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FEEDBACK Under siege, now and then Cranky old men? In her editorial [“Who’s Queer for the best vantage point to hear, view Maybe I looked in the wrong places, Now?” Xtra #542, June 5], EDITORIAL Robin Perelle seems to suggest NATASHA and provide running commentary on but I found no follow-up stories or edi- BARSOTTI the unfolding theatre of the day. torials in the island’s media condemn- that the opposition to the term I use “theatre” deliberately, because ing the “no lipstick” crowd’s actions. queer comes from a minority The crime? A “homo- even in the midst of their outrage, No expression of disgust, however of angry gay men, especially sexual” allegedly applying or wearing laughter and remarks are bandied back empty, from the minister of justice, nor older gay men. While age and lipstick in public. It might even have and forth among the spectators, dem- from the prime minister, who can’t or gender appear to play a role in been lip balm for all we know. onstrating a profound lack of concern won’t give “a timeline” for her plan to this opposition, permit me to The details didn’t seem to matter to for the terror they are unleashing. address the buggery law. offer a different interpretation. the incensed people who chased him In a way, the level of aggression and Lest we forget, gay Torontonians — The opposition to the term In our last issue, we misidentified into a store in a southern Jamaican violence that is prevalent in countries who just hosted the world for Pride queer comes from mature gay men because they are reasonably content Laurie McDonald (centre) in this parish and held him under siege for like Jamaica and my own, Trinidad, — have been in the same boat as that Xposed photo from the Empress Ball. more than an hour. where the murder rate is staggering, still-nameless lipstick man who fled with their lives. They’re pleased with Xtra regrets the error. the amazing progress and acceptance As I watched the TV Jamaica report, provides an apt backdrop to what went his tormentors. and gay liberation [“Lessons from the they’ve seen in their lifetimes, they’ve I almost forgot about the man holed up down in that carpark. In October 1980, Xtra’s predecessor, Parti Québécois,” Xtra 539, April 24], survived the worst ravages of the AIDS in his refuge, so entranced did I become Not to draw a glib connection be- The Body Politic, carried an editorial I think that the gay liberation move- epidemic, and most want to live quietly with the mass of people so willing and tween a homophobic siege and the on the annual siege of Toronto’s gay ment has a far greater responsibility but openly with their partners, friends, eager to hold him hostage. They clam- murderous violence that’s a byproduct St Charles Tavern, where thousands of in the world. family members and colleagues. What bered on top of cars and crates for a of drug- and gunrunning. But it’s no people — “most of them young, most of I regard Quebec nationalism as a local they object to is a term that is deliber- good sightline to the door. With mobile surprise that such an act of casual ag- them straight” — annually descended issue whereby Quebeckers have the ately edgy, provocative and stridently phones at the ready, they clamoured for gression is possible, particularly in a for Halloween with chants of “Kill the option to remain a respected minority leftwing. Many are non-political, while him to come out and face their censure. climate where leaders lack the political queers!” within a stable country or to risk their others are not leftwing. It’s not that they It was reminiscent of a scene from will to address the long-festering issue The editorial concluded with a call security in order to become the major- are refusing to “engage with change.” a Roman amphitheatre. All that was of anti-gay discrimination. to action that still applies to many of ity in their own country. I regard this Almost all have seen or engaged with missing was a Caesar-like figure to What would have happened had the the world’s citizens who just gathered as a practical decision affecting a local enough change for a lifetime. The use turn his thumb up or down. And for store turned the man away, instead of in Toronto to celebrate: “Every citizen, population and not a moral one of global of the term queer makes them angry what? Putting on lipstick, or possibly providing sanctuary and calling the every elected official should share importance. because they see it as a backward step lip balm? Brushing his lips with his police? Would he have suffered the every gay person’s dismay at having This is not the case for the gay libera- and as a descriptor for a political and fingers? Why? same fate as teenager Dwayne Jones, to face, each year... humiliation and tion movement, which has the potential cultural radicalism they don’t embrace. Even a hint of “scandal” or a snippet who was chased, shot and stabbed in hate... passed over in silence, that has to change all of society, and for this In any case, many thanks to Xtra and of gossip fuels the rhythm of island life, Montego Bay last year? Or as that hap- drawn no criticism, no condemnation, reason I believe that all paths at the Kevin Dale McKeown for facilitating and I don’t say this patronizingly. It less young man who was beaten and that has not moved one single elected crossroads must be pursued. Of course this discussion. often takes very little to arouse excite- kicked by security guards at Kingston’s official to say, ‘This is appalling and we should always strive to maintain and ment and titillation, and before you University of Technology, where yet an- disgraceful. This must be stopped.’” GORDON HARDY VANCOUVER, BC improve our equality within Canada, know it, you have an audience angling other crowd gathered to jeer and cheer? Happy WorldPride to the nameless but I think that we should also fight for Jamaican man and to everyone else Quebec nationalism those less fortunate members of the still struggling to live freely. global LGBT community, until we are The outcome that we seek is this — gay and lesbian vs gay liberation people daring together to set love free. all equal citizens in the world. Xtra is published by Pink Triangle Press, at 2 Carlton St, Ste 1600, Toronto, M5B 1J3. Natasha Barsotti is the staff reporter Although I appreciate the historical FRANCES STOLIAR at Xtra Vancouver. analogy between Quebec nationalism NORTH VANCOUVER, BC

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Canada’s largest Pride celebration may have doubled in size as Toronto hosted WorldPride, June 20 to 29, with a three-day street party in the heart of the gay village, multiple open-air stages, endless parties, a 45-minute Dyke March, the longest Trans March the city has ever seen, and a nearly six-hour-long Pride parade with 12,000 marchers. Above, City of Toronto councillors march in the WorldPride parade along Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. QMI AGENCY/ERNEST DOROSZUK For full coverage of WorldPride, go to dailyxtra.com.

