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REMEMBERING MONTREAL THEATRE LEGEND ROGER PEACE
Chris Barillaro recording the Curtains Up theme with Roger Peace (Photo courtesy Curtains Up)Following a lengthy battle with cancer, legendary Canadian theatre director Roger Peace died peacefully in...
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LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO KEEP ON TROCKIN'
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo was founded in 1974 (Photo courtesy Ballets Trockadero)It was one of the greatest entrances of all time: Montreal drag queens Mado Lamotte and Madame Simone waited...
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MALE PHYSIQUE PHOTOGRAPHER HERB KLEIN TURNS HIS LENS ON LOST GAY SOUTH AFRICA
Photographer Herb Klein’s new book Lost Gay South AfricaThe irrepressible Herb Klein is a pioneering male physique photographer from Zimbabwe who, after moving to South Africa in the 1970s, shot the...
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THEATRE LEGEND LOUIS NEGIN: MUCH ADO ABOUT DICK
Bugs'interview with Louis Negin originally ran in the April 2013 edition of Fugues magazine.There’s nothing quite like making a grand entrance. Just ask Montreal theatre legend Louis Negin, the first...
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MARIO CANTONE TELLS BULLIED LGBTQ KIDS TO "TOUGHEN THE FUCK UP!"
Bugs' interview with Mario Cantone originally ran in the July 23, 2012, edition of the Montreal GazetteIt should come as no surprise that fierce Sex and the City star Mario Cantone has always been...
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PUSHING BOUNDARIES WITH SKY GILBERT: THE SKY'S THE LIMIT
Sky Gilbert (Photos courtesy Never Apart)Before my pioneering LGBTQ column Three Dollar Bill went national across Canada in 1998, I approached all the syndicates and not one would touch me with a...
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THE KILLING OF ANGLICAN PRIEST WARREN ELING: GAY MURDER OR EROTIC ASPHYXIA?
The murder of Father Warren Eling made the cover of the December 18, 1997, issue of HOUR magazineAfter chasing lawyers for over a year, Bugs landed an exclusive in-prison interview with Danny...
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Women ROCK!
Cher: "I recorded Strong Enough for my gay fans."Expanded version of Bugs' column that ran in the May 2016 issue of Fugues magazine, featuring Greatest Hits quotes from Bugs' many interviews with Cher,...
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BRIEF HISTORY OF QUEER MONTRÉAL AND WALKING TOUR
Was Oscar Wilde inspired to write The Selfish Giant by his visit to Montreal in 1882?Updated 2017 version of Bugs' story which originally ran on the Tourisme Montréal blog on May 27, 2015.Montreal is a...
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AN AUDIENCE WITH LAVERNE COX
Laverne Cox is part of a new wave of transgender role modelsEmmy-nominated actress and Emmy-winning producer Laverne Cox catapulted to fame as Sophia Burset in the critically-hailed Netflix original...
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JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL NARRATES SHORTBUS SCREENING IN MONTREAL
John Cameron Mitchell (screenshot)When I was a young man I tried to give myself a blowjob when I discovered the trick to fellating yourself is not to put a pillow beneath your head, but beneath your...
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CANADA PRIDE IDEAL TIME TO APOLOGIZE FOR ANTI-GAY MONTREAL POLICE RAIDS
Montreal police raided Sex Garage in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 15, 1990All Sex Garage photos © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.comI have been publicly screaming for an official apology for...
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CANDID MINI-DOC CELBRATES DRAG ICON MADO LAMOTTE'S 30th ANNIVERSARY
Bugs interviews drag icon Mado Lamotte backstage at Cabaret Mado (Photo by Eva Blue)I am proud of this terrific mini-documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Montreal drag icon Mado Lamotte, who...
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SOPRANO MELODY MOORE ON BEING A DIVA, HER GAY FANS AND TOSCA
American soprano Melody Moore embraces divahood, her gay fans and her signature role Tosca (Photo via melodymooresoprano.com)American soprano Melody Moore has appeared on many of the leading opera...
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HOMAGE TO QUEER ICON JEWEL'S CATCH ONE DISCO
Lesbian pioneer Jewel Thais-Williams opened her iconic Catch One disco in Los Angeles in 1973 (Photo courtesy MIBFF)American film director C. Fitz's superb 2016 documentary film Jewel's Catch One is...
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THE SWEET SOUL MUSIC OF WAYNE TENNANT
Soul man Wayne Tennant sets fire to the showbiz closet (Photo by Germán Moreno)Montreal soul singer Wayne Tennant has been out to his close friends and associates for a long time, but this year Tennant...
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TRAILBLAZING COMEDIAN BOB SMITH'S LIFE WITH ALS
Bob Smith: “I’m Still Cracking Jokes And Sharing Laughs” In 1994 pioneering stand-up comic Bob Smith became the first openly-gay comic to appear on The Tonight Show. Bob died on January 20, 2018, after...
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NFB DOC LOVE, SCOTT FOLLOWS GAY MAN'S JOURNEY AFTER VIOLENT ATTACK
Canadian musician Scott Jones tells his story in the 2018 NFB documentary film Love, Scott (Photo by Laura Marie Wayne)Nova Scotia gay musician and choral conductor Scott Jones was stabbed in the back...
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