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THE SIX DAYS OF STONEWALL
JULY/ AUGUST ISSUE 01 . 2009
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6 TO OUR READERS 30 BODY & SOUL Team Vancouver Heads for Copenhagen 9 NEWS Is gay dating a new Olympic sport? 35 TRAVEL Inside Story: What does the future hold for Ritchie Five Favourite Gay Getaways Dowrey after being attacked in a Vancouver gay bar? Local, national and international News Briefs 38 FOOD & DINING The Oasis Gets Fresh 23 STYLE 45 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Summer Fashion Must-Haves PopOuts: Gay pop culture News Briefs Rethinking the Beach Bungalow Vancouver Queer Film Festival Dump-to-Dream-Home DIY 50 JUL/AUG EVENT CALENDAR 5 living out vancouver
EDITORIAL & CREATIVE TO OUR READERS DIRECTOR TJ NGAN
elcome to the fi rst issue of LOV (Living Out Vancouver), Vancouver’s EDITOR fi rst gay men’s magazine. Some people may wonder why we’ve decided to focus on one component of the GLBT community. Partly GUY BABINEAU because the magazine’s two creators, Editorial and Creative Director W COPY EDITORS TJ Ngan and myself, are gay men. We wanted to focus on what we know. And partly because gay men in the Vancouver area—from West Point Grey to the Fraser Valley, David King Sandra MacMillan and from White Rock to Whistler—have been asking for a magazine that refl ects their diverse interests and tastes. We hope that’s what you’ll fi nd in LOV. DESIGN & ART DIRECTION TJ has worked in gay media in Vancouver for years. I have written about gay issues TJ Ngan and identity, as well as fashion and design, for all the major publications in town. The support and encouragement we have received from people in all corners of the CIRCULATION / DISTRIBUTION community has been miraculous. I don’t use that word lightly. I have worked in the DIRECTOR publishing world for twenty-fi ve years and have never experienced anything like it. So Guy Babineau hats off to those who have contributed to LOV in so many ways. You know who you are. Our feature story in this issue takes readers back to the streets of New York City during CONTRIBUTORS the six days of the Stonewall Rebellion forty years ago. Nobody was planning a world- Nick Bertossi, Darren Bruce, Cate Cameron, Steven changing gay rights movement yet that’s what happened, because all the right elements Carty, Chad Combes, Terry Costa, Micah Gilbert, Parker Goode, Michael Graf, Diane Ho, Amanda Kerr, happened to coalesce at the right time in the right place. LOV won’t change the world, but James Loewen, Dean Nelson, Nicholas Opp, Deana it will, we hope, help change the city’s cultural landscape; by adding to it. Vancouver is an Palkowski, Brendan Rolfe, Blair Smith, Symone, Dan exciting young city experiencing fast, monumental growth, with tangible contributions Stafford, Redd Villanueva, Lindsay Wincherauk from the gay community. We deserve a diverse and differentiated media. It’s time. EDITORIALS Inside, Symone, Vancouver’s Queen of Style, keeps us in touch with what’s hot and what’s [email protected] not. In our fi rst Inside Story, a column presenting an insider’s perspective of issues and events affecting gay men, Lindsay Wincherauk tells us about the current condition of ADVERTISING his friend Ritch Dowrey, who suffered brain damage as the result of an attack in one of [email protected] the city’s gay bars. We hear about the exciting parties, performers and events heating up Vancouver Pride at the end of July, take a trip back in time through four decades of gay LISTINGS fashion, and salute Team Vancouver as it heads off to the World Outgames in Copenhagen. [email protected] Gay men in Vancouver have many voices. More than anything, we want CIRCULATION / DISTRIBUTION LOV to create dialogue. Let us know what you think, if you have any [email protected] news tips or story ideas, or would like to contribute to LOV. COMMENTS [email protected] Guy Babineau THE SIX DAYS OF STONEWALL Editor MAILING ADDRESS JULY/ 485-1027 Davie Street AUGUST ISSUE 01 . 2009 Vancouver, British Columbia V6E 4L2 living out vancouver lovmag.com Canada PARTYTIME! PRIDE CELEBRATION ESSENTIALS
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9 Inside Story
He’s confined to a wheelchair or bed. Food is a struggle because Photo courtesy Lindsay Wincherauk he often doesn’t recognize it as food. Therapy is a struggle because he cannot understand the commands the therapists are giving He can talk, but him. He can’t go to the washroom by himself. “he rarely makes “Hello” is met with, “Your wife was here today.” I don’t have a sense. His words wife. are jumbled. He is We bring him chocolate. He doesn’t know what it is. He loves it, speaking a code that giving a thumbs up, then, in true Ritchie fashion, offers some to only he knows.” everyone passing by. We meet his daughter. She is touched by our efforts, hugs me, and shares a tear. I still can’t find one. The pain of not being able to understand is relentless and wearing; the impact unforgiving. I What does the future hold for can’t fathom the extent of the pain Shawn Woodward’s punch has William Richard Dowrey? inflicted upon Ritchie’s family. On March 13, 2009, 62-year-old football fan William Richard It’s time to leave Ritchie for the day. He’s going to be moved out Dowrey, aka Ritchie Rich to friends, was punched by a fellow of the hospital soon to a facility in Langley. Thrice-weekly visits patron at Vancouver’s popular Davie Street gay bar, The will become a difficult task for Cameron and me and for his family Fountainhead, resulting in serious and irreparable brain damage. as well. The alleged attacker is 35-year-old Shawn Woodward. The Ritchie is not well. He may never be again. Every day that passes incident enraged the gay community, with calls for a hate crime cements that fact more. He asks us to stay but he doesn’t know designation. Dowrey’s friend Lindsay Wincherauk, an author where he is. He shakes Cameron’s hand then mine, and smiles as and journalist, was there that night. In a chapter for a book- we leave, even though he no longer knows who we are. in-progress tentatively entitled Play, he has written a personal account of the subsequent media coverage, public reaction, visits I’ll continue to visit. I’ll continue to try to summon a miracle. I’ll to his friend in hospital, and his own experience of trying to make continue to be his friend. sense of it all. This is an excerpt. As much as I don’t want Ritchie to die, I don’t want to see him live the way he is. I feel guilty for those thoughts. I’ve realised why so Friday, June 26, 2009 many can’t find the strength to visit Ritchie—they don’t want to Cameron and I have now visited Ritchie in the neighbourhood remember the painting they’d likely see. I’ve made the step, and of forty times over the past fourteen weeks. I don’t see life in his there is no turning back. At first, each visit burdened me—with eyes. I see a tortured reminder of the injustice thrown his way in each additional trip, I still see the inevitable outcome. Ritchie is a single pulse. I see a prison where his mind cannot and likely will going to die; it may be tomorrow, next week, or in ten years... never again compute who he is or who he once was. I see a man who died on March 13, while I hear a world hiding behind the I never fully understood the magnitude of our friendship. It hope of him making a triumphant return. was a friendship discovered in the Fountainhead. Somehow in our interactions, we became connected, and a mutual love and I see a mother who wants more than anything for her wonderful respect was found. Gay or not, who cares? What matters is the son to flash the brilliant sparkle that used to shine brightly essence of his soul. He supported all, without expectations. Up in his eyes. I see a portion of a family drained by tragedy, not until the punch, he was smiling. How many people can say that understanding or accepting that if Ritchie is gay, it doesn’t change when their life is abruptly altered? who he is or who they are. Lindsay Wincherauk He still doesn’t know where he is. He doesn’t know who we are, with the exception that he realizes we come often and is always happy to see us. Four arraignment hearings for Shawn Woodward have been He can talk, but he rarely makes sense. His words are jumbled. adjourned, and no plea has been entered. At press time, he was He is speaking a code that only he knows. scheduled to appear in Vancouver Provincial Court on July 9.
Desert of the Heart, The Young in One We’re 10% of Everyone— Sex and the Golden Rule Another’s Arms and Hot-Eyed Moderate. Studying sex just got, well, sexier. In June, At The Bank someone made an anonymous donation The Canadian Gay and Lesbian Chamber of $1.7 million to the University of British The Not So Golden Rule of Commerce reported that the estimated Columbia in the name of the late writer Concerned Albertans, gay activists collective buying power of Canada’s Jane Rule. The money creates Canada’s and students are not happy with the GLBT community is $100 billion largest fund for the study of human province’s passing of Bill 44, also known annually. That’s almost ten per cent of sexuality. Rule, who died in 2007, taught as The Human Rights, Citizenship and Canadians’ buying power as a whole. at UBC for decades, and is an icon in the Multiculturalism Amendment Act, which The report did not break down how that literary and gay communities. Her novels includes a clause giving Alberta parents buying power is distributed within the and critical essay collections include the option of pulling their children out of community… or where it’s hidden. classes discussing sex, sexual orientation
10 of Victoria’s Faculty of Social Sciences. Kalb’s $1,000 scholarship is due to the generosity of Jim Deva. The co-owner of Little Sister’s Bookstore was so impressed with the diversity and quality of applicants
TJ Ngan photos TJ that he couldn’t help but pony up. “This [LOUD] is a good example of how business can engage with our community,” he said.
LOUD: Leadership, Opportunity, Unity & Diversity To find out more about LOUD or make a pledge, visit: www.glba.org/loud L-R: Brian Watson, Natalie Kalb, Joshua Ferguson. SHOUT IT OUT LOUD
t was great to find out University. He starts graduate film studies that our community is at U.B.C. in the fall. He plans to direct supporting the future,” one day. He received $2,000 as well. 24-year-old student and “My partner found out about the Canadian Forces reservist LOUD scholarships two days before the Brian“I Watson said at the Gay and deadline. It’s wonderful!” said Ferguson, Lesbian Business Association of B.C’s who started a group at Western that is LOUD Foundation scholarship event at challenging Canadian Blood Services’ the Stanley Park Pavilion in late May. ban on gay men donating blood. This is the first year LOUD has Lucy Xie (not pictured here) also handed out the annual scholarships, received $2,000, but wasn’t present which are specifically earmarked for at the event because it was her high Canadian GLBT students studying in school grad night. However, 18-year- B.C. Watson did an online search for old graduating high school student gay scholarships, and LOUD was the Natalie Kalb was delightfully present. only one he found. He says that the $2,000 will make a huge difference. “I was ecstatic,” Kalb said about her first reaction when she found out she He’s a busy guy. Having recently worked had received a LOUD scholarship. fulltime on the front desk at the Hyatt “I am one of the youngest ones who Regency, Watson is spending the summer applied so I thought other people at the HMCS Quadra in Comox, training would get in. It’s [LOUD] about getting new sea cadets. He had been studying recognition within the community, hospitality management at Vancouver and getting involved because we’re Community College. Now he’s transferring the next leaders in the community.” into the Bachelor of Commerce program at Victoria’s Royal Roads University. No doubt about that. Kalb formed the Gay Straight Alliance at her school, Joshua Ferguson, 26, moved here a few Magee Secondary in West Point Grey. weeks ago from London, Ontario, where This fall she starts her studies in The crowd at LOUD included (from top) Eric Pau and he recently earned an undergraduate Brian Yuen, James Steck and Tommy D (background) addictions counselling at the University degree in film studies at Western with models, and Ron Dutton and Jim Deva
and religion. Red Deer, Alberta high considered a threat to national security school students held a day of silence to way back when. Canada’s Voice: The protest the bill, which they say will take Public Life of John Wendell Holmes, away their right to discuss controversial written by Adam Chapnick and published For updates on topics without parental consent. by the University of British Columbia news briefs, and Press, reveals Holmes’s tragic story, breaking stories, To Russia Without Love and the RCMP’s attempts to expel A new book chronicles the Cold War him from the country. The RCMP visit us online at nightmare of Wendell Holmes, a diplomat targeted hundreds of federal civil www.lovmag.com. posted to the Soviet Union whose servants in homosexual witch-hunts homosexuality Canadian authorities throughout the fifties and early sixties, destroying lives, careers and families.