and Davie will be turned into a kind of danceﬂoor. We’re trying to Not everyone in the community really activate Less fencing around Davie party is happy with the decision to keep a fenced-in beer garden. In an open letter Davie Street this circulated on social media, Vancouver year beyond just Pride unhappy with street barricades: Lam resident Brad Teeter calls it an insult to the gay village. having a beer PRIDE extensive fencing at past events and says and still have a beer garden.” “Please join me in stopping the par- garden. the society has reduced the street party’s Lam says the smaller size of the beer titioning of our iconic street,” Teeter MATTHEW DIMERA RAY LAM, VPS GENERAL fenced-in areas from four blocks two garden means fewer costs for fencing writes. He says the “10-foot-high fenc- MANAGER The Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) years ago to two blocks last year to a single and less ﬁnancial risk to the VPS. This ing sheathed with dense plastic” creates says that it’s doing everything it can to fenced-in block planned for this year. year’s admission price for the beer gar- a “snobbish party during the otherwise reducing the height of the fences but address community concerns about “We’re putting more of a focus on den will be $10, down from $20 last year. remarkably inclusive, festive Pride that it’s still up in the air. But he hopes this year’s Davie Street party but that the open blocks this year. We’re trying In addition to the one-block beer Week celebrations.” the new focus on the community blocks changes to the province’s liquor laws to really activate Davie Street this year garden, there will be two blocks of free “Nothing about blocking public access will assuage critics. that reduce required fencing around beyond just having a beer garden,” Lam open space with carnival games. One to an iconic street from most of the gay “I think something that a lot of peo- beer gardens likely won’t be imple- says. “We are working towards reducing performance stage will remain inside community and almost everyone else ple don’t understand is that we don’t mented until next year. the amount of fencing that we have in the fence, while another will be erected comes remotely close to Pride,” he says. like the fences either, but this is the VPS general manager Ray Lam ac- the street, but right now we’re at the outside, in the Bute plaza. Lam says the Lam says that the VPS is still work- framework we have to work within,” knowledges the complaints about the least amount of fencing we can have rainbow intersection at Bute Street ing with the city in the hopes of maybe he says.

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scattered applause immediately after umah until the last minute, during Judge finds the decision was read in Vancouver the final days of the trial. Although a Provincial Court. material witness warrant was issued for perpetrator’s Travis James Johnston, whose lip Rahnumah, he never testified in court. was split open during the assault nearly Minhas testified that it was Rahn- identity not three years ago, stood up and left the umah who threw the umbrella, then left courtroom immediately following the the scene before police arrived. Minhas proven beyond decision. said that he didn’t show up until after Judge Jodie Werier read her decision the assault took place and that he had doubt aloud, saying that the Crown had not only been trying to prevent an alterca- proven its case beyond a reasonable tion between his friends and another GAYBASHING doubt. She said that while there was no group of men that night. MATTHEW DIMERA question that the assault took place and He also claimed that he would never that gay slurs were used, there was not use homophobic slurs and that he sup- The man accused of assaulting a Van- enough evidence that Minhas was the ports his gay friends. Mary Lambert couver man with an umbrella was ac- perpetrator. Outside the courthouse, defence quitted of all charges June 30. “The fact that homophobic slurs were lawyer David J Taylor expressed his Ashleigh Flynn & the Sunjeet Singh Minhas, 25, had been uttered is shameful and concerning to happiness with the acquittal. “It was charged with one count of assault with me,” she said. clear that there were some things done Back Porch Majority a weapon and one count of uttering However, she rejected Johnston’s on that evening which everybody would threats in connection with an alleged identification of Minhas to police, say- agree are wrong. The defence case was Davie Street gaybashing that took place ing that he did so only after Minhas was simply that it wasn’t Mr Minhas who Joan Baez in the early-morning hours of Oct 9, in handcuffs. She described Minhas was at fault,” Taylor said. 2011. as soft-spoken and calm during his “I think it’s up to the police to take Brasstronaut Minhas bent down his head in relief testimony. some steps to trace down with a proper, and covered his face while a half dozen Werier criticized the defence for not thorough investigation who may have Amos Lee of his friends and family broke into attempting to subpoena Wali Rahn- been at fault,” he added. Great Lake Swimmers New Brunswick Andrew Bird & the Hands of Glory law society Alejandro Escovedo approves TWU

& the Sensitive Boys The Law Society of New Brunswick voted to accredit Trinity Western University’s (TWU) proposed law school June 27. Law society president John Malone acknowledged that the covenant requires students to act according to biblical values that prohibit sexual intimacy except within a marriage between a man and a woman. But, he said, the law society has a responsibility to represent all the communities that lawyers serve and to recognize both religious freedom and the right to sexual orientation without discrimination. “No matter which law school they Mokoomba Higher beer costs are making BC’s new happy hour anything but in graduate from, all articled students Vancouver’s gay village, as bar managers adjust to new liquor pricing complete law society training and evalu- regulations and thirsty patrons are forced to dig deeper into their wallets. ation,” he noted. “This includes the core “It’s more of an ‘unhappy hour’ than anything,” says Sebastian Trudeau Wintersleep aspects of professional responsibility, (above, with Josh Belford). Read the full story on dailyxtra.com. SHAUNA LEWIS including non-discrimination. As well, Opening Ceremonies the law society requires that lawyers not discriminate in their professional dismissal or a refusal to readmit a stu- sign its covenant. But members of the featuring Ferron duties.” dent to the university. BC Law Society challenged the board’s For admission to TWU, students must The Law Society of BC initially agreed decision at a special general meeting sign a covenant agreeing to uphold to accredit TWU graduates as well, June 10 and urged the board to vote D &D@ ÿģàÿģčàÆþÆ s PPPàD @D Oħ'à à ħ Christian biblical teachings, including saying it had no choice but to follow a again. — Jeremy Hainsworth no premarital sex and no homosex- 2001 Supreme Court of Canada deci- uality. Failure to uphold these com- sion upholding TWU’s right to teach For more on these stories, mitments, according to the student Christian values to would-be teachers go to dailyxtra.com. handbook, could result in discipline, and to insist that incoming students

