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- Ontario PCs have shamefully voted in favour of no longer recognizing gender identity. If this party, forming a government that has already invoked the notwithstanding clause, tries anything else against transgender people, let the fight start. Global News reports.
- The essay of Peter Knegt at CBC Arts highlighting problems of queer representation in Bohemian Rhapsody needs to be read. Why is so much of the queer content fictionally represented as negative?
- Peter Knegt at CBC Arts points out that Scott Thompson deserves to be recognized as a Canadian treasure.
- This Jon Shadel essay at them exploring how the Internet opened up new channels for communication and self-identification as a queer person speaks deeply to me.
- The Houston Chronicle explores Check Please, Ngozi Ukazu's fantastic queer hockey webcomic.
- JSTOR Daily considers the question of whether the movie A Star Is Born made Judy Garland a gay icon.
- Daily Xtra shares a first-person account telling the truth about how The Kids in The Hall gave young queer audiences an idea that escape is possible. (It was for me.)
- This Daily Xtra account shares one watcher's account of learning to accept being black and gay by watching The Wire.
- Tumblr, Daily Xtra notes, is still a powerful platform that allows queer people to meet.
- We really should, as this VICE interview notes, be watching more queer TV.
- This history of LGBTQ life in Saskatchewan by Valerie Korinek sounds fascinating. Has anything been done in Atlantic Canada, I wonder? Global News reports.
- This Artsy editorial is quite right about the importance of David Wojnarowicz, artistically and politically. I own a copy of his Close to the Knives.
- There is, I have to conclude, at least some homophobia in the jokes about Trump and Putin being a couple. It's quite quite possible to be a straight homophobe, for starters. Vulture deconstructs the meme, here.
- Scott Thompson is a national treasure. Read this CBC Day 6 interview.
- CBC takes a look at the roaring success of China-oriented gay dating app Blued, with tens of millions of users.
[URBAN NOTE] Mark McKinney
Mar. 6th, 2008 09:20 pmI could swear that, just a few minutes ago, I saw Kids in the Hall alumnus Mark McKinney. walking east on Bloor near St. George. I almost thanked him for the comedy but I retreated when I saw what I took to be a pleading look in his eyes. Maybe he didn't want the moral burden of crushing my head, who knows?
