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Stumbling through sex ed
EDITORIAL
ROBIN PERELLE
When I think of sex ed, I
think of the ram’s head.
That, and the used condom passed
around my Grade 9 classroom by some
woman brought in specifically to teach
us about sex.
I quickly flipped the condom to the
staunch Mormon sitting behind me before realizing the woman meant “used”
as in from an already open package — not
“used” as in previously filled with cum.
Of course, back then I barely knew
what cum was. The ram’s head from my
Grade 6 introduction to fallopian tubes
looked like it was drawn in the 1950s,
and the curriculum probably hadn’t
been updated much since.
I vaguely knew about orgasms from a
great book I’d found when I was seven
that compared them to special sneezes.
My mom encouraged me to read that
book and to ask her any questions I
might have. I can’t remember what I
asked, or even the name of the book now.
Which is too bad, because it sounds
like our teachers could use it.
According to a 2004 study by BC’s Options for Sexual Health (Opt), good sex
ed is “hit and miss” across the province.
“Teachers don’t get any pre-service
training in the area,” Opt’s senior health
educator, Kristen Gilbert, says. “When
they go to teachers college, nobody
learns sex ed. Even if you are going to
be a Planning 10 teacher, there is no
special training.”
Some teachers seek more training on
their own, but not enough sign up for
the courses Opt offers.
“It’s the most challenging subject to
teach, and many teachers don’t teach [it],
so it’s just left out,” says Myriam Dumont,
who recently completed Opt’s courses.
“There are no university courses to
teach sex ed,” she confirms. “Although
it’s mandatory in the curriculum, it’s left
out, and as a new teacher you’re thrown
into a classroom expected to teach it.”
Too many teachers are either “relying
on things they find on Google or experience in their own life, and that’s not
good enough,” says Glen Hansman, vicepresident of the BC Teachers’ Federation.
Hansman is particularly concerned
about the curriculum revision coming
this fall, which seems poised to roll sex
ed into phys ed.
“Where are PE teachers supposed to
go to teach this material responsibly?” he
asks, noting the already scarce resources
available for on-the-job sex-ed training.
Sex-ed classes here and in Ontario
already tend to ignore gay teens entirely. Unless students luck out with a
particularly cool teacher — like the hot
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phys ed teacher I was madly in love with
in Grade 9 — what are the chances that
the situation will improve?
The Vancouver School Board passed a
policy three years ago reminding its sexed teachers to be “aware of the potential
presence of lesbian, gay or trans-identifying students in the class (or students
that engage in same-sex sexual practice,
regardless of self-identification)” and to
choose their resources accordingly. But
the rest of BC is slow to follow.
“I would say that it is entirely up to
the teacher teaching how inclusive or
not inclusive their lessons are,” Gilbert
says. “There actually isn’t anything in the
kindergarten through Planning 10 learning outcomes about ensuring that queer
kids are represented in the curriculum.”
As the push to foster gay-friendlier
schools spreads slowly across BC, it’s
worth wondering how uncomfortably
delivered, straight-focused sex-ed classes sustain the homophobic culture we’re
trying to change.
What do kids take away from their
untrained teachers’ stumbling, embarrassed attempts to convey their own,
likely narrow, understandings of what
should and shouldn’t go where?
Imagine what they’d learn instead if
we valued sex as much as other skills
considered essential for life, like reading
and writing, and taught it accordingly,
inclusively and with ease. Would we still
need anti-homophobia policies?
Robin Perelle is the managing editor of
Xtra Vancouver.
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Davie Street Pride party
What attendance failure? The block
party was a blast! [Response to letter
re: “Vancouver Pride Plans Special
Celebration for 35th Anniversary,”
xtra.ca, May 30] It was packed and
way too small. I went out to get some
friends and had to wait in line to get
back in. They were “at capacity” way
too early. I waited in line for 20 minutes to get back in, and a lot of people
were bitching about the wait. But
it’s Pride. You have to wait half an
hour to get into Junction on any given
weekend, so a 20-minute wait during Pride is pretty good. A $20 ticket
isn’t bad at all, either. Most parties
during that weekend are over $50,
and guess what? That money goes to
party planners. This $20 goes to our
community’s Pride.
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The Davie Street party is the best party
of the entire Pride Week. Where else
during that week can you get together
with all your friends in one place to
have a drink together and a laugh?
Absolutely nowhere else! With the capability of bringing in lots of sponsors,
this party should be the big evening
event, with the parade being the big
day event. We grownups want a great
place to have a great time, and we’re
willing to pay for it.