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The man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the January 2013 death of former Vancouverite Dolan Badger has been sentenced to three years in jail by an Alberta judge. William Robert Kootenay, 24, was originally charged with murder. He At the time of his death, Dolan Badger pleaded guilty to the less severe, in- was widely remembered as a gentle, cluded charge of manslaughter on Dec kind, warm and deeply supportive two- spirit aboriginal man. FACEBOOK 11, claiming he was only protecting himself from a sexual assault that he pulled down and Badger lying on top of says happened after a night of drink- him, not wearing any pants. Kootenay ing, according to an agreed statement says he pushed Badger off , then struck of facts fi led with the court. him in the face and abdomen with his An Alberta Justice spokeswoman fi sts and kicked him in the abdomen. tells Xtra that Kootenay was sentenced The following morning, police re- on June 18 to 36 months, with four sponded to a domestic assault call. A months’ credit for time served in jail constable found Badger on the fl oor *+ $ prior to sentencing. He was also given with no pants, a small towel over his a 10-year fi rearms prohibition. genitals. The constable saw a large , -$ “Nothing can bring Dolan back, and pool of blood around Badger and Koo- three years seems a small price to pay tenay on the phone yelling, “He tried for ending such a beautiful life,” says to rape me.” Badger’s friend Duane Aucoin. “But it’s “That doesn’t sound like something better than nothing, I guess.” Dolan would do,” Aucoin told Xtra last The statement of facts presented year. “He was a very respectful man in the case said Kootenay was staying who worked many years helping his at the Admiral Inn in Whitecourt, gay family. Alberta, with his boss. It says he met “It’s unfortunate that he’s unable ! "#$$ Badger when he ran into two former to tell his side of the story and there acquaintances who were drinking with are no witnesses,” he continued. “The him in the lounge. The four eventually gay-panic defence is just a validation #% &" took a taxi back to the acquaintances’ that it’s okay to kill queers.” house, where they kept drinking. Koo- Kootenay off ered little resistance tenay claims he awoke to fi nd his pants when he was arrested for assault, the & $ ' statement says. A sexual assault test found no evidence of semen in anal or rectal swabs. () Nothing can Whitewater RCMP Staff Sergeant bring Dolan back, Rodney Koscielny said at the time of and three years Badger’s death that the case was not considered a hate crime. “Hate was seems a small not involved. It was not a gaybashing,” Koscielny told Xtra. “It was a fi ght that price to pay for went wrong.” ending such a Badger, who lived for years in Van- couver, was working as a support and beautiful life. outreach worker with the HIV Net- DUANE AUCOIN work of Edmonton, according to his LinkedIn page.

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COVER STORY Mona Regina Lee) cracked that because Manning delved into some of the “queer” while others feel excluded by it. from the audience when he said he is MATTHEW DIMERA of the lengthy technical issues, his iden- history of the word gay, explaining that Molly, another audience member, “married to an Oriental man” and is a tity had changed and he was now a drag originally it wasn’t seen as gendered, so said she remembers the negative con- “rice queen.” Participants in Xtra’s June 18 town queen personified. He said he would calling it the “gay community” wasn’t an notations of the word queer but un- “Do you really think the rest of the hall at the Fountainhead Pub seemed never use the word queer. issue at the time. “We are now fighting derstands that it’s being redefined. She world thinks it’s wonderful that we’re largely divided as they tackled the ques- “To me, queer is a word that is deroga- two things,” he said. “One: should we focused on the need for unity within the queers? I don’t think the rest of the tions of what words we use to describe tory, and people have used it on me in separate and go our own separate ways? community. “The larger community’s world is going to embrace us because ourselves and how we are evolving as a the past to bring me down, so that word Or should we stay together and protect biggest issues are freedom and human we’re all queers. Now, it’s very nice to community. sticks in my craw and I can’t get rid of what we have and not lose it? I think rights, and I think the only way that take old words and make them our own, After a rocky beginning plagued by it. The more the community uses the it’s important for us to stick together.” we’ve been able to achieve, and will con- so why don’t we just call ourselves the technical sound issues, moderator word queer, the more difficulty I have Panellist Jen Sung, program coor- tinue to achieve, significant movement Ku Klux Klan?” he suggested. Robin Perelle, Xtra Vancouver’s man- in accepting it,” he said. “As time goes dinator for Out in Schools, identified in human rights and freedom for all — After being challenged by several aging editor, rebooted the discussion by on, things change, and I know the word herself as a queer woman of colour. we have to be a cohesive community.” online participants, Manning said he asking the panellists how they identify. queer has changed its meaning. How- She spends a lot of time working in Some groups within the larger com- had chosen his words intentionally. Andrew Shopland, facilitator for ever, it still means a bad thing to me.” high schools in BC and says “queer” is munity may want and need their own “I used them purposefully because I felt YouthCO’s Mpowerment program for Paul Therien, founder of Canada’s Q the word she hears most among youth terms, she continued, but the larger you all would have heard them before gay, bisexual and trans young men, told Hall of Fame, said he looked at all the to identify themselves. community also needs to identify as and you all know how offensive they are, the audience he uses both terms. different words that have been used to “They use it strategically, they use a whole. and I wanted you to understand how “When I first came out, the word that describe the community before settling it personally, and they use it as a very “If ‘queer’ is becoming a more ac- offensive I find the word queer,” he said. was given to me was gay. I was a guy, I on the letter Q for the hall of fame. “We politicized, activist way of reclaiming cepted word — and isn’t still conjuring Another man in the audience said that liked guys, and that was the word I was did struggle with it,” he says. “When a word which has been used so nega- up in people’s minds the old definition he had come to the town hall to support given. It was my only choice. But it never we put the question to people from tively,” she said. of the word — and it works for the ma- the use of the word queer, but his mind really felt like it fit completely,” he said. across the country, nobody could give Shopland pointed to the importance jority, I see it as an all-encompassing had been changed by the comments he “In my early 20s, I started to explore us an answer: Who are we? What do we of listening to the experiences of older word,” she said. had heard. “I would hate to say that who I was and fell in love with some identify as?” people who still have negative reactions “It doesn’t matter to me what word I’m going down to the ‘Queer Centre.’ folks that made me question, ‘Am I Ron Rosell, a member of the audi- to the word queer. He also advocated for we use,” audience member Pat Hogan Wouldn’t that sound strange?” he asked. gay?’ I found the word queer, and when ence, likened the LGBT-plus acronym intergenerational mentorship — youth said. “We can get really hung up on “Just think of what John Q Public is I put it on, all of a sudden I could move to a constellation of distinct communi- communicating and listening to elders words, but I think we should be easy on going to think.” around in it. It fit comfortably. It felt ties. “They are communities that touch and vice versa. each other and not get on each other’s “Nobody should have words used like me, and the people I saw wearing one another at the point of civil rights Perelle asked the audience how the case because we’re not being politically on them that hurt them,” audience it, they felt like me, too,” he continued. or [are] interacting with a world that is community can evolve when some correct.” member Morgane Oger said. “Maybe we Panellist Reg Manning (Empress II more heteronormative,” he said. members embrace the change toward Manning provoked a strong reaction should come up with an inclusive word

