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FEEDBACK We’re still your paper Xtra enters new era It’s hard not to lament the passing I remember the fi rst time I picked up Xtra, EDITORIAL story, an arts piece, a feature, one of our of the print version of Xtra [“Gay when I was in high school. To have a copy regular columns, a photo gallery, a video ROBIN PERELLE Publisher Xtra to Embrace Digital, of a gay publication available at community or an editorial. Close Print,” Jan 14, dailyxtra.com]. I won’t lie: I’m going to miss We’re already telling your stories online, As with any dear old friend, we centres and schools — that spoke about our our print edition. and many of our readers — nearly double have bothered each other on more community — was a real lifeline. I’m going to miss our sturdy purple the readership of all three of our print than one occasion over the years, RE: XTRA ENTERS NEW ERA newspaper boxes marking our communi- editions combined — have already made but we have always dusted ourselves ty’s presence throughout the West End and the shift with us. o , made up and carried on. across Vancouver. I’m going to miss seeing We’re still the same Xtra that followed Although we are all conditioned Sorry to hear @dailyxtra @Xtra_VAN our community’s faces in the windows of Little Sister’s when it had the cour- and encouraged to “embrace change” ceasing print editions; excited for those boxes, announcing our presence and age to stand up to censorship and take and “adapt” to technological change, digital growth. Important paper, long celebrating our culture to all who walk by. Canada Customs to court. We’re still the I remain less than thrilled at the loss a voice for #GLBTQ communities. I’m going to miss my colleagues, people same Xtra that challenged the Surrey of this particular old friend. MP HEDY FRY @HEDYFRY TWITTER I’ve worked with for years to tell our sto- school board’s repeated attempts to ban I remember the fi rst time I picked ries. People from whom I’ve learned so gay books and has pushed school districts up Xtra, when I was in high school. I’ll miss seeing @Xtra_VAN’s incred- much, whose insight I’ve come to rely on, across the province to evolve ever since. To have a copy of a gay publication ible covers around town. I think the trust and cherish. We’re still the same Xtra that followed available at community centres and visibility was important (although I’ll I’m going to miss the feel of newsprint Aaron Webster’s accused killers through schools — that spoke about our com- read online). #longliveprint between my fi ngers. every step of the court process and chal- munity — was a real lifeline. SABRINA FURMINGER @SABRINARMF I’m going to grieve. And I know I’m not lenged the prosecutor who never said I got to know our community fi rst TWITTER alone. “gaybashing” — and ultimately convinced through print, while I remained hid- Understandable but still sad @ For the last 14 years, my life has revolved the attorney general to change BC’s pros- den in the closet. I’m sure many will Xtra_VAN newspaper among Pink around the schedule of conceptualizing, ecution policy on anti-gay crimes. have had similar stories and now, @dailyxtra was where I got my Triangle Press’s three papers to em- creating and sending an issue to press We’re still the same Xtra committed to hopefully, many will online. very fi rst paid writing job. It meant brace digital and close chapter on every two weeks. Putting an issue to bed reporting our community’s news, nurtur- So we shall go forward with the so much to me as an emerging print Feb 12. and picking it up, printed, the next morn- ing our growth, exploring our culture, exciting new and improved internet storyteller. ing never lost its thrill. celebrating our sexuality and setting our FRED LEE @FREDABOUTTOWN Xtra. I will continue to support it, DAINTY SMITH TWITTER For others, the thrill has been discover- love free. We’re still your local community participate in the debate, write let- @MISSDAINTYSMITH ing refl ections of themselves in our pages. paper. TWITTER ters and o er my comments when Family portrait defaced How many times have I heard from com- We’re also, in the space a orded to us it strays, but I will miss the old gal, I just heard about @dailyxtra. No one should ever think the fi ght munity members that our paper was a online, reaching out to other communi- warts and all, and in print. Thankful for all the support they for equality is over [“Chosen Family critical component in their coming-out ties like ours across Canada and around SPENCER CHANDRA HERBERT gave to myself and hundreds, prob- MLA VANCOUVER, BC Plaque Defaced,” Jan 12, dailyxtra. process? It’s been an honour. the world. What’s it really like to be gay ably thousands of other independent com]. Prejudice is ugly. Vigilance I can’t replace the tangible feel of gritty, in Russia right now? We had a correspon- artists. inked paper smearing our fi ngers, but I can, dent in Russia for eight months last year, I’m sad about this, but I understand and education in our community is why. Most of us now get our LGBT SHARRON MATTHEWS and will, continue to tell our community’s long after the cameras left Sochi. We got @SHARRONMATTHEWS paramount. stories online. We’re not done sharing your to ask LGBT people on the ground about news via our phones. Lately, I’ve TWITTER RON WILSON @CHEAPANDCHEERFUL stories; far from it. their lives, their fears and their joys. That, been picking up the print issue of TWITTER Xtra and then realizing that, of Going to miss seeing that purple @ Though the realities of mounting print too, has been an honour. And we’re just dailyxtra box, queering these streets. costs have made publishing a print