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Gaybasher on parole
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Abbotsford Pride
The courageous youth in the Fraser
Valley Youth Society are showing the
extreme religious right that we are
loud, proud and refuse to be invisible! [“Abbotsford’s First Pride,” Xtra
#516, June 6]
As a gay teen who grew up in Abbotsford in the 1970s, I never could
have imagined such a day like the Abbotsford Pride parade could ever exist.
My family has been in Abbotsford for
55 years, and when my husband and
I were married there on the family
farm in 2004 it was the talk of the
neighbourhood. This was shortly after
Conservative MP Randy White was
railing against same-sex marriage
in the local and national media. The
Liberals passed same-sex marriage
legislation in 2005, thanks in part to
White’s homophobic rants. My family ended its 30-year friendship with
Randy White in 2004.
The Fraser Valley Youth Society are
leading where many adults in Abbotsford fail to. Only when their schools,
churches and community are safe and
accepting of LGBT people will we have
achieved true equality. This parade
and the ongoing work of FVYS are the
first steps in that long journey.
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Minneapolis news anchor Bill Lunn’s on-air Freudian flub as he segued into a story about gay pride.
Tweeted Lunn: “4 years and they couldn’t get me on the KSTP blooper reel. I guess they’ve got me now.”
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DANCE
CARMEL HIGH’S CUTIES
Hoedown
PROM
PINUPS
Vancouver’s Timberline Dance Society had an impressive showing
at the Emerald City Hoedown in Seattle in May. Timberline
dancers took first, second and third place in the intermediate linedancing competition. The hoedown was part of the International
Association of Gay/Lesbian Country Western Dance Clubs’ 20th
annual convention. Congratulations to Shaan Iyer, Rafael Quijano
and Ramon Pinto!
OLIVIER CIAPPA
“Two of my best
friends won Cutest
Couple of our senior
class. First time in my
school history a same
sex couple has even
been able to run for
this category, not to
mention winning it.
So proud of them,
and my school.”
STOP A L’HOMOPHOBIE
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— Chelsea Blaney, 18, a friend of Brad Taylor and Dylan Meehan, whose
photograph and story went viral. Moved by the support they received,
Brad and Dylan, who both plan to attend New York University in the fall,
responded, “When we started dating a year [ago], the thought of a photo of
us traveling throughout the world would be a bit frightening, but now we are
proud to be part of the LGBT community.” CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL
French Olympic swimmers Florent Manaudou
and Frédérick Bousquet posed as a gay couple
in an anti-homophobia campaign spearheaded
by photographer Olivier Ciappa. Ciappa’s pitch
to the swimmers? “You’re with the person
you love. Not a man, not a woman.” In reality,
Bousquet (right) is the partner of Manaudou’s
sister, Laure, and they have a daughter.
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necessary part of any sporting
game and I will not be made
to feel like I should just go
home if I point that out.
— Rugby fan Hannah Spyksma, in a letter published in The
New Zealand Herald. Spyksma confronted three men about the
homophobic slurs they were spewing during an All Blacks-France test
match. She says the men then targeted her with anti-gay slurs, tapped
her on the head and told her such language was part of the game.
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New banners for Davie Village
WEBIA will keep rainbows
at base of each banner
GAY VILLAGE
SHAUNA LEWIS
The West End Business Improvement Association (WEBIA) unveiled
new street banners and announced
new partnerships at its brand launch
June 12.
The launch attracted approximately
50 partners, community members, business owners and stakeholders.
WEBIA began looking at rebranding
the West End a year ago as part of its
strategic plan to create a unique and
unifying brand for the area’s three commercial streets.
“It is a clear and bold new identity
for one of North America’s most iconic
neighbourhoods,” says Paul Nixey,
CEO of Nixey Communications, who
designed the brand with Jill Tracy,
president of Creative B’stro.
“We were hoping that we could create
a visual identity that felt fresh and felt
relevant and that could tell a story and
extend over time and that would be able
to evolve with the neighbourhood and
businesses as things grew,” Tracy says.
“We think that we’ve achieved just that.”
Nixey says researchers consulted
business owners, stakeholders, West
End residents and the gay community.
The rebranding means the West End’s
three commercial streets — Denman,
Davie and Robson — will soon sport
two new banners each: one with its
own street name and the other with
WEBIA’s new logo.