11 U.S. Supreme Court, which has not yet international heard a case on gay marriage. A high court ruling could potentially trump state laws prohibiting same sex unions. police spokesperson justified the arrests Meanwhile, Iowa (where gay student Hello Delhi on the grounds that those arrested On July 2, India decriminalized Matthew Sheppard’s horrific murder were drunk and groping officers. homosexuality, abolishing Section 377 made worldwide headlines in the nineties) of the colonial Indian Penal Code, which has moved toward becoming the sixth defined homosexual acts as “carnal Opposition 8 U.S. state to make same sex marriage intercourse against the order of nature.” An attorney representing two same legal, subsequent to supposedly gay- India’s monumental decision occurred sex couples denied the right to wed friendly California upholding Proposition in the wake of demonstrations by in California said on July 2 that he 8, a voter-approved ban on same sex hundreds of Indian gay rights activists expects the case to end up before the marriages. Iowa joins Massachusetts, in the streets of Chennai, Bangalore and Connecticut, Vermont, Maine and New New Delhi. The Times of India said, Hampshire. A pending bill could soon “In 21st century India, it is perverse to make New York number seven. New polls penalize adults for their sexual choices.” indicate that a majority of the state’s citizens support same sex marriage. Stonewall: The 2009 Version The incident occurred exactly forty The Sexorcist years since gay patrons fought back Bridgeport, Connecticut church members against police in a raid at New York’s of the Manifested Glory Ministries Stonewall bar in the early hours of tried to cast out a sixteen-year-old June 28, 1969, starting the gay rights boy’s “homosexual demons” in a creepy movement. Fort Worth police officers ceremony that was captured on video and and Texas Alcohol Beverage Commission posted on Youtube. “You homosexual agents arrested seven patrons at a demon, get up on outta here!” participants gay bar called Rainbow Lounge in the chant. “You demon, loose yourself! early hours of Sunday morning, June You sex demon ... you snake!” The 28. Witnesses say that the arresting church’s pastor has since received death Whoopi Goldberg at a New York City protest in officers used “excessive and brutal” threats, and can’t understand why. November 2008 after Proposition 8 passed. force. One person was hospitalized. A Photo courtesy David Shankbone Photo courtesy David MAGAZINES BOOKS APPAREL ADULT TOYS GLBT PRIDES ADULT BOOKS GAY LESBIAN
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1238 DAVIE STREET, VANCOUVER OPEN DAILY 10 AM TO 11 PM 604-669-1753 www.littlesisters.ca the Moscow authorities’ decision,” People Won’t Say Double Standard? said Nikolai Alexeyev, a Moscow gay The U.S. has condemned violence and community organizer. Moscow refuses to We’re In Love abuse against homosexuals in Iraq. The Oklahoma State Representative Sally sanction Gay Pride parades. Local activists U.S. embassy in Baghdad has raised the Kern, lawmakers and civic and religious have filed a number of appeals with the issue with Iraqi government officials. leaders are gathering at the State Capitol European Court of Human Rights. In May, six gay men in Iraq were in Oklahoma City this month to sign the killed and four were severely tortured. “Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Pride Gets Shanghaied Morality”. The proclamation allegedly ordered his followers not to commit Chinese authorities tried to subdue the attacks President Barack Obama for violence against homosexuals. He nation’s first Gay Pride celebrations supporting nationwide gay pride events, added that homosexuality is “depraved” in Shanghai in June. Venues for film stating “…the president of these United and against Islamic teaching. screenings, talks, art exhibitions and a States disregards the biblical admonitions large, all-day party had to be changed to live clean and pure lives by proclaiming when Shanghai police placed pressure an entire month to an immoral behavior.” We Love A Parade on clubs and bars not to participate, Activist Cleve Jones, Grand Marshall threatening “very severe consequences.” for Vancouver’s upcoming Pride parade Most of the 500 people in the city of Still Not Asking or Telling at the end of July, announced plans for On June 8, the American Supreme Court, sixteen million who attended events a gay rights march and demonstration backed by the Obama administration, were foreigners. China decriminalized in the U.S. capitol on October 11. “We rejected a gay Ohio soldier’s challenge homosexuality in 1997, declassifying seek nothing more and nothing less to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, which it as a mental illness in 2002. than equal protection in all matters prevents gays and lesbians from serving governed by civil law in all 50 states,” openly in the U.S. military. According said Jones. The march will coincide with to recent polls, 69% of all Americans, Sources: Associated Press, Canadian America’s National Coming Out Day. 58% of Americans who identify Press, The Globe and Mail, TIME, BBC themselves as conservatives, 58% of News, Canada.com, 365gay.com, CBS self-described Republicans, and 60% of Russian Roulette News, NPR, CBC News, Advocate.com, Russian gay activists planned to picket weekly churchgoers support openly gay Christian Science Monitor, Antiwar. Moscow’s U.S. embassy on July 7, people in the military. U.S. President com, Canwest News Service, KyivPost. coinciding with U.S. President Barack Barack Obama pledged to repeal the com, NewsOn6.com, The Dallas Obama’s official visit. “We are determined law during his presidential campaign. Morning News, Hindustan Times to gather for our action regardless of Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square
The forces of faggotry, spurred by a Friday night raid on one of the city’s largest, most popular and longest lived gay bars, the Stonewall Inn, rallied Saturday night in an unprecedented protest against the raid and continued Sunday night to assert presence, possibility, and pride until the early hours of Monday morning.
Village Voice, July 2, 1969
4 Policeman Hurt In “Village” Raid
Hundreds of young men went on a rampage in Greenwich Village shortly after 3:00 a.m. yesterday after a force of plainclothes men raided a bar that the police said was well known for its homosexual clientele. Thirteen persons were arrested and four policeman injured.
The New York Times, June 29, 1969
14 SIX DAYS IN ‘69 In less than a week, Stonewall changed the world.
Guy Babineau he is the film and television liaison for New similar laws in “red” countries such as Cuba, York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Russia and East Germany. New York’s crackdown The shackled, sad sack Stonewall used to on homosexuals was harsher than in almost any fascinate him whenever he walked past it, other city in North America. before the place reopened as the city’s newest PRELUDE TO “In the era before Stonewall, 90% of the bars gay hangout. THE REBELLION were Mafia controlled.... As they would get closed “I was in a bar I used to go to a lot called down they would move around. And they were the Tenth of Always in the West Village, and my dumps,” recounted a man named Red Mahoney n March of 1967, a nondescript gay friend Liz Eden told me that they were opening in the 1989 radio documentary Remembering bar opened on Christopher Street a new club—and I knew the building because Stonewall. I’d been curious about it.” in New York’s bohemian Greenwich Although the restraints of Cold War Village. The Stonewall Inn wasn’t Newton was in his late teens at the time. conformity were snapping like crazy, those much to look at; in fact it was a bit His friend Liz Eden, aka Ernest Aaron, was restricting the lives of homosexuals were of an eyesore. The weathered brick a transsexual who would experience some cinched tighter than ever. Across the United building originally housed two stables in the notoriety when the popular movie Dog Day States, feminists burned their bras, blacks Ilate 19th century, and was subsequently a Afternoon came out in 1975. The film, starring rose up for their rights, and students resisted bakery, a shoe store, and a restaurant, among Al Pacino, dramatized the true story of her riot squads in massive demonstrations other things. It was allegedly a gay tearoom at boyfriend’s failed attempt to rob a bank so condemning the Vietnam War. one point during the dry years of Prohibition. that he could pay for Aaron’s sex reassignment While activists representing every other A fire in the early sixties had left the site surgery. boarded up and abandoned, just another inner marginalized or oppressed group raised hell city eyesore sprouting weeds on its edges. “Liz said let’s go and check it out,” Newton to get attention for their causes, most gay recalls. “She said let’s just leave two at a time, men, lesbians and transgendered people in The Stonewall’s state of neglect seems because a large group of us wanted to go Canada and the States were not even aware almost poetic today, given its iconic status in and we didn’t want to get the management of they had a cause, and kept a low profile. Bar history as the birthplace of the modern gay the club we were in mad at us. We wanted to and bathhouse raids were common, and rights movement. There it stood unnoticed, come back if the other place wasn’t good. They men cruising in public spaces were regularly isolated in the midst of millions of people [the management] were not very nice people. entrapped and arrested. You could lose your going about their lives: secretive, existing yet These places were Mafia-owned and you had job, forfeit your apartment or be beaten not existing, and incapable of expressing the to be careful.” to within an inch of your life without legal human stories sealed inside. Decades earlier, when alcohol started recourse. Forty years ago, after the Stonewall had to flow again post-Prohibition, New York’s It was only a matter of time before the been open for more than two years, law State Liquor Authority had introduced a new pressure would prove too much. enforcement officers from Manhattan’s Sixth regulation prohibiting any premises from Precinct raided New York’s biggest gay bar serving drinks to homosexuals, claiming that with the intention of shutting it down. Gay men, they would become disorderly. The Mafia, lesbians, drag queens and transgendered which had run speakeasies across the U.S. FRIDAY June 27 people resisted in numbers never seen before, during the ban on booze from 1918 to 1933, and continued to resist for the next six days recognized a new niche market that the crime he Stonewall was in a neighbourhood despite the deployment of hundreds of armed bosses could exploit without any trouble. The controlled by the Genovese crime family troops. Today, Pride celebrations around the fairies and dykes had nowhere else to go, Don Matty “the Horse” Iannello. A fellow world commemorate the time, place and nor could they complain to authorities about T called “Fat Tony” was kingpin of the bunch of people commonly referenced as the Stonewall jacked-up drink prices and cover charges, or thugs who ran the bar, paying regular dues to Riots. worse, extortion. For decades, crooks made a Iannello. Payoffs to the area’s Sixth Precinct police “It wasn’t a riot,” Jeremiah Newton says killing running the city’s gay bars. department made sure that the bar wouldn’t be by phone from New York. “That’s a word Restrictions loosened up a bit in the fifties and closed down. Depending on the precinct, many the straight press used at the time. It was a by 1959 there were more than forty gay bars in of New York’s gay bars slipped grift to the cops, rebellion.” New York, many of them operated by legitimate who then conducted raids that were more often Newton is a co-founder of the Stonewall business people. Things started to revert in than not cosmetic exercises performed for the Veteran’s Association and was at the two 1960. The U.S. championed reinvigorated anti-gay sake of appearances. protests that bookended the rebellion. Today, legislation that on paper was more punitive than The Stonewall’s new owners didn’t do much
15 to spruce up the place. They didn’t scrape the predominance of my testimony says that it respected gay writers and activists, cross- blackened windows, which made sense; all gay [the bar’s clientele] was mostly white, mostly referenced interviews, news reports, and bars were shuttered from public and police male, mostly middle class, with some queens police records seem dependable. scrutiny. For extra security, they reinforced the and street youth.” Stonewall’s history is one cobbled windows on the inside with plywood boards and Carter is an author and historian who spent together from the selective memories of a two by fours. Nor did they repair or replace the almost ten years conducting research and few individuals. Even Newton admits that worn, T-shaped Stonewall Inn sign that towered interviews for the book Stonewall: The Riots his remembrances of who was there, who above the entrance. However, they did apply a the Sparked the Gay Revolution, which was one wasn’t, and who did what, are “a grey area.” fresh coat of stucco to cover up the battered of the sources for this story. The PBS series Nonetheless, his recollection of the Stonewall’s brick facade. They painted the inside black to American Experience is currently making a film patrons jives with Carter’s conclusion. cover up fire damage and rot. “It was very preppy white boys; very “The Stonewall, like all gay bars at that attractive. There was the occasional interesting time, was painted black,” Mahoney recalled in older man,” he says. Remembering Stonewall. “Charcoal black. And what was the funny part, the place would be One thing seems clear: that New York’s gay so dimly lit—but as soon as the cops came it scene then was not overly or overtly inclusive. went from being a dimly-lit dump to being lit Drag queens and transsexuals were not always up like Luna Park [a long-gone Coney Island welcome, and the Stonewall was no exception. amusement Park].” “They didn’t have a great policy for people “There wasn’t much happening because it who were transgendered,” says Newton. “Being had just opened,” Newton says. “There were transgendered wasn’t a hip thing. If they knew about fifty people, and they were serving free you they might let you come in, and there were franks and beans and soda.” a couple of young queens there, but one night I brought Candy Darling there and they wouldn’t There were two rooms: a large one at the let her in.” front and a smaller one at the back, each with its own dance floor. A fantastical feature from Candy Darling, who died in 1974, was one of Stonewall’s restaurant days remained—a stone Andy Warhol’s infamous Superstars. She was and concrete wishing well. It became storage good friends with Newton, who hung out at space for bar supplies. The Stonewall served Warhol’s studio, The Factory. He is the executor no-name alcohol from unlabelled bottles; it was of Darling’s estate, and maintains the website anyone’s guess what they were drinking. Staff Candydarlingsuperstar.com. rinsed out glasses in vats of brackish water Getting into the Stonewall was not a sure because there was no running water. thing for anyone. The owners reinforced the Despite its drawbacks, the Stonewall establishment’s original heavy wood doors was the largest gay bar in town and quickly with steel bars, installing a sliding peephole became popular because there was lots of that the doorman used to screen people, in room to dance. Its decor apparently improved an attempt to keep out undercover cops and somewhat over time, and spotlights lit up heterosexuals. Once inside, you had to sign the energetic dance floor in the larger space your name in a book. This allegedly came in while go-go boys danced at either end of the handy when some of the bar’s shadier habitués long bar. felt in the mood for a little blackmail. Men with money, important connections and reputations “It was a large club known for a young, good- in high places are said to have come through looking crowd,” says Newton. “There were a few the Stonewall’s doors, consorting with some interesting older men there. But it wasn’t a pickup of the bar’s younger patrons in socially place. It was a place you went to dance and hang unacceptable—and consequently expensive— out with your friends. There was no back room ways. with sex going on there. It was on the up and up.” Newton claims that they also didn’t allow There has been dispute over the years about blacks. what kind of people patronized the Stonewall. Reinforced by the vagaries of time and limited based on the book. Published in 2004, many “I brought a [black] friend one night and historical records—only a handful of verifiable consider it the most comprehensive record to we were eighty-sixed. I called the door guy a personal accounts have been recorded—gay date. moron, and was barred for two weeks.” culture’s rainbow-infused mythology tends Not everyone was happy with it, however. Some bars did let blacks in, after having to promote the impression that the bar was made life hell for African-American gay men multi-ethnic, multicultural and drag-friendly. “The Stonewall Veteran’s-Association tried to get an injunction to stop its publication,” and lesbians. Previously unwelcome almost “The story of Stonewall as it’s commonly Carter explains. everywhere, black gays and lesbians had told in gay literature is that there was this developed a feisty subculture with their gay bar in New York City that was raided by Newton calls the book a “bunch of lies”, own establishments in Harlem, Brooklyn, the cops and this time they fought back, and and questions the veracity of some of Carter’s Queens and The Bronx. The mobsters running maybe it’s thrown in that transvestites and sources. It is possible that some of the oral things in Lower Manhattan didn’t appreciate marginal people were on the forefront,” David histories miss the mark, yet many of the the competition and got up to all sorts of Carter says by phone, also from New York. “The sources, including documentation by well- shenanigans to shut down the black bars.