edi- warming up. course, I’ve already read the sto- #JeSuisCharlie ries online. VIVEK SHRAYA tion impractical, we’re making the heart- Imagine the stories we can tell online, @VIVEKSHRAYA Good on Xtra! [“Nous Sommes Char- So wishing you lots of luck in wrenching decision to shift our storytelling from Pride in Iqaluit to WorldPride in TWITTER lie,” Jan 8, dailyxtra.com] Xtra is reinventing yourselves as a digital entirely online now while we still can Toronto, from homophobia in South Korea showing more balls than some of the “go-to” site. You’ve been amazing They’re embracing digital media. — while we still have the means to tell to change in Colombia. Canadian mainstream media, includ- community builders in Canada Will they embrace a defi nition of the our stories. This is not a farewell editorial. It’s an ing The Globe and Mail and the CBC. these past few decades. Keep it up! queer community that’s not stuck Shifting entirely online is only an exten- invitation. in 1982? 1DIZZY1 sion of the direction we’ve already been Here’s to many more years of telling (No pun intended.) DAILYXTRA.COM DOUG KERR ARIEL TROSTER @ARIELTROSTER taking. Even as we published slimmer and our stories through whatever means FACEBOOK TWITTER slimmer issues in print, we never stopped necessary. Right now we’re moving our Not good enough reporting online. 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6 JAN 29–FEB 11, 2015 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS Something else we lose with Xtra’s fi nal print run is a city-wide visibility that was Upfront hard-earned and will be di cult to replace in other ways . Kevin Dale McKeown 11 Giving blood — for science with the communities a ected by the gay blood Deferred from donation deferral, with a vision of possibly chang- ing the policy at some point in the future. “Gay giving blood, men and MSM are important to netCAD because they are a motivated, healthy group of people who gay men urged to can provide blood to support our research and quality improvement projects, which ultimately donate for research benefit all Canadians,” says Tanya Petraszko, CBS’s associate medical director. HEALTH “These men can also help by recruiting their NATHANIEL CHRISTOPHER friends and families to donate either at netCAD or in Canadian Blood Services clinics. Recruiting Though sexually active gay men are still de- from the gay/MSM community will help Cana- ferred from giving blood to potential recipients, dian Blood Services identify a cohort of donors they are welcome to give blood for research, we could draw from for future research projects Canadian Blood Services (CBS) says. related to changing the MSM policy,” she says. CBS’s research arm, netCAD, is hosting a Rain- She notes that netCAD is the only clinic of its bow donor clinic and open house, aimed specifi - kind that accepts deferred donors and collects cally at men who have sex with men (MSM), at its whole units of blood for research purposes. University of British Columbia facility on Feb 4. “Right now, our donor base includes approxi- The blood collected will be used to advance the mately 450 active netCAD donors,” says Patrick science of transfusion medicine and transplanta- Loftus, CBS’s medical services coordinator. “In tion and will never go to a patient. order to meet demands from our researchers The Rainbow donor clinic is the initiative of and our Canadian Blood Services production col- Chad Walters, a gay man who wants to show CBS leagues, we hope to double that number this year. and Health Canada that men who have sex with Thus, when Chad came forward with his idea, we men are ready and willing to do what they can to fully embraced it, as MSM are one of the donor help them achieve their objectives. groups we wanted to engage.” “I think that it’s important to do what we can Loftus also serves as a board NETCAD’S RAINBOW today while waiting for what we may be able to do DONOR CLINIC member for the Community- tomorrow,” says Walters, who has made 12 blood Wed, Feb 4, noon–7pm Based Research Centre for Gay donations to date. “What can I do today? I can University MarketPlace Men’s Health. donate for research that can potentially impact UBC, 207 – 2150 Western Parkway Walters hopes that CBS and millions of lives.” To book an appointment, Health Canada will eventually The clinic will o er participants an opportunity call 604-221-5515 or email reduce the MSM deferral period to interact with CBS sta and scientists and to win researchdonations@ blood.ca from five years to six months, prizes for the YMCA, Score on Davie sports bar, which is currently the policy for Masc Skincare and Topdrawers apparel. people who have given birth or In July 2013, Health Canada approved a new gotten a tattoo or a body piercing. South Africa policy that allows men who refrain from having has a deferral period of six months for men who sex with other men for fi ve years to donate blood. have had sex with men. This replaced a lifetime ban on men who have had “On a personal note, I don’t think that being sex with another man at least once since 1977. angry or feeling hurt is doing us any good,” Walters Walters learned about the ban when he tried Canadian Blood Services’ research arm, netCAD, is hosting a Rainbow donor clinic aimed says. “There are ways we can save lives, and one specifically at men who have sex with men. THINKSTOCK to donate blood. “When I was 18, I went to the of them was through research and bone marrow. clinic and knew nothing about this policy and was Many MSM don’t realize we can participate in eventually asked to leave because of the policy,” he “I did a lot of research, and through that re- 1980s after the national blood supply was con- the OneMatch