelly Reinhart. brought down from the Pride party read the Pride proclamation, thinks “We had people in the city say, ‘You here,” he says. the newly expanded celebration rep- know what? I think it’s time you move Nicol notes that Gamedeals sup- resents the best of the city. from Tipperary Park where there’s ports many LGBT and LGBT-inclusive “New Westminster has just em- more room because you’re going to events in the area. “We’re really happy braced Pride over the last five years, bust out,’ and Columbia Street is the to be a part of that community because and the business community and all perfect place to do it.” the nerd community is so vast and you the residents really become engaged,” The new event, which was free and cover all these things, so there’s no he says. open, allowed organizers to integrate reason to not include as many people For more on this story, Pride with Columbia Street businesses as possible in it.” go to dailyxtra.com. and passersby. Tyler James Nicol, man- The Health Initiative for Men Get FRESH at DAHL&CONNORS Nesters BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS Proudly serving Vancouver’s Right in the Heart of Your Community GLBT Community for more Great Selection U Great Prices U Quality Products Convenient Locations UÊFriendly Staff than 15 years. 8JMMT&TUBUFTt'BNJMZ-BXt "EPQUJPOt$PSQPSBUF$PNNFSDJBMt 3FBM&TUBUFt*NNJHSBUJPO

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It must be diffi cult for a club-going emo boy in 2014 to imagine the semi-secret world my generation inhabited when we wanted to be among our own. We had more clubs, tubs, and pubs available to us — about twice as many by my calculation — but they were also harder to find and more protective of our privacy. Unmarked storefront entrances led to tiny lobbies where you’d wait for Dennis or Doug or Big Bird to buzz you through to the next level of heaven or hell. You brought your own booze and paid dearly for your mixer. It was an underworld where we groped about in search of friends and lovers, barely believing that what we were doing was now legal. We bent and snapped many other rules in our pursuit of good times. It was a scene made possible by the John Mikulik (pictured) was among the handful of gay men who managed the semi-secret world of clubs that provided a generation with the spaces to meet entrepreneurial skills of a handful of friends and lovers. ANDREW GILMORE gay men, and except for the formidable and beloved dyke Charlie Brown, who front door. Keith was understandably place out (the pot smoke billowing out managed several of these clubs, it was anxious to get out of town and John into the back alley kept the neighbours an all-male proprietorship scene until and partner Jim Brand were able to happy). He also built a convenient The Quadra. These men were also look- take over the lease at a very sharp ledge against one wall, and turned out ing for friends and lovers and fi gured sticker price. the lights. I’ll never tell what went on out that to do that we needed out-of- John and Jim called their new hot there, but Mona Lee might. the-way places to gather. spot The Playpen, which became an “The shit we got away with back SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21 Current oral tradition is that The instant sensation as Vancouver’s fi rst then,” John says with a sigh. “How did Montreal Club, an upstairs hideaway leather-scene hangout. They were we ever do it?” on East Hastings, may have been our among the founders of The Border John and Jim got away with a lot SUNSET BEACH 10AM fi rst gay “club,” modeled on the “Joe- Riders, our fi rst gay bike club, which of other shit in a couple other loca- sent-me” booze cans that proliferated continues to meet monthly at the tions. In 1975, they opened the Playpen National Sponsors Local Sponsors through the ’30s and ’40s. It was a go- PumpJack. North. Within the year Vance Camp- ing concern in the early ’60s, which is The club’s fi rst Labour Day Week- bell was exploring his own options at Title Platinum Premium when and where young John Mikulik end Slave Auction was memorable. his Thunderbird Cabaret, just south got his fi rst taste of the business — until At least 800 sweaty guys came and of Robson on Seymour, and the next the owners’ mounting unpaid bills went over the evening in a venue that thing we knew the Playpen boys had fi nally closed the doors. was probably licensed for no more themselves a Playpen Central. Gold Bronze John went on to a real-life career than 100. North and Central came and went in retail and later real estate, but in “Everyone was taking their clothes fairly quickly, but the South thrived Platinum the late ’60s he was lured back to the off, it was so hot, and so many guys through to 1982 when its doors closed. wild side and took over the lease on were sitting up on the bar to get out of Nobody today could get away with Creative Partner the recently-opened New West Steam the jam that we had to keep pushing the shit that was practically routine for Baths. Again, previous management’s them off because the lag bolts holding our pioneer club owners and managers. Promotional Partners Gold unpaid bills played a role. the bar in place were coming out of the While they did it for the money, and Cineplex Media • Google Ad Grants • About this same time Keith Rotsey concrete,” John remembers. some like John and Jim were good Maclean’s Magazine • Marketwired had, with the help of a rumoured “I can still picture us pulling out of businessmen, they also did it so we Rainbow Cinemas/Magic Lantern Theatres sugar-momma, launched the B&B the parking lot in our new Lincoln after would have places to fi nd our friends The Walrus Magazine (the Betwixt and Between) at the closing, with the truck bulging with and lovers. A Partnership Project of south end of Richards Street, and by cash!” he adds. All Scotiabank AIDS Walk for Life proceeds support 1971 had got himself into a situation The Playpen South was also the Kevin Dale McKeown was Vancou- direct services for people living with and affected by that culminated in a drive-by shoot- home of Vancouver’s fi rst “back room.” ver’s fi rst out gay columnist in the early HIV/AIDS in your community. ing that left a bullet hole in the club’s John installed a powerful fan to air the 1970s. Email [email protected]