10 JULY 3–16, 2014 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS Gay The town hall Lesbian Far left: Panellists Andrew Shopland (left) and Jen Sung discuss the words they use to identify themselves. Sung identifies as a queer woman Dyke of colour. Shopland uses both “gay” and “queer.”

Centre: Moderator Robin Perelle (left) holds the mic for panellist Reg Manning Homo (Empress II Mona Regina Lee).

Left: Panellists Reg Manning and Paul Therien share their perspectives prior to Xtra’s town hall. Fag

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Different places, 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% different names You refer to yourself as... For more on which communities seem to prefer which terms, go to dailyxtra.com and search for “Use of ‘Queer’ Varies Across Results from Xtra Vancouver’s 2012 sex survey, where Canada” and “Use of ‘Gay’ and ‘Queer’ Varies Among US Cities.” respondents predominantly preferred the term gay.

that doesn’t exclude others that we a false dichotomy that doesn’t actually I see is a community,” Perelle said, as audience and panellists. safety, you find safe haven, you find haven’t thought about already. LGBTQ- exist, and it disappears a lot of people she wound down the town hall. “I see a For Therien, the answer was a de- commonality, and you are afforded the and-so-on is a limiting term. It talks that locate themselves somewhere on community with very different points finitive yes. “Community is about find- opportunity to enrich your life,” he said. about a specific set of people that seems that binary or outside of it. And it es- of view, with very different experiences, ing and celebrating your differences “I don’t know if we’re a community, to be always growing.” pecially disappears our trans folks, as coming from different places, choos- and uniqueness to develop and create but we’re definitely a family,” Shopland “I identify mostly as queer, because well as our two-spirited and our asexual ing very different words to describe strength. From community you find said. I’m anti-binaries,” another woman in community. Maybe queer is not the per- themselves and each other, but still the audience said. “We’re all on a spec- fect term. I myself like rainbow glitter a community that’s willing to come Watch the video of our town hall at dailyxtra.com/xtraqueer. trum, and I feel like gay and lesbian, unicorns, but it’s kind of long.” together and share.” Read Xtra’s series on the word queer at dailyxtra.com. homosexual, heterosexual — it sets up “I don’t know about you, but what “Are we a community?” she asked the

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For Olympic luger John Fennell, coming out was an obstacle as big Fear of flying as the mountains he races down SPORTS DOUGLAS BOYCE

