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FEEDBACK The fact is that there really is no gay village in Toronto. It is just a free-for-all for Putin’s pandering Dating apps and race I cannot understand why this has everyone, with not much to do or see. spondents said they have no gay friends or become an issue worthy of print RE: TORONTO AS A GAY DESTINATION EDITORIAL [“Blocked,” Xtra #750, July 25]. ROBIN PERELLE relatives; 16 percent thought gay people should be isolated from society; 22 per- Race and ethnicity are factors in everything we do, and racism in the there were rude and obnoxious, dis- It’s no secret that Russian cent suggested compulsory treatment; PROTESTING GLBTQ communities is very com- RUSSIA turbing occupants on the lower fl oors President Vladimir Putin and fi ve percent thought they should be E 13 mon. Have these two guys been living TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS CUSTOMS has criminalized public expressions of “liquidated.” CENSORSHIP of the Alexus in the middle of the E 14 in a cave somewhere? What makes SEXY ART night and leaving behind piles of lit- gay-friendliness to pander to his staunchly Another Levada survey reportedly 2013 8–21, AUG the #751 BOYS conservative constituency base. found that 76 percent of Russians sup- them think that anything has sig- E32 ter. But others, like myself (an Alexus The question is: has he been shocked by port the anti-propaganda law. nificantly changed for ethnically TRAVEL resident), were largely well behaved the Western world’s increasing outrage, or As the West rises up in shocked outrage, visual people; people come with their ISSUE and loved sitting there watching the does it play right into his hands? Putin may be congratulating himself on a biases and live by them. I suspect weird world go by. When the four When Putin signed a law in early June job well done, as he scores bonus points that blacks have even more alarming benches disappeared in November @dailyxtra blocking gay couples — and single people with his traditional support base, and responses to report. Preference (a 2011, I wrote letters to the Alexus safe term for various choices) is one condo board and Councillor Wong- from countries with legal gay marriage — especially the Russian Orthodox Church, facebook.com/dailyxtra thing, but racism has persisted for Tam, complaining aggressively about from adopting Russian children, most West- for standing fi rm internationally on their dailyxtra.com FREE 36,000 AUDITED CIRCULATION erners took it in stride, if they even noticed. conservative values. centuries and, with our technological at More their removal. There are rumours A few weeks later, when Putin signed Or maybe he’s cringing as he loses face in advances, is even more evident. My now that “park-your-ass-sorta seat- a law outlawing direct and even indirect the run-up to the Sochi Games in February question is: why is it that these guys Russian protests ing” will soon be installed at Church messages to youth that homosexuality may 2014. Or both. feel that they need to have a white Why is it the entire expectation of and Alexander. But I’d rather have be tolerable, it made headlines across the So what should we, as an outraged com- man in their lives? the athletes is to speak up against the old, traditional benches back, Western world. munity, do? Boycott the Games? Boycott K RYDER this crime when the International including the full array of unpredict- TORONTO, ON In a country whose capital already Russian products? Pressure the Interna- Olympic Committee should be tak- able social interaction. banned gay pride parades for the next tional Olympic Committee to relocate the ing an assertive stand first? [“The LARRY WAYNE RICHARDS City Park Co-op TORONTO, ON 100 years, the new “anti-propaganda” law Games (as if)? Politics of Hate,” Xtra #751, Aug means anyone caught expressing any form Personally, I’d rather support courageous I was sitting on the corner of Alex- 8]. The organization should come of public support for gay people is now gay athletes and allies going to the Games ander and Church streets on Aug forward right from the beginning Toronto as a subject to a fi ne, two weeks’ imprisonment and publicly defying Putin on his home turf. 18 [“Letting Go of Our Anger,” Xtra to make their position clear so the gay destination and, for foreigners, deportation. Let’s not abandon Russia’s gay people under #749, July 11]. Across the street, I athletes have an organized platform Pride is no longer about being gay or It means teachers can no longer suggest siege; let’s support them, visibly and vocally. observed the two security guards to follow, not the reverse. It’s like the affi rming that; it is a family-friendly to students that being gay is okay; parents “Imagine this: it’s the opening ceremony employed by the City Park Co-op on organization is sending its athletes to event with “gay” undertones [“Chas- presumably face the same penalties, or will of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Rus- the grounds chatting to one another. the wolves and placing their lives at ing Rainbows,” Xtra #751, Aug 8]. soon enough. sia. A huge television event, watched the Two men holding hands walked past risk, especially with the IOC aware The Toronto gay village isn’t really All in the name of protecting traditional world over,” writes New York Times col- them on the sidewalk. The security of the repercussions if a gay athlete that anymore — it is the Church- Russian values and boosting a report- umnist Frank Bruni. “And as the television guards watched them in a leering protests against this policy. Some- Wellesley Village. The gay section is edly sagging birthrate — not to mention cameras zoom in on Team USA, one of its way and then broke into laughter. thing is wrong here. shrinking all the time. Once Zipperz Putin’s sagging political support, though members quietly pulls out a rainbow fl ag, The couple holding hands didn’t EJ KWANDIBENS (FACEBOOK) closes, the Village will be nothing it depends which polls you read and which no bigger than a handkerchief, and holds notice, but I did. While I watched TORONTO, ON more than two blocks long, with a opponents got sent to jail last week. it up. Not ostentatiously high, but just high the security guards, all those deeply few gay venues thrown in for good Amid allegations of electoral fraud, enough that it can’t be mistaken.” rooted feelings of gay shame came Hate to ask the obvious, but why measure. These venues cater to only Putin won a third, non-consecutive (so In Bruni’s scenario, another American to the surface. I didn’t expect this to aren’t we hearing from our politi- one type of queer: young twinks and presumably legal) presidential term in follows suit, then another and another. happen on this street corner, of all cians? When it comes to the “politics lots and lots of straight girls. Even the 2012, having played prime minister for a In mine, they are joined by athletes from street corners. At that moment, it of hate,” I’d rather them respond, Eagle is going that way. What is the term between presidencies. He now rules countries around the world who, together, was hard for me to imagine that this aligned with the social, legal and Pride organization to do? The fact uneasily against a backdrop of post-oil- create waves and waves of rainbows. street corner, only a few months ago, political climate of Canada (pro- is that there really is no gay village boom economic stagnation, squelched “A gay-rights motif with a message,” Bru- was the core of one of the largest gay equality), and let the athletes focus in Toronto. It is just a free-for-all civil liberties and growing disgruntlement. ni says: “We’re here in Russia to compete, pride celebrations in North America. on performing. for everyone, with not much to do It’s no wonder he’s turned to gays, among but we’re not here in Russia to assent.” At that moment, it felt like the statue MATTHEW LANDEEN (FACEBOOK) or see. Perhaps the gay venues in other minorities, in search of a handy It’s a powerful image and the answer, of gay pioneer Alexander Wood, only TORONTO, ON the east and west of the city can be scapegoat. I think, to the Games. The real question a few metres away, didn’t exist. At mentioned, but this is a downtown In March, The Moscow Times reported is: what comes next, when the cameras that moment, the only thing that Alexus benches event, so there isn’t much hope for that homophobia is more widespread now go home? existed was that street corner act- When Mr Glenwright discusses the tourists catching a streetcar and than it was in Russia eight years ago. The ing as a platform of entertainment removal of four popular benches at trundling halfway across the city. Times cited a survey by the Russian Levada Robin Perelle is the managing editor of for two security guards to express the northwest corner of Church and In a few short years the Village will Center, which found that 89 percent of re- Xtra Vancouver. their homophobia . . . while getting Alexander and says, “the residents of become a thriving community of paid for it. I think everyone in the the Alexus condo should have lob- condo dwellers. There is a price for community deserves to know where bied for even more seating there,” he so-called equality, and this is it. The outcome that we seek is this — gay and lesbian homophobia lives. people daring together to set love free. is only alluding to part of a complex ZACK JIM SHIELDS story [“Let There Be Seating,” Xtra TORONTO, ON Xtra is published by Pink Triangle Press, at 2 Carlton St, Ste 1600, Toronto, M5B 1J3. TORONTO, ON #751, Aug 8]. Some bench-sitters