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12 AUG 28–SEPT 10, 2014 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS We always felt Vancouver was much freer and had fewer Out in the City constraints from the morality police. Joanna Maratta E 14 THREE MILLENNIA OF GAY HISTORY

Documentary filmmaker Harry Suther- ticularly heinous incident from the 18th land believes that those who cannot century that he realized how little we remember the past are condemned actually know about gay history. to repeat it. And while that particular “I came across a 1730 court report of aphorism may have originally been the 30 men who were killed in Amsterdam rallying cry to remember the atrocities because they had engaged in homosex- of the Second World War, it can be just ual activity,” he recalls. “I started doing as easily applied to the struggle for gay more and more research and discovered rights. there was this huge story that had never “It helps get us to that next level, been put together.” where everybody around the world Sutherland wants the project to in- has the same basic human rights. By clude up to seven documentary films exploring how we got into this situa- and an online element that he envisions tion in the first place, it will hopefully as a Wikipedia-type repository. prevent us from getting into it again,” Working backward through history, Sutherland says of his ambitious Out the first film will tackle the period of History project to document the from 1869 to 1969, which, he says, will struggle for gay rights over the past allow him to create a more dramatic three millennia. piece since it includes the period of Despite the gains made in recent de- photography and film development. “It cades, particularly in the West, Suther- also includes the first use of the word land points to the recent resistance in homosexuality to describe a commu- other parts of the world that he believes nity and will allow us to explore the is a dangerous slope. gains and losses during that time,” “We can’t ignore what is happening he explains. in Russia and Uganda,” he says. “What Sutherland is crowd-funding seed Putin and Museveni are doing is giving money for the project. He says the a formula for other dictators around time is right to uncover the events the world to copy. We have to show and people that have contributed to them that it isn’t going to work, and the creation of our present-day LGBT to do that, we first need to understand community and to ensure we don’t where the struggle for our rights came lose what we have fought so hard to Filmmaker Harry Sutherland from.” achieve. – Mark Robins envisions a seven-part Sutherland says he’s been thinking documentary series and an online about this project since the mid-1970s, Read more about Sutherland’s gay Wikipedia-type resource. HARRY SUTHERLAND but it wasn’t until he learned of a par- project at outofhistory.com.

can get meetings with film backers but add it can be difficult for women to move Fest hosts past that point at times. “They ask if you just want to make LGBT movies,” Freeland says. “What they are asking is, ‘Are you going to women in film move beyond this?’” Filmmaker Elaine Carol says she Canadian women in film need to get of directors and 21 percent of writers no longer bothers pitching work to political and ensure federal taxpayer- in the Canadian industry are women. Telefilm Canada, the federal cultural supported film funds are being equi- Those figures are lower in the west, agency devoted to the development and tably handed out so that the stories are better in , but plummet to promotion of the Canadian audiovisual of 52 percent of the population are zero in Quebec, Combs says. industry. “I know the answer is going to adequately told, the Vancouver Queer She says gender balance is gener- be no,” she says. “My films would not be Film Festival’s Gender Equality Revo- ally good in entry-level positions but ‘If 50 percent of the population is not getting their films made, just think about shown if it weren’t for this film festival lution panel on women in film heard shifts toward men as people move into how many stories are not being told,” says Carolyn Combs (left), of Women in Film and DOXA,” Carol adds. Aug 18. decision-making positions. and Television Vancouver, with filmmakers Sydney Freeland (centre) and Desiree “Canadians need to get political,” Women in Film and Television Van- Combs was joined on the panel by Akhavan. JEREMY HAINSWORTH Combs suggests, specifically referring to couver executive director Carolyn director Sydney Freeland (Drunk- Film Festival. keep going. “A female director would Telefilm Canada. “That’s taxpayer dollars Combs says Please Adjust Your Set, town’s Finest) and filmmaker Iranian- Akhavan, whose work premiered at never say that to me,” she observes. going to film production and they’re not which gathers statistics on women’s American filmmaker Desiree Akhavan the Sundance Film Festival, says male “My career would be ruined; I’d be in going to 52 percent of the population,” participation in the industry, shows (Appropriate Behaviour), whose films directors have encouraged her to go director jail.” she says. “We have to start demanding 34 percent of producers, 26 percent were screened at this year’s Queer ahead and make a “shitty” film just to Both Freeland and Akhavan say they that.” – Jeremy Hainsworth