Sitting in his luge at the start handles of the World Cup run in Latvia in January, 18-year-old John Fennell felt like he was suffocating. “I was very anxious. I was breathing deeply and thought to myself, ‘How the hell can I be brave enough to go down this mountain if I’m not brave enough to be who I am?’” Fennell made the Canadian Olympic team and competed in the Sochi Games one month later. He doubts he would have made it that far had he not spoken several months earlier to openly gay Olympic swimmer Mark Tewksbury. “I said, ‘I don’t know if I can go to Russia. I don’t think I can go,’” he recalls of his life-changing conversation with Tewksbury. “He’s integral to my success and continuance in my sport. I could not see myself going forward had I not reached out and him giving me the advice that he did. He’s, in all honesty, one of the best human beings I know.” Without Tewksbury, things “may have played out much differently,” Fennel says. “I might have felt the need to have retired after the Olympics. But hearing the things he has to say about the way sport culture is now, it really reformed my preconceived notions of how you’ll be treated for coming out.” Buttressed by Tewksbury’s advice and support, Fennel reached out to some of his teammates and the Canadian Olympic Committee and entered the Sochi Games with a clear mindset, knowing he had people on his side. Fennell grew up within view of the ski-jump sure being brought to bear upon Russia and the dealing with this. She stepped up to be a personal tower built for Calgary’s 1988 Winter Olympic possibility that the Games’ host country, which role model for me, and what I told her recently is Games. Though he never really hid his sexuality, After my events had only months earlier passed anti-gay legisla- ‘I want to be able to help athletes like you helped he dated girls in high school while he slowly sought finished, I told tion, would be less than welcoming. me. You made me feel safe and proud of who I am.’” to better understand himself. “I was terrified,” Fennell recalls, though his ex- When Fennell came home, he came out to his He says he feared what would happen if he came myself, ‘Okay, John, perience in Russia turned out to be only positive. friends, family and the rest of his team. “Every- out. “I would have to quit my sport,” he says he be- “It was very safe. I didn’t feel scared at all.” one’s been overwhelmingly supportive and there lieved then. “People who were my friends wouldn’t you’re going to deal Fennell competed in Sochi and finished 27th in for me,” he says. want to be my friends anymore.” his first Olympic competition. “After my events Gay youth need a voice in sports, he says now, Pre-Olympic season is stressful enough, he says, with this.’ finished, I told myself, ‘Okay, John, you’re going encouraging athletes in their early teens to stick without the added burden of wrestling with com- to deal with this.’ with their sport and not quit just because of their ing out. It was “taxing and emotionally weighing. I “I came out to my team leader, Sam Edney. He’s sexual orientation. had short tempers. I was snapping really quickly, very close to Anastasia [Bucsis, the Canadian “There’s still, particularly in sport, a need even during our team debriefing.” Olympic speed skater who came out before the for role models,” he notes. “It’s one thing when The lead-up to the Games was “definitely ter- Games]. Sam put me in touch with her in Russia, professional sports like basketball and foot- rifying,” he says. “I had worked so hard [to] qualify and she became one of the most useful people that ball players are coming out, but there’s a whole for something, and having that feeling that I had John Fennell races down a luge track. The I have ever interacted with. plethora of different athletes who are experienc- now openly gay athlete placed 27th in his first to give that up, that was the hardest part.” Olympic competition, in Sochi this February. “We had numerous long talks,” he says. “She ing this. You don’t have to be someone famous to Added to that stress was the international pres- CANADIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE put me in touch with other athletes who were come out.”

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Canada has never been more gay than it is this summer. As WorldPride took over Toronto, Cher brought her Dressed to Kill Tour to Vancouver June 27. I didn’t buy tickets because once you start getting in free to review events, paying begins to feel like being robbed. Evidently Cher and opening act Cyndi Lauper did not need the press because I didn’t get approved to review the Dark Lady — the biggest mistake of her career, obviously. However, I did live vicariously through all the drag queens on my Facebook feed who went to the concert dressed in Cher drag and got swarmed by fans wanting photos. There are a Raziel and Isolde N Barron get some fresh air in Grandview Park June 28 few Vancouver queens who do Cher for East Side Pride’s annual tribute to Stonewall. DANNY GRAY FOX well, but it’s Myria Le Noir and Jaylene nostalgia to help put it all in perspective. doesn’t she?) calling on every drag Tyme who really make me believe. Perhaps the most poignant aspect of queen and king at the venue to join Missing both WorldPride and the this year’s East Side Pride was that it them onstage. I was expecting some Cher concert was leaving me with little fell 45 years to the day after the 1969 kind of “We Are the World” group will to live, but all I needed was some Stonewall riots. I still think the best number, but I think mostly Isolde was help from the Pride Society (okay, and way to honour the Stonewall upris- just drunk and wanted to show off her a pitcher of sangria) to bounce back. ing is with stone-cold cock, but a day many, many offspring. The annual East Side Pride took of empowerment at the park works After the shows, there was a con- place on June 28. Previously held at nicely, too. gregation at 1181 that blurred all East/ McSpadden Park, the celebration now With so much Pride being invoked in West lines completely. Which is a good covers Grandview Park. The location Toronto, East Side Pride coasted on the thing, because no one at 1181 could switch is smart: McSpadden is tucked cross-country vibrations and spread walk in a line if their life depended away off Commercial, whereas Grand- across the city, as the witches of East on it. view is right on the Drive and attracts and West joined forces for the night. Best look of the night goes to the passersby from the street. And there wasn’t even any melting! extravagant Beardoncé, who had a Spearheaded by Vancouver Pride Unless you count glitter mustaches. glam outfit paired with a big, bushy Society event coordinator Christo- Not only did Nicki Ravange and Lady beard and who didn’t bother to tuck. pher Hunte, the daylong celebration Jem bury the hatchet (and not in the Whether it was laziness or brilliance, was hosted by the Queen of East Van, back of each other’s corsets, surprising- the juxtaposition of her old-school Isolde N Barron, and featured musi- ly) to host Monroe at Heaven’s Door, it drag sheen and masculinity made for cal performances by Clara Shandler, was a true union of East Van and West a fascinating visual. Stephanie Hunter, Sarah Wheeler, End over at The Junction, with Peach Between getting groped by drag Animal Atlas, Jess Cullen, Jaylene Cobblah, Iona Whipp, Babette St Asia queens and making out with a DJ, Tyme, The Brokeback Brothers and Co-Taylor and Kiki Lawhore filling in I realized that you don’t need to be at Jenny Magenta, along with DJ T and for Carlotta Gurl’s Absolutely Dragu- WorldPride or on the floor of a Cher the drag kings of Man Up. lous show while she was out of town. concert to feel like you’re a part of There were stalls set up around the Meanwhile, on Main Street, the something special. park with items such as jewellery and Rough Trade: Freddie Mercury Man- When the lights came on at 1181 at handmade bags for sale, as well as local Glam party was going off at The Fox 4am, it could have been a rainbow... groups and non-profit exhibitors and with hosts Shanda Leer and Isolde N Or am I just doing too much MDMA? plenty of visual history, timelines and Barron (the old bitch sure gets around, #HappyPride