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On Aug 19, the city began a long-awaited renova- tion to Cawthra Park, which will be surrounded by construction hoarding and closed to the com- munity until next May. The renovation is part of a $1.45-million city project meant to improve the area for summer 2014, when Toronto will host WorldPride. Xtra first reported on the Cawthra Park redesign in February 2012, when a contentious proposal sug- gested replacing much of the park’s grassland with concrete paving. Since then, nearby residents and community members approved a final design. It will leave most of the park green while levelling the grassy area to improve drainage and creating new pathways with concrete paving stones. Dynamic The Cawthra Park renovation will leave most of the park green while levelling the grassy area to improve drainage. LOGAN LY LED lighting will also be added, and the walls at the Church Street end of the park will be removed. users; however, the children’s playground and start earlier this year, The 519 didn’t program park to deal with him. For whatever reason, the police The community shot down another proposal splash pad, the dog run, the AIDS memorial and activities this summer. wouldn’t take it further.” that would have replaced most of the grass and a pathway to Cawthra Square will remain open That’s caused consternation for one nearby busi- Cutler says that The 519 regularly calls police trees with concrete paving to improve drain- throughout construction. ness owner, who says drug users harass customers when individuals are being disruptive in the park age and wear and tear caused by events such The 519’s long-term plan aims to increase all-day and frighten away foot traffic. On Aug 9, Ladybug or in front of the building, but that’s not a viable as Pride. Instead, only unhealthy trees will be programming in the park in order to encourage Florist owner Claire Rose McLeod decided she’d solution without a constant police presence. “At removed, while new underground Strata Cell community members to use it — and to ward off had enough when one customer told her that she’d the same time, we have to recognize that we’re root-management structures will protect those aggressive drug users who frequent the park when been frightened by a man screaming nonsensical, pushing out members of our community from trees that remain and encourage growth. it’s empty, says Matthew Cutler, The 519’s director violent threats in front of the store. After the man public space. When we blocked off that wall, se- “In our consultations, we found that people of strategic partnership initiatives. left, McLeod took matters into her own hands by niors had no place to sit down; parents with kids didn’t want to lose the green space,” says Council- “This neighbourhood has a history of being a pouring corn syrup on the Cawthra Park entrance couldn’t rest them on that wall,” he says. lor Kristyn Wong-Tam, who emphasizes that the place where the homeless and those with mental wall, which adjoins her store — and on which she That’s part of the rationale for the park redesign, space is designed for flexibility. “It’s a heavily used illnesses come,” Cutler says, comparing the site to says “aggressive drug users” tend to hang out. which incorporates crime prevention through urban park, so there will be different elevations for the old Second Cup steps and the former Alexan- The 519 cleaned off the corn syrup on Aug 10 and environmental-design principles of enhanced people to sit and sunbathe.” der Street benches. “Every time, the solution has placed planters on the wall to discourage people lighting and sightlines. A proposed mural for the 519 Church Street been to remove public space. We need to look for from sitting on it. But Cutler disputes claims that “It’s about people coming in and using the Community Centre’s north wall — part of the answers that are systemic and long-term.” The 519 invites or tolerates aggressive behaviour space. We’re going to see a very different park,” Church Street Mural Project — will also be com- The 519 previously programmed activities such and drug use in Cawthra Park. “There was just an Wong-Tam says. pleted during the construction period if The 519 as yoga and movie nights in the park, which filled individual having a psychotic break. He was not But that won’t address the core issue, Cutler board approves it. the space with residents and displaced drug users. a service user at The 519. It could have happened says. “People who use the park to use substances The long closure will be disappointing for park Anticipating that the renovation project would anywhere,” he says. “We called the police twice will move to other parts of the community.”

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down since she’s had to compete with Loblaws’ flower selection. “Luckily, we’ve been having a growing online business,” she says. Village grocers struggle nearly But despite the grocery store losses in the Village, the neighbourhood is not in danger of becoming a food desert, even if residents must walk a little farther to shop. In addition to Loblaws, there is a Metro at College Park and a Sobeys at two years after Loblaws opens College and Bay. At the north end of the Village, there is a Longo’s at Bloor and Park Road. And discount grocers Yet another Church-Wellesley Village include Bulk Barn at Carlton and Yonge, food shop seems to have closed its Food Basics at Wellesley and Parlia- doors: About Cheese, at 483 Church ment, and No Frills at Parliament and St, has not been open for more than Carlton. three weeks. And Cumbrae’s, Pusateri, Hasty Mar- It’s the latest in a string of grocery- ket and Super Freshmart are holding store closures to hit the neighbour- down the fort on Church Street itself, hood since the arrival of Loblaws at for now. Church and Carlton streets nearly two But the arrival of the big-box gro- years ago. cery stores may have a complicated Reither’s Fine Foods closed last effect on the neighbourhood. On the one March and Super Freshmart downsized hand, it’s become a huge competitor for its location earlier this year. In addition, Church Street businesses. On the other, the Sobeys on Yonge Street shut its some business owners say it’s noticeably doors a few months ago and the Sher- increased foot traffic through the south- bourne Street No Frills closed July 20. ern part of the Village. Also, Loblaws While About Cheese, which had been and Metro are both union shops that supplying the Village with artisanal offer employees decent wages, benefits cheese since 2008, has not been open and job security. for weeks, there is no sign on the shop And while years ago mainstream door indicating that the store is per- media cited every new store and bar manently closed. Goods remain on the closure in the Village as growing evi- shelves inside, leading some neigh- dence of “the death of the Village,” few bouring business owners to speculate shuttered storefronts remain on the that the owner is trying to sell off the main drag of Church Street. The space business and inventory. that Reither’s formerly occupied is now Phone numbers associated with home to a larger Stag Shop location and About Cheese’s Church Street and a DavidsTea. North York locations appeared to be Frank Mangione, owner of Pusateri disconnected, and the owners could Fruit Market, says the arrival of Loblaws not be reached for comment as of this made business difficult at first, but his se- writing. lection of fine local produce is what keeps Meanwhile, the city has approved About Cheese has been closed for several weeks. MICHAEL LYONS his customers coming back. He says the applications to demolish part of the grocery store will remain on Church building that contained the Sherbourne antee from the developer that a grocery to a spokesperson for Councillor Pam tion is complete to open the store. Street for a long time. “Over the past five No Frills and replace it with a 43-storey store could remain open at the ground McConnell, the developer has reached Given the nature of Loblaws, it’s not or six months, business has picked up, condo with 369 residential and rental level through the construction phase, a deal with FreshCo to open a grocery just grocers who are feeling the pinch. now that people have compared what we units and retail at the ground level. but No Frills decided to vacate its lease store in the vacant space, but FreshCo Ladybug Florist owner Claire Rose have to offer with Loblaws’ selection,” he The city’s approval included a guar- before construction began. According has decided to wait until the construc- McLeod says that walk-in sales are says. —Rob Salerno