The logo features three vertical
blocks to represent the density of Vancouver, next to three horizontal blocks
to represent the West End’s three main
commercial streets. Together they form
“WE.”
“We are talking about togetherness
and inclusiveness,” Nixey says. “We
think the strength of these three great
streets in one amazing neighbourhood
reflected in this logo brings these elements together.”
The banners are colour-coded: blue
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for Denman, to acknowledge its close
proximity to the ocean; green for Robson, to represent the lushness of Stanley
Park; and purple for Davie Street, which
highlights its additional banner feature
— a rainbow flag at its base.
The banners with rainbows will fly in
the gay village on Davie between Burrard and Jervis streets.
“I’m really excited that they decided to keep the rainbow flags and that
they’re doubling the flags on the bottom.
It feels like it’s more rainbow coverage,”
says Vancouver Pride Society general
manager Ray Lam.
“It’s essential and critical” to incorporate the rainbow into the new banners,
says the co-chair of the City of Vancouver’s LGBTQ advisory committee.
“We can’t forget that Davie Village
has always been a queer mecca,” Dean
Malone says. “People have come to look
for the flag, and they come to Davie
Street to find us.
“I’m okay with how the banners are
looking. And I appreciate that the BIA
is looking to put up the banners in a
phased approach,” he adds.
WEBIA immediately replaced the
street-side banners in the Davie Village
but plans to wait until September to
remove the curbside full rainbows and
replace them with the new WE banners
with smaller Pride flags at their base.
“The feedback we got was that it was
too much change” to remove the existing Pride banners so suddenly, says
Stephen Regan, WEBIA’s executive
director. “So we will leave them until
September and add more Pride.”
In addition to the new branding,
Regan says WEBIA has formed new
partnerships, including with the Vancouver Pride Society.
“We’ve worked together with the BIA
this year to really improve Davie Street
and our street party, so instead of having four fenced beer gardens on Davie
Street, we’ve reduced it down to two to
reduce the impact on the businesses
along the streets,” Lam says.
At top, Jill Tracy, Stephen Regan, Paul
Nixey and Ray Lam hold up the new
Davie banner. Above, the West End
BIA’s new banner and logo. SHAUNA LEWIS
Malone would like to see more recognition of the gay community’s contribution to the area. “I think there’s still not
a complete understanding, from the
dollars and cents perspective, about
what it really means to have our money
on that street,” he says.
“If queer folks weren’t living in the
West End and we weren’t shopping on
Davie, what would that mean?” he asks.
Malone says the gay community is
barely mentioned in the retail consultant report that WEBIA recently
submitted to the city. “We have a couple
of gratuitous mentions, I think,” he says.
Regan says that’s not true. “They’re
in,” he says. “It does include the queer
community; we’ve got a final report.
“But it wasn’t a demographic study
per se,” he adds. “And besides, in a demographic study you can’t go, ‘Oh, by
the way, how old are you and are you
queer? Even Stats Canada can’t give
you that.”
Xtra has requested a copy of WEBIA’s
retail report.
Malone says he’ll be watching WEBIA
closely. “I love the West End BIA, but
I’ve encouraged them to make sure that
the queer community is a partner in the
work that they’re doing, because if you
miss us... if we aren’t included in your
retail plans for Davie Street, you will
not succeed,” he says.
“I think the BIA is learning very
quickly of the presence we have on
that street,” he adds.
“I would say that it is
entirely up to the teacher
teaching how inclusive
or not inclusive their
lessons are,” says Kristen
Gilbert, of Options for
Sexual Health.
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Merging sex ed
with phys ed
More training needed to
make teaching responsible
and inclusive, advocates say
EDUCATION
NATHANIEL CHRISTOPHER
Education advocates are calling on
BC’s incoming minister of education to
ensure that all students, regardless of
location, sexual orientation or gender
identity, receive comprehensive sex
education under the revised curriculum that is slated for implementation
in September.
Sex education is included in the
curriculum for Health and Career Education K to 7, Health and Career Education 8 and 9, and Planning 10, which
were last updated between 2005 and
2007. Glen Hansman, vice-president
of the BC Teachers’ Federation, says
the sexual health component of these
courses are being moved to what will be
called Health and Physical Education.
“It is not known what the plan for
implementation will be — what sorts of
on-the-job training opportunities will
be available for teachers, for instance,
or what sort of updated learning resources will be available,” he says.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of
Education says that sex education will
remain in the curriculum. “A team of
BC teachers is currently reviewing
the health curriculum component.