program and donate marrow and recalls. “That initiated something. I felt that there search I learned a series of things,” he says. “I see taminated with hepatitis C and HIV, infecting white blood cells. We can save lives, but because was something bigger here. I felt discriminated why the deferral is important. One of the key more than 1,200 people with HIV and more than of anger many can’t see that.” against because I didn’t understand anything. points was the scar in Canada’s history. We’re talk- 25,000 with hepatitis C. The ban was enacted at a CBS’s OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Net- I view it di erently today.” ing about the tainted blood scandal by transfusion time when HIV testing was less reliable, but new work registry matches stem-cell donors with eli- He subsequently denounced the ban in a news- HIV and hep C, so of course there was a resistance tests, such as pooled nucleic acid amplifi cation gible recipients. According to CBS’s website, fewer paper editorial, which caught the attention of CBS to making changes because Canada had to really testing, can now detect the virus seven to 15 days than 25 percent of patients who require stem-cell o cials who invited him to participate in an LGBT face some challenges.” after infection. transplants are able to fi nd a match within their focus group in Ottawa. The gay blood ban was implemented in the CBS, for its part, hopes to expand its dialogue families. The rest must rely on volunteers.

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GAYBASHING consumed, “was in an ornery mood.” JEREMY HAINSWORTH He remarked on Williams’s “unusu- ally strong concern” about the flag. “It’s Michael Melvin Williams, the man ac- beyond me,” he said. cused of mischief and assault in the Crown prosecutor Mark Jetté said Feb 21, 2014, attack at Vancouver West that problems with substance abuse and End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert’s anger control are at the core of the case. office, was found guilty of assault and Defence lawyer Terry La Liberte had handed a suspended sentence and one suggested at trial Dec 18 and 19 that year’s probation by a provincial court Chandra Herbert and Bilida were gay judge Jan 15. activists keen to show the incident as “The evidence clearly indicates Mr hate-motivated based on Williams’s [Murray] Bilida was injured,” Judge offensive and pejorative language. David St Pierre said in his ruling. He St Pierre said the suggestion was found that Williams punched Bilida in that Chandra Herbert wanted to be the mouth, which constitutes assault. seen by constituents as tough on the But, he said, it is difficult to find “some issue. “Both the men denied there was form of anti-gay sentiment” as the mo- any political overtone or motive in the tive for the assault. prosecution,” St Pierre said. St Pierre said Bilida, Chandra Her- Jetté suggested that the judge rule bert’s executive assistant, was working for a short incarceration to denounce at the counter in the MLA’s Denman an assault in an MLA’s office, where Street office when Williams entered, the public, MLA and staff should feel looked around and put his hands on safe. La Liberte suggested a conditional the counter. discharge. “Mr Bilida testified it appeared to The judge noted that Williams has a him that Mr Williams was impaired by criminal record consisting of impaired alcohol in some fashion,” St Pierre said. driving, mischief and assault from 20 He found that Williams had seen the years ago before giving him a suspended MLA from outside the office and had sentence and a year’s probation and gone in to speak to him. Judge David St Pierre described and pushed the button for the automatic Constable Tom Hall arrived shortly ordering him to stay away from Bilida Bilida testified that part of his job Michael Melvin Williams, above, as front-door opener and asked Williams after and was of the opinion that Wil- and the MLA’s office. was to protect his boss from unpleasant “testy” and “unusually concerned” to leave. liams had been drinking, St Pierre said. He said Williams could write to Chan- with the rainbow flag in his MLA’s visitors and therefore told Williams that office and at the library across the St Pierre said Bilida’s evidence was Hall testified that Williams asked him if dra Herbert. “I don’t want to prevent Chandra Herbert was not in. “There’s no street. Williams was convicted of that Williams then swung at him and he was “Chandra Herbert’s boy.” a constituent from ever being able to doubt, on all of the evidence, that was assault and given a year’s probation. hit a door instead. “The next swing did In assessing the evidence, St Pierre contact their MLA,” he said. part of the reason Mr Williams became JEREMY HAINSWORTH connect with his face, his mouth,” St said Williams was clearly aggravated In a statement to Xtra, Chandra Her- testy,” St Pierre said. Pierre said. “Mr Bilida went down to when he entered the office. The judge bert says that the Pride flag will remain Bilida said that Williams had asked the ground at that point.” also said it was “probably not a good in his office and that he and histaff s “will him what he thought of the “fucking The judge said it was then that Chan- idea for a constituency assistant to lie continue to stand proudly for love and flag across the street.” When Bilida dra Herbert came from the back, having in the fashion Mr Bilida did.” equality and against violence.” asked Williams what he meant, St Pierre We hold no heard yelling about “fucking rainbow St Pierre said the situation had de- “We have always maintained confi- found that Williams responded, “‘Those flags” and hearing a loud bang. “Mr veloped when Williams talked to the dence