Sara Davis Buechner Saturday, November 17, 7pm Lilian Piercey Concert Hall, Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts 6199 Chebucto Road $10-$35 ceciliaconcerts.ca Pianist Sara Davis Buechner is ready to give Halifax concertgoers a recital they won’t soon forget. An acclaimed musician who’s seen her share of personal and professional struggles as a transgender individual, it’s a […]
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What to Expect When You Aren’t Expected’s queer health care study
What to Expect When You Aren’t Expected Sat Nov 10 (8pm), Sun Nov 11 (2pm & 8pm) Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street $10/$20 “These stories are just so powerful, we just couldn’t let them sit anymore,” says Megan Aston. The stories she’s speaking about are those of LGBQ+ women who have given birth […]
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AIFF 2018: Love, Scott brings a hate crime to light
Love, Scott Monday, September 17, 6:30pm Cineplex Park Lane, 5657 Spring Garden Road $22.50 finfestival.ca Scott Jones’ life changed on the night of October 13, 2013, almost five years ago. The openly gay musician was attacked on a New Glasgow street by Shane Matheson, a teenager with a knife. The incident put Jones in hospital […]
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Nova Scotia opposition parties tackle conversion therapy
Opposition parties in Nova Scotia plan to put an end to conversion therapy. Nova Scotia’s New Democratic Party is putting forward a bill as early as this week to end the payment of medical professionals who bill the province for the discredited and harmful practice. The bill, which will also cover gender identity protections, essentially […]
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The weight
On August 7, 1993, Gregory Gerald Jodrey of Gaspereaux, Nova Scotia was murdered in Wolfville. Gregory was my best friend and I loved him dearly. Twenty-five years later, the hole remains in my heart and the anvil remains in my stomach. The bare facts are that Gregor was at the tavern in Wolfville, met a […]
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Get lifted with The PepTides
The PepTides August 6-7, 8pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 Need to add some pep to your step? Well, The PepTides are here to save the day. With seven east coast shows planned this week—including a pair of shows at The Carleton—the nine-member group is coming through with a prescription for summertime sadness. Featured […]
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Twelfth Night moves
Twelfth Night To August 31 Cambridge Battery, Point Pleasant Park $20 suggested donation tickethalifax.com Twenty-five years ago, nearly on a whim, Shakespeare By The Sea put up Twelfth NIght for a week in Point Pleasant Park. Last weekend the company opened the production for its fourth time, in honour of that anniversary. But there are […]
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Thorgy Thor hits all the right notes
Thorgy and the Thorchestra July 27-28, 7:30pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $25-$55 History—or rather, “herstory”—will be made when Thorgy Thor (AKA Shane Galligan) of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame graces the Rebecca Cohn this weekend stage to give Canada its first-ever orchestral drag performance: Thorgy and the Thorchestra. Presented by Symphony Nova Scotia, it’s a […]
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Radical softness
“As a 2-Spirit person, I’ve never really identified as male or female, masculine or feminine roles,” says Brad Jones, “in or out of drag.” From politically inspired satin dresses to mirrored masks inspired by Final Fantasy, Jones—AKA Jennifer DaFuque—is refashioning drag culture and making space for 2-Spirit identity in Halifax. The only 2-Spirit drag performer […]
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Funny things are everywhere
Halifax Pride comedy night Thursday, July 19, 7:30pm Spatz Theatre, 1855 Trollope Street $20 tickethalifax.com “The cool thing about standup and solo performance pieces is you get to try stuff out and fail on your own terms, instead of having to get a whole bunch of people on board for an idea,” says Carolyn Taylor. […]
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Coming Out Ministries preys on LGBTQ+ youth through guilt and shame
I’m a preacher’s kid and I’m trans. I’m not a believer and I never was but I spent my childhood conscripted into ritual practices, performing a personhood that wasn’t mine, essentially because the family enterprise demanded it. I was expected to be what I was expected to be, not what I am. That I would […]
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Christ preached love, not intolerance
We are all of us shipmates on the surface of a vessel called Earth. All religions of the world expect acceptance, respect and the right to worship and conduct themselves within the laws and doctrines of their chosen beliefs; without prejudice or interference. Should not these concepts apply to sexuality as well? Certain clerics are […]