Black Queer Resistance: Are We Unified in the Fight Against Homophobia?
Thursday, June 26, 2008
6pm – 8pm
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Centre
2 Carlton Street, Suite 500
FREE
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre, The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the ACCHO are presenting our annual Black Queer Resistance Community Forum. Panel members will discuss “Are We Unified in the Fight Against Homophobia?”
8pm – 10pm – Foreign Couples
The 519 Church Street Community Centre
519 Church Street
FREE
There are two ways you and your partner can live together in Canada. Family Class Sponsorship is available to one partner when the other is a Canadian or Permanent Resident. The Skilled Worker section is for foreign couples wishing to immigrate here together. Join us to find out more.
Gladstone Hotel – Melody Bar
1214 Queen Street West
FREE
Pansexually tenanted, ticklish-terrible, veritably the low-ends and high-pops of the rainbow, Tomboyfriend is the art-house sock-hop house-band of the surrogate, strange, detouring, kindersurprise of a future.
With a line up of variant show boats, musicians, writers, visual artists, ingénues, known for wild performances, dancing pigeons, marching bunnies, costume parties, gender inspecifics, and the spraying of Jell-O blood, they are politics for the end of politics, for petting parties, something for a lady friend, a bird to have chirp on your shoulder.
Drawing on influences as far a flung as cabaret, blues, punk, folk, glam, high cerebra and art rock, expect them in full ahead Pride Party Mode, for, sir, to get your freak off, for, ma'am, (spoiler alert!) a harrowing re-experience of Mage's Express Yourself. O, and subterranean sing-along: The End of Poverty. Plus the Histrionics, Toronto’s newest post-punk beach
Temptation DJs dig through their crates and bring us the very finest in classic soul standards and rare grooves. Both seasoned veterans of the genre, DJs Anthony and James heat things up in the lounge with the finest soulful cuts.
LeVag presents Le Sweet & Sticky Pride Girl Party. A night of deep and dirty bass heavy, house, electro, tribal and booty in the heart of the city's Westend. Featuring guest DJ Sandra (Siamese2Hearts / NYC) and DJ Delicious (the S word) alongside resident DJ Sokes (straightGIRL).
The AIDS Candlelight Vigil is a community memorial event held annually to honour, remember and celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS, and to recognize and honour those affected by and living with HIV/AIDS.
Adults: $16 Students, Seniors or anyone in Boy or Girl Drag: $13
Tickets available at 647-346-6110 up to 6pm and at the door.
A gender-bending semi-autobiographical solo show about a doctor-cum-drag queen struggling to keep his lives in order, it is described by critics as “a bubbly cocktail of wit and sass, with a little medical ethics thrown in”. Don’t keep this “Lady” waiting!
The Hardworkin’ Homosexuals return with Pride Week’s original all-star performance event. Local queer musicians, writers, actors and dancers offer up five-minute masterpieces in three evenings of unbridled cabaret. Often raucous, always unpredictable, Cheap Queers is high art at a bargain basement price.