in our legal and judicial system, fucking faggot flags on my library.’” ill-will towards Bilida was holding his jaw and look- MLA at some point earlier about the and we respect today’s court decision,” Williams also made comments about Mr Williams, ing shocked,” the judge said. “He was flag and thought a Vancouver city flag Chandra Herbert says. “While we be- a Pride flag in the MLA’s office lobby, the upright at that point.” might be better. Neither was sure if lieve it remains crucial to report such judge found, though Williams testified and we hope St Pierre said Chandra Herbert also there was such a flag. Williams later incidents to authorities, we hold no he never used the words “fag” or “fag- saw Williams leaving and the door open, found out there was. He testified that ill-will towards Mr Williams, and we got” that day. that he finds suggesting the automatic door opener he had gone to the MLA’s office to dis- hope that he finds peace in his life, and Bilida testified that he told Williams peace in his life, had been engaged as Bilida said. cuss the issue. learns from this.” that it was likely best if the two agreed Williams then stood on the street “Probably not a good decision in hind- Williams was also ordered to pay to disagree and asked Williams to leave. and learns smoking a cigarette. Chandra Herbert sight because the previous night he had $225 restitution for the door and not “‘What are you going to do if I don’t?’” told him to stay where he was as the consumed some 15 cans of Budweiser,” to be intoxicated in public. the judge found Williams responded. from this. police were coming, and Bilida pho- St Pierre said. “He agrees he is an alco- La Liberte said Williams has been The judge said evidence indicated MLA SPENCER tographed him. The MLA testified he holic.” However, he said, Williams was attending a program to deal with his that Bilida then went into the office’s CHANDRA HERBERT heard Williams talking to another man “unusually concerned about this flag alcohol abuse. He has 30 days to appeal front lobby, closed a door behind him about “fag flags.” issue” and, given the amount of alcohol the decision.

8 JAN 29–FEB 11, 2015 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS City still searching for new Qmunity site ED Dara Parker hopes to begin community consultations in March COMMUNITY Parker said last year that she hoped a projects in the Village — no easy task SHAUNA LEWIS site would be secured before a consulta- when the real estate market is low, he tion process would begin. But in a recent says. “I’ve been working with real estate As the Vancouver city planning depart- Qmunity newsletter, she announced folks, and there hasn’t been much for ment continues its search for a site that the community consultation would sale in the Davie Village in a long time.” for a new queer community centre, begin in March. Although Parker can’t say for sure yet Qmunity’s executive director, charged “Since we don’t have the site, we’ve when the community consultation will with stewarding the centre, says she has shifted the time-line,” Parker told Xtra begin, she says it will be a two-pronged procured funds for community consul- Jan 20. “We had hoped things would approach to collect input on the facil- tations on the new facility. have happened sooner, but there have ity’s design and the kinds of programs “Qmunity will facilitate a community been delays on the part of the city in and services people would like to see. dialogue in 2015,” says Dara Parker, identifying a site for the new facility.” One service that may not survive to adding that she hopes the consultations “The staff are looking to secure a see the new centre is Qmunity’s library. will “provide multiple opportunities to location, and that’s ongoing,” says Coun- Parker says it’s “highly under-utilized,” engage the queer community in input cillor Tim Stevenson. He says that he and while Qmunity hasn’t yet decided on the new facility.” talked with the city planning depart- whether it will eliminate the service Parker says the funds for the con- ment in mid-January and that “they are entirely, its underuse will be taken into sultation process came from a $45,000 still attempting to find something in the consideration when trying to decide grant from the Vancouver Foundation Davie Village or close to it.” how best to use the anticipated 10,000 and a $20,000 grant from the Vancity City planner Kevin McNaney told square feet of the new facility. Community Foundation. The money Xtra Jan 22 that his department is still “We’re in a constant state of looking will go toward hiring a “neutral, pro- looking for a suitable site for the centre. at and evaluating our services in order Dara Parker (seen here hosting an information session in February 2014) says fessional, third-party organization Qmunity will begin community consultations on a new centre in March. JAMES LOEWEN “The search is on, and we’ve been look- to prioritize our limited resources,” to facilitate a community dialogue,” ing up and down the Davie Village and she says. she says. serve the LGBT communty and will dation, confirms that Qmunity was in and around that area.” Qmunity was allotted $7 million She says the consultations will be led be assisted by the neutral organization given a grant in December for “health McNaney says the city is tasked with in December 2013 from Vancouver by a project advisory committee made hired for the task. Rebeccah Mullen, and social development” and “com- finding a site that’s either for sale, avail- City Council for the creation of a new up of people from organizations that spokesperson for the Vancouver Foun- munity consultation.” able or for sale through development centre.