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gay man. Coming out would be inspir- debated on the floor, studied at commit- ing for queer Canadians, Mitchell tee, then passed before it can finally get says, and would have an international royal assent. Trans activist Susan Gapka impact. “The one thing that was loud A spokesperson for James Cowan, and clear was a call for John to come leader of the opposition in the Sen- out as a gay man. It’s not secret, and ate, said that it’s all “hypotheticals” I have no idea why he hasn’t yet,” of what could happen to the bill once Mitchell wrote to Baird’s press sec- it starts from the beginning. “If you joins NDP nomination race retary, Rick Roth. Mitchell says Roth could use a metaphor of snakes and did not address Baird’s sexuality in ladders — it goes back a few steps,” he the response. says. —Justin Ling Mitchell says that while Baird’s sexu- Trans activist Susan Gapka announced ality shouldn’t matter, it does. “The her intention to seek the NDP nomi- message he would send if he came out Gay filmmaker nation for the federal by-election in would save lives here.” Toronto Centre via Twitter Aug 19, Baird, whose sexuality has been John Greyson bringing the total number of competi- discussed in mainstream media as an tors to three. open secret, has never actually come arrested in Egypt Gapka has long been known in the out — and he has declined Xtra’s re- Authorities are still holding two Cana- community for her activism related to peated requests for an interview. 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Following the entry of Lynne Yelich, minister of state for two high-profile candidates, journalists again stalls federal foreign affairs and consular services, Jennifer Hollett and Linda McQuaig, released a statement Aug 18 saying she the party had already announced that trans rights bill “spoke with a senior Egyptian official Susan Gapka ADAM COISH it will hold the nomination meeting on With Stephen Harper’s finger on the to request confirmation of the nature Sept 15, and only members signed up reset button, the fate of the federal trans of the charges and call for all evidence before Aug 16 will be eligible to vote. from Toronto’s gay village to the Rus- rights bill appears again stalled by the against the two Canadians be released.” That means Gapka will be able to cam- Come out of the sian consulate, where many left mes- parliamentary process. While the prison where the two are paign to active members only and will sages in chalk at the entrance and Bill C-279, which seeks to add gender being held has already begun releas- not be able to sign up new members to closet, protesters rainbow flags draped over the front identity as a ground for human rights ing some prisoners, it’s not clear when vote for her. doors. protection under the Criminal Code the two will be freed. A friend of both She says that she entered the race tell John Baird DiNovo joined Liberal MPP Glen of Canada, has had a long and arduous tweeted that staff from Canadian con- because friends and colleagues had Murray and NDP MP Craig Scott, who trek to the upper chamber. Its nearly sular services had visited the two and encouraged her and that it’s important On the heels of Foreign Affairs Minister both gave passionate speeches demand- 10-year history of being introduced — are still seeking information about the that there be a queer candidate. “We John Baird’s strong condemnation of ing action by the Canadian government and ignored, defeated and killed on the charges. want to see members of disadvan- Russia’s anti-gay laws, Ontario NDP and the International Olympic Com- order paper — nearly drew to a close in Greyson is being held alongside taged, unrepresented communities MPP Cheri DiNovo and others are call- mittee. “Now we need [Baird] to stand June, but the Senate failed to get the bill Tarek Loubani, who was en route to a reflected in the political process,” ing on him to come out publicly as a up,” DiNovo says. “We have an openly passed through third and final reading Gaza hospital, where he is participat- she says. gay man. gay foreign minister. We want him to in the red chamber before the summer ing in a medical exchange organized “It’s truly important that we have DiNovo made the comments at the go to Russia, stand on Russian soil and break. This, despite three marathon ses- by the University of Western Ontario. someone from that community to #TOwithRussia solidarity march in say, ‘I’m gay. Deal with it.’” sions in committee to get the bill passed. —Justin Ling speak in the caucus. We have the busi- Toronto on Aug 3, which was part of DiNovo is not alone in her appeal. But with prorogation, the bill does ness and corporate world, but we an international day of protest against Roy Mitchell, one of the organizers not die. It goes back to the first step of For more on these stories, don’t have trans people involved in Russia’s anti-gay laws. 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zine that if there are gay National Football League (NFL) players who Russian athlete says kiss want to come out, the time to do so is now. Griffi n, who is a Christian, says his Darren beliefs would not prevent him from Young was 'just happiness' for team accepting gay players. “My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do. If “It was just happiness for our team,” some Christians want to look at being says Kseniya Ryzhova, explaining the gay as a sin, then thinking about other kiss she shared with a team member women, committing adultery — or any WWE wrestler Darren after they claimed gold in the 4x400 of those other sins that are in the Bible metre relay event at the World Athlet- — those are sins, too. And God looks at Young comes out ics Championships in Russia, the UK’s all of us the same way.” Guardian newspaper reports. In a piece for Pink News, British gay Darren Young is out and he doesn’t care The kiss between Ryzhova and Yulia rights activist Peter Tatchell expressed who knows it. Guschina sparked media speculation disappointment on the eve of the start The World Wrestling Entertainment over whether the action was taken in of the English Premier League season (WWE) wrestler came out in an interview protest against their country’s anti-gay that, of the 5,000 professional football with a TMZ reporter, Pink News reports. laws or just a typical gesture of con- players in the UK, none are out. “By When asked whether a gay wrestler gratulations and friendship. statistical averages, there must be in could be successful, Young replied, Ryzhova has declined to say what the region of 500 players who are gay “Absolutely, absolutely! Look at me. her position on queer rights is, the or bisexual,” Tatchell writes. “None feel I’m a WWE Superstar, and to be hon- Kseniya Ryzhova kisses teammate Yulia Guschina. report says. able to come out. What does this say est with you I’m gay. And I’m happy, Russia’s track-and-fi eld triumphs at national community to “calm down” about the state of the beautiful game?” very happy.” the world championships competed about his country’s anti-gay policies, NFL quarterback: Now Clarke Carlisle, chairman of the Young also said he doesn’t think sexu- for headlines with the controversy over said that the law banning promotion of Professional Footballers’ Association, ality matters in wrestling. “I don’t think its anti-gay laws, as some athletes have non-traditional sexual relations doesn’t is ‘window’ for gay has previously said that at least eight it matters... some people might not like chosen to make statements, whether violate any rights and that concerns that players have told him they are gay, it, some people will like it, but I’m here verbal or through gestures, in support it would infringe upon athletes’ and player to come out with seven saying they are reluctant to please myself. I’m here to be happy.” of gays and lesbians. spectators’ freedoms are “overblown,” to go public because of the potential Young, 33, is a native of New Jersey Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mut- according to the state R-Sport news Washington Redskins quarterback negative reaction of fans and media. and the winner of several wrestling ko, who has previously told the inter- agency. —Natasha Barsotti Robert Griffin III has told GQ maga- —Natasha Barsotti championships. —Danny Glenwright