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If you’re nostalgic for childhood va- be found in Cape Town on the rooftop cations in travel trailers, caravans or of the Granddaddy Hotel , where seven motels but time has tempered your Airstreams nestle alongside mailboxes, tolerance for campfire fare, cramped barbecues and an expanse of AstroTurf. quarters and drab, done-in décor, fear Another option that boasts both cabins not: a dazzling array of dapper, design- and trailers comes courtesy of Kate Pier- conscious cabin camps, trailer parks and son, of The B-52s. Kate’s Lazy Meadow motels has stepped into the spotlight motel in Mount Tremper, New York, over the past few years. near Woodstock, adheres to the more- For a streamlined stay with style, is-more school of décor, with nine rustic, there are now a slew of reconditioned over-the-top suites and five similarly Airstream options from which to choose. spaced-out Airstream trailers. In Kate’s The gleaming mid-century marvels own words, “You’ll find mind-blowing reassuringly similar rooms they were have reclaimed their place in the hearts mid-century modern/space-age/rocket- known for in the 1950s. Today’s bou- of holiday-makers, from upstate New your-socks-off décor.” And that’s an tique motels and reborn motor lodges York to Colorado to Cape Town to the understatement. It’s co-owned and offer distinctly different destinations. foothills of the Pyrenees in France. managed by Kate’s life partner, Monica A couple of the most memorable mo- With its nine retro 1940s and 1950s Coleman. tels are in Portland, Oregon. The Jupiter trailers, Bisbee, Arizona’s Shady Dell You’ll find plenty more parks farther is a renovated motor inn in the happen- RV Park takes you back to a time when west. It’s another slice of life in the past ing Burnside neighbourhood. Offering the Cold War was still hot and Tupper- lane at Utah’s Shooting Star Drive-In. rooms on the “chill” or “bar patio” sides, ware was tops. The diminutive copper- Eight trailers, including John Wayne’s depending on your reasons for coming mining town in the Mule Mountains is digs from the set of The Searchers, an — and your tolerance for noise — the unexpectedly LGBT-friendly and has a Airstream-only drive-in section and 80-room, pet-friendly place also entices lively Pride every June. a posse of classic cars from which to guests with its Doug Fir restaurant and Things also stay firmly with one foot watch films from the 1940s, ’50s and music and club venue. The in-spot fre- in the ’50s in the Belrepayre Airstream ’60s are all on the bill at this eccentric quently hosts local luminaries, including and Retro Trailer Park in Mirepoix, Escalante station. Beth Ditto and Penny Lane. Portland is France. Europe’s first such camping Accommodations at Astoria’s also home to The Modera, which ben- creation, the park offers an array of 10 Sou’wester, in the Pacific Northwest, efited from a multimillion-dollar mid- models of Airstreams, ranging from range from a Silver Streak and a Spartan century refit in 2008 and is now a luxe the 1940s to the 1970s. There’s also an Manor to a Potato Bug and an African haven of impeccable hospitality on the aluminum diner and a restaurant/bar Queen. light rail line. with a vinyl-only music policy. At Colorado’s Starlite Classic Camp- North of the border, in Vancouver, For an even hipper take on tin-can ground in the Royal Gorge, 45 minutes the Burrard Hotel opened in 1956. Fifty tourism, breeze into Berlin’s Huetten- from Colorado Springs, Winnebagos, years later it cast off its rough reputa- palast, where a cache of quirky cabins Tee Pee trailers and Sportsmen are just tion and morphed into a sleek modern and vintage trailers have come home to some of the constellations of camping hotel with loaner bikes, gym passes roost in an old factory in the Neukölln quarters. and oodles of attitude. It’s an excellent area of the city. Motels have mutated far from the address for downtown and gay-village More uber-cool urban camping can original utilitarian conformity of the social shenanigans. LAZYMEADOW.COM 20 JULY 3–16, 2014 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS AEFA MULHOLLAND Clockwise from far left: Hotel Modera, in Portland, Oregon; the funky Thunderbird Motel, in Savannah, Georgia; Astoria’s Sou’wester, in Washington State; the Granddaddy Hotel, in Cape Town, South Africa; Kate’s Lazy Meadow in upstate New York.

AEFA MULHOLLAND SOUWESTERLODGE.COM Elvis, Dean, Marilyn and Frank’s old rooms were renovated from top to bot- favourite, Palm Springs, is another tom in 2012. time capsule of a town, with its dozens Down south, two divine destinations of impeccably restored mid-century- lure lovers of luxe vintage lodgings. The modern motels, a cool clutch of gay Belmont Hotel, home to BarBelmont, resorts and a stunning backdrop of the Smoke Restaurant and fantastic down- 3,000-metre San Jacinto Mountains. town skyline views, in the Bishop Arts So line up the martinis, relive the glory District of Dallas, is a favourite with days of this oasis in the desert and avail queer travellers and other fashion- yourself of the hospitality of super chic conscious folks. Austin, Texas’s Hotel moteliers, such as the folks behind the San José is a boutique bungalow that quirky 170-room Ace Hotel & Swim opened in the 1930s and now appeals to Club, the exquisitely retro Orbit In or visiting arts, music and design people. the fun Century gay resort. It’s crammed to its groovy gills during Savannah, Georgia’s funky Thunder- South by Southwest. Any time of year, bird Motel has budget boutique billets grab a seat at Jo’s coffee shop and watch within strolling distance of the 24 lush, the action on bustling South Congress. Spanish-moss-draped squares that this So, whether you fancy a redone retro southern city is famed for. It’s also just room on wheels or an old-school road- a 10-minute saunter from the infamous house with every modern trapping, Club One, the haunt of notorious drag with all these options to choose from, queen Lady Chablis, star of the book it’s time for a vintage vacation. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Meanwhile, one of the most atmo- Access this story on spheric accommodations in LGBT- dailyxtratravel.com for web frequented Rehoboth Beach, in links to select featured businesses Delaware, is the snappy Crosswinds and attractions. Motel. Centrally located, contemporary and affordable, it reopened in 1998, and AEFA MULHOLLAND MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! JULY 3–16, 2014 21 Travel