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Adventures in gay parenting It’s not that I don’t From ink to pixels like Hot Wheels or Thomas the Tank our allies of the gains we had made and Engine, but I can’t Still more people to celebrate the place in public spaces that we had quite figure out my claimed for ourselves. A subliminal son’s predilection and old gossip to rehash online comfort and encouragement to us toward traditionally and an in-your-face reminder to those masculine pursuits. STILL QQ QQ Writes . . . Page 69. Community who still would deny us our seat at KEVIN DALE papers such as Open Doors, Coming the table that we were out and never MCKEOWN Out, The Gay Canadian and the some- going back into the closet. Are we, in what more unabashed Your Thing and effect, retreating to a cyber-closet of Something I’ve noticed Thrust came and went throughout the our own making? History in the 45-odd years (some of them decade, followed by The Northwest I will leave it to a new generation of Boys odder than others) since I first contrib- Fountain in the 1980s. And then came gay, lesbian and other voices to come The Wonder uted a gay news column to the Georgia Angles, publishing from 1983 to 1998, up with ways to keep us in the public Woman comics Straight is that change happens. finally giving way to the slicker produc- eye. As they come up with the answers, from the 1940s are Through the decades, many publica- tion values and more nuanced editorial I’ll do my best to keep up with the rife with BDSM. On tions have chronicled our challenges stands of Xtra West. technology. Only last week I had a chat almost every page and achievements. Each has served its Regrets, I’ll have a few. I will miss with a journalist pal, a full 10 years there’s kidnap, purpose in its own time and then given the eye-grabbing front pages, and there my junior, who did her best to bring slavery or bondage. way to the next voice of community. is something about the look and feel me up to speed on the phenomena of In the mid-1960s, the Association for of newsprint that loses something in podcasting and convince me that this Sexual Knowledge (ASK) was mailing the translation to cyberspace, at least was a tool I should explore. its newsletter to nearly 100 subscrib- for an old print guy like me. And I’ll be Because they are kind to animals ers, and in their first issue they wrote, sorry to lose that small group of older and the elderly, the management of “Some say that we do not live in the readers who continue to resist the lure Xtra has decided to take me along on Dark Ages . . . but what of the homo- of the internet. Without even a passing this segue from ink to pixels. There are sexual who is dismissed from his job . . . acquaintance with Google or Facebook still many stories to be told about our Hooking up simply because it is rumoured that he or even email, they will no longer enjoy early days, when we greeted the dawn in public or she is homosexual? Could you af- these fortnightly stories of our shared from the booths of the Granville Street When I find ford, right now, to go to your employer misspent youths. I’m talking about you, White Lunch. You haven’t heard the myself exploring a and safely say, ‘I am a homosexual’? James, and Jamie, and John and Mrs last of Mrs G’s stories, and we haven’t dungeon party on ASK hopes that in not too many years G! It’s time to take a seniors’ computer even started on the Jamie Stevens a Sunday afternoon, the sexual variant will be able to do course at Barclay Manor! legend, Jake Thomas’s and others’ I know why I’m so without fear or recrimination or I think that something else we lose memories of the earliest experiments there. I’m on a repercussion.” with Xtra’s final print run is a citywide with “gay theatre” or the pre-Bovines journey searching It was a brave mission statement, visibility that was hard-earned and Ephemerals and others who paved the for those and since homosexuality was still il- will be difficult to replace in other glitter-strewn way for our Sisters of connections. legal at the time, how encouraging ways. The presence of Xtra’s distribu- Perpetual Indulgence. it must have been that almost 100 tion boxes on downtown streets and There are time-lines to unravel, Vancouver homosexuals were willing the piles of copies displayed alongside personalities to celebrate and old to have their names and addresses ap- other community publications in gossip to rehash. I’ll see you on the pear on the subscription list of such a every library, coffee shop and com- interwebs! subversive publication! munity centre throughout the region I took up the task of sharing our have had an impact we can never Kevin Dale McKeown was Vancouver’s stories with a wider readership in the really calculate. This day-to-day pres- first out gay columnist in the early 1970s. 1970s in the Georgia Straight, with ence was a reminder to ourselves and Email him at [email protected].

