TOPIC: QUEERIES
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Gay for no pay: Stream these fantastic LGBTQ films and TV shows for free on CBC Gem
From Carol and Moonlight to Schitts Creek and Killing Eve, here's 20 really great queer streaming options that wont cost you a penny.
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Would you walk a mile holding hands with a stranger? This performance piece is asking you to do just that
Scottish artist Rosana Cade is bringing their quietly radical Walking:Holding to The Bentway in Toronto, and wants you to join in.
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Trent Reznor has always been serving queer icon, but the Challengers score is game, set, match
His horny compositions for Luca Guadagnino's hit movie have taken over gay culture and bring a long queer legacy full circle.
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The world's largest queer theatre company is about to kick off an absolutely massive Pride program
Buddies in Bad Times has a new artistic director in ted witzel, and he is looking to the future in big bold ways as the company turns 45 years old.
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Jackie Shane is finally getting the big moment she deserves and we wouldn't have it Any Other Way
Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee's new documentary illuminates the story of late, great trailblazer Shane. It's having its Canadian Premiere at Hot Docs this weekend.
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Legendary trans actress Alexandra Billings is finally getting her due in a most unexpected place: Canada
The pioneering American star of the Toronto-set film Queen Tut was just nominated for a Canadian Screen Award.
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The Inheritance is one of the most essential plays of the past decade and it has arrived in Toronto
Director Brendan Healy on how the staggering play asks us to consider the shared heritage of gay men.
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Comedians Robert Watson and Al Val are taking their Gay AF Comedy show on the road
The Toronto LGBTQ showcase is about to head on a big cross-country tour, with local comedians joining along the way.
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A bloody, bulging triumph, Love Lies Bleeding is the first great queer film of 2024
Filmmaker Rose Glass has served us the pulpy Kristen Stewart crime thriller of our gaydreams.
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A love letter to Keith Haring and Derek Jarman, two of our great queer guardian angels
On the anniversary of their deaths, be inspired by the full and fearless lives these singular artists lived.
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Dion: A Rock Opera is a wild new musical centering a non-binary demi-god
Legendary stage director Peter Hinton-Davis calls the show part Rocky Horror, part The Bacchae: "it's a new-born re-invention of the rock opera for today."
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Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal on diving into the great gay sadness of All of Us Strangers
Two of our finest actors have come together for Andrew Haigh's haunting new film.
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I Hate People, People Hate Me is the unhinged 'gutter punk odyssey' TV show we all need
Toronto comedians Bobbi Summers and Lily Kazimiera on their hilarious ode to queer misfits, now streaming on CBC Gem.
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Dicks: The Musical is the best time you'll have in a movie theatre this year... if you can take it
An unhinged queering of The Parent Trap, the wild new film is the brainchild of comedians Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson.
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A decade of queer Toronto nightlife gets immortalized in Eric Kostiuk Williams's 2AM Eternal
The cartoonist has collected 100 of his posters in a gorgeous new book paying tribute to Toronto's LGBTQ history, including the faces and places that are no longer with us.
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Mr. Dressup's gender-neutral puppet Casey showed kids they could be whoever they wanted
New documentary Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe makes it clear how ahead of its time the children's show was on gender representation.
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Stephen Jackman-Torkoff is the new king of Stratford
As Shakespeare's Richard II, the actor spent their summer electrifying audiences at the legendary festival.
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Ryan G. Hinds is a Toronto theatre icon and now he's taking on Shakespeare for the first time
Canadian Stage is mounting A Midsummer Night's Dream as part of the 40th anniversary of Dream In High Park, and it's reminded Hinds of why he fell in love with theatre.
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Take a journey through queer history as it was lived by one man and pieced together by another
A fateful meeting inspired Dane Stewart's five-year mission to pay tribute to Daryl Allen, a playwright who died from HIV/AIDS complications 30 years earlier, in the podcast Resurrection.
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What's the greatest queer film ever directed by a Canadian?
From C.R.A.Z.Y. to I've Heard The Mermaids Singing to Zero Patience, a look through the queerest options from our recent poll of the greatest Canadian-directed films.
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Beyond Barbenheimer: 10 movies that will make this the greatest summer for queer cinema... ever?
From Bottoms and Problemistas to theatre camps and gay wrestlers, this summer has something for everyone especially if you're queer.
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Princess Diana's 1991 visit to a Toronto AIDS hospice shines on in this moving new play
Nick Green's Casey & Diana is offering Stratford audiences a royal window into kindness and compassion.
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Queer is not a bad word. It's our unifying path forward
Being loudly and visibly queer feels increasingly dangerous but it hasn't been this necessary in a long time.
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Somebody Somewhere is the warmest comedy on TV and Jeff Hiller is its heart
The HBO series also offers one of the most interesting depictions of queerness currently onscreen, in large part thanks to Hiller's character Joel.
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Drag storytime pioneers Fay & Fluffy are not backing down
As hateful protests surge, the award-winning queens are staying defiant while continuing to spread joy to children and their families just as they have since 2016.