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The queer history of the Vancouver says. “People get it now. Audiences have Fringe Festival’s three decades may have a better understanding of queerness, and generated some controversy along the the mainstreaming of gay and lesbian way, but it has been groundbreaking for lifestyles dramatically changed how both audiences and queer artists alike. queer shows are seen. There are some Despite concerns over censorship and real positive elements to it, but there even the possibility of arrests at other has also been a loss to the queer edge.” cities’s festivals, in its infancy the Van- Colin Thomas, a gay theatre critic couver Fringe never felt those same pres- who has been covering the Vancou- sures. “We always felt Vancouver was ver Fringe from its inception, agrees. much freer and had fewer constraints “There is still a great deal of adventure from the morality police, and the Fringe going on at the Fringe, but it is perhaps always felt like an opportunity to fl aunt not quite as edgy as it once was.” it,” says Joanna Maratta, the festival’s By the late 2000s, Berend McKenzie founder and fi rst executive director. brought his controversial and outra- “Even when some of the more contro- geously funny Get Off the Cross, Mary versial shows, like Fuck Machine and The and his autobiographical Nggrfg to the Happy Cunt, started heading west, we Fringe not to be deliberately provoca- engaged with the City of Vancouver and tive, but in an attempt to fi nd a sympa- asked them what they were going to do, thetic venue to present his work. Meat Loaf Jesus, starring Tarun Keram, tops Xtra’s and they totally backed away,” she says. “Places like Buddies in Bad Times in picks of the 2014 Fringe Festival. SERGEI BACHLAKOV Despite a 1993 headline in the now- Toronto or the Arts Club in Vancou- defunct conservative magazine BC Re- ver would have never touched those port that described the Fringe Festival shows with a 10-foot pole,” says McK- had no gay role models. Mark does as “smut imitates art,” such criticism enzie, who used the festival as a proving XTRA’S PICKS OF his best to help Alex, but he has no was infrequent and never taken seri- ground for Nggrfg, which eventually resources,” director David C Jones ex- ously. Instead, the Fringe let its patrons went on tour outside the Fringe circuit. THE 2014 FRINGE plains. “That idea of not having anyone decide which shows lived and died, an David Jordan has been at the festival’s to turn to for help still resonates today attitude that continues today. helm for the last nine seasons. He, too, Never mind what Jesus would do, what for many young gays.” “We had lots of shows about sex, points to a sexual evolution of queer about Meat Loaf? In Damian Rumph’s For Rumph it was a spiritual con- drugs and rock and roll, and some of shows at the Fringe. “What we’re seeing semi-autobiographical drama Meat nection to music as a young man in them were really good and some were with more frequency are sex-positive Loaf Jesus, the two larger-than-life Edmonton that inspired him to write really bad,” Maratta says. “The attitude shows like Bi, Hung, Fit and Married characters become the centre points to the play with the unusual title. “Music was that even if it was bad and distaste- and Cameryn Moore’s Slut (R)evolu- a queer coming-of-age drama. was my religion, and for most of my life I ful, you still had the opportunity to do it, tion,” he says. Meat Loaf Jesus tells the story of listened to Meat Loaf,” he says. “For me, but we left it up to audiences to decide As a non-juried festival with shows three teenaged friends living in a small music became my spiritual connection what they wanted to support.” chosen each year by lottery, the number suburb of Edmonton. Hanging out at to the world, and I began to think about At the turn of the new millennium, of queer off erings will continue to vary, the local teen gathering spot, Mark how to connect Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of when queer artist Michael V Smith but given its goal of off ering inclusive suspects that Alex might be gay, too. Hell album into something greater.” pushed boundaries by convincing spec- and uncensored theatre, our stories will In a drunken frenzy one night, the two Here are some other shows you won’t tators to get naked in his 2002 show no doubt continue to play an important hook up while Meat Loaf’s “Heaven want to miss: Privates: A Public Unveiling, he saw an role at the Vancouver Fringe. Can Wait” plays in the background. In Ludwig & Lohengrin, Calgary art- evolution in his audience. As Alex begins a downward spiral ist Kyall Rakoz brings the historically “Years ago when you put on a queer For show times and more after the encounter, Mark is desper- inspired story of King Ludwig II to the show at the Fringe, it was mostly a queer information, go to ate to help. stage. Renowned for his patronage of …didn’t see that coming. ROBIN NIELSEN audience that would show up,” Smith vancouverfringe.com. “This is a great story of ’80s kids who the arts, the gay Ludwig struggles to

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