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The University of British Columbia an- nounced Jan 12 that it’s the only library in the world to have original copies of two pieces of gay literature believed to have been penned by iconic gay author Oscar Wilde more than a century ago. Teleny was first published anony- mously in 1893, and only five known sets of the two-volume publication re- main. The homoerotic novel follows the doomed love affair of two men, the title character, René Teleny, a Hungarian pia- nist, and his lover, Camille des Grieux. Only three known copies remain of its rarely seen prequel, Des Grieux, pub- lished in 1899. Until now, the remaining copies were in private collections. Justin O’Hearn, a PhD candidate in Victorian literature, tells Daily Xtra the acquisitions are a “huge coup” for those interested in queer and gender studies. “UBC is the only place in the world where they can examine them side by side,” he says. “I would think be- cause Teleny is a gay literature classic, I would think Des Grieux deserves to be part of that milieu.” O’Hearn says that Wilde supposedly dropped the Teleny manuscript at a bookseller’s, where others came and added to the text. PhD candidate Justin O’Hearn and professor Gregory Mackie celebrate UBC’s acquisition of two gay classics believed to have been written by Oscar Wilde. UBC/DON ERHARDT “The book itself has been taken up as an early example of gay literature, says O’Hearn, who now hopes to re- hospitable hole that endeavoured to give were in demand in the “delicately con- by O’Hearn raised $3,000 from 56 back- something of a classic,” O’Hearn says. publish Des Grieux. “You had to know it admission. I pressed a little; the whole cealed subculture” at the time. “One ers toward their purchase at a Nov 18 “It was the first book to deal explicitly someone in order to get it.” of the glans was engulfed. The sphincter of the things that these books give us Christie’s auction. UBC Library picked with homosexuality.” Teleny is remarkable for the period in soon gripped it in such a way that it could is access to how gay men’s lives could up the rest of the bill. The library’s con- He says the publishing of Des which it was published, given the graphic not come out without an effort. I thrust be conceived of, conceptualized, in the tribution was taken from a fund ear- Grieux may have been an attempt to nature of its text: “He took hold of my it slowly to prolong as much as possible 19th century,” he says. “It’s not ancient marked for rare and special acquisitions. cash in on the notoriety of Teleny, which rod and pressed it against his gaping the ineffable sensation that ran through pederastic tutelage or anything like that. The additions complement UBC was very expensive to purchase in Vic- anus,” the author (or possibly multiple every limb, to calm the quivering nerves, It’s two gay men. It’s a kind of homosex- Library’s Colbeck Collection of 19th- torian England. “It was porn. It hit all authors) writes. “The tip of the frisky and to allay the heat of the blood.” ual representation that is demonstrably century literature, which includes sev- the buttons to make it totally indecent,” phallus soon found its entrance in the “I felt it wriggling in its sheath like a modern.” eral rare Wilde texts. baby in its mother’s womb, giving myself Like O’Hearn, Mackie says it’s impor- Wilde is celebrated as the author and him an unutterable and delightful tant to have Des Grieux in the library for of The Importance of Being Earnest, An titillation,” the paragraph ends. scholars to access. “There’s no scholar- Ideal Husband, The Picture of Dorian It was porn. It hit all the buttons Gregory Mackie, a professor of ship on it,” he says. “It’s a vast open field. Gray and De Profundis. Following a to make it totally indecent. English literature at UBC, calls Tele- It opens it up.” scandalous trial, he was imprisoned ny and Des Grieux important documents The texts were purchased for $39,000 for gross indecency in 1895. He was PHD CANDIDATE JUSTIN O’HEARN for the gay community. ($23,000 for Des Grieux and $16,000 released from prison in 1897 and died He tells Daily Xtra that such books for Teleny) after a crowd-sourcing push in 1900 at 46.

