In this fascinating interview, award-winning filmmaker, playwright and 2spirit/trans/intersex activist Alec Butler shares his story of growing up queer in Cape Breton and being drawn to art as a way of getting through decades of questioning his identity and gender. https://youtu.be/JTGJO9kwJVg
NYC's Alex Snell talks about growing up gay in Virginia, shows us his growing colllection of queer zines, and discusses leaving New York's interactive ad agencies in order to devote his life to caring for older gay men with HIV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRRJhoj97Vs&feature=youtu.be
Toronto's Patricia Wilson discusses transitioning while working as a welder in a Windsor, Ontario auto plant, her feelings about the dangers the gay community still face, and her work as a musician and writer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsm_hBBTzr4&t=14s
Toronto visual artist Patrick DeCoste discusses growing up poor in Nova Scotia, coming out as queer and becoming an artist in Toronto, and how the discovery of his Métis heritage changed the course of his artwork. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX1I7iQqhUA&t=13s
Norm Cratty, Parish Administrator for Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Chicago, discusses the need to leave Nebraska as a gay man, and his role in creating inclusive spaces for the church. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyJP4GszHtQ
New Yorker Howard Williams discusses gay life in NYC and how it has changed in the part 23 years. He discusses his interest in art, then shows us his own art photography. He reveals that he will soon be priced out of NYC, making him another interesting person forced to leave New York due to... Continue Reading →
Karl R., a writer and sous chef from Chicago, discusses how he encounters some of the most severe judgement from the gay community, and how his writng is too harsh and grim for publishers to embrace. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvLCN_64Mvs&t=4s
Ken Moffatt, Professor of Social Work at Ryerson University in Toronto and Artist, discusses his past among working working class men in Windsor, Ontario, and how he's translated that into works that explore masculinity from a queer, gender-informed perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myqzmRq5Er8&t=3s
Sandy McLeod works construction and has written a children's book. Here she talks how facing imposed gender roles has affected her life and work--and how she translates that into her fiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcvEfr0Unpo&t=7s
An interview with Toronto artist Daryl Vocat, known primarily for printmaking. Daryl takes us through some of his most important works and discusses how Boy Scout manuals, found images, violence and gender all play into his work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Yx8RQiUe4&t=3s
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