Alberta’s two biggest cities have plenty to offer LGBT travellers Big sky country

THINKSTOCK ROB SALERNO is a 90-minute drive west, near Drum- ally more like the lobby of a bathhouse, Edmonton for some excellent views. heller: the Royal Tyrrell Museum, which which you enter through a rear parking At night, you can take in a fi ne show houses a magnifi cent collection of more lot off 17th Avenue. The local scene If Calgary is Canada’s Dallas, then Ed- at the Citadel Theatre or the new Win- than 100,000 dinosaur fossil specimens magazine is the monthly GayCalgary monton is the Great White North’s spear Centre for Music. The Varscona Calgary that were found in the Alberta Badlands. and Edmonton, which has up-to-date Austin — a hip, artsy and active city Theatre in Old Strathcona has been There’s more to Calgary than the ste- If you’re visiting in the winter, it’s event listings. with a strong pioneering spirit not quite hosting the weekly drag soap opera Die- reotypical cowboys and oil barons. But worth making a trip to Canada Olympic But if you’re looking for your Jack sullied by its great oil wealth. With a Nasty for more than 20 years — it’s an if your tastes run to cowboys, you’ll fi nd Park. The facility is open year-round Twist, your best bet is at Calgary’s pre- strong arts scene, shopping that could Edmonton institution frequented not plenty of those, too. In fact, the classic for training and recreation in various mier gay summer event, the Canadian keep you busy for days, and a thriving only by the gays. gay fi lm Brokeback Mountain was fi lmed sports, but on certain days in the winter, Rockies International Rodeo — better gay and lesbian scene, there’s plenty to The gay scene, such as it exists in here. Still, Cowtown is a thoroughly the bobsled and luge track is open for known as the gay rodeo. The fi ve-day keep visitors busy in Edmonton. Edmonton, is centred on Jasper Av- modern and cosmopolitan city with lots visitors. It’s one of only two bobsled event takes place in nearby Strathmore Start with a stroll down Whyte Av- enue in downtown. The combo pub/ for visitors to enjoy. tracks in Canada. Sign a waiver and and features all the ridin’, ropin’ and enue in the Old Strathcona neighbour- dance club Woodys/Buddy’s attracts You won’t have any trouble fi nding hit the ice — if you dare! It’s also fun to racin’ you could wish for. hood. This part of town features lots of a mixed, casual crowd, while the more country-western bars in Calgary, but watch athletes train on the ski-jump Sure, it’s somewhat overshadowed by quirky independent shops, nice restau- stylish dance club is the upstart Flash if you want to freshen up your ward- and half-pipe courses. the annual Calgary Stampede, which rants and a bar and pub scene frequent- nightclub. Weekly listings can be found robe with some authentic cowboy gear Calgary’s gay nightlife scene includes is the city’s premier event and one of ed mostly by a college-aged crowd. It in the local free magazine GayCalgary (or heck, if you want to spice up your the old stalwart Twisted Element, which the biggest rodeos in the world. But it’s can get pretty rowdy on weekend nights. and Edmonton. love life with some authentic cowboy hosts drag performances, amateur strip nowhere near as fabulous. On the north side of the river lies Finally, no trip to Edmonton can be gear), you’ll fi nd plenty of shops selling nights and popular dance parties on Pride 2014 celebrations in Calgary the downtown core, thick with offi ce considered complete without a stop at cowboy boots, jeans, Stetsons, leather the weekends. There’s also the Texas take place Aug 22 through Sept 1. Visit towers and government buildings. The the massive West Edmonton Mall. The gloves, spurs and everything else you’ll Lounge, a small basement bar that’s re- pridecalgary.ca for more information. sprawling grounds of the Alberta Legis- West Eddie (as the locals call it) was long need to rope a cowpoke in the shops on lature make for a pleasant stroll, and the the biggest mall in the world but now the Stephen Avenue pedestrian mall. massive, colonial-style building itself must settle for being the biggest mall in You’ll also fi nd the usual shopping mall is quite beautiful. At night the grounds North America. You could easily spend stores, a good mix of bars and restau- are a popular spot for gay cruising and days exploring it — it has a built-in hotel rants, and some cheap food trucks. for straight teenagers to sneak off and for when you get tuckered out. There’s The mall ends at Olympic Plaza, where make out, but be warned — police patrol also an indoor water park, a petting zoo, medal ceremonies for the 1988 Winter the area frequently. cinema, roller coasters, skating rink, Olympics took place. The North Saskatchewan River valley mini golf, two night clubs, a comedy club, For more fine dining, interesting is the largest urban parkland in North several large restaurants, indoor skate independent retail options and the bulk America — larger than 20 Central Parks. park, 24-hour gym, dinner theatre and of the city’s nightlife, take a stroll along The valley cuts deeply through the city a billiards and arcade complex. Among 17th Avenue SW. A more bohemian along a meandering path, and it’s lined the more than 800 shops are several experience focused on cafés rather than with recreational trails, park spaces, golf Edmonton-exclusive shops and the only bars can be found in the Kensington courses and wildlife areas. Included in Simons store outside of Quebec. neighbourhood north of the Bow River. the river valley system are the four glass Edmonton celebrated Pride in early The Calgary Zoo is a world-class pyramids of the Muttart Conservatory June. Check edmontonpride.ca for institution that also houses a botani- (a biosphere hosting plants in diff erent details for 2015. cal garden. The Glenbow Museum is environments), the Edmonton Val- the largest in Western Canada, and ley Zoo and the costumed historical For maps of both cities and it focuses on local history with regu- experience at Fort Edmonton Park. In listings of interest to LGBT larly changing art exhibits. But the BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES the summer months, you can cross the travellers, go to dailyxtratravel.com. best museum experience in the region Top, the Calgary skyline. Above, the pirate ship inside the West Edmonton Mall. valley in the High Level Bridge streetcar