16 Suddenly, many Village clubs that had never experienced its first homosexual riot. fire and send them out the window, and they allowed blacks opened their doors, smiling ‘We may have lost the battle, sweets, but the floated down, turning to ash. I thought that through clenched teeth. war is far from over,’ lisped an unofficial lady- maybe they were trying to tell me something Another group that had a hard time getting in-waiting from the court of the Queens.” was going on.” into the Stonewall were the homeless youth This type of over-the-top reporting may be Other sources mention this, suggesting that who lived or hung out in a park right across part of the reason drag queens have been it was a sign of solidarity. the street. Christopher Park was a gathering cited as the leaders of the Stonewall uprising. “When I got to Christopher Street I ran into place for gay kids with nowhere else to While they undoubtedly played an important a friend of mine, and he told me that they were go, some of whom were Latino or African- role, most of the people present were not raiding the Stonewall and I had to come and American. Various accounts indicate that they cross-dressers. Few had even been inside the see because this was important,” says Newton. tended to be effeminate and bitch-campy, Stonewall that night. “I thought yeah, so what, they’re raiding the and wore a bit of makeup, but most of them Stonewall. They raided bars all the time. But weren’t drag queens the way we think of them. “It was a really hot night so a lot of people we rushed up the block and there was a big The gay vernacular of the day labelled them were outside,” says Newton, who had been at crowd, and there were police cars with their “scare queens” or “flame queens”. the beach cooling off earlier in the day. “Most people didn’t have air conditioning then. That lights and sirens on. I could hear the sound of “They were transgendered or prostitutes or was the day of Judy Garland’s wake and a lot smashing glass from inside [the Stonewall].” selling drugs, and they wouldn’t be let in. They of people who were usually at the beach were Earlier, sometime after one in the morning Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad Last weekend the queens had turned commandos and stood bra strap to bra strap against an invasion of the helmeted Tactical Patrol Force. The elite police squad had shut down one of their private gay clubs, the Stonewall Inn at 57 Christopher St., in the heart of a three- block homosexual community in Greenwich Village. Queen Power reared its bleached blonde head in revolt. New York City experienced its first homosexual riot. The New York Daily News, July 6, 1969
at the wake. The beach was empty, which was according to police reports, Deputy Inspector weren’t particularly clean, and they weren’t strange.” Seymour Pine of Manhattan’s First Division particularly attractive-looking,” says Newton, of the Public Morals, and seven other law adding, “The kids lived on the street and Some people have suggested that sadness enforcement officers, had entered the couldn’t afford to go [to the Stonewall].” over the premature death of the troubled torch singer, an icon of many gay men, helped Stonewall with the intention of shutting it By the night of June 27, 1969, the character fuel the Stonewall uprising that night. No down once and for all. of the Stonewall seems to have adjusted to documentation exists to corroborate this There had been a routine raid only three keep pace with the times. By most accounts, speculation. nights previously, which played out the usual some drag queens were hanging out in the way. The next night, like clockwork, everyone club. Ethnic street kids and more flamboyant It was the year of Woodstock. Most of the showed up at the bar again. personalities congregated in the smaller back protesters were young gay people in their room. Some say that the bar had passed its late teens and early twenties who were more However, it was an election year in New York peak, and was on its way down. Whatever the likely to be into The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, City, and candidates were playing the social case, there were at least two hundred people Diana Ross and The Supremes and other conservative ticket. There had been a notable inside when the cops came calling. current pop stars. As part of the times’ anti- step-up in bar raids in recent months. Police establishment youth culture, they would have had arrested hundreds of gay and lesbian “Last weekend the queens had turned perceived over-thirty homosexuals as squares bar patrons without legal cause. Now the commandos and stood bra strap to bra strap and stuffed shirts. clampdown focused on the Stonewall. against an invasion of the helmeted Tactical Patrol Force,” reported The New York Daily Sometime after midnight, twenty-year- “I saw people being let out of the Stonewall News. “The elite police squad had shut down old Jeremiah Newton was strolling down one at a time, and the cops carrying liquor one of their private gay clubs, the Stonewall Greenwich Avenue toward Christopher Street bottles and other items from the bar into the Inn at 57 Christopher St., in the heart of when he passed by the Women’s Detention parked police cars,” says Newton. Center, whose prison population happened to a three-block homosexual community in Drag queens were among those arrested that include a sizeable number of lesbians. Greenwich Village. Queen Power reared its night, along with the gangsters who owned the bleached blonde head in revolt. New York City “They would light these pieces of paper on bar, and staff. While Pine allowed most of the
17 patrons to leave, he arrested anyone without they couldn’t be serious. Nonetheless, the police had barricaded themselves. Vastly I.D. His officers removed or destroyed property attitude and posturing of camp humour was outnumbered, and caught off guard, the to ensure that the bar could not re-open. (Pine undeniably integral to the rebellion’s success, cops started to get nervous and called for has since publicly apologized, becoming an ally because it boosted morale. Some patrons reinforcements, as members from the crowd of New York’s gay community.) apparently appreciated the large, receptive tried to ram down the Stonewall’s doors. The “When people came out, they’d come audience greeting them as they left, and got police smashed some holes in the plywood and join the crowd on the other side, who’d into the spirit of things. They posed, delivered covering the bar’s windows, so that they could arrived to see what was happening because barbed quips and flirted with the arresting see outside. officers. This sparked some members in the of all the noise. It was maybe three hundred Pine has claimed in interviews that crowd to respond in kind. At one point, some people,” says Newton. [Different witnesses someone was throwing makeshift firebombs, queens—ostensibly kids from the park— have estimated the size of the crowd to be jars containing some kind of flammable fluid. formed a chorus kickline, singing: anywhere from several hundred to a couple of Others reported people dousing small pieces We are the Village Girls! We wear our hair in curls! We wear no underwear! We show our pubic hairs! thousand.] “People would say the police broke Meanwhile, the crowd kept growing, as of plywood with lighter fluid and tossing them. the mirrors in the bathroom, they broke the people arrived from the surrounding bars and Newton says he doesn’t remember anyone bar mirrors, they broke the toilets. They [the neighbourhood, curious to see what was going throwing anything that was on fire. Whatever crowd] were taunting the police.” on. Things started to heat up as some of the people were or were not throwing, Pine A version of events that appeared in The New Stonewall’s patrons—mainly queens—were alerted his officers to get their guns ready and York Daily News said, “Last Friday the privacy of loaded into patrol wagons and cop cars. prepare to fire if things got any worse. the Stonewall was invaded by police from the “One drag queen, as we put her in the car, “If that had happened, it wouldn’t have been First Division. Only a handful of police were on opened the door on the other side and jumped the Stonewall Rebellion, it would have been the hand for the initial landing in the homosexual out,” Seymour Pine recalled in Remembering Stonewall Massacre,” says Newton. beachhead. It was a raid. They had a warrant.... Stonewall. “At which time we had to chase It was at about this time that some more All hell broke loose when the police entered that person and he was caught, put back into cop cars showed up, as well as a busload of the Stonewall. The girls instinctively reached the car, and he made another attempt to get troops from the Tactical Patrol Force (TPF) for each other. Others stood frozen, locked in out the same door, the other door, and at that brandishing full riot gear: shields, batons, tear an embrace of fear.... Then, without warning, point we had to handcuff the person. From this gas, etc. However, they were still no match Queen Power exploded with all the fury of a point on, things really began to get crazy.” for the massive amount of people who had gay atomic bomb.... The war was on. The lilies David Carter’s book includes accounts of a gathered. When the TPF formed a military V- of the valley had become carnivorous jungle “masculine” lesbian who resisted arrest in an shaped wedge and inched down the street in an plants.” almost identical manner, which is attributed attempt to disperse the crowd, demonstrators The paper’s reporter was not on the scene, as one of the key moments that sparked the simply scurried up side streets and circled and based his copy on secondary sources. protesters’ aggression. around behind them. These were mainly young Conversely, The Village Voice showed up. The Newton recalls that some queens in the people—most of them not street kids—who, Voice had second-storey offices just a few crowd were taunting a good-looking rookie like the rest of their generation, hated “pigs”. yards down the block from The Stonewall. guarding the Stonewall’s front door. While Newton does not recall much violence When reporter Lucian Truscott heard the that night, there are numerous accounts of commotion, he dropped by for a look-see. “It was getting uncomfortable. Someone threw a bottle that smashed against the cops using billy clubs on people, as well as “Sheridan Square this weekend looked like wall above his head and he ran inside. Then hand-to-hand combat. By the end of the night, something from a William Burroughs novel as Seymour Pine came out screaming at the several police officers and protesters had the sudden spectre of ‘gay power’ erected its crowd, ‘Who threw that bottle! I want you to tell sustained injuries, and the cops had arrested brazen head and spat out a fairy tale the likes me right now who threw that bottle!’ People about a dozen demonstrators. of which the area has never seen,” he wrote. started to throw things at him, and he went “The first night was over by about three The tone and focus of mainstream back inside, and that was the beginning of a.m.,” says Newton. reporting at the time indicates a bias everything.” The protest ended organically, not because prevalent in the wider population, who found The crowd started to throw pennies and the police succeeded in stopping it. People it difficult to wrap their heads around the small objects at the Stonewall, where the got tired and headed home, leaving the cops idea of homosexuals taking a stand; surely,
18 to ponder what had happened, and why the fags and dykes fought back. There had been similar if much smaller standoffs outside Need better space? gay establishments in previous years in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, but the police had prevailed in the end. Their humiliating defeat the first night of Stonewall was to have historical significance. Partly because they lost, partly because of the number of people involved, and partly because men like Craig Rodwell and his lover Fred Sargeant called all the New York papers.
SATURDAY June 28
he rebellion didn’t happen in a vacuum, and would not have been the catalyst for change it turned out to be without T the participation and organization of activists, writers and intellectuals who risked their jobs and reputations in the name of social justice, often losing both. Their involvement in Stonewall was essential, and frequently overlooked. Craig Rodwell was among them. Not a stretch with Rodwell, who died fighting stomach cancer in 1993, founded America’s first gay and lesbian bookstore, the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, which was just down the block from the Stonewall. It opened the same year, 1967. Soon after, he started the Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods (HYMN), which published a regular newsletter. He had been a gay activist for many years prior to Stonewall, and was a longtime member of the New York Chapter of the Mattachine Society, the country’s oldest gay rights organization. www.blairsmith.ca Years before, when he was 22, Rodwell had had been in a brief 604.313.8732 relationship with Harvey Milk, the late San Francisco city councillor Royal LePage City Centre who was the subject of the award-winning movie Milk. In 1964, Rodwell formed Mattachine Young Adults, which differed from the parent association in that it promoted gay visibility. Rodwell was at odds with members of the original Mattachine, who used the word homophile instead of homosexual to describe themselves because they thought it sounded more mainstream-friendly. While Mattachine’s valiant efforts undeniably laid the groundwork for post- Stonewall activism, it’s members—and their lesbian counterparts in the sister organization Daughters of Bilitis—believed in keeping a low profile. They advocated looking and acting straight as the best way to gain social acceptance. Every year they held an annual protest for equality outside of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, wearing dark, conservative clothing as they walked in a silent circle carrying placards. No one could hold hands or express intimacy in any other way. It was a rule. Rodwell thought this was bullshit. He was in touch with youth culture, and a fan of the black civil rights movement. During the uprising outside the Stonewall the previous night, he had spurred on the crowd shouting, “Gay power!” He was also media savvy, and recognized the newsworthiness of what was going down in the Village. By late afternoon on Saturday, word had travelled far and wide. People found it hard to believe, and began pouring into the Village to check out the Stonewall firsthand, and to escape their non- airconditioned apartments on what was New York’s hottest recorded June 28 to date. They weren’t disappointed. The air was electric with excitement as people gathered in groups to talk about what had happened. According to David Carter’s book, the Stonewall’s facade was festooned with slogans. These included “Support Gay Power”, “Gay Prohibition Corrupt$ Cop$ Feed$ Mafia”, and “Legalize gay power and lick the problem”. Someone had posted the New York Daily News’s negative coverage, with the headline “Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad”. In a bid to capitalize on the surprising turn of events, the Stonewall’s staff got into the act too, posting signs that SUNDAY, MONDAY “Ginsberg expressed a desire to visit the said “We’re Open” and “Support Gay Power— Stonewall — ‘You know, I’ve never been in C’mon in, girls”. AND TUESDAY there.’— and ambled on down the street, flashing peace signs and helloing the TPF. It Some Sixth Precinct police arrived to try to June 29, June was a relief and a kind of joy to see him on the keep people moving, but they didn’t have much street. He lent an extra umbrella of serenity luck. By about 11:00 p.m., a crowd of over 30, July 1 to the scene with his laughter and quiet two thousand stood in front of the Stonewall, commentary on consciousness, ‘gay power’ as including some heterosexual hippies and a new movement, and the various implications representatives from various left-wing unday was not a day of rest in the of what had happened. I followed him into groups. Village. Gay organizations both old and brand spanking new—some as small the Stonewall, where rock music blared from Rodwell rallied people to form a human S speakers all around a room that might have as two people with access to a mimeograph blockade and cordon off Christopher Street. machine—seized the moment to transform come right from a Hollywood set of a gay bar. There were chants of “Liberate Christopher what would otherwise have been a couple of He was immediately bouncing and dancing Street!”, “Gay Power!” and “We want freedom local skirmishes into an historical movement wherever he moved.” now!” The Village Voice reported that people that would redefine gender and sexuality on a After they left the Stonewall, before Ginsberg held hands and kissed, posing in rhythm with global scale. headed home, he said to Truscott, “You know, the chants. Well, some did. The Mattachine Society was the guys there were so beautiful—they’ve lost Standing on the sidelines, a large number of trying to get everyone to settle down, sit up that wounded look that fags all had ten years older gay men fretted, believing that it would straight and play nice. They put up a big sign ago.” end in no good. The Voice picked up on this, on the front of the Stonewall that read: Little occurred publicly on Monday or reporting, “The quasi-political tone of the street Tuesday, maybe because people had to go scene was looked upon with disdain by some, WE HOMOSEXUALS PLEAD WITH OUR PEOPLE TO to work or school, or maybe because they for radio news announcements about the PLEASE HELP MAINTAIN PEACEFUL AND QUIET thought that nothing could surpass Friday and previous night’s ‘gay power’ chaos had brought CONDUCT ON THE STREETS OF THE VILLAGE— Saturday nights. Jeremiah Newton suggests half of Fire Island’s Cherry Grove running back MATTACHINE. that it was the weather. “It was raining.” to home base to see what they had left behind. When small groups showed up at the The generation gap existed even here. Older Stonewall in fits and starts to protest Wednesday, however, brought a firestorm, boys had strained looks on their faces and peacefully, members of Mattachine tried to when The Village Voice came out. talked in concerned whispers as they watched discourage them. Mattachine also met with the up-and-coming generation take being gay police to collaborate on how best to avoid any and flaunt it before the masses.” more demonstrations. WEDNESDAY The flaunting eventually turned to violence Meanwhile, a group of young people made July 2 instigated by a small number of agitators, up some Day-Glo bumper stickers that said some, purportedly, who were not gay. Vehicles “Equality For Homosexuals”, snuck into the were rocked back and forth, the occasional Sixth Precinct’s parking area, and slapped arly on Wednesday the Voice—a paper projectile was hurled, and trashcans were set them onto police cars, personal cars and a that was not yet gay-friendly—hit the on fire. Backup forces from other precincts paddy wagon. streets of New York with two lengthy arrived to help contain the crowd, further E Craig Rodwell organized the youth at HYMN articles about the weekend protests, one by bolstered by TPF units. Between 200 and 300 into teams. They hit the Village streets, handing Truscott and another by Howard Smith, who heavily armed police set about quelling the out a flyer entitled GET THE MAFIA AND COPS OUT had experienced being inside the Stonewall situation. OF GAY BARS. Among other things, the flyer said, with the police on the first night. There was an intensified repeat of the “We at the Homophile Youth Movement (HYMN) While the coverage was in-depth, and previous night’s skirmishes, and more believe that the only way this monopoly can be contained some information that is now scrapes and bruises. Once again, the TPF broken is through the action of Homosexual valuable from an historical perspective, used V-wedge formations to try and force the men and women themselves.” the tone and style were insulting to many of demonstrators off of Christopher Street, and HYMN strongly urged political mobilization those involved. The copy gave the impression once again the demonstrators circled back of the gay community, and declared that the that everyone was “posing and primping”, using side streets. Somewhere around 2:00 uprisings of the previous two nights would and included phrases such as “the forces a.m. and 3:00 a.m., the cops regained control “go down in history.” Rodwell understood of faggotry” and “Sunday’s fag follies”. Allen of the street, only to wrangle with a flare-up of the vitality of the written word, and that Ginsberg could get away with saying fag, but activity when nearby bars closed and liquored- no revolution succeeds without a few good not the Voice’s heterosexual reporters. A up patrons unleashed their anger at the sight writers behind it. group got together to discuss setting Voice’s of so many police. Around 3:30 a.m. the cops offices ablaze, but changed their minds. had successfully dispersed everyone. Things The eminent American beat poet Allen started to die down. But not for long. Ginsberg showed up on Christopher Street on However, the crowd that gathered outside Sunday night, having heard about the rebellion, the Stonewall that night was definitely on fire. The next three days and nights were quiet, and filled with enthusiasm about the idea of In his book, Carter suggests that the Voice’s insofar as no one demonstrated in front of the Gay Power. A small contingent of TPF officers homophobic hyperbole may have been a reason Stonewall, but they were anything but quiet in had dispersed an equally small number of that people rallied around the Stonewall for the gay “community”, a word that now had real people congregating in Christopher Park, and another demonstration that night. Perhaps meaning. People were debating. People were nothing much was going on. Lucian Truscott, its overview reminded people all over again pamphleteering. People were celebrating. People The Village Voice reporter covering Stonewall, how groundbreaking the protests had been, were organizing. People were making love. chronicled Ginsberg’s walkabout. and renewed enthusiasm. Another reason may