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The House of Medici, especially its UÊReal Estate gayer members, is one of my favourite UÊCorporate/Commercial topics of conversation, much to the UÊWills/Estates chagrin of my friend Ryan. The Medici UÊFamily family was a guiding social infl uence in Florence, Italy, during most of the Renaissance. I became infatuated with Day or evening appointments available Florence in my early 20s and decided the Medici story was like a great fan- tasy novel, with rogue generals, a ma- 120 Carlton St., Suite 308 levolent giant and fabulous inventors. Toronto ON, M5A 4K2 I enjoy regaling Ryan with historical www.paulwillis-law.com anecdotes, my face lighting up and [email protected] 416.926.9806 nervous giggle going haywire, as he makes snide comments. When I said I would write a column on the Medici, he said, “Haven’t you written about them a dozen times already?” My revenge: ERIC WILLIAMS I dedicate this column to Ryan. It is generally accepted that the Re- tion the Medici in my column about In 1723, Gian became Grand Duke, naissance began in Florence some- Donatello; that’s one time, Ryan!). and after a brief productive period he time in the 14th century and ended Their wealth and shrewdness even- sank back into his habit of brooding, in the 17th. It might have begun when tually made them hereditary mon- drinking and screwing men. He spent the poet and scholar Petrarch (1304– archs. Alessandro de’ Medici became much of his time in bed, entertained 1374) unearthed lost manuscripts and the first Duke of Florence in about by an entourage of paid boys known learned that the ancient Greeks and 1530, and Cosimo I de’ Medici became as the Ruspanti, named after the ruspi Romans had endorsed a life of ambi- the first Grand Duke of Tuscany in (coins) they were paid. The hand- tion and reliance on human reason, 1569. Over time, there were four Medici some young men had sex with Gian rather than one of superstition and popes and two Medici regent queens of and put on ridiculous dramas while self-denial. He decided this was some- France. The Medici reign in Italy ended he bellowed dirty comments until he thing that could be recreated. in 1737 with the death of the last Grand passed out. The Medici family crest is a bunch of Duke, Gian Gastone. Gian’s ancestor Ferdinando II, red balls (frequently six) on a fi eld of Gian was homosexual, so it was Grand Duke from 1621 to 1670, was gold. One story goes that in the eighth thought unlikely he’d produce an heir. more gallant. Despite loving men, he century, Charlemagne granted the Nonetheless, his sister arranged for managed to produce heirs. One day, insignia to Averardo de’ Medici for him to marry Anna Maria Francesca of when his mother, Maria Maddalena killing a giant (remember the giant Saxe-Lauenburg in 1697. Anna Maria of Austria, handed him a list of homo- I mentioned, Ryan?). In reality, the refused to move to Florence, insist- sexuals and demanded their punish- crest probably references the medieval ing they live in Ploskovice Castle, ment, he added his name to the list. Medici occupation of money changing, her home in Bohemia (located in the When he asked what she thought the the red balls symbolizing coins. By modern-day Czech Republic). They punishment for homosexuals should the 14th century, the family was well were both distressingly unattractive be, she said they should be burned, established in Florence and about to and despised one another. She spent so he tossed the paper into the fire get rich from the Medici Bank. her time chattering at her horses, and said, “Voilà, your command has Many of the Medici were great sup- while he got drunk and romped with already been accomplished.” porters of humanism (the great driving the groom Giuliano Dami. He and I suppose Ryan just doesn’t ap- idea behind the Renaissance), funding Dami were lovers and occasionally preciate how I never shut up about the search for ancient manuscripts, took off to Prague, where Dami played the Medici. In which case, this col- founding libraries and patronizing pimp, finding boys for Gian. When umn won’t win him to my cause. My scholars and many great artists, includ- an heir seemed impossible, Gian was goal here, however, isn’t persuasion, ing Brunelleschi, da Vinci, Botticelli called back to Florence by his father, but revenge! Machiavelli would be and Donatello (okay, fi ne, I did men- never to see his wife again. proud.

MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 15 A mixed fortune Despite ongoing harassment from hard-liners, members of Jakarta’s trans sex-worker community are fighting for their rights in a modern Indonesia

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he lights of Plaza Indo- often kicked out of their families once Joyce’s house, talking about AIDS and nesia, with its swanky ho- they reach adulthood. the suffering many have witnessed is a tels, glitzy malls and iconic Many end up living under bridges. topic best left unspoken. Her mission fountain roundabout, are Those who don’t sell their bodies often is to instruct the 20 girls not to repeat only a few blocks to the find jobs at beauty salons and cheap the same mistakes. She drills into them north of Taman Lawang, food stalls, or they become buskers. the importance of using condoms — a a very different Jakarta Making ends meet is a monthly struggle: practice many wealthy customers often neighbourhood. Come mid- this helps to explain why almost all shun, with offers of three times more T night in the leafy street that waria undergo hormone therapy and money for the girls. cuts into one of Jakarta’s wealthiest some have breast-enlargement injec- An outreach activist for Srikandi neighbourhoods, the dimly lit road be- tions, but a costly sex-change operation Sejati, an underfunded foundation that longs to young beauties who go by flashy is extremely rare. runs HIV programs for trans sex work- names like Tiara, Marsha and Venus. In the seedy-looking alleys near ers, Joyce insists each of her tenants go Customers stop their cars to haggle Sudirman Station, a low-rise maze at through a checkup every three months. over the price of their company, and walking distance from Taman Lawang, “I’m like a mother, protecting my vulner- groups of giggling teenagers on scoot- “Mami” Joyce has recreated the closest able children,” she admits while sitting ers linger nearby to flirt with the idea possible thing to a family for 20 fellow beneath a poster of Marilyn Monroe that of a tempting escape. For the beauties trans sex workers who hail from all over hangs over her leopard bed set. on the sidewalk are transgender sex Indonesia. An imposing 50-year-old, workers, and Taman Lawang has long originally from Medan, whose manly been synonymous with them. daytime buzz cut is concealed by a oyce isn’t the only prominent For most of Indonesia’s trans sex blonde wig when she dresses up every “Mami” active on the trans-rights workers, taking to the streets at night night, Mami Joyce owns the premises front. Yulianus Rettoblaut, better is a choice, but also, typically, it’s the of this rundown part-brothel, part-com- known as “Mami Yuli,” recently result of having very few alternatives. mune apartment whose two wooden made international news when The country, with its 245 million people, floors come alive after dinner. That’s J she set up Indonesia’s first shel- has the biggest Muslim population in when its tenants start getting dolled ter for elderly trans people. It’s not an the world. Yet most of the 86 percent up for a long shift in the streets. Each independent structure — she basically of Indonesians who follow Islam live of them rents a room — nothing more opened up her house in Depok, part of by moderate interpretations of the than a dusty mattress on the floor and a Jakarta’s huge southern outskirts, to Koran, influenced by the archipelago’s cheap TV set — for $40 to $50 a month, fellow trans folks with nowhere to go. animistic and Hindu traditions that roughly the equivalent of three nights’ Still, her creation has rapidly attracted predated Allah’s word here. work. interest: “Since I opened it six months But religion has traditionally under- What the girls gain, other than prox- ago, I’ve got 800 people on my waiting mined acceptance of waria, a popular imity to Taman Lawang and their cus- list. So many people knock at my door word combining the terms for woman tomers, is a sense of protection and for help, not necessarily transgender,” (wanita) and man (pria) in Bahasa In- community: both rare in a society that says Yuli, a former sex worker and a de- donesia, the country’s official language. marginalizes them. The youngest is vout Catholic who five years ago became Faith-based values have fostered dis- 18, the oldest 32. All have experienced the first waria ever to graduate from an crimination in formal employment HIV-related deaths among their peers Islamic university in Indonesia. and in countless cases have moved and friends; according to a 2007 study, Running the shelter with her own Mami Joyce takes a cigarette break ashamed parents to sever bonds with one third of trans people in Jakarta halfway through her makeup process. their transgender children, who are have contracted the virus. In Mami continued on page 18 E