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AEFA MULHOLLAND Michigan Womyn’s Taking over the Rumors all-suite Workshops and walks, massages and Music Festival boutique resort, this weekend-long reiki, art and photography workshops Summer has finally hit and things are Hart, Michigan, Aug 5–10 celebration is Sin City’s most allur- and exhibitions, outings and safaris, heating up. On top of the incredible michfest.com ing women’s event. Parties by day plus the company of women from all social smorgasbord for women that’s on Depending on the weather, Michigan and night, pop stars, comedy, poker over the world are just some of the In the heart of the Davie Village offer during summer’s plethora of Pride can be equal parts mud and music, and a parade are just some of the en- draws of this event at the ultimate our “Wine Inspired” boutique celebrations, there’s also a captivat- but the six-day extravaganza is always ticements on the table for those who lesbian destination. Folk music from hotel is close to where you ing collection of women’s events hap- an amazing experience that attracts want to strike out for Nevada this Greece, Turkey and other areas of want to be... pening around the world, from Greek nearly 10,000 women to 650 wooded September. the Mediterranean lines up alongside Your Hotel of choice island antics to steamy Florida fiestas. acres in the state’s northwest. Affin- DJ nights, fashion shows, open-air in Downtown Vancouver ity groups abound, with activities and The 14th International cinema showings and rock-climbing Girl Splash workshops for pretty much any interest Eressos Women’s demos. Run by Sappho Women, this is Provincetown, Massachusetts Festival definitely the only women’s festival on July 22–26 you can dream up. Daytime program- ming tends to offer music and comedy, Skala Eressos, Lesbos, Greece this list that offers the opportunity to provincetownforwomen.com Sept 6–20 early evening acts include theatre and learn how to master Greek dancing. Just one of the five fantastic women’s womensfestival.eu dinnertime dramatics, while the night events that happen in this LGBT- executivehotels.net/vancouver Tel: 604.688.7678 stage boasts the big draws, with this adored Cape Cod town each year, Girl year’s heroines including Elvira Kurt, Splash has a hectic calendar of daily Bitch and Melissa Ferrick. Presum- dance parties already lined up, from ably, Jewish lesbians won’t want to the opening kickoff party and Friday’s miss the Isle of Klezbos all-women tea dance and deck party, all the way to klezmer sextet. the closing White Party on the Sunday night. FemiFest 2014 Spend your days exploring the dunes, London, Aug 30 & 31 schmoozing on a schooner as it sails femifest2014.com past Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Women-only, feminist antics take the Cod, going on an all-women’s whale podium at this political festival in East watch, or mingling with the many, London. Open to all women-identified many women to be found roaming the people raised as girls, events are aimed colourful streets of P’town, and spend at feminist activists, writers and cre- your nights at a bonfire in the dunes or atives. Events include comedy, live on the dancefloor. music performances, speakers and LaDIYfest workshops. Berlin, Aug 1–3 Womenfest ladyfest.net Key West, Florida, Sept 4–7 A spinoff from the original LadyFest womenfest.com events, this alternative women’s and The tropical island delight of Key West, trans festival takes a hands-on, open- the southernmost point in the conti- to-all approach to entertainment. Last nental US, puts on this steamy social year’s event started off with a vegan booking every September. A wonder- barbecue at the Tempelhofer Feld, an fully walkable island, dotted with six- abandoned airport, where barbecue and seven-toed cats and free-roaming sites are tucked between runways. It’s chickens, Key West is a quirky wee definitely a unique spot to grill tofu. place with a decidedly LGBT ambiance Along with the array of film nights, and a character all its own. It even concerts, parties and live music on proclaims itself The Conch Repub- the schedule, this fest stands out from lic, although everyone’s too laid-back the crowd with options that include to actually make any serious efforts drumming lessons and haircuts. Cut- toward independence. Highlights of ting edge, indeed. Womenfest include eco tours, jet ski- Lesbomonde Reunion ing, snorkelling and dolphin-watching Montreal, Aug 2 trips, golfing among the palm trees, diverscite.org drag shows, yoga, speed dating, kara- oke, comedy, cocktail parties, concerts Following up on 2013’s event, which and contests. The Bourbon Street Pub, was without doubt the best ladies’ an LGBT mecca, has a hectic itinerary, beach party in Canada, held on the including the Beach Blanket Butch and sands of the St Lawrence River, this Babe Bash, complete with tiki bar and year Lesbomonde covers up and heads hot tub, and the Burly Burlesque Show, indoors for this super-hot girl party on while women-owned resort Pearl’s the islands of the St Lawrence. Details puts on the pool parties and Itsy Bitsy are still to come, but book early for Bikini Contests. this one. Shedonism Las Vegas, Sept 4–8 shedonismvegas.com

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