20 have been political opportunism. New York rebellion but I was deep in the closet and take on why Stonewall was important. “We was a hotbed of counterculture politics. The didn’t know anything about it,” says Katz. were fighting for the right to go to abar radical Left showed up in full force. Gone was without getting murdered.” When he came out in 1971, he was “amazed the jovial camp of the previous two protests. by all the press” that newly formed gay There is something else to consider as “There was word of mouth that there organizations were getting, so decided to gay, lesbian, transgendered and straight was trouble in the village, and people knew get involved. According to Katz, Stonewall people around the world celebrate Pride on that this was an unusual occurrence, and is important because it is “an example of the fortieth anniversary of Stonewall, and the people wanted to see how it would end,” says real people fighting back. It’s inspirational legality of same sex marriage in California Newton. because it showed that people can find all and elsewhere has become the single issue All accounts confirm that the crowd kinds of creative ways to resist persecution— defining gay identity today. numbered in the thousands. especially when things were really bad.” Wasn’t Stonewall about something beyond “The last one [protest] was larger [than the Before Stonewall, there were less than legal recognition? Wasn’t it about a new previous two],” Newton continues. “The police a hundred gay rights groups in the U.S. and generation’s right to evolve its own way? Wasn’t were called out and blocked off 7th Avenue Canada. Within two or three years there it about the right to question assumptions? South, and they were arresting people. People were about twenty-five hundred. A year Wasn’t it about possibilities? Wasn’t it about were rocking police cars back and forth, and after Stonewall, New York held the first sex? throwing rocks, and the fire department came commemorative Christopher Street Gay One thing is for sure. There are huge gaps with hoses, and the mounted police who never Liberation March, and thousands of people in the story of Stonewall, gaps that will never came to this kind of thing were there on their marched up to Central Park. Washington, be filled. At the time, no one realized how horses, and there were all these young people Chicago and Los Angeles also held marches. who had a lot of energy running around, and the police were chasing everyone around. It was loud. It was chaotic.” Many protesters were reported injured Gay Power Comes to that night, and five people were arrested. The fracas actually lasted only about an hour before the cops subdued the crowd, quickly Sheridan Square ending the violence. The forces of faggotry, spurred by a Friday Winning against the police wasn’t really the night raid on one of the city’s largest, point. Gay people had finally conquered their fear by standing together. Now they knew they most popular and longest lived gay bars, the had strength in numbers, and nothing would Stonewall Inn, rallied Saturday night in an be the same again. unprecedented protest against the raid and continued Sunday night to assert presence, possibility, and pride until the early hours AFTER THE of Monday morning. UPRISING Village Voice, July 2, 1969 important the uprising would prove to be, so umerous gay rights groups formed While there were a few gay activists and no one took notes. Many people who could have within weeks of the Stonewall organizations prior to Stonewall, both Katz and told their stories never had the opportunity to. N Rebellion, including The Gay Carter think that it galvanized the liberation Some have faded into obscurity, with no means Liberation Front (GLF), which took its cue movement because of the number of people of contact because no one knew their names. from the civil rights movement, feminism and involved, and the fact that it was a sustained Others have died from AIDS and other causes. socialist activism, and wanted to align itself uprising that attracted widespread media This is typical of gay history, which is with the radical Left, and its offshoot, the Gay attention. More importantly, gay men and anecdotal rather than chronicled. It is a Activists Alliance (GAA), which split from the women who had learned a thing or two from dyslexic history comprising moments in GLF to focus solely on gay issues. the feminist and black civil rights movement time jumbled out of sequence and missing got people excited, involved and organized. “There were endless fights about ideologies,” connections, making it hard to make sense. says Jonathan Ned Katz by phone, again from “Without them, it would have been a footnote Stonewall should caution us to be vigilant New York. “I agreed with the GLF but the GAA in history,” says Katz. seemed more practical at the time.” in collecting and celebrating our personal and Carter believes that beyond the obvious public histories. Those six days in 1969 marked Katz is a noted activist, historian, playwright impact on equal rights for lesbians, gay men an important shift in how gay people perceived and author who has written extensively about and transgendered people, Stonewall’s legacy themselves, consequently changing the way both African-American and gay history and has had and continues to have a profound people perceived us. More than anything else, politics. His books include Gay American impact on all of Western civilization because Stonewall was a rebellion against ignorance, History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. it has forced us to question limited definitions and it made sense. He is involved with Outhistory.org, an online of sexuality, and what it means to be male and project devoted to collecting and sharing gay female. history. Jeremiah Newton has a slightly different “I lived near the Stonewall during the
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24 Dump to Dream Home DYI REAL ESTATE BY Blair Smith that will age quickly. Why not put • Visit a variety of furniture and market buyer. TIPS yourself into the equation? home furnishing (i.e. floor tiles, You may find uying a condo or apartment Today’s cost-conscious yet wall covering, bath and that the things in today’s market? That ugly demanding purchasers may be kitchen) stores you “always meant duckling could be the best overlooking affordable diamonds • Go to a library or bookstore to do” don’t need doing at all. Bpurchase you ever make. in the rough. There is an old and do some research on Allow prospective buyers the different design eras “What a dump!” Whether you British saying that goes, “She’s ability to imagine how they would • Be honest with yourself about prefer the original Bette Davis mutton dressed like lamb.” Better imprint their own personal style what you like and don’t like delivery in 1949’s Beyond the Forest to consider a “dump” rather on the space. Their vision may • Dare to dream or Elizabeth Taylor’s exaggerated than something halfheartedly be radically different that what repeat performance in Who’s Afraid refurbished on the cheap by a That ugly duckling could turn you anticipate. Studios, lofts and of Virginia Woolf, those immortal distant or reluctant landlord who out to be a swan. Knowing what penthouses can all be transformed words should be a rallying cry for just “wants it gone”. Why pay for you have time to do, what you are if the bones are right. condo and apartment buyers. someone else’s poor judgment and prepared to live through, and what While buyers and sellers may easy fixes, or today’s latest Home can wait for another day will help We all like and expect everything seem to have opposing motivations, Depot fashions? you determine if you need to buy a “shiny and new”: granite both want something in common, “turn-key” home, or if that hellhole countertops, nickel hardware, With a little initiative, dumps can a deal. Make certain that the could be the best opportunity of a upscale appliances, etc. Unrealistic become affordable dream homes, advice you follow will bring both lifetime. developers’ showrooms, condo when you’re willing to do some of parties to the same conclusion: a auctions, lottery homes, TV shows the work yourself. There are plenty On the flip side, what if you are SOLD sticker and new chapters in and busy lifestyles have convinced of excellent contractors eager for getting ready to sell your home? everyone’s lives. us we deserve it all. At the same your business these days—at a Don’t assume that your renovations time, we’re presented with a reasonable price. or decorating ideas will pay you Blair Smith is a back. Talk with an experienced narrow range of design options • Sift through magazines Vancouver realtor. realtor or impartial designer His website is based on what’s hot au moment, • Peruse art galleries reflecting a mass market approach familiar with your best target www.blairsmith.ca. Pridein
FASHIONIn the early seventies, David Bowie’s androgynous space alien Ziggy Stardust landed on Earth from Planet Revlon. But as far as the Castro a little Clone was concerned, rebellion macho men wore leather. foris good the
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26 Monroe emblazoned on the back, singing a song formed one of the biggest disco groups ever. Each Bending gender called Personality Crisis. member of the Village People had a persona: a cop, a construction worker, an “Indian”, a biker and a from SoHo Today, the era’s theatrical gender-bending is military man. Gay culture appropriated symbols of all over urban street wear, and infuses high to soccer heterosexual masculine power, turning them into a end and midrange menswear in the Spring ince shortly after the end of the Second pose that fashion then tailored for both the catwalk and Summer 2009 collections by major World War when new forms of media, and mainstream consumption. labels such as Dior Homme, Gareth Pugh and marketing and modes of production Heatherette. Dior’s collection, for example, The “preppy”, a gay version of the boy next door, made style in everyday wear available includes bejewelled, gold lamé pants. One of the was a clone subset. He wandered up and down toS the masses, gay and bisexual men have had biggest buzzes in pop culture’s current fifteen Christopher Street wearing chinos and a polo shirt an enormous influence on how people dress, minutes is the androgynous rock ‘n’ roll style with an upturned collar, periodically sweeping a particularly women. Fashion legends such as of gay American Idol runner up Adam Lambert. bang of hair from his forehead. He went to the gym Christian Dior, Cristobal Balenciaga, Yves St. The sports world too is getting into glam, with too, plus he moisturized. The young men you see Laurent and others knew their way around a superstar athletes such as basketball’s Dennis on television’s Gossip Girl today were cruising the closet, both literally and figuratively, keeping coy Rodman and soccer’s David Beckham dolling village thirty years ago, passing Judas Priest on the about liking boys. It wasn’t until gay culture hit the it up and singing the praises of gay men. sidewalk. streets forty years ago that what we wore when we were out began showing up in the mainstream on That’s not so fanciful. Rob Halford, Judas Priest’s heterosexual men, and being gay became a badge frontman, joined the heavy metal supergroup in the of fashion credibility. A new kind of mid-seventies, and has since come out. His company Metal God recently branched out into apparel. The street is where it always starts. When macho man fashion isn’t sipping champagne in the opera box, ashion watched with or slumming it on the wrong side of the tracks, wonder as we mixed and there is nothing it likes more than a little rebellion. matched dichotomies. Rebellion rips apart what’s old, replacing it with Being butch and beautiful something no one’s seen before. Beginning with wasF another side of gay identity the first Pride march in New York City in 1970, Gay that came out after Stonewall, Liberation was good for fashion. It was young. It and nowadays straight men are was new. It was sexy. Best of all, it tore through living with the consequences. icons of acceptability, chewed up the pieces, and Neverending youth and physical sewed them back on. perfection had always been a staple The revolution started in New York, and fashion of the previously reprimanded and knew it. Lower Manhattan was the most exciting therefore perpetually adolescent place on the planet to be at the time. It was the gay male culture. Visibility magnified epicentre of everything new in Western culture, our obsession. We got ready for our where creative disciplines joined forces—fashion closeup. included. Andy Warhol was part of the reason why. Shakespeare’s Hamlet said that Warhol was the most famous artist in the world. theatre’s role is to “hold a mirror up At his SoHo studio called The Factory, “Superstar” to nature”. Gay identity held a mirror drag queens Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis and Holly up to the mirror, and the mirror Woodlawn did their takes in raw, experimental art was at the gym. We hit the bench films. They weren’t campy in the doing-impressions- press like crazy in the seventies. We of-Bette-Davis way. They were on the edge. Straight pumped up our muscles and sprouted guys on the scene sort of dug it, and started to moustaches. We turned into “clones”. wear makeup too. Some played guitar. Now we can go to San Francisco. One of them, a skinny Brit singer called David The so-called Castro Clone was Bowie, dropped by The Factory in 1971. He was named after the city’s burgeoning beautiful, with long hair past his shoulders. He gaybourhood. He had close-cropped wore fedoras, baggy shirts, and wide-legged pants, hair a year or two before the straights although sometimes at folk festivals he’d put on caught on that long and scraggly was outré. He “The great thing is that the fans who support me a frumpy dress. Something rubbed off during his wore tight, frequently frayed or ripped Levi 501 are intelligent and rational and understand that visit, and it sparkled. A year later, Bowie emerged button-fly jeans, a black leather belt and boots, a this is a sexuality issue,” he told Canadian Press. as Ziggy Stardust, a cross-dressing alien in full-on figure-hugging tank top, T, or flannel shirt, and a “It has absolutely nothing to do with the music. I’m makeup, who wore extravagant costumes by up- leather jacket. Sometimes he sported dangerous- removing the stereotype. There are gay and lesbian and-coming designers. Bowie told the press that looking leather and metal accessories, or regalia people in all walks of life, in all different types of he was gay while doing PR for the Ziggy Stardust associated with male authority figures. professions. I just happen to be a gay man who sings in a heavy metal band.” album. Was he or wasn’t he? To paraphrase a When he wasn’t on the disco floor dancing TV commercial running at the time, “Only his to Donna Summers, he hung out in bathhouses, When gay men liberated themselves, they hairdresser knew for sure.” backrooms and sex-play spaces, bringing along liberated straight men too. Now any guy who wants The New York Dolls, a group of five young super- his chaps, harness and a can of Crisco just in to can get a facial, bikini wax and dye-job without het toughs in rouge and lipstick, also rubbed case. Hence was born the iconography that now the peanut gallery giggling, and feel okay about shoulders with The Factory crowd. Precursors to identifies much of punk, heavy metal and hip-hop knowing that he’s sexually desirable. the Sex Pistols, they paved the way for punk. Lead style in the straight world today, as well as other Gay designers Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein singer David Johansen—who was butch as butch aspects of youth culture. were among those who first commodified our could be—would leap around the stage in lipstick, Of course, we had a sense of humour and irony fascination with male beauty, grooming the gay heels and a bomber jacket with a picture of Marilyn about it. In the late seventies, a group of gay men aesthetic for mass appeal in the dawning days of
27 Thatcherism and Reagonomics. Armani made a name Later in the eighties and early nineties, the so-called for himself when he designed sex symbol Richard Gere’s Buffalo style of Ray Petri, drawn from London’s club wardrobe in the 1980 hit movie American Gigolo, about a scene, and the theatrical getups of NYC’s Club Kids, riffed male prostitute who sells his services to women. In 1982, on every image that had emerged from the gay scene, “When Klein transformed men’s underwear from a necessity into and then some. Pop stars and music videos exploited a mainstream fashion statement, with a controversial our expressions of gender, sexuality, body worship and people talk marketing campaign shot by legendary gay photographer proclivity for mixing and mashing seemingly disparate to me about Bruce Weber. It was the first time an ostensibly straight references from various fashion movements. Current being a gay man appeared in an ad as a bonafide sex symbol, and menswear collections from leading labels that reflect the marked the beginning of the end of body hair on men. eighties club vibe include Comme des Garcons, Jean Paul icon Gaultier, Givenchy and many, many more.