16 AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 XTRA! TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 17 E continued from page 16 like Apollo, where upscale customers fenders of public morality in a country Adjen and two other trans mingle, are famous for their colourful where prostitution and homosexuality sex workers who live at funds, partially aided by a network of drag performances and go-go dancers. are both legal under the criminal code. Mami Joyce’s chat with local churches, Yuli dreams of gradu- Yet discrimination is still widespread, Nobody does this more than hard- clients on mobile phone ally expanding her creation to host “all and tolerance largely remains a matter liners from the FPI (Islamic Defenders apps. Internet dating is of Jakarta’s elderly waria,” with a new of environment. Urban homosexu- Front), a notorious radical group that becoming more and more common in the waria building in what is now an overgrown als may be coming out in increasing has recently embodied the resistance to community, and profits backyard. “Love is everything; I give all numbers, “but I’ve heard some stories progressive change in the archipelago. can be 10 times more than to all people,” she says. where people can’t get jobs because FPI militants periodically intimidate the “street fee.” Among the eight permanent “gran- their prospective employers know that LGBT people, in several cases with nies” of the shelter — as they’re respect- they are gay,” Novito says. death threats. A man dressed like a fully called by trans youth who regularly woman is haram (prohibited). drop by to learn skills or simply to get a The group’s threat, and the reluctance sense of community — Yoti Oktosea’s any waria have boyfriends, of the authorities to crack down on it story is the most compelling, yet so typi- and an increasing number (to do so would risk their being accused cal of the painful difficulties waria have enter into relationships of not defending Islam), has guaran- traditionally faced in Indonesia. Her with married men — their teed the FPI a growing clout — many family disowned Yoti, a stocky 69-year- wives often aware of the transgender groups have reluctantly old with drooping eyes and caring man- M husbands’ double lives. But cut down their social and educational ners, when she was 18. She became a sex trans sex workers and gay people com- events. In the past four years, the FPI worker, then ended up — dressed as a plain of being harassed regularly by the forced the cancellation of the Miss War- man — working on cargo ships. “It has local police, who take on the role of de- ia pageant and of a civil-rights training always been very hard to live as a trans- gender; it was a taboo that society didn’t Jane lies in her want to touch,” she says. “Now parents bedroom reading a are more accepting, and the media have sexual-awareness a positive influence on tolerance.” book provided by The past decade has seen signs of Mami Joyce. incremental changes in the country. Until two years ago, authorities of- ficially deemed Indonesia’s estimated 35,000 trans people “mentally ill.” Now the government provides funds (albeit limited) to programs dedicated to them, including Mami Yuli’s. Some prominent waria have found domestic celebrity as singers or talk-show hosts: Dorce Gamalama, often called the “Indonesian Oprah,” was born biologically male. In 2008, in Yogyakarta, a local activ- ist transformed her hairdressing salon into an Islamic school for trans people. In 2006, the country saw its first Miss Waria beauty pageant. Mami Yuli her- self is often invited to debates on TV; she, along with other activists, claims that the transgender population in In- donesia may amount to seven million. It’s an implausible figure, but so is the one provided by the government.

rans people aren’t the only ones enjoying more visibility in Indo- nesia. The annual Q! Film Festi- val — dedicated to LGBT issues — has been a regular feature T for the past decade in Jakarta. “More people in big Indonesian cities are getting increasingly comfortable in showing who they are in public — not only when they are in gay clubs,” explains Nico Novito, a young journal- ist who follows the latest trends in the community. Social media (Indonesia has the high- est per capita Twitter penetration in the world) is also playing a major role. The @nickynmita account, managed by two activists, aims to provide information on “how to live a happy and healthy Selvie, one of the tenants life as LGBT.” at Mami Joyce’s, helps a Jakarta has a small and discreet, friend get dressed for work. yet lively, gay night scene. Hip clubs

18 AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 XTRA! TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS The view of Jakarta’s business district from the second floor of Mami Joyce’s house, set in a low-rise maze behind Taman Lawang.

Selvie dozes off while watching TV in her cramped room.

session for transsexual activists, where take it in stride. “Some of my custom- Despite this clandestine love story, the “Defenders” showed up armed with ers are FPI members,” boasts Intan, a however, all waria agree that a grow- sticks. Even the Q! Film Festival was 28-year-old sex worker, sipping coffee ing number of Indonesians identify as partially disrupted in 2010 due to the at Mami Yuli’s shelter. transgender. While overall welcomed as FPI protests outside its venue. Meanwhile, Darni, who earns her good news in a more open society, some Many Indonesian trans people re- living as a singing hawker, reveals that sex workers joke that it can actually be main practising Muslims, regularly her boyfriend recently joined the FPI. a mixed fortune: “We used to be sought visiting the local mosque — although Everything is going well between them, after by men,” chuckles Tommy, who at they don’t dare dress as women when she says; he regularly confides in her 51 now works in a hair salon after years Adjen, 32, the oldest tenant at Mami they pray. Being at the receiving end about the group’s activities. But with on the streets at night. “Now there are Joyce’s house, outside her room. of Islamist threats is something that his fellow hard-liners, he keeps his so many waria that we almost have to frustrates them, yet they can somehow relationship with a waria secret. pay young men to have sex with us!”

MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 19 20 AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 XTRA! TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS When it comes down to it, we can all be a bit of a cunt Out inthe City sometimes, know what I mean? Alison Moyet E24 FASHION PHILOSOPHER Four years of Sodom Any style junkie worth her salt knows Patricia Field is the iconic “Any club event that survives even one known for delivering show-stopping fashion designer of The Devil year is a miracle,” says Sodom head spectacles, including creating a gi- Sailors will wash ashore Wears Prada, Ugly Betty and, honcho Mitchel Raphael. ant, bleeding heart in the middle of at Sodom. MITCHEL RAPHAEL of course, Sex and the City. But It isn’t an act of god that has allowed the room or having Margaret Atwood that isn’t how Toronto-born Sodom to mark its fourth anniversary beat Rob Ford with a book (not the real fi lmmaker Mars Roberge fi rst en- this month, celebrating with its fi rst- Ford and Atwood, sadly). “At Sodom, countered Field or her infamous ever Swimsuit party. The hard work and you’re going to walk out knowing you Manhattan boutique, House of passion behind the event is palpable — had a good time. You need to give your- Field. “I fi rst heard of her store and this time involves giant tiki masks, self 15 minutes just to walk around from my sister, colourful surfboards and a glittery, to see everything — it’s like going to who lived in NYC oversized Sebastian the Crab. Disneyland to get to all the sections. and would take “I think because it’s the only party We’re not doing our job if you’re not me there when I that is truly an eclectic mix,” Raphael having a good time as soon as you walk was little,” Rob- says, deconstructing Sodom’s success. in the door.” erge says. As an “Because of the people involved in it, As for the fast-approaching Swimsuit adult, Roberge and because of Club120 — it’s become party, Raphael promises there will be a moved to New something of a melting pot. surprise for revellers. “I won’t give you York and got a “We never claim to be something — the full details,” he says, “but we will be job at House of we’re part of the continuum of Party making a big statement on Russia. A big Field, although Mars Roberge Monster, the club kid, the Warhol Fac- part of the show will be taking on Putin. he was oblivi- tory... whether it’s in vogue or not. But it’ll be a big Sodom spectacle.” ous to Patricia’s pop-culture We’re not claiming to do something —Andrew Jacome cachet. “Being a broke DJ for so new, but something in the tradition long, I can’t remember the last of that kind of hyper-camp aesthetic.” Sodom: Swimsuit is Sat, Aug 24, 10pm, time I had cable, so I had no idea Going strong at four years, Sodom is at Club120, 120 Church St. sodom.ca about Sex and the City. In fact, one time I helped Kim Cattrall in the store and told her she should buy something because it was ‘very Sex and the City.’ She didn’t know I had no idea who she was!” In his documentary The Little House That Could, Roberge RAISING CASH tracks Fields’s lengthy history of working alongside queers, club kids, artists and countercultural fi gures of all stripes long before the HBO bucks came rolling in. “Pat was the start for artists WITH ’STACHE like Keith Haring, Basquiat . . . she gave designers from Marc Jacobs to Margiela their start.” Lovers of Queen can soon don their best Freddie for a Day (FFAD) parties. cury’s better-known performances, or at Assembled from interviews with Freddie Mercury costumes — big bushy Julie Hanson was intrigued by the least sport thick black mustaches (on sale scene gods like Amanda Lepore, mustaches and all — for a Freddie- FFAD parties popping up everywhere. at the door). There will be several perfor- Codie Ravioli and Field herself, themed fundraiser to benefi t the AIDS “I saw there was one in Germany and mances, from artists like Rick Rock and Little House is about family, Committee of Toronto (ACT). another in Brazil, so I wrote to the MPT Bob Wegner of the Queen tribute band fashion and Fields’s legacy. In 1992, the remaining members of website to ask if there was a party in To- Simply Queen, and Juno Award–winning “She brought originality back Queen held a tribute concert for Mer- ronto, because I wanted to go! And they singer/songwriter Andrew Cash (who to the world of fashion,” Rob- cury, who had died of AIDS the preced- said, ‘Not yet.’” She organized an FFAD is also an NDP MP), as well as a silent erge says. “Like a philosopher ing year. The Mercury Phoenix Trust at Woody’s in 2011, because she’s a huge auction, a raffl e, a best costume competi- king, she taught free-thinking.” (MPT) was established to donate mon- Queen fan and has been campaigning tion and karaoke. The event is entirely — Johnnie Walker ey from this concert, and other eff orts, against AIDS for a long time. “I had a volunteer-run, with all proceeds going to AIDS-related charities. In 2011, on lot of gay friends in the ’80s who ended directly to ACT. —Jeremy Willard The Little House That Could what would have been Mercury’s 65th up dying of AIDS, and a lot of the artists screens Sat, Aug 24, 8pm, birthday, MPT hosted a lavish party in I admire also died of AIDS.” Freddie for a Day Toronto takes place at Big Picture Cinema, the UK to raise funds, with everyone Hanson is hosting a much larger event Thurs, Sept 5, 8pm–midnight, at the 1035 Gerrard St. encouraged to wear Freddie-related this year at the Gladstone Hotel. Attend- Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St W. Freddie and his mustache. thelittlehousethatcould.net costumes. Thus began the worldwide ees should wear costumes from Mer- freddieforadaytoronto.com

MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 21 22 AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 XTRA! TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS Breaking ON TV who were working on Wall Street, who MATT THOMAS were in real estate, who were computer technologists and who had these fan- In 2008, Laverne Cox became the tastic jobs.” first African-American transgender Another true-to-life feature of woman to appear in a mainstream Sophia’s plot line is her struggle to gain reality-television show. She was access to hormones while in prison, chosen as a contestant on VH1’s I a very real concern for many trans Want to Work for Diddy, a competi- people, both in and out of the penal tion show that awarded the winner system. “I’ve had some moments in the job of assistant to hip-hop mogul my adult life where I’ve been denied Sean Combs. She quickly became one some healthcare because I’m trans, of the show’s standout personalities. and that was really difficult for me,” I Want to Work for Diddy went on to she says. “I think, ultimately, telling win a GLAAD Award for Outstanding human stories is what gets us some- Reality Show and made Cox one of where politically.” the most recognizable trans women As Cox’s career grows, she finds in America, kick-starting her televi- herself becoming a very visible figure, sion career. and she makes a point of bringing up “I think everyone needs to feel a her political concerns for the trans sense of connection, a sense of be- community. longing,“ Cox says. “When I’ve seen “Our unemployment rate is, like, trans characters up on screen played four times that of the national aver- by trans actors, it gives me hope and age,” she says. “When it comes to the inspiration that I can be up there do- homicide rate among LGBTQ people, ing it as well, but also, it validates my the highest is among trans women and experience. When we see ourselves up has been for the past several years in on the screen and we see our stories, a row. Trans women are dying on the we feel less alone, we feel less invisible, streets, and we need support, we need because we don’t really get to see the help, we need focus in terms of move- reality, the humanity and the diversity ment on our issues. of the trans experience. “It’s really about gender more than “Six years ago, when Candis Cayne anything and gender expectations that became the first trans woman to have oppress LGBT people in general,” she a recurring role in a prime-time se- Laverne Cox says. “I mean, sometimes it’s about ries, in Dirty Sexy Money, that was a OUT talks about her new life who you’re having sex with, but a lot watershed moment and such a huge of times as we enter culture, it’s about inspiration for me. It inspired me to as a mainstream trans actress gender and it’s about expectations. get an agent,” she says. “I had been I can’t think of how many gay male trying to have a substantial career as friends of mine have been told that an actor for a long time, and I began to women’s prison. Cox is cast as Sophia acting is that it’s pretending to be and provides the show with some of they’re not masculine enough by other believe it was possible.” Burset, a former firefighter who com- someone else, but the reality is that its most touching scenes, scenes that gay men.” While pursuing her dream of be- mits credit-card fraud to pay for her we’re tapping into the truth of who ring true for Cox. When asked if her role signals a coming an actress, Cox scored small transition and winds up incarcerated. we are as human beings to give that “I relate to Sophia’s feelings of guilt potential turning point for trans ac- parts in such shows as Law & Order The show plays out like a dramatic truth to our characters,” she says. “I’ve around sacrificing everything, her tresses in mainstream media, Cox is and Bored to Death before returning and comedic Sapphic hybrid of Oz worked a lot on my own stuff: my own family and her freedom, to be true to skeptical. “I think the industry has to to the reality genre and becoming the and Weeds, creator Jenji Kohan’s internalized transphobia and my own who she is and to live as her authentic change, and I think their ideas have first African-American trans woman to previous hit series about a suburban internalized racism and shame. I think self,” she says. “I can certainly relate to begin to change about who trans produce and star in her own television mother who becomes a drug dealer. when we are able to accept ourselves to the conflict that comes from being people are and what it means to have show, 2010’s Transform Me. Airing The show’s queer content is further more, then we can bring different ele- true to myself and that potentially be- trans folks playing ourselves and play- for one season on VH1, her show fol- supported by the appearance of out ments of who we are to the character. ing difficult for the people in my life.” ing characters that are written as trans lowed three trans-women stylists as actress Lea DeLaria, whose presence I’m more aware of who I am and I like Cox is thrilled about her successes on television,” she says. “I hope that they provided emotional and physi- and acting talents lend a sense of au- myself more, so I can give more of while acknowledging the support of the industry starts to see that it’s okay cal makeovers for biological-women thenticity to the strong ensemble cast. myself to my work.” her mother, brother and a community to have trans women integrated into participants. The road to becoming an acclaimed Cox’s character, Sophia, is a unique that helped empower her when she our casts with other women. And that Now Cox can be seen in Netflix’s actress in a hit show hasn’t been easy pop-cultural depiction of a trans char- first began to transition. “Support the world won’t explode, you know, if big-buzz summer series Orange Is the for Cox, who points to her therapist acter — she is married to a woman who groups were really, really important there’s a trans person on television. New Black, a groundbreaking show and her acting coach as the keys to is supportive of her transition, and for me, just to meet other trans women Quite the contrary, actually.” based on a memoir by Piper Chapman how she was finally able to unleash she has a son who struggles with her who were doing other things. There that details Chapman’s experiences, her talents. change. Sophia’s story line has become weren’t any mainstream actors in my Season 1 of Orange Is the New Black and those of her fellow inmates, in a “I think the misconception about a favourite among the program’s fans support group, but there were women is available on Netflix.

MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 23 Alison Moyet’s electronic return The beat is king to music PLAYLISP Sony a decade ago, Moyet determined to KEVIN RITCHIE make music that did not adhere to com- mercial trends or fall victim to nostalgia. “When it comes down to She found that labels were reticent to it, we can all be a bit of a sign her for anything other than a cov- cunt sometimes, know what I mean?” ers album, so she opted to co-write and Alison Moyet says over the phone from produce The Minutes independently Manchester during a promotional stint with Guy Sigsworth (Björk, Madonna) for her latest solo album, The Minutes. and worried about how to release it “And I don’t want to be frightened to afterward. (It came out in May via Me- display uglier emotional characteristics tropolis Records/Cooking Vinyl.) in music.” The record marks her return to At 52, the British pop singer/song- electronic music, a genre she avoided writer is in a mood to reflect on the throughout the 1990s. “The beat be- moments in life that may at first seem, came so king that the voice was always as she puts it, “un-thrilling, unappeal- crammed into it in a different tempo ingly individual.” and different timing,” she explains. Or, sometimes, ugly — a taboo word “I thought, ‘For fuck’s sake, just take in pop music. the voice out of it and listen to the track’ “Sometimes people misread me. If because it was just a horrible mess. I say something about myself which “The great thing about working with is not complimentary, the assumption Guy, which wasn’t dissimilar to work- is that I am without confidence,” she ing in Yaz,” she continues, “was there explains. “And I think the opposite is was still an integrity to the song and true. I think that people who are unable the voice.” to count their failings are the ones that Early on in the writing process she de- aren’t confident.” cided to ditch romantic songs in favour Moyet was first known as the bluesy, of musings on age, self-acceptance and a emotionally charged voice of Yaz (or broad, humanistic approach to the con- Yazoo in the UK), the synth-pop duo cept of love. For example, she describes she formed in 1981 with former Depeche the lead single, “When I Was Your Girl,” Mode songwriter Vince Clarke. The pair as a dialogue with her younger self produced two albums and a string of wherein she looks back on the romantic beloved, genre-defining hits, including notions of eternity and perfection that “Only You,” “Nobody’s Diary” and “Situ- once seemed so all-encompassing in ation,” but split after only 18 months. her youth. Clarke went on to form The Assembly “Romance is not a driving force in and then Erasure, while Moyet fell into my life,” she explains, adding that her a successful solo career, selling millions songwriting on the subject has become of albums and scoring hit singles in the wryly — and sometimes sneeringly — UK and Europe during the mid-1980s. observational as a consequence. Despite her acclaim across the Atlantic, “Ultimately, I have to make a record she remains a cult act in North America that I am going to feel proud about, I’m and has not performed here since Yaz’s going to be able to fight for and I will feel reunion tour in 2008. the same way about in years to come,” She says she now feels “estranged” I thought, ‘For she says. “That is my motivation. And from much of her early solo material yes, that means that I will be making on account of her reluctance to fully fuck’s sake, just choices that make myself less approach- embrace pop stardom and her green- able or less commercial.” ness in the music industry at the time. take the voice out This fall, Moyet will tour continental “I was naively shocked when I real- of it and listen to Europe, the UK, Ireland and the United ized that when you have a lot of success, States (sadly, no Canadian cities are on it’s much harder to then move on to the the track.’ the itinerary) in support of The Minutes next thing,” she recalls. “And I’ve never and then headline at London’s Royal been desirous to replicate anything that Albert Hall in April. Beyond that, she I’ve done. I haven’t wanted to make the says, she will continue to make music same album twice, or to have the same for as long as she retains confidence in experience twice.” her abilities as a singer and songwriter. However, recording original music “I didn’t expect that I’d have a long free from the expectations of commer- career,” she says. “But I’m so glad that cially minded label executives proved I did because I know that I’m a far bet- more difficult as time marched on. Modern-day Alison Moyet. TOM MARTIN ter act as a 50-year-old than I was as a Released from her contract with- 23-year-old.”

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MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! AUG 22–SEPT 4, 2013 25 TitillatingON SCREEN There are some big-buzz LGBT films, and works by queer filmmakers, at the 2013 Toronto International Film TIFF Festival. Here, Chris Dupuis highlights some of the homegrown flicks on offer.

