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FREE 36,000 AUDITED CIRCULATION TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS MAY 15–28, 2014 15–28, MAY #771 PLUS! PREPPING FOR WORLDPRIDE E7 AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE 519 2014 E 10 @dailyxtra INSIDE OUT PREVIEW facebook.com/dailyxtra facebook.com/dailyxtra dailyxtra.com dailyxtra.com Our guide to the best of Toronto’s LGBT film fest E19 More at More Exploring: never stop Single Tablet Regimens While they’re not a cure, these treatment options are designed (one pill, once a day) are a step forward in HIV treatment. to be effective and convenient. If you’ve been exploring different HIV treatments, talk to your doctor about Single Tablet Regimens Explore more at exploreHIV.ca too. It’s good to know what is out there. 2 MAY 15–28, 2014 XTRA! 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[email protected] for the queer community E10 800-268-XTRA PINK TRIANGLE PRESS Founded 1971 DIRECTORS Jim Bartley, Gerald Hannon, Editorial Jamaica’s long game 2014 Glenn Kauth, Didier Pomerleau, Ken Popert, By Natasha Barsotti E4 Gillian Rodgerson HONORARY DIRECTOR Colin Brownlee Feedback E4 PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Ken Popert CEO, DIGITAL MEDIA David Walberg Xcetera E5 INSIDE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Andrew Chang Upfront OUT Seniors gear up for PREVIEW WorldPride Senior Pride Network coordinator says Our eight-page guide 2 MINUTES TO CHURCH ST many LGBT seniors face to the best of Toronto’s OR THE SUBWAY discrimination E7 LGBT fi lm fest Online resource for E19 ALL OF TORONTO gay dads is born E8 IS AT YOUR DOORSTEP History Boys What’s On E35 The lost language of gay Club Scene E36 By Michael Lyons E14 Xposed By Anna Pournikova E38 Out in the City Xtra Living E39 Arts roundup Classifi eds E40 Touring Thrones E17 Xtra Hot Wild at heart Olivier Hébert- By Drasko Bogdanovic E41 Bouchard performs E30 Toronto at Night TORONTO DOWNTOWN CENTRE #TeamBianca ondailyxtra.com 30 CARLTON STREET By Ryan G Hinds E32 TORONTO, ONTARIO M5B 2E9 CANADA E Daily Xtra to host Hotel Front Desk: 1-416-977-6655 ON THE COVER: Olivier Rabourdin and WorldPride town hall www.holidayinn.com/TorontoCentre Kirill Emelyanov star in Eastern Boys. MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! MAY 15–28, 2014 3 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook/dailyxtra.com Comment tweet @dailyxtra FEEDBACK The apex of the Toronto gay Jamaica’s long game scene was the ’80s and ’90s, and Fly Nightclub closure EDITORIAL hold things and to see... whatever deci- it has been in a slow decline since NATASHA BARSOTTI sions we take — because we have to take The apex of the Toronto gay scene tough decisions — that it doesn’t impact was the ’80s and ’90s, and it has been then. [RE: FLY NIGHTCLUB CLOSURE] Jermaine, 23, Jamaican in a very serious way the majority of our in a slow decline since then [“Fly and gay, knows what it’s people.” Nightclub to Close After WorldPride,” PrEP like to live on the streets. What if Jamaica’s parliamentarians dailyxtra.com, April 29]. It will never I’m glad that Xtra is reporting on “You have to fi ght against the weather legalized gay sex? It would certainly be be what it once was; that is, until the TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS — night cold, sun, rain,” he told me on a a sign of forward movement, but with younger generation realizes that be- PrEP, but this article defl ects atten- MAY 1–14, 2014 1–14, MAY recent trip to Jamaica. “Hurricane season more than 80 percent of Jamaicans self- ing out in the real world, seeing real #770 tion from the real issue in Canada come an’ ketch me on de road a’ready.” describing as homophobic, a victory on people, in real time, is really far more Hail [“If PrEP is a Party Drug, Then Cue At 18, Jermaine often found himself that score won’t translate into societal authentic and superior to having your the DJ,” dailyxtra.com, April 29]. locked out of his home, his mother tell- acceptance. face buried in your phone or having MARY Canadians are not shaming PrEP Photographer Devon Poole users because there are virtually no ing him to “go back where mih a come That’s long-game work, which is on- your hands tap-tap-tapping endlessly reimagines the seven deadly sins E18 PrEP users in Canada. Canadians from,” while his father tried a little going but proceeding in baby steps, on a keyboard in pursuit of some @dailyxtra PLUS! aren’t being called “Truvada whores” harder to wrap his head around his son’s whether it’s outreach to potential allies online phantom. TEENS ON STEROIDS facebook.com/dailyxtra facebook.com/dailyxtra because (outside of a couple of clinical sexuality. in religious circles, convincing media E10 JOHNNY GREAT GAY dailyxtra.com dailyxtra.com CAMPING FREE trials and in a few individual cases) TORONTO, ON 36,000 AUDITED “They didn’t understand about the to eschew sensationalism for more bal- E28 CIRCULATION whole gay and all ah dat,” Jermaine says. anced reporting about LGBT people and at More we can’t even get Truvada for PrEP “They weren’t taught in school how to their experiences, or working within and I wonder how many other struggling in this country. That’s the issue in handle situations like dat.” outside the community to address the businesses in the Village plan to stay Steroid feature Canada. That’s “what’s stopping” us For two or three years, he led an itiner- interconnected issues of marginaliza- open during WorldPride 2014 — in I wonder why gay teens are six times — not shaming. Americans have FDA ant street life, punctuated by sofa surfi ng tion, under- and unemployment, and order to attempt to make as much more likely to use steroids [“Mass approval, CDC guidance and access, at the homes of sex-work clients and homelessness among men who have sex money as possible from the crowds Appeal,” Xtra #770, May 1]. Flipping and they’re now in the privileged position of calling each other names. I friends — until they wanted him out. with men. and the tourists — but then close when through your publication and oth- wish that were our problem! We don’t “Hygiene was a major issue,” he says. According to a 2012 University of the Pride is over? ers, I noticed many ads promoting even have Health Canada approval or “If you want a job, the way you look, the West Indies study on the attitudes and ELLEN “body enhancements” like Botox, access yet. That’s what you should way you smell — the fi rst impression... perceptions of 1,000 Jamaicans regard- TORONTO, ON non-surgical facelifts and an assort- didn’t cut it.” ing same-sex relationships, these are be investigating and reporting on, ment of cosmetics. Finally, the full- not cutting and pasting from news His fi rst step off the streets was to fi nd the stats activists are up against: “Ap- I see a lot of the older gay male genera- page ads for Squirt, Cruiseline and a reliable water source and clothing. proximately 88 percent felt that male tion referring to how the young gay reports in the United States as if all Hardline — the models are obviously you have to do to get PrEP in this Then came a job, classes in English, food homosexuality was immoral, 83.7 percent community relies too much on social using steroids. The time of year when apps and doesn’t support the Village, country is “call your doctor.” It’s not preparation and other life skills.

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