I think of it When AIDS hit, the fashion industry rallied before anyone Gay identity goes else did. Fundraisers such as Fashion Cares, started by then as a great viral Canadian-owned M.A.C Cosmetics, honour.” did what gays have always done; hanks America. David Beckham they confronted tragedy with a You’ve got style, celebration. Suddenly there were you’ve got taste, tranny supermodels like RuPaul, and you know who caused a controversy when a“T good drag queen when you she became the face for M.A.C in see one,” Culture Club’s cross- the early nineties. Simultaneously, dressing lead singer Boy George gay male culture had reacted announced to the world when the to the physical ignominy of AIDS “Kids’ll say, pop group won a 1984 Grammy by revving up the pursuit of award for Best New Artist. physical perfection, with massive ‘Dude, those The eighties were the decade of repercussions in society-at-large. pants are anything goes. Disco sucked and Fashion helped to propel gay gay.’ punk was passé, but the influence identity into the mainstream. of gay culture was more infectious Today, openly gay men are I think that than ever. We opened our respected arbiters of style should be wardrobe of cultural references, throughout the popular culture, and the New Romantics hit the lauded by heterosexual celebrities said as a dance floor. The movement started in film, sports and music. The compliment. at a London club called The Blitz, fashion and apparel industry whose sexually ambiguous fans often gets short shrift for being celebrated a blend of Bowie, Ska, Like, ‘Dude, superficial, and not always without Photo: Jamie Morgan Courtesy Niwde.blogspot.com that’s so Edwardian elegance and Goth reason, yet the people who work irreverence. Big hair, voluminous in it—across the board—have good it’s shirts, rasta braids, porkpie hats done more to champion gay almost . and padded shoulders did a duet rights and visibility, and raise with body-hugging leather and awareness about HIV/AIDS, than . .gay!” over-the-top drama. Vivienne people in any other sector of the Kanye West Westwood’s Pirate look was all global economy. That’s something over the place. So was black to proud about. eyeliner.
RETROACTIVITY Boys’Co 1044 Robson Street Gay culture rocks the racks at two West End shops. ith four stores across Greater WVancouver, including a busy Robson Street location, Boys’Co’s youthful styles Priape 1148 Davie Street from Europe, New York and L.A. are riape’s double-take window displays have been sexing always on trend. That said, many of the Pup Davie Street for a few years now. The gay-owned, designer, denim, casual and sportswear Montreal-based store always has the latest in what’s on items geared to fashion-forward young trend for gay men on the scene (or behind the scenes). guys draw inspiration from previous From the latest leather tops, bottoms and accessories, decades. Many feature a rock ‘n’ roll vibe, whether riffing on seventies glam to a range of masculine jeans and shirts that fit just so, to the hottest new and punk, or the ska, rockabilly and New Romantic bands of the early eighties. underwear and swimwear, Priape’s fashion forward house labels and outside Some styles variously evoke a night at the Blitz in London, or New York’s CBGB’s brands reflect a twenty-first century take on earlier eras of gay culture. Some and Max’s Kansas City. Gay culture weaves its way through the threads at of the brands it carries are Priape Wear, Priape Body, Priape Jeans, Hom, PPU, Boys’Co. So does the romance of eighties club culture. Some of the brands the Clever, Mundo Unico, Calvin Klein, 2(X)ist, Tom of Finland, and many more. The store carries are Rock & Republic, True Religion, Seven, John Richmond Karl
store also sells other items catering to gay men and the fetish community, Lagerfeld, Dirk Bikkembergs, Lacoste, Juicy Couture and Belstaff. Boys’Co also Courtesy Boys’ Co including DVDS, toys, and books and magazines. Founded in 1974, Priape has operates Vancouver’s only J. Lindeberg store, in Metrotown. Lindeberg is one stores in Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary and Toronto, and has been a pillar of the of Sweden’s hottest labels, featuring clean, slick menswear with a sporty edge. Canadian GLBT community for thirty-five years. Boys’Co celebrates its 25th birthday this year.
28 THE CITY’S HOTTEST MODELS WORK PRIDE ON THE RUNWAY On Thursday, July 31, some of Vancouver’s head-turning new male models take to the catwalk at Celebrities nightclub in the summer’s fi ercest fashion event. The PRIDE In Fashion show celebrates four decades of gay culture’s impact on mainstream fashion. Fresh from Italy, Bartolomeo is among those appearing. He has been a hit on Milan runways, and has appeared in campaigns by some of the top tier design houses, including DSquared. Glam, Cruising The Disco, The New Romantics: you’ll see it all at PRIDE In Fashion. Urban dance troupe House of LaDouche hits the runway too. Lead choreographer Jojo Zolina fuses a blend of dance styles including vogueing, whacking, house, reggaeton, dancehall, contemporary and more. His resume includes performances with musical talents such as Nelly Furtado, K-OS, Jordan Knight and The Roots. With period tunes, lighting and imagery refl ecting the eras, and dramatic hair and makeup by The Lounge, this is a Pride party people won’t want to miss. The Pride In Fashion show is co-sponsored BARTOLOMEORICK by Priape, Boys’Co, Celebrities and LOV.
PRIDE IN FASHION Celebrities, 1022 Davie St. James Thursday, July 30, Door 9 p.m. Show starts at 11 p.m. $20 at Little Sister’s Bookstore (1238 Davie St.), Priape (1148 Davie St.), and online at Celebritiesnightclub.com $25 at the door Jake jesse
brendan wayne 29 Body&Soul GO TEAM VANCOUVER! openhagen is a city of fairy tales. There are Erik Graff bound to be enough to fi ll a book during sport: Running the World Outgames 2009 in Hans Christian Andersen’s hometown from July 25 to August he 68-year-old runner is a role 2,C where thirty contenders from Team Vancouver will Tmodel for all of us. Amiable compete in many of the thirty-eight sports represented. and energetic, he’s a passionate athlete, co-founded Vancouver’s Team Vancouver was created in 1989 to bring Gay Games Frontrunners in 1983, and has III to Vancouver and today is an umbrella organization of participated in every Gay Games twenty-fi ve different sport clubs. The World Outgames were since the very fi rst event in San born in Montreal in 2006, where more than 18,000 gay, bi Francisco in 1982: San Francisco in and transgendered people from 111 countries attended as 1986, Vancouver in 1990, New York participants, delegates and volunteers. After Copenhagen, in 1994, Amsterdam in 1998, Sydney the event will be quadrennial, with the next games taking in 2002 and Chicago in 2006. place in 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium. He’s also a multiple medal MEET SOME OF TEAM VANCOUVER’S winner, with eighteen medals and STAR PLAYERS HEATING THINGS UP IN COPENHAGEN. counting—Six from the Sydney games alone! “I think my most memorable Games were the ones in San Francisco in 1986, because that But he can’t wait to attend the Outgames was when AIDS was taking its toll, and the in Copenhagen. Vancouver Games, because there was such “That’s my hometown. It’s where I was incredible spirit here,” says Graff, a retired born and raised, and my family is still Jag Bilkhu Rome Lavrencic bus driver who still works part-time as a there,” says the transplanted Dane. sport: Running sport: Volleyball city tour guide, taking visitors to out-of-the- age: 39 age: 37 way places tourists don’t always see. Graff says he has been thinking that Occupation: Business Occupation: Teacher maybe these will be his last Outgames or Graff didn’t attend the inaugural Strategy Advisor Gay Games, but stops short of committing Rome, a member of the Outgames in Montreal in 2006, an offshoot himself to a decision. Jag has been running with Vancouver Gay Volleyball of the Gay Games that evolved out of the Frontrunners since Association for seven contractual disputes with Montreal’s “I’ve learned that it’s a good idea to never moving to the city in 2004. years, is playing with organizing committee. say never!” Spent Karma too. “I wasn’t fond of the politics,” he says.
Thai Lam sport: Volleyball Dean Nelson age: 36 sport: Yoga, Delegate at the Occupation: Confi guration Outgames Human Rights Dan Quon Kevin Simpson Patrick Tham Track and Field Swimming Running Management Specialist Conference sport: sport: sport: age: 44 age: 57 age: 43 age: 39 Thai has been playing Occupation: Occupation: Accountant Occupation: Marketing Occupation: Community & volleyball for sixteen years. Property Manager Media Relations, Gay Whistler Kevin, a passionate swimmer Patrick has been with the He is playing in Copenhagen Dan has been involved since the age of fi ve, has been Frontrunners for seven with a team called Spent Dean, who has been doing with Team Vancouver since with the English Bay Swim years, and has been running Karma, which includes yoga for two years, wonders 2002, and competed at Club for twenty-three years. since he was a kid. players from B.C., Washington “if you get a gold medal for Montreal’s Outgames in 2006, State and Oregon. the best Downward Dog.” earning two bronze medals and one silver medal.