Initial consultations have suggested
that Health and PE curricula could be
combined.”
Drafts of redesigned curricula are
expected to be available for review this
fall, the spokesperson says.
Hansman worries that the government does not have a plan to support
the implementation of any new sexual
education curriculum, especially if it’s
housed under physical education.
Funding cuts have meant few onthe-job training opportunities, he
says, and there’s no systemic effort
to ensure that sexual education is
queer-inclusive.
“Where are PE teachers supposed to
go to teach this material responsibly
and make sure that the teaching for
sex ed is mindful of kids who may not
self-identify as gay or lesbian but who
may engage in same-sex sexual behaviour, or kids that are transitioning from
one gender to another?” Hansman asks.
“Either people are relying on things
they find on Google or experience
in their own life, and that’s not good
enough,” he says.
“I think you would be reasonable to
say the large majority of young queer
men do not get that education through
the school system,” he adds, “and I
think you could say the same goes for
young queer women.”
Kristen Gilbert, senior health educator at Options for Sexual Health,
Canada’s largest non-profit provider of
sexual health services, says BC teachers need more support and training
in order to deliver sexual education
that is inclusive of queer and trans
students.
“I would say that it is entirely up to
the teacher teaching how inclusive or
not inclusive their lessons are,” she
says. “There actually isn’t anything in
the kindergarten through Planning
10 learning outcomes about ensuring
that queer kids are represented in the
curriculum.
“The BC Ministry of Education
needs to be specific about addressing
the needs of queer students,” she says,
“and teachers should learn in their
pre-service training how to include all
students in their lessons.
“When they go to teachers college,
nobody learns sex ed,” she adds. “Even
if you are going to be a Planning 10
teacher, there is no special training.”
Myriam Dumont, a Vancouver elementary school teacher who has taken
Options for Sexual Health courses,
confirms she did not receive any training for teaching sex education in her
university studies.
“Although it’s mandatory in the
curriculum, it’s left out, and as a new
teacher you’re thrown into a classroom
expected to teach it,” she says. “It’s the
most challenging subject to teach, and
many teachers don’t teach [it], so it’s
just left out.”
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WinterPride injects $9
million into BC economy
WinterPride contributes $9 million
to the BC economy, a newly released
economic-impact study commissioned by the Resort Municipality of
Whistler indicates.
The annual gay ski week drew almost
3,000 visitors from 28 countries to the
mountain town about an hour and a
half north of Vancouver in 2013, the
report says. Almost half the attendees
came from outside Canada.
The study was commissioned by the
municipality using funds from a provincial program to develop resort municipalities. It surveyed guests and totalled
their spending in the province, along
with spending by WinterPride organizers in BC, to estimate the total economic
activity generated by the eight-day event.
The study found evidence for a
$9-million impact on the BC economy,
including a $4.8-million impact on the
Whistler economy; $3.1 million of that
total goes to wages that support 69 jobs.
The event also generates $2.1-million
in tax revenue for the three levels of
government, the report says.
Dean Nelson, CEO of GayWhistler,
which runs WinterPride, says the report will be a useful tool when working
with the municipality and province in
the future.
GayWhistler and Tourism Whistler would not release the report, citing trade secrets contained within
it. Numbers included in this story
come from a press release issued by
GayWhistler. – Rob Salerno
SEX WORK
ongoing BC case, says the judges grappled with issues of health and safety
as they peppered government and
sex workers’ lawyers with questions.
“They asked really good questions that made me believe they really thought this through and were
concerned about sex-trade workers’
safety,” Pacey says. “Our team was very
focused. We’d been preparing months
and years for this day.”
The federal government announced
last April that it would appeal an earlier Ontario Court of Appeal decision
that struck down the two prostitution
laws as unconstitutional. The government wants bawdyhouses and making
money off sex work to remain illegal.
The judges reserved their decision.
– Jeremy Hainsworth
Supreme Court
hears sex-work case
Lawyers for three Ontario sex-trade
workers argued before the Supreme
Court of Canada June 13 that Canada’s
prostitution laws violate constitutional rights to freedom of thought,
belief, opinion and expression, and
the right to life, liberty and security
of the person.
The nine justices of the high court
must now decide whether those
infringements relating to the laws
against keeping a bawdyhouse and
living off the avails of prostitution
are reasonably justified in a free and
democratic society.
Lawyer Katrina Pacey, of Vancouver’s Pivot Legal Society, which is
representing sex-trade workers in an
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My friend is into teenaged guys
Is it considered abusive if they’re both consenting?
