Everyone loves a parade, and this year’s Pride parade promises to be the biggest and best Halifax has seen. There are over 150 entries confirmed to walk/drive/float for Saturday’s event. “We’ve had parades for 23 years,” says Ed Savage, co-chair of Halifax Pride, the Pride Week organizing committee. “But it’s only been about the last […]
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Watch the Pride parade slideshow
Saturday’s Pride parade was a gay old time, indeed. It featured a beautiful sunny afternoon, thousands of people lining downtown streets to watch and around 200 floats—including a Coast/Hillcrest Volkswagen team effort that featured Windom Earle playing for nearly 2 hours on the back of a flatbed truck. (After the parade, a cop who was […]
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Giving an angry inch
Hedwig, the most famous “internationally ignored” transsexual, is coming to Halifax. Actor, writer and director John Cameron Mitchell gave birth to Hedwig in New York’s famous drag club Squeezebox; since then she’s had her own cult musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and a namesake movie that was the sleeper hit of 2001 (nominated for […]
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Halifax’s gayest drink
“Your gayest drink, bartender,” I say to the bartender at The Company House as I climb onto a bar stool. She pauses and looks at me, heterosexual poser. I’m out on the town with my queer friend Lee-Anne, former bartender at the now defunct gay-friendly restaurant Mollyz, trying to find the gayest drink in Halifax. […]
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Fighting to Clik into place
On a bitter March evening, a few dozen folks huddled into Venus Envy on Barrington Street to listen to Lucas Silveira play an acoustic set. He previewed a few tracks from The Cliks' then-forthcoming album, Dirty King. Silveira revelled in the intimate setting, cracking jokes about pictures popping up on Facebook of him playing against […]
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Trans-forming Halifax
Pride Week is all about…well…pride, right? But what kind of pride are we talking about? Most people commonly associate Pride Week with a celebration of sexual diversity—a celebration of the freedom to be with whomever we want, male or female. But Pride Week is not just about sexual orientation. It’s also about the expression of […]
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Zuppa Theatre’s Queer Acts
Poor Boy lives on. Photo: Scott Munn There will be rainbow-infused drama on Gottingen as Queer Acts, Halifax Pride’s first mini-theatre festival, kicks off. Hosted at the Bus Stop and Paragon theatres from July 20-24, five productions are running through the week, including two from Toronto’s famous Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. See halifaxpride.com for […]
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Halifax Pride receives Hallmark status from city
We know you’ll click with The Cliks, July 25. You’ve come a long way, baby: It was only 21 years ago that 75 men and women—-some in face-concealing masks—-marched in the city’s first Pride parade. Last Tuesday, city council voted to give the Halifax Pride Festival hallmark status, which means that it considers the annual […]
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Canada opens doors for queer immigrants
Whether you’re a queer refugee seeking a safe place to be who you are, or a same-sex couple that’s happy to finally find a country where you and your partner have some basic civil rights, one thing’s for sure: You’re going to have to get personal. For queer refugees, the high level of personal disclosure […]
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Guerilla GayFare takes over
“Excuse me,” says Joe Stewart to the man in the black shirt. For the past 20 minutes Stewart had watched the man hit on a group of frustrated women. “See all of us in the red t-shirts? We’re gay.” Thirty queers gathered at the Split Crow last month to take part in the fifth monthly […]
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Halifax Pride Week 2008: Pride moves forward
Bob Fougere spent the better part of a decade working with the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, and was instrumental in bringing same-sex legislation to Nova Scotia. Benjie Nycum was a co-founder of Young Gay America and the associated YGA Magazine, promoting community among gay youth. He is currently working as an architect. Daniel MacKay […]
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WetSpot promises to be a corker
If Pride is considered gay New Year then WetSpot is the cuvee de prestige of champagnes. Created and hosted by Girl-ish Productions, co-founded by Maggie Haywood and Leigh James Brown, WetSpot intends to metaphorically and figuratively flood the three floors of the Argyle Bar & Grill with bubbles, balloons and super-soaker water guns July 26. […]