30 LOV is spreading These are just a few of the places you’ll Let’s Get Physical fi nd LOV. Keep an eye out for other locations in the West End and elsewhere! ere’s the latest in affi rmative action for the city’s GLBT community: beating each other up! On June 19, at Strathcona Park, the East Vancouver Chapter The West End of Queer Park Wrestling person-handled one another, leaving the best Boys’Co queers standing. Present in sweaty action were challengers Mark Pylon, Celebrities Nightclub Denman Fitness Karl Picantepants, Jason Aune, Samm Higginson and Amanda Ruckus. Aune Fountainhead Pub walked away Hardcore Champion; Higginson, Arm Wrestling Champ. Little Sister’s Bookstore H Numbers Oasis Priape Mark Pumpjack Pub Pylon Topdrawers Commercial Drive Bump ‘n’ Grind Coffee Shop Main & Broadway Banana Tans Rainbow Travel Whistler Jason The Love Nest Aune Karl Victoria Picantepants Paparazzi Nightclub Calgary Priape Toronto Priape Montreal Priape
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adXViZY^ch^YZi]Z8VgaZidcAdY\ZVXgdhh [gdbi]ZL]^hiaZgK^aaV\Z travel&Leisure 5 favorite summer escapes hen LOV asked gay men in Vancouver where they Wlike to go to get out of town for a quick summer getaway, five destinations rose to the top— and one of them is right here in the city! So turn off the cell phone and Blackberry and grab your bags. It’s time to take off. Darren Bruce (right) kids around with friends on the dock at Lost Lake. SEATTLE 1 WHISTLER 2 Hotel Celebrates “Summer of Pride” The Hotel Vintage Park, centrally located right Astonishing views. Laidback locals. HIGHLIGHTS: downtown and a few minutes from most gay Great hiking, mountain biking, and forest canopy venues, is cozy and classic, hosts regular free zip-lines. Lost Lake. Good restaurants. Eye candy wine receptions in the evening, and has animal- (see astonishing views). Voted the world’s #1 print bathrobes. It’s one of three Kimpton Hotels Gay Ski Week by PlanetOUT and Gay.com, the in Seattle. This summer, across North America, good times continue all summer long. During Kimpton Hotels are offering gay and lesbian guests the Mr. Gay Canada competition, the city put up a “Summer of Pride” special: book 2 consecutive rainbow pride flags throughout the village! weekend nights and you get your third night for TIPS: skiOUT! River of Golden Dreams & BBQ in FREE, plus a $50 dining credit per stay at a good Whistler, July 11. skiOUT! Alpine Hike and Picnic on restaurant adjacent to the hotel. Whistler Mountain, August 8. Whistler’s Mountain West Music Fest, August 21 to August 23. COST RANGE: Prices for most products and TRAVEL TIME: Ninety minutes by car. Two and services are comparable to Vancouver’s, a half hours by Greyhound bus. Three hours on then you have to add the exchange rate. the Whistler Mountaineer sightseeing train. “When I get into Seattle, I love the way I feel COST RANGE: Bus (one way): $46.30 Train as if I’m driving into another decade, but a (roundtrip): $199—$299 Low-end summer hotel decade I can’t quite put my finger on. It’s like a rates: from $78 per person/night. High-end history lesson of something I’ve seen on TV and HIGHLIGHTS: Hot, friendly Americans. Great in films, amalgamated into one fluid puddle summer hotel rates: from $395 per person/night. bars/clubs, restaurants, art galleries and Courtesy of Nicholas Opp. Hotel: Courtesy of Kimptongroup. of Courtesy Hotel: Opp. Nicholas of Courtesy Meal prices: from $5—$10 fast food and pub of concrete. Whether you want a martini or a museums. Pike Place Market. Fabulous shopping. pint, Pike Place Market’s seafood and sweets, Seattle: fare to expensive world class restaurants. Lots of gay-friendly B&Bs and hotels. or a lesson in Seattle’s music scene at the “The drive to Whistler is a sight in itself. Carved Experience Music Project, the city’s beauty and into the side of the mountains of Howe Sound, TIPS: DON’T FORGET THAT YOU diversity has something for you whether you’re the Sea to Sky Highway offers my favourite views. NEED A PASSPORT NOW. a freak, geek, or yuppy, or a guy like me open Whistler is alive year round. It is a playground to any suggestion that comes your way.” for those who appreciate the outdoors.” TRAVEL TIME: Two and a half to three hours by car from downtown Vancouver. Forty minutes Nicholas Opp Courtesy of xxx (John Hewson photo). photo). Hewson (John xxx of Courtesy Darren Bruce by plane from Vancouver International Airport. Whistler: 35 travel&Leisure 5 HORNBY ISLAND HIGHLIGHTS: Secluded. Warmest ocean beaches in Canada. A clothing optional beach (Little Tribune Bay). Charming rural vistas. Plentiful wildlife. Laidback locals. Hiking through Helliwell Park. Exploring tidal pools, kayaking, cycling, and picking blackberries (in abundance). Amazing sunsets. TIPS: There are half a dozen eating establishments, mainly casual, one grocery store and a convenience store. WRECK BEACH 3 TRAVEL TIME: Three and a half to four hours depending on speed, via car and three ferries. HIGHLIGHTS: Clothing optional. Gay area. Seems far from urban rush. Stretches of sandy The Nanaimo ferries from beach. Excellent swimming. Great “scenery”. COST RANGE: Tsawwassen to Duke Point and Horseshoe Bay to Departure Bay cost (one way) $13.50 per Make sure to bring your own drinking water. TIPS: person, $45 for a car. The ferry from Buckley Food is available from beach vendors at the main TIPS: The city’s best patio is at Glo Europub Bay to Denman Island costs (return) $7.90 beach near Trail 6, though you’d be wise to pack & Restaurant on the inner harbour’s Selkirk per person, $18.50 for a car. The return fare a lunch if you plan to head south from the main Wreck Beach: Courtesy of James Loewen. Victoria: Courtesy Tourism Victoria (Deanne Gillespie photo). Horby Island: Courtesy of Chad Combes. Waterfront. The city’s only gay club, Paparazzi, from Denman Island to Hornby Island ferry is beach to the Oasis, a popular area for gay men. can be fun on weekends, but is slow during the the same. There are a number of B&Bs from week. Nearby Hush is a gay-friendly straight about $85 a room to $150—$200. Campsite Twenty minutes from TRAVEL TIME: club where guys can dance together. rates (tent/RV) are about $35 per night. downtown Vancouver by car. A little bit longer by bus or bicycle. TRAVEL TIME: Four and a half hours from downtown Vancouver by car and ferry from COST RANGE: Free! Tsawwassen. Thirty minutes by plane from “This is the very best place to get away downtown Vancouver to downtown Victoria. from the city, without leaving the city. Wreck Beach is a little bit of paradise for gay COST RANGE: Ferry (one-way): $13.50 per person, men looking to commune with nature.” $45 for a car. Bus (one way): $43. Harbour Air fl ights from downtown Vancouver to downtown James Loewen Victoria start at $99 one way. Budget hotel rates start at about $50 per person/night and high-end 4 VICTORIA hotels start at about $185 per person/night. “Victoria is a secret treasure that we “Hornby is a very special island retreat HIGHLIGHTS: Heritage neighbourhoods. Exotic sometimes overlook. I fi nd it exotic: parks like from city life. The peak season is July and gardens. California-like coastline. Funky gay- Gonzales Hill Regional Park and The Summit August, so the most peaceful time to go is owned B&Bs. A gay club. Fantastic fresh seafood with rare Garry Oak meadows, the shoreline after Labour Day when the summer crowds at Ferris’ Grill and Oyster Bar and great Italian that’s so different from Vancouver’s, and have gone. I love the tranquility Hornby Island fare at Il Terrazzo, both downtown. Barb’s neighbourhoods like Oak Bay, James Bay and has to offer. I experienced the Northern Fish and Chips at Fisherman’s Wharf, where Gonzales Bay that are packed with heritage Lights for the fi rst time ever on Hornby!” harbour seals often play in the water. Camp Victorian, Arts & Crafts and Deco houses.” Chad Combes fi gurines at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. Guy Babineau 9ek]WhCekdjW_d" M^_ijb[h"89 AMANDA KERR {food} PHOTOGRAPHY www.amandakerrphotography.com wildPlay-Sun-GrandOpening.indd 1 6/29/09 2:31:53 PM SGN Seattle Gay News CHECK US OUT ONLINE! Share LOV with friends. Keep up with new developments. Visit LOV’s advertisers. And more. 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The Parisian-style pâtisserie of the best Big Kay Kiss photo will receive a in Yaletown specializes in delicious pastries and cakes, winning over Webcam. food critics in the Vancouver Sun, The Province, Where Magazine, Vancouver Magazine, The Georgia Straight, Urban Trendz and EAT Interactive Male, North America’s largest Magazine. chatline for gay and bi guys, will donate $5 to Ganache Pâtisserie Marriage Equality USA for every approved video 1262 Homer Street, Yaletown entry, and $1 for every approved photo entry. www.BigGayKiss.com PRIDE HIGHLIGHTS new improvised show. The Roundhouse Community music and performances Roundhouse Community Arts Arts & Recreation Centre, by LGBT artists. The PLACES & Recreation Centre, 181 181 Roundhouse Mews Roundhouse Community Arts TO BE! Roundhouse Mews $10 & Recreation Centre, 181 SUGARBEACH & FRIENDS Roundhouse Mews $10 TUESDAYS LOVE PRIDE Marlee & Tully of Sugarbeach Celebrities, 1022 Davie host a showcase of original DJS DELUX & SHE St. Till 4 a.m. $10 Oasis, 1240 Thurlow St. MON . JUL 27 Open till 3 a.m. No Cover PRIDE KICKOFF PARTY LATIN PRIDE DANCE CONTEST Oasis, 1240 Thurlow St. LADY BUNNY LIVE Numbers, 1042 Davie St. Till 3 a.m. No Cover NYC drag diva and special guest, intn’l pornstar Ryan RETROSEXUAL PRIDE KRISTY KRUNT Carlotta Gurl performs Raz. Celebrities, 1022 Davie DRAG SHOW St. Open till 4 a.m. $10 classic numbers from Numbers, 1042 Davie PRIDES gone by. Retro music. St. No Cover TONALITY WITH DJ TRIPWIRE Odyssey, 1251 Howe St. Pulse, 1138 Davie St. THE RYAN STEELE SHOW & Open till 3 a.m. FREQUEENCY: PRIDE EDITION Show starts at 10 p.m., CASH-TASTIC & DANCE PARTY TUE . JUL 28 Odyssey, 1251 Howe St $10 $200 in cash prizes. Numbers, FAIRIE TALES: TELLING for Ryan Steele/$3 after 1042 Davie St. No Cover PRIDE IN FASHION OUR STORIES FAUX GIRLS AND LIPS Fierce multimedia catwalk Opening celebrations. INC PRIDE SHOWS event. Vancouver’s top male Established and emerging WED . JUL 29 Willie Taylor, Carlotta Gurl, models. Special Guest: House LGBT artists. Runs until August of LaDouche. $20 Advance. JEFFERY STRAKER Special Guests, Odyssey, 1251 14, Mon-Friday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Howe St. $5 to DMS Charities More at door. Open till 4 a.m. Sat-Sun 11 a.m.-6 p.m., The Hot, up-and-coming Canadian Roundhouse Community Arts singer/songwriter. The AWOL DRAG AMBUSH DJS JAUN & GUESTS Oasis, 1240 Thurlow St. & Recreation Centre,181 Robyn Graves hosts amateur Open till 3 a.m. No Cover Roundhouse Mews FREE drag competition. Show at 11. 1181 Davie St. Bar open BEAR BASH & BUZZCUTS COMING UNBUTTONED 5 p.m.-2 a.m. No Cover Pumpjack Pub, 1167 Davie Street One-man review of work by late gay writer and RELOAD AND RECRUIT fi lmmaker James Broughton. Part of 1181’s Military Bootcamp THU . JUL 30 Roundhouse Community Arts theme for Pride. Best bod/abs/ & Recreation Centre, 181 PRIDE MOVIE NIGHT chest contest. 1181 Davie St. Bar Roundhouse Mews $10 GLBT fi lms highlighting old open 5 p.m.-2 a.m. No Cover DAH DOO ME BY THE BOBBERS favourites and documentaries. MALIBU DEBAUCHERY NIGHT Award-winning OUT TV Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour Numbers, 1042 Davie stars The Bobbers in a St. Program and price TBA St. No Cover Photos Courtesy Vancouver Pride Society, Pride In Art, Jeffery Straker,Terry Costa. Straker,Terry Jeffery Art, In Pride Society, Pride Vancouver Courtesy Photos 41 FRI . JUL 31 GLOBAL PRIDE: CITIES GLOBAL PRIDE: INTERNATIONAL Featuring Miami’s DJ David Superstar DJs Chus & Ceballos PRIDE WEEKEND LAUNCH Knapp. Seattle’s DJ Joe King (Madrid), hunk-fi lled underwear Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 opens. Gorg-O-Mish, 695 Smithe fashion show, performances Hornby Street FREE St. Till 7 a.m. Starting at $30 by Miles Faber (So You Think DAVIE STREET PRIDE PARTY You Can Dance Canada) and DJs, a giant Twister game, hot Circuit Mom. Till 4 a.m. Gossip, models, live music, dancing SAT . AUG 1 750 Pacifi c Blvd. Starting at $45 and surprises. FREE TERRY WALLACE BREAKFAST Community churches serve pancake breakfast celebrating one of Vancouver Pride’s founders. Davie St. and Bute St. Donations MILITARY MAYHEM Come to Operation Desert PLACES Steam in a military outfi t and win a $100 prize. Bar open till TO BE! 3 a.m. 1181 Davie St. No Cover JODAIKO All-women Taiko drumming ensemble. The Roundhouse CROSSING BORDERS: SYNERGY Community Arts & & COLLA VOCE CHOIRS Recreation Centre, 181 Synergy, Vancouver’s 12-voice Roundhouse Mews $15-$25 a cappella group of gay men, and San Francisco’s GLOBAL PRIDE: NATIONS Colla Voce men’s ensemble, Featuring DJ Brett Henrichsen. in concert together. The DJ Nick Bertossi opens. Circuit Roundhouse Community Arts Mom and adult fi lm legend SUN . AUG 2 SWELL: SO THE & Recreation Centre, 181 Matthew Rush perform. Mint, STORY GOES SUNSET BEACH FESTIVAL Storytelling, Roundhouse Mews $12-$20 750 Pacifi c Blvd. (Plaza Of Live music on the Festival Stage, Nations) Starting at $30 original music drinking at the beer garden, and and video. Anna community booths galore. FREE Camilleri, Lyndell PRIDE PARADE Montgomery, and With 160 parade entries and Ivan E. Coyote. 