ASK THE EXPERT
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Dear Dr Ren,
I’m concerned because
I think my friend is what is called a hebephile, someone attracted to adolescents or
those appearing to be in the early stages
of puberty. Then again, he may be an
immature gay man incapable of intimate
adult relationships. Could he be both? Or
in transition?
He has a boyfriend and I worry about
both of them. I don’t wish my friend to
get stuck on young guys as he gets older,
or at least I want him to come to terms
with it. And I don’t want his lover to be
the perpetual boy-toy until he is discarded
when he ages.
Where can my friend turn for help,
without being reported as a sex offender?
I see him only as a man getting sexually
and emotionally involved with twinks and
genuinely wanting healthy, committed
relationships.
Primarily, I’m writing because I want
to know how to think about their arrangement. Is it abusive if they’re both
consenting? How can I be a supportive
friend to both of them?
Ethically Confused
Dear Ethically Confused,
There are a number of layers to peel
here, some made more difficult because
you omit the vital information of the
ages of the men involved.
The situation is different, for instance,
if the younger one is 13 or 17. If he is under
the age of consent (16, except for anal sex,
homophobically delayed to age 18), your
friend is legally committing child abuse
and would be considered a sex offender.
He would have extreme difficulty accessing rational therapeutic help and avoiding both prosecution and persecution.
Also significant is the older man’s
age. It’s a different story if he’s 20 or 50.
A 20-year-old dating a 16-year-old may
raise parental ire but rarely compels
prosecution. A middle-aged man dating
a 10th grader, however...
Regardless of the legal minefields,
I suspect your concern lies more with
the ethical and social implications of
their relationship. Have you discussed
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your concerns with these men? Do
you see problems in their relationship
other than their age disparity?
You make no mention of a power imbalance, and that should concern you.
If these two treat each other with respect and kindness, they’ve developed
the elements of a healthy relationship,
haven’t they? After all, age disparity
alone does not a problem make.
True enough, if the older partner’s
taste remains fixated on very youthful men, he’ll encounter increased
difficulty attracting his targets as he
himself ages. Likewise, if the twink
is erotically excited only or predominantly by the daddy/boy dynamic, he,
too, will fear aging and consequent
loneliness. It’s not an enviable position for either.
If the older man is distressed by his attraction to young or young-looking men,
he can find nonjudgmental, supportive
help at Virtuous Pedophiles (virped.
org), an “accountability network” whose
“highest priority is to help pedophiles
never abuse children.” Regardless of
the age of teens your friend favours, this
resource offers a community connection
for his contentious attraction.
It’s really hard to be dispassionate
when young people are involved. No
one wants to see children hurt, and
it’s difficult to decide when innocence
ends and agency begins.
Is your friend drawn
by the allure of a
beautiful young
man? Common.
Or is he fixated
on maintaining
romantic and
sexual interactions
with barely
grown boys?
Is your friend drawn by the allure of
a beautiful young man? Common. Or
is he fixated on maintaining romantic
and sexual interactions with barely
grown boys? Surely you see the difference — and the danger.
But there is danger, too, in overreacting, and it warrants impartial
examination. If you believe harm is
being done, you have the same obligation as all other Canadians to protect
the younger man by reporting.
If not, relax. Our social panic is
not always justified. Though we can’t
choose whom we love, we are responsible for our behaviour. If you must
judge, judge that.
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Battle Lines
In the age of Botox, gay men in their
20s make an alluring target market
COVER STORY
NIKO BELL
T
he first bubble of shiny raised
skin emerges the moment
the translucent hyaluronic
acid jelly flows into Peter
Breeze’s face.
As Dr Stephen Peach depresses the
plunger on the quivering hypodermic
needle, Breeze’s left cheek grows a spot
of ripe plumpness. Best of all, a few of
the tiny wrinkles in Breeze’s 27-yearold skin are swallowed up. Mission
accomplished.
“Yay!” Breeze says.
In cosmetic medicine, this procedure
is called a “soft lift.” It combines two of
the mildest, least invasive, most popular
cosmetic procedures: Botox and dermal
fillers. Together, the two offer a temporary, low-risk cosmetic pick-me-up that
takes only an afternoon at the spa and
around $1,000. Perfect for the targeted
middle-aged woman with a moderate
pocketbook and no desire to look like
Joan Rivers.