David Tompa reveals a bloody secret in Out. Out, proud and bloodthirsty The unique twist on the coming-out group. Different topics were proposed story is practically a genre of its own. each session, and when the theme of Subhuman dance But writer/director Jeremy LaLonde’s vampires arose, his creative juices Simon Vermeulen’s project Der Un- of it. But I probably didn’t know half of Though the film has an obvious Out succeeds in being a genuinely began flowing. “I’m not a horror film- termensch (which translates to “the what I know now before starting this queer read, with elements like the fresh walk down this well-worn path. maker to begin with, so I started to subhuman”) didn’t start out as an ex- research.” near nudity, a pair of glass high heels Geoff (David Tompa) is a soft-spoken wonder what I could do with the genre ploration of gay persecution under Shot over three days last July in the and occasional bursts of thumping club 20-something who’s never brought a that was unique,” he says. “If you’ve re- the Third Reich. The Montreal-based grungy Bain Saint Michel (a former music, it also could be speaking about girl home. When he has an announce- cently become a vampire, your family’s choreographer’s dance film began as a Montreal public pool, now used as a AIDS, bullying, suicide or any of the ment for his urban-living, liberal- obviously still alive, so you have to go physical exploration of paranoia and performance space), the work features other oppressions the community has minded parents, Mitch (David Huband) and tell them. That brought the obvious fear, but without a specific context. Vermeulen and two other dancers, experienced. And despite its historical and Cindy (Rosemary Doyle), they’re parallel with coming out as gay.” Vermeulen had documented the per- naked save for a pair of grey under- focus, the work feels eerily current. ready for his revelation of queerness Since he identifies as straight, formance on video, and when he shared wear. Working in a space without air “When we started working on the with open arms. So they’re surprised LaLonde spent a lot of time talking it with director Kays Mejri in the hopes conditioning during a record heat piece, we were thinking about history,” when he turns up for dinner with Kezia with friends about their own stories, of developing a larger work, their col- (Tommie-Amber Pirie), a pale-faced intent on making something that was lective wheels began to turn. stranger who shares his secret. honest without being voyeuristic or “He immediately saw something very I’m constantly trying to understand what Though they expect him to reveal his exploitative. prison-esque in the gestures, and we makes gay people so special and so hated love of cock, it’s his love of blood he’s “I definitely considered whether it began to layer in the story together,” there to share. Geoff isn’t gay — he’s a would come up that I’m telling a story Vermeulen says. “We wanted to bring at the same time. DIRECTOR SIMON VERMEULEN vampire. that’s outside of my realm,” he says. a sense of the historical references but “It’s easy to tell a coming-out story “How could a coming-out story pos- also to keep it abstract so it could be wave hardly sounds like an appealing Vermeulen says. “A year and a half later, in a way that’s dramatic and torturous,” sibly be personal to someone who’s open to interpretation.” prospect, but Vermeulen remembers when you look at what’s going on in LaLonde says. “But you can bring a lot not gay? But I think everyone has some Though he had some knowledge of nothing but exhilaration. Russia, it feels like we’re actually talking more people in with a lighter, more kind of coming-out experience, where the history of gays under the Nazi re- “Honestly, those were probably the about the present. There were about 80 satirical take. I’ve had a few friends you have to reveal something about gime, once the film’s context became three most beautiful days of my life,” gay bars in Berlin before Hitler came to who’ve gone through the process, only yourself to your family you’ve kept clear, Vermeulen embarked on an inten- he says. “I’m surrounded by the crew, power, and then he ordered all of them to find their parents already knew hidden. There’s the obvious story of sive research process, combing books, under the lights in the heat, with the closed. The police just came in, arrested and had made peace with it, so they’re coming out in terms of sexuality, but articles and films for reference points. makeup artist wiping sweat off between everyone and deported them to camps. making a big deal out of nothing. I was it could also be telling your family of “I’m constantly trying to understand takes, and it was thrilling and fucking I don’t think people consider the fact interested in a version of that story doctors and lawyers you want to be what makes gay people so special and crazy at the same time. There was a that this could happen again, but that’s that’s unique but also easily relatable.” an artist.” so hated at the same time,” he says. “I lot going on in my personal life at that exactly what’s going on right now.” A graduate of Niagara College’s film have a really strong sense of being part point, and it became a chance to just program, LaLonde first conceived the Sun, Sept 8, 2:30pm of a larger gay history, and I’m always let this raw emotion out and capture Mon, Sept 9, 10pm piece while part of an online writers’ Mon, Sept 9, noon trying to strengthen my understanding it on camera.” Tues, Sept 10, 2:45pm

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Were-House Splash FRI, AUG 9 @ MOJO SAT, AUG 17 @ FLY Businesswoman, birthday girl, Businessman, entrepreneur and party hostess April Wozny is one party planner Gilles Belanger is of those white girls who has secret one of those old-school partiers black-girl genes. If black don’t who secretly paces himself. If crack, she’s the white Naomi moderation is the key, he’s Father Campbell. Tonight she lends her Time. Tonight, in the midst of beauty and years of promoting ex- Splash, Fly nightclub’s beach- 2 perience to host up-and-coming themed party, I sit with him and a DJ/promoter Aeryn Pfaff ’s new few invited guests, including Mike 4 monthly party, Were-House at Everaert and Cheyne Hauk (who Mojo Lounge. The lineup of DJs will be launching a new gay-party spinning deep and tech house magazine soon), in one of his two is an impressive grab bag of tal- VIP booths on the second fl oor. ent. Local DJ legend Mark Falco As go-go dancers Leonardo and shares the booth with Dirty Dale, Attila gyrate in skimpy swimsuits Jeff Kirkwood and Pfaff himself. to DJ Mark Falco below, we sip Working together, this fi ne four- vodka and gossip. Remember some forms a god-quad, launch- when Fly was hoppin’? Remem- ing explosive beats on the sparse ber when you went every week dancefl oor, left, right, front and just to see what the décor would centre. Bam! Witnessing this be (and maybe get a little messy)? 5 interplay is an interesting mix Well, those days are coming back. of nightlife infi ltrators, includ- When Belanger took over as man- ing a guy wearing the strangest ager of this legendary club, he was aerobics wear this side of a Jane operating on the assumption that Fonda workout video, a far-too- it would be closed in two years. “I thin modelesque boy who would was told not to spend any money. be blown over if he stood too close Now, with our new extended to the speakers, and a couple lease, everything has changed,” he wearing matching shirts. Really? says, with a twinkle in his eye and Are we still doing that? “I’ve real- a cocktail in his clutches. “We’re ized two things as I get older,” going back to Fly’s heyday. Expect Miss Wozny says. “One, I love my big things.” Belanger even gives friends, and two, I retain water.” us a sneak peak downstairs at It seems that though black don’t Fly’s recently purchased arsenal crack, girls hold water. I’m not of decadent décor and lighting, sure what this all means, but I which will be unveiled for all very think I need another drink. soon. Tonight, however, I’m keep- ing an eye out for partiers who 1E Chris & Rafi k 2E Brett, Jordan & seem bent on shooting off their Joey 3E April Wozny squirt guns in my face.

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ANNA POURNIKOVA PHOTOS BY XPOSED BECCA LEMIRE 1E I’ve been going through this modern and overly sexy ver- phase where I just can’t seem sion of a nightclub Benetton to bring myself to call Bambi’s ad. These two deserve an by its Christian name. It’s just amen, at least twice. that Barbie’s is so much more 7E The thing that is so fantastic queer, and I feel it’s a good and amazing and over-the-top enough place to get a queer 6 cool as ice is the true excite- name. Here’s a picture of two ment that only Toronto can total foxes at Barbie’s, Erin understand when it comes to and Ryan. Beyond the outfi ts, Caribana. As someone who has which need no introduction, lived in a lot of other countries 2 can you just take a minute to that are lacking in their Carib- bask in those matching high bean quotient, this is the one ponytails? Like... whoa. thing that I miss fi ercely when 5 2E Also blessing Barbie’s that I’m away and am proud to come night with their divine goddess- home to. And then celebrate ness were Tara and Amanda. the shit out of with honeys like Can you feel the Caribana love Spinks, Aintony and Oshane. on these two fi ne women? I feel 8E Never got this broad’s name, like blowing this picture up and so I will call her Weedy. Since putting it on the ceiling above I’m setting up shop on so many my bed. What a blessing to wake babe faces these days, I will up to. PS: The red tips on Aman- take a sleepover right here da’s locks are worth an eye bat. with Weedy. Maybe I could put 3E On to Fly, where the hottest a hammock between those two Caribana Sunday-night party spaghetti straps and snuggle was in full swing. B3ijing, in for a long siesta. Ummmm- 8 Maui and Cairo have three hmmm, tha’d be nice. 4 of the best names ever. They are so haaard, they don’t even need to smile for the snaps. Love these three besties.

4E If I was a bird, I would make a nest on Mark’s face so I could live there forever. And judging by the exuberance on Nicky’s face, he knows, too, knows this truth.

5E Michael was rocking what my friend Rob calls the easiest staple in any wardrobe — the leps. When in doubt, go with leps. Write it down — it’s one to live by.

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