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MAKING BABIES
Deviant marriage of convenience
story by Daryl Vocat /
If you’ve ever had the desire to make a video, but felt too intimidated or had no idea where to start, you can take comfort in the fact that there are several programs screening first-time works at Inside Out.
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CENSORSHIP
Big win for Glad Day
story by Darren Cooney /
Once again queers have helped to reshape laws in Ontario, this time by challenging the constitutionality of government censors.
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WEB LIVING
Selling yourself on-line
story by Chaos McKenzie /
In a world where on-line parties are going on morning, noon and night, the personal profile is a crucial part of any cyber-savvy queer’s arsenal.
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ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
Home insemination could be illegal
story by Jennifer O’Connor /
Queers looking to find themselves in a family way could be stopped in their tracks by Canada’s new assisted reproduction legislation.
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WOMAN OF DISTINCTION
Lauding Debbie Douglas
story by Ian Mackenzie /
Long-time women’s advocate and out lesbian Debbie Douglas will be in good company on Thu, May 20 when she receives a Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Women Of Distinction award.
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EROTIC AMBIGUITY
Shut up & fuck
story by Brent Ledger /
Have you ever had to ask someone to leave?
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KEEP THE SWAN
Give me an ugly duckling
story by Jane Ford /
Let’s face it. Homos set trends. If it’s big now, chances are we did it first.
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SHORTS REVIEWS
Full bloom
story by Jon Davies /
Inside Out offers a great opportunity to see some of the best recent Canadian short films and videos, many of them by local artists.
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DOCUMENTARY REVIEWS
Peer Power
story by Gordon Bowness /
You might think watching a documentary on sex workers in India would be a depressing experience.
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FILM REVIEW
Sugar rush
story by Gordon Bowness /
There is brilliance and danger in the local feature Sugar, based on stories by Bruce LaBruce from the 1980s punk zine JD’s.
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FILM REVIEW
Twisting in a bitter wind
story by Shane Smith /
Let’s get this out of of the way up front. Twist is a movie set amidst a world of hustlers and drug addicts in which not a bit of flesh is revealed.
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THEATRE REVIEW
For farce
story by Martin Roebuck /
Oscar Wilde’s status as a gay icon (uneasy and unwilling as the bisexual Anglo-Irishman would have been about accepting such an accolade) blurs the fact that all his plays rely for their fun on the acceptance by players and audience of the rigid rules of heterosexual English society in the late Victorian period.
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THEATRE REVIEW
Sweet gum in the hair
story by Seraphim /
While not exactly a hair-don’t, there are a few kinks to comb out of the Toronto production of Hairspray, running until Sep 26 at the Princess Of Wales Theatre.
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