The Year of the Cinema Part Two Starring Queer Hollywood, Daniel Macivor, and Vancouver Queer Film Festival FEATURING PINKPLAYMAG’S PRIDE GUIDE
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In Birdcage, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. this issue I go over the second stage, the one We also liked the odd and weird movies, like where I spent a lot of time hanging out with The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and her Lover one of my siblings, my youngest brother. (I LOVE that film). There are 11 years between myself and my I liked watching movies with my brother brother. He liked the movies as much as I did, because he always had an opinion. We would and he was a very creative guy, so I took him spend hours discussing a film, dissecting shots under my wing. He was almost like a son to and story arcs, and critiquing an actor or a me, and I used to joke to my friends that he role. Then he got older, he had his friends, was my kid. I had mine, and watching movies together stopped as a thing for us. We still however We hung out together, and watched movies discussed movies at every family gathering. throughout the 90s, a great period for film, with Basic Instinct, Showgirls, The Fifth You will notice that I have used past tense. Element, Jurassic Park, Total Recall, Home That is because my brother Dori is no longer Alone, Ghost, Goodfellas, and the list goes with us. We said goodbye to him three years on. These were some very iconic movies that ago, but the memories of the time we spent we first watched together. Sometimes we together will last me a lifetime, and the movies actually watched back-to-back movies in the we first saw together mean a lot to me. theatre. We’d load on popcorn, get another Okay I am done rambling for this issue. drink, and see another movie. We did that Actually, there’s one last thing, I hope you are with roller coaster rides at Wonderland as well, enjoying the covers. I have been thinking for minus the popcorn and drink of course, or a whole year about what movies we want to that would have been a mess! take, satire, and recast with an LGBTQ cast. Another thing we both shared film-wise, I hope you are enjoying our 2019 theme. was that we both were obsessed with horror There’s still more to come. movies. The scarier, the better. When I still Happy Pride and be safe! lived with my family, we would stay up after everyone else had gone to sleep, and do . allnighters of creepy movies. Then I moved out to live downtown, but we still kept up our Antoine Elhashem movie dates. We at least met up once every Publisher couple of weeks to see a bunch of films. [email protected] CINEMA summerplay! 2019 5 summerplay! In this issue Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, Leather, and Queer 11 Queer Hollywood Community Seasonal from PinkPlayMags – Jerry Schaefer Free • Summer 2019 16 Daniel MacIvor Publisher/Creative Director: Antoine Elhashem Editor-in-Chief: Bryen Dunn – Raymond Helkio Art Direction and Production: Mychol Scully 20 Vancouver Queer Film Festival Contributors – Michael McNeely Writers: Jerry Schaefer, Raymond Helkio, Michael 24 Travel: NYC’s WorldPride and McNeely, Bryen Dunn, Cat Grant, Kelly Wilk, Christian Stonewall 50 Celebrations Baines, Sherry Sylvain, Mychol Scully, Julie Antoinette – Bryen Dunn Cover Photography: Angel Torres Photography 31 Pride Across Ontario: Eight pages of listings, info & PRIDE 39 Fiction: Sons of Sin – Christian Baines Regular features 29 Hot Artist: Chase Joynt – Raymond Helkio 45 Community Cornerstone: Women in Film and Television – Kelly Wilk 47 In the City – Sherry Sylvain 52 From the Heart Cover Mean Boys – Mychol Scully Raised and home schooled by his adventurer parents, 56 Summer Horoscopes in the jungles of the Amazon, Joey thought he knew everything he needed to know about the survival of – Julie Antoinette the fittest. That all changes when he moves to Toronto, 58 Looking Back: 1950’s Queer attends high school, and discovers the meanest species Cinema – Michael McNeely of them all, the “Toxics”, the most popular boys (queens) in school. Written & Directed Antoine Elhashem Cinematography Angel Torres Starring Joey Viola, Matty Cameron (Scarlett BoBo), Monty Tayara, and Mike Lino Published by Websites www.inspiredmediainc.com INspired Media Inc. Operating INspiredcreative (www.inspiredcreative.ca), and www.thepinkpagesdirectory.com publishers of The Pink Pages Directory, PinkPlayMags, theBUZZ, and www.pinkplaymags.com The Local Biz Magazine. www.thebuzzmag.ca President ..............................Antoine Elhashem We’d love to hear from you. Please send comments, questions or General Manager .............................Kim Dobie any other matters to [email protected] Advertising Consultants ..Carolyn Burtch, Michael Wile, Tina Perrea For advertising inquiries Counsel. 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Any copying of material in this publication in whole or in part is prohibited and legal action will be taken, unless authorized in writing by the publishers. 6 summerplay! 2019 CINEMA From the Editor Thanks for picking up Issue Two of our Year of Cinema retrospective, where we of the Stonewall Inn uprising, which many look at queer representation within film consider to be the beginning of the fight over the decades, chat with established and for LGBT equality. Cat Grant caught up emerging individuals who have contributed with filmmaker Chase Joynt, who had their their works, and organizations who help latest film, Framing Agnes, recently premiere open the doors to those interested in at the famed Tribeca Film Festival. Kelly Wilk pursuing their dreams in the industry. continues her Community Cornerstone For our cover feature, writer Jerry Schaefer series with a spotlight on Women in Film returns with a look at Hollywood’s queer and Television – Toronto. Our Fiction representation through the years, titled, excerpt is from “Sins of Son” the latest Queer Hollywood: From Rejection to supernatural thriller novel in the Arcadia Acceptance. He had a chance to chat with Trust series from Toronto author Christian Dr. William J. Mann, author of several Baines. books on Hollywood, and a Professor of As always, we have an amazing list of LGBT History and Popular Culture at Events compiled by Sherry Sylvain, the Central Connecticut State University. Our reflective From The Heart column by two other features include an exclusive Mychol Scully, Horoscopes by Julie interview with Canada’s Daniel MacIvor. Antoinette, and we close out with our Raymond Helkio delves into the topic of Looking Back piece written by Michael “What makes a Canadian film Canadian, McNeely, who reflects back on some of what makes it queer, and can it be both the queer silver screen moments from the without attempting to be either?” In our 1950s. third feature, Michael McNeely is back with a look at the Vancouver Queer Film Cheers to summer, and a Happy Pride to all! Festival taking place in August. Also in this issue, our Travel Feature is Bryen Dunn on New York City, where an estimated 4 Editor-in-Chief million people will descend this month to [email protected] celebrate WorldPride and Stonewall 50 celebrations. It’s the first time this event is being held in the United States, and June 28 will mark the 50th anniversary CINEMA summerplay! 2019 7 8 summerplay! 2019 CINEMA Queer From Rejection to Acceptance By Jerry Schaefer n the early days of Hollywood, queer characters often appeared on screen, Iin silent films, and later in “Talkies.” But the Great Depression hit the moving picture industry hard, spurring filmmakers to explore more outrageous content to lure people back into theatres. How did queer characters survive The Code? To find out, I spoke with Dr. William J. Mann, author of several books on Hollywood, and a Professor of LGBT History and Popular Culture at Central Connecticut State University.