But Breeze is neither middle-aged nor
a woman. A man under 30, he represents
a fraction of one percent of the Botox
demographic.
The young gay musician, performer
and tireless self-promoter believes that
can change.
“It’s always been something that’s
been talked about, but it has to become
accessible,” he says. “People need to get
it out of their minds that it’s not fucking
plastic surgery.”
Breeze thinks the young gay crowd
is a ripe target market for Botox and
dermal fillers.
“Spending 10 years in the club is going
to have an effect on your body, physically,” he says. “I think the reason it’s
appealing to people in that lifestyle is
It can mean the
difference between
feeling better in a
relationship, feeling
better in a social or
occupational way,
as well . . . There’s
nothing superficial
about that.
DR STEPHEN PEACH,
PHRESH SPA
that they can freshen up. It’s almost
like you take back the years of being
all crazy.”
Full disclosure: Breeze is actively
promoting cosmetic medicine. He approached Xtra to write this story, and
his cross-promotion deal with Phresh
Spa means he gets the procedure done
free. Breeze is Phresh’s new public face
to the gay community.
But Breeze also has some personal
skin in the game. The deep laugh lines
around his mouth have bothered him
much of his life. Now, he hopes, an
injection of dermal fillers will make
them go away.
When Breeze burst onto the music
scene in 2007, he was a wiry, blond
whip of hard-partying charisma. Since
then he has aged, cooled and wrestled
with the insecurity that drove him to
the spotlight.
“I think when you really get down to
it, nobody desires love from the whole
world unless they’re trying to fill some
kind of void in their lives,” he says. “Everyone has their insecurities, and I think
by talking about it openly it actually
makes you look like a stronger person.”
nce Peach has injected enough
filler to raise Breeze’s cheekbones
slightly, he places one gloved finger inside Breeze’s mouth and massages the
lump into a smooth contour. After 48
hours, the gel will set in place.
Next, Peach tackles the laugh lines.
He uses a pinky-length diabetic syringe
to slide a 10th of a millilitre of fluid under the thinnest layer of Breeze’s skin
to soften out the creases.
The Botox shots are simple. Nine tiny
injections around the eyes, and it is all
over. Unlike the filler, the Botox will not
take effect for a few days.
Each bottle of dermal filler costs
about $500, while the Botox costs $10
per shot. All together, Breeze’s treatment would cost around $1,200. The Botox will wear off after six months, while
the dermal fillers will slowly metabolize
into Breeze’s body in the next year.
O
As before-and-after photos
go, the differences in Peter
Breeze’s appearance pre- and
post-“soft lift” are subtle.
SHIMON KARMEL
Peach believes in what he does; his
rock-star smile and smooth skin show
he has sampled his own wares. Peach
is also a general practitioner and passionately defends the medical value
of his work.
“You have to realize, when people feel
a little better about themselves, it can
mean a huge difference in their lives,”
he says. “It can mean the difference
between feeling better in a relationship,
feeling better in a social or occupational
way, as well. All of a sudden you feel better in your workplace, so you’re a more
productive worker... There’s nothing
superficial about that.”
t 25 years old, London Savant lay in
a hospital bed, blood pouring from
his face, and wondered if his nose job
was going to kill him.
He had dislodged a scab inside his
nose while swimming, just weeks after
surgery. The doctors told him he would
need a transfusion.
“Oh god,” he thought. “It would be
so retarded if I died from blood loss
because I had cosmetic surgery because
I’m vain.”
Savant was fine, of course, but the
accusation of vanity is harder to escape.
One of Savant’s close friends still will
not talk to him about his nose job or his
Botox. She told him that augmenting his
appearance was wrong.
“I didn’t really care what other people
thought,” Savant says. “It was something
I wanted, so I thought, I’m going to do it.”
Savant’s nose had bothered him for
years. Growing up a gay teenager, he
modelled himself after girls.
“I would see a pretty girl and think,
‘Oh, her nose is perfect,” he says. In
pictures, he would tilt his face to the side
to hide the slight crook. In his 20s, he
realized he could set his nose straight,
even if other people did not notice.
Gracie Perkins, a 27-year-old bisexual, upgraded her B-cup breasts to double
Ds for her 25th birthday. Her mother
and sister have big breasts, and she
decided she wanted them, too.
“I did it for me, 100 percent,” she
says. She says she feels more confident,
people think she has lost weight, and she
gets more tips at her salon.
“I wanted to do it while I still feel
good about my body,” she says. “If it’s
not broke, don’t fix it. But if it’s going
to break soon, why not?”