530,000 spectators last year, The Roundhouse this is the MUST SEE event of Community Arts & this year. Robson and Thurlow Recreation Centre, to Denman Street, then along 181 Roundhouse Pacifi c and Beach Avenues. FREE Mews $15-$25 BEER GARDEN & DANCE PARTY Q-FACTOR $1000 Cash Giveaway. Open till East side Pride dance 4 a.m. Numbers, 1042 Davie St. with a Sci-fi theme. FASTER FASTER PRIDE BALL RAPTURE: IGNITION Costume prizes. WISE House of Venus present Starring NYC DJ/Producer Joe Hall, 1882 Adanac St. DJs MKW and Betti Forde. Gauthreaux, with Vancouver DJ $10 advance, $12 at door Landon James. Performances by Hosted by Miss Cotton. POLE PRIDE Pulse, 1138 Davie St. Shokra (L.A.), Syren (Vancouver) Boys and trans work the pole. FEATHER BOA PRIDE BALL Vancouver’s longest-running and Kamalectra (Honolulu). Cabaret show at midnight. DJs PRIDE BALL PRESENTS drag night celebrates The Commodore Ballroom, 868 Dickey Doo, Coleo, MKW, Jef DJ CHRIS COX PRIDE. Open till 4 a.m., Granville St. Tickets $45-$65 Leopard and many more. Miss Grammy nominated Odyssey, 1251 Howe St. $15 Cotton hosts. The Penthouse, superstar DJ/Producer/ RELEASE YOUR PRIDE Advance. More at door. Remixer. Celebrities, 1022 DJs Dane James, Ryan 1019 Seymour St. $10 Bazeley & Zach Shore, circus Davie St. Open till 4 a.m. ROOFTOP PATIO PARTY UNITED performers, go-go gods, epic & BEER GARDEN Picks up after GLOBAL. DJs Paulo FIERCE PRIDE CELEBRATION performances. Celebrities, PRIDE UNIFORM CRUISE (L.A.) and Sonny T (Toronto). Oasis, 1240 Thurlow Oasis, 1240 Thurlow 1022 Davie St. Open till 4 a.m. Cruisey T Harbour Cruises $60 Until 10 a.m. Gorg-O-Mish, 695 St. Open till 3 a.m. St. Open till 3 a.m. Photos courtesy Vancouver Pride Society, Pride In Art, Joe Gauthreaux, Big Roger Events. $35 Advance. More at door. LIBERATION DAY Smithe St. Starting at $40 TITLERAMA Come to Operation Desert CHURCH: GOD IS A DJ ROOFTOP PATIO PARTY Performance by Troy. Symone Pumpjack Pub, 1167 Davie Street Steam in a military outfi t and & BEER GARDEN hosts. DJs G-Luve, Dickey win a $100 prize. Open till 3 MON . AUG 3 CASH-TASTIC & DANCE PARTY Oasis, 1240 Thurlow Doo, and P Deady spin. Ginger a.m. 1181 Davie St. No Cover $300 in cash prizes. Numbers, St. Open till 3 a.m. 62, 1219 Granville St. $10 DAY AFTER BEACH PARTY 1042 Davie St. Open till 4 a.m. BLACK SATURDAY OVERHANG Sponsored by 1181,Time Grip and Bear Bounce present UNDER 25 PRIDE YOUTH DANCE & Place TBA BOOTCAMP AND Line privileges for those in A drug/alcohol-free partly a post-parade patio party for BASIC TRAINING leather/fetish wear. Pumpjack strictly for youth under 25. CAESAR SENDOFF bears, cubs and friends. Scotia $100 prize for best military Pub, 1167 Davie Street Picture ID required. West Pumpjack Pub, 1167 Davie Street outfi t. 1181 Davie St. Show Dance Centre, 677 Davie St. $20 CASH-TASTIC & DANCE PARTY End Community Centre, 870 at 11 p.m. 1181 Davie St. Bar HISTORY Vi 13-hour Pride PRIDE PARTY CRUISE $300 in cash & prizes. Numbers, Denman St. Donation open 5 p.m.-2 a.m. No Cover Party Marathon. Till 4 a.m. Cruisey T Harbour Cruises $60 1042 Davie St. Open till 4 a.m. Celebrities, 1022 Davie St. No RAPTURE: RECOVERY CASH-TASTIC CIRCUIT ‘O’ FALLEN ANGEL Cover until 9 p.m. $15 after. Superstar NYC DJ/Producer Superhot go-go boys, some of Cash & prizes. Numbers, Awesome light & sound, exotic Tony Moran and RuPaul Vancouver’s most innovative WORLD FAMOUS PRIDE 1042 Davie St. dancers and more. Open till Drag Race star Nina performers. Odyssey, 1251 SUNDAY KEGGER 4 a.m. Odyssey, 1251 Howe St. Flowers. The Commodore Howe St. Open till 4 a.m. $10 Pumpjack Pub, 1167 Davie Street $10 Advance. More at door. Ballroom, 868 Granville St. 42 THE BY TERRY COSTA “Rufus Wainwright, as well as K.D. Lang, are among the Canadians making essential and beautiful music. Add the PRICE name Jeffery Straker to that list.” IS RIGHT! Chicago Free Press The reviews are out and so is he. Jeffery Straker is a hip, young Elton John for the modern age. A classically FREE trained pianist who grew up in rural Saskatchewan, his pop/rock, folk and cabaret infl uences have made Latin Pride Dance Contest @ Numbers, Donation him a hit with audiences in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Straker’s recent video reached Retrosexual @ Numbers Top 10 rotation on Much More Sand Beach Beer Garden @ Pulse Music, an amazing feat for an Faerie Tales: Telling Our Stories independent artist in Canada. @ Roundhouse Centre Kristy Krunt’s Pride Drag July 29th at Roundhouse Show @ Numbers and August 1st at Davie Awol Drag Ambush @ 1181 Street Pride Party Cash-Tastic @ Numbers Reload and Recruit @ 1181 TROY Singer/songwriter Troy returns to Vancouver Malibu Debauchery Night @ Numbers KELLY AND THE Pride Weekend Launch @ victorious after outshining the bright lights Vancouver Art Gallery KELLY GIRLS of Hogtown with his catchy ’80s-infl uenced Davie Street Pride Party Their style is glam. Their sound is loud. Their tunes and in-your-face style. This young up Bootcamp and Basic Training @ 1181 showmanship is fi erce. Part of a new young and comer in the pop world will wow his West generation of visionary queer-positive pop Coast friends with his fresh new sound and Cash-Tastic @ Numbers, No Cover until 10:30 p.m., $5 after performers including Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert activist lyrics. Terry Wallace Breakfast @ Davie and Scissor Sisters, R. Kelly Clipperton is the Troy, August 2nd at Sunset Beach Festival St. and Bute St., Donations genius fronting this fresh 7-piece group. His Stage and Church at Ginger62 Military Mayhem @ 1181 own style, however, is one-of-a-kind, inventively fusing Pride Parade diverse musical styles and theatrical, fashion-forward imagery. Vancouver welcomes the band’s return Sunset Beach Festival from touring Canada and internationally. Mark NINA FLOWERS History IV @ Celebrities, No Cover before 9 p.m. your calendars and check out this postmodern Who remembers the winner of RuPaul’s Drag tour de force, the most exciting act to hit town Liberation Day @ 1181 Race? I thought so! Nina Flowers’s perfect this Pride season. punk take on drag made her the favourite UNDER 25 Pride Youth Dance @ West End Community Centre, Donation August 1st at Railway Club and August contender by far, at least from the perspective 2nd at Sunset Beach Festival Stage of our community, who can’t wait for her trip $10 OR LESS to our fair city. Coming Unbuttoned @ JEFFERY STRAKER August Roundhouse Centre 2nd - Dame and the Dah Doo Me by The Bobbers “I could not help but wonder why he’s Flame Rapture at @ Roundhouse Centre not already a star in this country.” Commodore Ballroom Tuesdays Love Pride @ Celebrities Canadian Musician Magazine The Ryan Steele Show & Frequeency: Pride Edition @ Odyssey Kodaiko @ Roundhouse Centre, SHOW- Jeffery Straker @ Roundhouse Centre $15-$20 Sliding Scale STOPPERS Sugarbeach & Friends @ Swell: So the Story Goes MILES Roundhouse Centre @ Roundhouse Centre, $15- $25 Sliding Scale Lady Bunny Live @ Celebrities FABER Overhang @ Scotia Dance Centre, $20 Reality TV Faux Girls & Lips Inc Pride Shows @ Odyssey History IV @ Celebrities, $15 after 9 p.m. may dish out instant prize-winning celebrities, but it’s usually the runner-ups that end up Pride Celebrity Shower Feather Boa Pride Ball @ Odyssey, Power @ Odyssey $15 Advance ( More at door.) getting more attention. Sexy So You Think You Circuit ‘O’ @ Odyssey Can Dance Canada’s Miles Faber may have $25 AND MORE ranked third place, but he’s fi rst rate and Fallen Angel @ Odyssey, $10 Advance (More at door.) Global Pride: Cities, Gorg-O- ready to show Vancouver that he really can Beer Garden & Dance Mish @ Starting at $30 dance. Faber’s smooth moves, infectious smile Party @ Numbers Global Pride: Nations, Mint and disturbingly hard abs will defi nitely whet @ Starting at $30 the appetite of partygoers. UNDER $25 Rapture: Ignition @ Commodore Ballroom, $45-$65+ August 2nd - Big Roger Event Pride in Fashion @ Celebrities, Global at Gossip Nightclub $20 Advance, $25 at Door Release Your Pride @ Celebrities, $35 (More at door.) Synergy & Colla Voce Choirs @ Roundhouse Centre, $12- Global Pride: International $20 Sliding Scale @ Gossip, Starting at $45 Terry Costa is a director/producer of live events including Gay Pride Ball @ Celebrities, $25 Rapture: Recovery @ Commodore Top Model and Mr. Gay Canada. He is the Arts & Entertainment Advance, More at Door Ballroom, $55-$75+ Director at Vancouver Pride Society and leads Mirateca Arts. Kelly photo courtesy of R. Kelly Clipperton, Troy photo courtesy of Troy, Miles Faber photo courtesy of Big Roger Events. Roger Big of courtesy photo Faber Miles Troy, of courtesy photo Troy Clipperton, Kelly R. of courtesy photo Kelly 43 of his peers in New Orleans back CHUS & CEBALLOS in ‘96, and was soon in demand GLOBAL PRIDE: THE MAIN EVENT across America’s circuit culture. @ Gossip, Sun Aug 2 In 2002, Centaur Records offered HEY MISTER Gauthreaux his fi rst compilation Based in Madrid, these guys have made themselves CD, Party Groove: Blue Ball (followed one of the most sought after acts in the world. by Party Groove: Cherry Volume Their trademark is Iberican sound, a delicious DJ! 2 in 2005 and Winter Party 2008, blend of hypnotizing, warm, moving tribal, mixed released on Brett Henrichsen’s with modern tech house elements and vocals. Masterbeat label.) This dynamic duo has released countless original BY NICK tracks on their record label Stereo Productions, BERTOSSI guiding and infl uencing a generation of producers TONY MORAN and remixers (including myself). In the words of RAPTURE RECOVERY @ The the legendary Danny Tenaglia, “Thank god for Chus DAVID KNAPP Commodore Ballroom, Sun Aug 2 & Ceballos!” GLOBAL PRIDE: After over 20 years of production CITIES @ Gorg-O- experience, Tony Moran remains a Mish, Fri Jul 31 DJ PAULO household name in the dance music GLOBAL PRIDE: Credited with creating the fi rst gay circuit mixed scene and a tyrant in the circuit UNITED @ compilation CD back in 1994 (White Party), David’s world. Producing remixes for Mariah Carey, Gossip, 3 a.m. career spans two decades with stops at every Kristine W, Suzanne Palmer and pretty much any Mon Aug 3 major event along the way. Often referred to as other female vocalist you can think of, he has been Hailing from L.A, the people’s DJ for his ability to make each crowd a driving force of big room tribal anthems. His DJ Paulo has feel like it’s at the most important party he’s ever huge popularity and incredible production work become one played, David is sure to kick off Vancouver Pride has landed him gigs at the biggest Pride parties of the hottest Weekend with a bang. around North America and around the world, and this year in Vancouver will mark his return to our North American beautiful city. DJs around. His BRETT HENRICHSEN most recent two GLOBAL PRIDE: NATIONS @ Mint, Sat Aug 1 compilations are From Hollywood Hills, CA, Brett is the founder called The Lord of Trax Recording and Masterbeat.com. In of the Drums , a fi ve short years, he went from his fi rst gig to more fi tting title. playing at almost every major circuit event Paulo’s work with in the United States, including Gay Days Todd Dutkevitch has produced some of the biggest Orlando, New York Pride Pier Dance, San and best anthem remixes as well as some of the Diego Zoo Party, Cherry 8, White Party Palm best dirty tribal beats around. His sound is unique. Springs and White Party Miami, Masterbeat He combines heavy, energetic beats with soaring New Year’s Los Angeles, Miami New Years vocal progressive tracks and has the ability to and many more. Brett plays high energy, please a wide spectrum of clubbers and party- vocal and progressive dance. He is one of goers who keep the dance fl oor packed while he’s the few U.S. circuit DJs to crossover to the in the booth. international mainstream, routinely playing in Amsterdam, Ibiza, London, Paris, Sydney, Nick Bertossi, one of Sao Paulo and Rio. Vancouver’s most popular Photos Courtesy of Big Roger Events DJs, plays at Club 816 (The World) every Saturday JOE GAUTHREAUX night. Catch him during RAPTURE IGNITION @ The Pride at Mint (Global Commodore Ballroom, Sat Aug 1 Pride: Nations) on August Forging a diverse musical landscape with 1 and at Celebrities his sets, Joe quickly earned the respect (History VI) on August 2. TEXT & PHOTOS BY MICAH GILBERT WHERE THE BOYS Gary and his friends will be WILL BE... at Celebrities and are looking forward to the boat cruises. Ryan Furlot and his friends will be at the Rapture parties and the O. Mark and friends are Christian and Max are going to be all over the city and are going to the O. Kevin and Mark are going to the Rapture looking forward to the parade. parties and the Big Roger Parties. 