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think if you’re going to be a drag queen, you perhaps because) of her unique phrasing. “She chooses to should just know the words. Do you know breathe in the middle of the word ‘because.’” And then the what I mean?” Tony Award winner puts down his pomegranate seeds and Alan Cumming asks the question while bursts into song: “My dreeeams came truuue be—” pausing grazing on pomegranate seeds in a conference for a gulp of air, “—caaause of yooou. Seriously, listen to it. room at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. It’s a choice. But it’s not one that I approve of.” He gently Impeccably dressed in a pinstripe suit and skewers the Pride of Timmins, Ontario, in the same archly round Harry Potter glasses, the 49-year-old actor, author and scolding tone he used on the forgetful drag queens. singer“I is in town in connection with TIFF’s Stanley Kubrick: It’s hard not to be charmed by Cumming. He’s handsome, The Exhibition (remember him as the flirty concierge in Eyes well spoken and has a conspiratorial way of telling a story Wide Shut?). After arriving the night before, Cumming caught that makes you feel like you’re sharing a well-loved private a drag show in which he noticed the queens covering their joke. He’s funny, and when he laughs the deep dimples in his mouths or turning from the audience when the lyrics seemed cheeks bring out a boyish, almost elfin quality to his face. On to escape them. But after his playful critique, he’s quick to screen, he’s often doing an accent: Russian as a Bond villain add a compliment: “They were nice. I don’t like a mean drag in GoldenEye; German as the superhero Nightcrawler in queen — I think that’s a very over-rated virtue.” X-Men 2; American as the acerbic Eli Gold on The Good Wife. Surely if anyone’s an authority on nightclub performance, As a civilian, he speaks with a soft Scottish brogue and the it’s Cumming. While his acting resumé is as lengthy as it is same easy candour found in his memoir, Not My Father’s Son. eclectic, the Scottish performer is perhaps best known for Cumming’s second book is worlds away from your typical his turn as the Emcee from Cabaret. In fact, you can catch celebrity tell-all. While his wry Scottish wit is on full display him right now in the Broadway revival, returning to the as he describes, say, a funny story about auctioning off a duet iconic leather jacket and white suspenders he first wore by Patti Smith and Mary J Blige that neither knew she had more than 20 years ago. signed on for, at its heart his book is a mystery and a family His story about the drag queens makes him think of Emma saga, unfolding in a series of cliffhangers and dramatic twists. Stone (his current “Sally Bowles”), who certainly knew The book is divided into alternating “Then” and “Now” the words in her epic lip-sync battle with Jimmy Fallon. If chapters. In the “Then” chapters, Cumming describes his Cumming were asked to do battle with the Tonight Show childhood in rural Scotland. It is difficult to read at times; host? “I’d have to do a slow song,” he says. “A Shania Twain he remembers the trauma of growing up with an angry, ballad.” With a smirk, he reveals his favourite song from violently abusive father who terrorized him and his brother. Shania’s catalogue: “From This Moment On,” in spite (or Meanwhile, the “Now” chapters track his experience filming

14 JAN 29–FEB 11, 2015 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS on the British version of the reality show Who Do You Think performances — I count them every day.” You Are? in 2010. Cumming’s episode of the program (which It’s amazing that a production that premiered in 1993 investigates celebrities’ family trees) centred on his maternal feels as fresh, daring and vital as ever — even when things grandfather. Tommy Darling, who died in Malaysia sometime go wrong. “There were some drunk people in the other after the Second World War, had always been a question mark night,” Cumming says, “and obviously, there’s drinks, you’re for Cumming and his mother, Mary, who was only eight at supposed to be in a club . . . But there was this kind of ugly the time of her father’s death. What had he been like? Why scene afterwards with the audience saying how disrespect- hadn’t he returned to Scotland? And how did he really die? ful they were being.” In the midst of investigating these questions, the “Now” and In a departure from the original staging, the Sam Mendes– “Then” threads converge as Cumming’s estranged father directed production ends with the Emcee stripping off his returns in the present with shocking revelations and long- sexy leather jacket to reveal a concentration-camp uniform buried secrets. displaying both a pink triangle and a Star of David. “So I’m Gripping and emotionally powerful, Not My Father’s saying, ‘I’m going to a concentration camp; I’m gay; I’m Son reads like the late-night confession of a close friend. Jewish; I’m dead.’ And these people are still laughing.” “I couldn’t stop talking about it,” Cumming says. “I literally While the experience was jarring for both the performers was obsessed with it.” His need to share his stranger-than- and the audience, for Cumming, those kinds of reactions are fiction story is almost tangible. “It was an urgent thing. I don’t important for the message of the show. “The audience were think you can have something like this happen to you without horrified that these people were not respecting this terrible expunging it in some way. It’s great for other people in the thing that happened, but of course, the whole show is saying world to share in the same kind of anger or amazement or that you’ve got to be vigilant because there are those people horror that you have experienced. It makes you calmer.” who don’t get it and are going to be the ones who are going While he doesn’t shy away from his harrowing relation- to let it happen. And so the whole thing sort of happened in ship with his father, he also spends time describing the microcosm right there.” healthy relationships he shares with his mother and brother. Here’s a game: open up Cumming’s IMDb page and scroll “People tend to focus on the more violent bits, but actually, through his credits. You’ve seen him in more things than ultimately it’s about three people who survived. I think that you realized, haven’t you? His artistic output is prolific and it’s quite uplifting. ” remarkably varied. He’s just as likely to pop up in highbrow While the writing process was cathartic, Cumming worried fare like Julie Taymor’s Titus or a Jane Austen adaptation as how his family would take the candid memoir. “I was nervous something deliciously lowbrow, like Josie and the Pussycats about it coming out because of the effect it was gonna have or Burlesque. on my mom, especially, and me,” he confides. “But actually, it But does someone who’s really “done it all” still ache for couldn’t have gone better. My mom asked for 10 new challenges or pine for the roles that got more copies to give to her friends. And I thought away? “Mostly it’s like, ‘Oh, I dodged that bul- that was the best review I could have got!” NOT MY let!’” Cumming says. “I’m not a yearner. People Cumming hopes Not My Father’s Son can help FATHER’S SON can waste so much time yearning or aspiring for By Alan Cumming others who have experienced similar abuse come HarperCollins something. That takes up your energy. That takes to terms with their past, or at least start that harpercollins.com you away from the present and closes you off to conversation. “Everyone’s got fucked-up families. what might happen. I feel I’ve tumbled through I think that the word ‘dysfunctional’ is almost life and really fascinating things have come to me. irrelevant as a prefix to the word ‘family,’ because everyone’s And I just do what I like. I’ve actually more often had a terrible is. And so many people say, ‘Oh, I’m buying your book for my time doing something that I really thought I was doing for my mom.’ And I think, ‘Wow!’ As a family gift, I wouldn’t put it art rather than for my wallet. Because when you enter into at the top of my list. But I like it. I think it’s really making something because it’s a job to earn money, then you have people talk about things.” fun; you get on with people. But when you go into something If exploring his past with his father was the most painful and your heart is in it, your soul is in it, and it doesn’t go well part of writing Not My Father’s Son, discovering the truth and people are dicks, then that hurts you more.” about his grandfather Tommy Darling was perhaps the most When asked about his appearance in the critically reviled rewarding. As he travels with a TV crew through France, the Jaws 4, character actor extraordinaire Michael Caine fa- UK and, ultimately, Malaysia, he pieces together an idea of mously remarked, “I have never seen it, but by all accounts the grandfather he never knew. it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and “The thing with Tommy Darling was I actually felt so close it is terrific.” Cumming has an equally sanguine take on his to him, so like him, and I know that I can spot the genetic line less prestigious work. “You can actually trace my filmography much more closely from that side than from my father’s side. through when I was either renovating a house or getting a And I think that’s also why I was so sad for him, ’cause I really divorce by the films I’ve done; that’s absolutely true,” he could recognize parts of myself in him.” His grandfather was admits. “And why shouldn’t I do that?” a combatant in some of the most brutal battles of the war, and Recently, on the BBC’s HARDtalk, host Stephen Sackur Cumming believes Darling’s traumatic experiences shaped asked Cumming if he regretted saying yes to certain roles. “He the man he became. “I feel like I have a form of PTSD from named certain films, likeThe Smurfs and Spice World. And I my dad. So, learning all this stuff about him, it was so intense. was like, ‘No. Why do you think I should just do rarefied, arty I did feel this — not sympathy, but complete connection to things just because you would like me to, rather than do The him. And to be able to go back to Malaysia and take my mom Flintstones to earn a lot of money?’ And finally I said, ‘And there — that was such a beautiful thing to be able to do.” actually, I think Spice World was really good.’ And he went, It’s fitting that Cumming is releasing a book that reflects ‘Oh, I’ve never seen it.’ And I said, ‘Then don’t cast asper- on his past in the same year he returned to his star-making sions!’ I love that film.” Besides, his role as a documentary turn in Cabaret. Not that it was easy. “I am so fucking old!” filmmaker following the every move of Baby, Sporty, Ginger, he says with a laugh. “When I came back to doing it this time, Posh and Scary made him an instant hit with co-star Emma I couldn’t remember anything about it. I had to go to the Stone. “Emma Stone is a huge Spice Girls fan!” he says, with Lincoln Center Library and watch the video of it from last a grin. “We have Spice Girls lip-sync battles in my dressing time to remind myself. But I have been doing it for 20 years. room with the Kit Kat Girls!” It’s probably safe to assume I did it in London, New York. I’ve only done . . . it’s only 660 they know the words.

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