While not everyone likes her implants, she says, her friends and family
have been very supportive.
“Sure, I know radical feminists who
think you shouldn’t do this sort of
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thing, but I don’t give a fuck what they
think,” she says.
niversity of Toronto professor David Brennan worries that sometimes the desire to look better grows
from unhealthy roots.
His research on gay male body image
shows that gay men suffer more from
body-image-related anxiety than heterosexual men. The pressure can lead
to eating disorders, depression and even
risky sex, he says.
“If it helps them to feel better about
themselves, I certainly wouldn’t say
no, don’t do it,” he says about cosmetic
surgery. “But the concern I have is that
it buys into this notion that we all are
supposed to look a certain way, to be
U
It buys into this
notion that we all
are supposed to
look a certain way,
to be young and
pretty. It further
reifies this concept
of the ideal body for
a gay man.
PROFESSOR DAVID BRENNAN,
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
young and pretty. It further reifies this
concept of the ideal body for a gay man.
And that concerns me.”
reeze bats away the criticism that
cosmetic surgery is superficial or
sets overly high expectations.
“I completely agree, we shouldn’t focus our energy on superficial things,” he
says. “However, me looking in the mirror and wanting to change things about
my face that make me feel insecure —
my choice to pursue that is not adding
to the general public’s unrealistic idea of
body expectations. If that’s what makes
you happy, then do it.”
He believes that as the younger gay
generation grows up, stories like those
of Savant and Perkins will become even
more common.
“It’s a generation of instant gratification,” he says. “I don’t see things like this
going away. In fact, they’ll probably get
more accessible and faster and easier.
That’s the way our world works.”
B
Breeze’s optimism notwithstanding,
the evidence is a little more cautious.
Procedures among men are certainly
growing but at almost exactly the same
speed as among women. According to
the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, men have received only about 10
percent of all cosmetic medicine yearly
for more than a decade.
The most pronounced change since
2000, rather, has been the soaring
victory of Botox and dermal fillers,
growing, respectively, by 680 and 205
percent. More invasive cosmetic surgeries, meanwhile, have gradually declined.
American doctors injected a total of
six million clients with Botox last year
and 1.5 million with hyaluronic acid
dermal fillers. In the world of cosmetics,
this is the age of Botox.
For a procedure that is almost perfectly safe, Botox is conceptually terrifying. A speck of botulinum toxin smaller
than the eye could see would, upon
injection, kill Breeze dead on the spot.
The actual dose is hundreds of times
smaller than even that, enough only to
deaden the delicate muscles of the face
for a few months, slackening the lines
around Breeze’s eyes. Botox is cheap,
reliable and fast, making it far and away
the champion of cosmetic medicine.
Compared to Botox, hyaluronic acid is
as harmless as clear goo can be. It occurs
naturally in the vitreous humour of the
eyeball, as well as within joints, tendons,
the skin and nearly anywhere the body
requires a jellylike filler. A human could
bathe in the stuff with no other effect
than pleasantly moisturized skin.
ne week after the procedure, Breeze
is thrilled with the results, even if
they are a little more subtle than he
expected.
The tiny wrinkles around his eyes are
gone, and he proves he can still wiggle
his eyebrows. His laugh lines are still
there but slightly softened. The biggest
difference is the strong, smooth cheekbones that Peach laid down on Breeze’s
thin face. Under his skin, they feel like
soft bubbles.
“I know plastic surgery and Botox and
fillers is something people are going to
roll their eyes at and say, ‘Oh, of course
Peter Breeze is doing that,’” he says.
“But that’s okay with me. I’m happy with
who I am as a whole, but if you can take
away something you’re insecure about,
why wouldn’t you?”
O
Watch our video of Peter Breeze
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Out in the City
I wanted to be campy — why wasn’t I campy?
Dreamboat, aka Aaron Bergunder E17
‘You’re always strong enough’
River Tucker is
BC’s new women’s
boxing champion
SPORTS
ERIN FLEGG
On May 25, as soccer fans around the world
anxiously watched the European Cup final, boxer
River Tucker calmly watched the match from her
hotel room in Victoria, allowing it to soothe her
nerves. The following day, she would compete for
the BC women’s provincial boxing title.
Her soccer-watching strategy worked. Tucker
became the provincial champion May 26 and
earned the right to compete at the national
championship in Regina this fall.