44 Arts&Entertaiment July/August THE PORTSIDE Director Aerlyn Weissman has captured a unique moment in Vancouver’s gay bar history The 21st LOV caught up with Annual WHERE WE BELONG Weissman while she Vancouver Two very different films at Vancouver’s 21st Annual Queer Film Festival was in post-production Queer Film tell stories about displaced strangers brought together by loneliness, for a brief interview. Festival the search for love and a need to belong. LOV: What research August 13 – 23, 2009 did you do to prepare for the film? Cinemark Tinseltown, manipulation here; this is fat-free filmmaking. I’d become interested when I Vancity Theatre, Empire SOUNDLESS WIND CHIME Beautifully shot on location in Hong Kong, a wintery Granville 7 and Emily Carr hen Beijing migrant Ricky (Lu Yai) found out about bars like this University of Art & Design Switzerland and Beijing, the film travels back and and Swiss traveler and petty thief researching Forbidden Love. forth in time and place, exploring love’s lies as Tickets $10, available from Pascal (Bernhard Bulling) hook up Daphne had been to the Vanport. July 18 at queerfilmfestival.ca well as its truths. Hung’s dissonant storyline about and Little Sister’s Book and and move in together under unusual We interviewed people who’d W the multiple meanings of intimacy, home and Art Emporium, 1238 Davie St. circumstances in steamy summertime Hong hung out at the Vanport, and the family is set against frequently humorous cultural Kong, it’s not as simple as a beer at the bar discussions were very interesting. incongruities. On the matter of love between young and off they go. A mesmerizing, multilayered One person would remember something one way, men, or anyone, Soundless Wind Chime rings true. first feature by the promising young Hong Kong then someone else would say, “No, that’s not how writer/director Kit Hung, Soundless Wind Chime Friday, August 14, 7:00 p.m., Empire what it was.” No two people remembered it exactly bypasses the usual story arc of many films about Granville 7 Cinemas, 855 Granville St. the same way. The story is an amalgamation young gay lovers. You know; the kind where their of what we heard, in the form of interwoven commitment to one another prevails against the stories that take place at each table at the adversity of a misunderstanding family, workplace, THE PORTSIDE bar, and there is some kind of transformation ueer Film Festival audiences will be or community—or one of them dies—and at each table [by the end of the film]. privy to the world premiere of the short everyone in the audience rises up at the end. No dramatic film The Portside, written by Lov: Who went to the Vanport, and QDaphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, Taken, how did you recreate it? The Given) and directed by Aerlyn Weissman It was a place of refuge to outsiders. There (Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of were lesbians—butches and femmes—and Lesbian Lives, Little Sister’s vs. Big Brother). Gay gay men, straight people, and some drag culture began as a bar culture, and it was no queens from the era. It was all ages, eighteen different in Vancouver. In the fifties, sixties and and up. Canada was very white back then early seventies, the city was pockmarked with a but this part of downtown was diverse. There number of gay and lesbian bars and clubs, and were aboriginal people, mixed race, Japanese, some of them were rough places. Commissioned Sikhs; it was a real melting pot. There were for the ongoing Queer History Project film series, the people who lived in the hotel. We filmed in Lu Yulai and Bernhard Bulling in the Vancouver The Portside is set in 1974, at a bar based on a real bar that we dressed to look like 1974. Queer Film Festival’s Canadian premiere a watering hole in the long since demolished of Kit Hung’s first full-length feature Vanport Hotel at Main and Keefer Streets. Friday, August 21, 9:30 p.m., Vancity Theatre & Atrium, 1181 Seymour St. 45 Arts&Entertaiment LOL = Laugh out Loud BRB = Be right back Pop OMG = Oh my god Obvs = Obviously TTYL = Talk to you later Outs BF/GF = Boyfriend/Girlfriend Michael WTF = What the fuck ETA = Estimated time of arrival Jackson RU = Are you 1958 – 2009 LOVE LETTERS If you don’t know how to text, you could be LMAO = Laugh my ass off missing out on all the action. He may as well have been <3 = Heart a homeless drag queen In the seventies, gay men had to learn an eye- attacking us on a street crossing language of sexual handkerchief IDK = I don’t know corner,” wrote Globe and signals that indicated what one wanted and 411 = What’s happening? Mail columnist Lynn Crosbie where one wanted it. Red, blue, yellow, right in her eulogy for Michael pocket, left pocket, and so on all had specific N2M = not too much Jackson, citing the media’s and meanings. “ BTW = By the way general public’s fixation with the late Today, technology has transformed text singer’s excesses and eccentricities. from a noun into a verb, making it active not ROFL = Roll on the floor laughing passive. If you want to stay in touch socially, There isn’t a gay man who came set up a date, flirt, send sexy messages, K = Okay out in the seventies or early to mid make up, or break up, but don’t know how eighties who didn’t dive onto the to text—honey, it’s time to get with the IC = I see dance floor when a Michael Jackson program! or Jackson Five tune was spinning. W/E = Whatever Local lad Dan Stafford offers up some There is no need to talk about how introductory must-knows to get you on the NM = Not much freaky he got. Enough has been said. track to texting like a pro, so you can join the Michael Jackson’s music made billions rest of us in the 21st century. of people happy. The gay community knows what it’s like to be judged according to one’s supposed demons ago and they thought it was a great, romantic nail polish and fashion-forward outfits or differences, rather than one’s idea,” Eamon told the Irish media. “The vows throughout the popular TV talent contest, accomplishments. The singer’s legacy were the exact same as wedding vows taken earning him the nickname Glambert. cannot be summed up any better in a ceremony in Dublin, except you change than it was by Crosbie in the June 27, a few hers and shes for hims and his!” A Change for Chastity 2009, edition of The Globe and Mail. Chastity Bono, the civil rights advocate, The Gay Gospel of Lady Gaga member of GLAAD, journalist, author, “Michael Jackson must be “To God and the gays!” shouted out pop musician and daughter of Cher and the remembered for the music he wrote. sensation Lady Gaga, receiving her award late Sonny Bono, announced in June For his impossible perfect motion; his for Much Music’s Best International Video that she is transitioning from female to thwarted, abject love; and the face of in Toronto, for the global hit Poker Face. male. His new name is Chaz Bono. trauma he presented as an artistic London’s Gay Times christened Gaga’s other gesture to exquisite pain, pain we all international chart-topper Just Dance Britain’s Tony Awards Gay-biased? beheld, and turned away from—as top gay anthem of 2009. The classically Bret Michaels posted a hissy fit on his he expected—in disgust and terror.” trained 23-year-old singer-songwriter got website attacking the Tony Awards for her footing in New York’s gay scene. favouring gay icons. Near the end of the Irish Guys Are Smiling Tony’s televised ceremony, a prop fell and Hollywood hottie Colin Farrell’s older gay Like We Didn’t Know injured the front man for the metal rock brother Eamie married Dublin artist Stephen American Idol runner up Adam Lambert group Poison. Michaels claimed that the Mannion here in Vancouver in June. “We told announced that he was gay in the July issue Tony Award organizers didn’t care about his our immediate families, including Col, a week of Rolling Stone, and everyone shrugged. injuries, adding that they would have if he The gifted, charismatic singer wore eyeliner, were Liza Minnelli, Dolly Parton or Elton John. 46 SYMONE SAYS And you read it here fi rst! ello Babies and Baby Mommas and Baby Daddies and Daddies!!! Momma’s home and she’s got something to say…. Congratulations are in order as we have all survived another cold and rainy season. Vancouverites have emerged from the polar fl eece and are looking for their spot on the beach. Having spent the last few days languishing across from the volleyball /1 - 9Ê1 9ÊÓn /1 - 9-ÊY *, courts on English Bay in my white Chanel sun hat, silver D&G #VTJFTUXFFLOJHIU13*%&QBSUZGPSZSTSVOOJOHXJUI%+ htankini and sensible MIU MIU mules (size 14), I am pleased to report the %"3:-0IJCBMMT trendsetting Hots and some Oh-Good-God what was she thinking Nots! f£äÊ/Ê "",Ê Let us start with the HOTS. 7 - 9Ê1 9ÊÓ Shirtless, buffed, coiffed muscular Mexican men…when did they take over the *,* Ê*, - /-Ê 9Ê 1 9Ê 6 8JUI13*"1&GFUJTITIPXQFSGPSNBODFCZ*OUMQPSOTVQFSTUBS West End? Beach volleyballers…yummy!!! 3:"/3";%+%&//:TQJOTUPQTBOUIFNT4IPXTUBSUT QN The hottest accessories: Tranny Gurls and Tranny Boyz turning up the heat and f£äÊ Ê 6 tearing up the beach! Work me God damn it ... let them have it children! ", Ê/Ê "",Ê White designer sunglasses; think big and pushy honey. /1,- 9Ê1 9ÊÎä It’s offi cial: red heads are the new black and the beard has returned—and I *, Ê Ê-" "GVOBOEmFSDF.VMUJNFEJB$BUXBML&WFOUDFMFCSBUJOHUIF don’t mean Katie Holmes! JNQBDUPGRVFFSDVMUVSFPONBJOTUSFBNGBTIJPO And now for the NOTS. fÓäÊ Ê 6 ", Ê/Ê "",Ê Spray-tanned, Slurpee-drinking, blond hair with black roots-wearing heifers that think the micro mini is a right! Nuh-un - lov vibes 1181 TIGHT LOUNGE Sundays SPECIAL NIGHTS Tuesdays trio in the Loft Tightlounge.com, Facebook AFTERNOON DELIGHT: Like Eden: Lost in the Garden, Smirnoff Twisted cooler $5.25, it says—2 p.m. Joan- Thursday, July 9 Russell Pilsener pints $4.50 Tuesdays 1181 Davie Street, 604.687.3991 Kristy Krunt Variety Show E hosts. DJ Cole spins. 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Junkie XL w/Tyler Johnson Naughty Shots $4 DJ Drew $4 rye & ginger, $4 shots Wednesdays & Pat Lok, Friday, July 24 GAY BINGO & TRANSTASTIC: Saturdays Saturdays Smirnoff Ice cooler $5.25, Thursdays Trannies, drag queens, and PLUMP DJs, Thursday, August 6 DJ Shelly Granville Island pints RELOADED: DJ Dreaddy spins. BINGO for LIFE hosted by Drag TIGA World Tour, Friday, August 7 $5.50, Naughty Shots $4 Sundays $6.50 double premium Diva Joan-E and special guests. Karaoke until midnight, highballs, $4 premium draft Sundays dancing after Thursdays FOUNTAINHEAD PUB Caesars $5.25, OK Fridays Special events and famous DJs Thefountainheadpub.com MEAT: Hot shirtless boys. $5 Spring pints $5.50 Fridays 1025 Davie Street, 604.687.2222 OASIS Cervezas & Mike’s Hard Theoasispub.com, Facebook STEREOTYPE: The best in local Mondays NUMBERS 1240 Thurlow Street, Saturdays and international DJs Labatt’s Blue pints TIGHT NIGHT: $5 Peroni beer, $4 Numbers.ca, Facebook 604.685.1724 $4.50, Jackson Trigg Jagermeister & tequila shots Saturdays 1042 Davie Street, 604.685.4077 RELEASE: Western Canada’s Chardonnay/Merlot $5.80 Tuesdays DJ Zack Shore mixes biggest, hottest gay club night M ondays 3SUM: hot, funky music Electro. Domestic Bottles 48 Competition was, ahem, TUESDAY NIGHT FEVER stiff at Mirage in Surrey Ever seen the long June 21 during Manhunt lineups outside Celeb- Canada’s international rities on Tuesdays? model competition. (Not Here’s a look inside. that Manhunt.) TJ Ngan photos $4.50, Tequila $5.25 Tuesdays Fridays singles & doubles for Games & Specials Frequeency: Top 40 Drag Faster Faster! Michael Wednesdays Venus hosts. DJ Betti Forde Wednesdays SPACE LOUNGE Hump Day: DJ Delux Girls Domestic Beer Specials 1149 Granville Street, Wednesdays spins. Drink Specials Night, $3 highballs, $6 FAUX GIRLS/LIPS INC. w/ Willie 604.568.7842 doubles, $7 appies Taylor & Carlotta Gurl Thursdays Saturdays Premium/Imported Beer PULSATE: DJ Dickey Doo & DK Thursdays & Coolers Special KONNEKT: DJ ToXIK spins. Thursdays Thursdays Dreaddy spin. Drink Specials Open mic with Gina Lily, SHOWER POWER: Hot & Wet then Drum and Bass DJ Fridays Sundays Russell Cream pints on Special Fridays GAYTIES: DJ G-Luve & Guests THE WORLD CIRCUIT ‘O’: Bobby James Club816.com, Facebook Fridays spin. 80s Drink Prices DJ Fridays: House Music 7$ & hot go-go boys Saturdays 816 Granville Street Kokanee pints on Special Cosmos, Carbon & Crantini SPECIAL NIGHTS Saturdays Fridays FALLEN ANGELS: Go-go gods Malibu Queen Amateur Sundays From midnight on, DJ Saturdays Kegger Sunday & DMS Yeah Yeah Saturdays: DJ Sherry Drag Contest Finale, Creed & DJ James spin. Fundraiser BBQs Freeze spins House/Top 40 Sundays Sunday, July 12 FEATHER BOA: Legendary Saturdays drag show starring Joan-E Planet Claire Fashion Showcase, SPECIAL NIGHTS From midnight on, DJ Sundays Knights of Malta Mr. Stud Title Sunday Evening with DJ Betti Forde, Friday, July 24 Bertossi & DJ Creed spin. 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All drinks $3 Tuesdays Davie Street’s Sports Venue: $3 highballs $4 Jager shots Well Liquor Specials, Check out the website 49 July/August 2009 CALENDAR Sat Jul 18 WED Jul 22 SAT Jul 25 Thu Jul 30 Fri Jul 31 Gay Day At Playland Spring Awakening Pride Picnic in the Park PRIDE In Fashion Davie Street Pride Party PNE Grounds HavanaTheatre (Through July 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Brockton Celebrities 25, then July 28 to August 1) Oval, Stanley Park No Doubt w/Gwen Stefani GM Place Derrick Barry as Britney Spears Celebrities Nightclub Sat Aug 1 Sun Aug 2 Mon Aug 3 2009 World Police MusicFest Vancouver Cabaret Singer Ute Lemper & Fire Games Various Venues (Through Chan Centre at UBC Various times and locations August 16) (Through August 9) Cruisey T Pride Party Cruise Vancouver Pride Parade Harbour Cruises Denman St., Pacific Ave., Beach Ave. Tue Aug 4 Pride In Art Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre wed Aug 8 skiOUT! 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