It has been a year since Tucker decided to
make a run for the title. The fight in Victoria
was the culmination of thousands of hours in
the gym and on the road, developing her strength
and style as a boxer.
Her preparation, both in the days and weeks
leading up to the event and on the day of the
fight, had to be just right.
“I was there 100 percent mentally, physically;
it was perfect,” she says.
Tucker brought food with her to make sure
she was eating properly throughout the event
and was careful to get enough sleep. But the
most important part, she says, was in her head.
She visualized each step of the fight, imagining the win over and over until she believed it
completely. “It’s pure confidence,” she says. “It’s
challenging.”
The following weekend, Tucker went on to win
the BC Silver Gloves championship in Richmond.
She now plans to spend the summer getting as
many fights under her belt as possible. Given the
small number of women fighters here in Canada,
that means travelling to the US for tournaments.
Right now she has her sights set on the national championships; the long-range view
includes a spot on the Canadian Olympic team.
Tucker began boxing while attending university in Berlin, where sports programs are
extensive. “I just went through the whole list
of what interested me, and it was boxing and
inline hockey, and I stuck with boxing,” she says.
While some see the sport as a good way to get
exercise, she says she’s always had a competitive
streak. “I probably had my first fight way too
early,” she adds with a small smile.
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In addition to her own training
and matches, River Tucker
founded Queer Box Camp to
introduce new boxers to the
sport’s basic techniques.
ERIN FLEGG
Born in Vancouver but raised in Germany,
Tucker returned to BC three and a half years
ago and began training with amateur champion
Vaia Zaganas.
A journalist by profession, Tucker has given
up writing long, research-intensive pieces for
quick print stories and personal-training jobs,
leaving more time and flexibility for her training.
Two years ago, she decided to make time to
train beginner boxers as well, particularly queer
ones. She started with informal sessions in McSpadden Park and now runs Queer Box Camp out
of a small gym at Fraser Street and 15th Avenue,
teaching basic technique and fitness classes.
A large part of the reason for starting Queer
Box Camp was to give those who don’t feel
comfortable working out in the boys’-club
atmosphere of traditional boxing gyms a place
to train.
“It’s very sexist and very homophobic,” Tucker
says. “It’s very ‘how to be a real man.’ You’re
fighting for your space as a woman.”
Having trained in conventional gyms herself,
she’s used to making a place for herself and
knows it isn’t easy.
“You don’t always want to be in a space where
you have to fight for it,” she says. “If you have the
energy or that’s all there is, then that’s what you
do. But I can see some people don’t want to fight.”
Her Queer Box Camp students have shown
their appreciation by supporting Tucker in
her dream to compete in the Olympics. They
recently threw a fundraiser to raise money for
Tucker’s summer competitions and her trip to
the nationals. They even made her a robe with
her nickname, “The Fox,” to wear before fights.
The summer season will be a test of her training as well as her ability to roll with the punches,
a lesson Tucker believes is crucial to success in
her sport.
“The one thing I love, that [I] learned with
boxing, is that things can’t be perfect and they
won’t be perfect,” she says. “Your body doesn’t
always have to be perfect.”
She says competing in fight after fight is a way
to prove to yourself that you can adapt to all
kinds of circumstances. “You’re always strong
enough.”
Continuum’s bisexual Liber8tor
Luvia Petersen
comes full circle
TELEVISION
DENISE SHEPPARD
When Luvia Petersen was in her early
20s, she and her then-girlfriend, Justina
Kervel, conceived the idea of a queerfemale-owned tattoo shop, having never
founded a business before. Twelve years
and 18,000 tattoos later, Liquid Amber
Tattoo still flourishes.
So when, 10 years ago, Petersen decided that she wanted to become an
actress, no one doubted that she’d give
it her best. The concern, instead, was
that Hollywood wasn’t quite ready for
her: the actress’s non-homogenous,
non-hetero appearance was a style that
rarely showed up on big screens, unless
the plot was specifically queer in nature.
Then she landed a major recurring
role on the futuristic sci-fi TV drama
Continuum.
Luvia Petersen, behind the scenes on the set of Continuum. CONTINUUM/BOB AKESTER
Airing in more than 50 countries,
Continuum is complex, clever and timely. Petersen’s badass bisexual character,
Jasmine Garza, moves through time
with her fellow freedom fighters, trying to save the universe from a corrupt
government. Her collective, known as
Liber8, is evocative of Mad Max movies,
though Petersen’s character is more of a
Sigourney Weaver/Aliens type of hero.
Soon to start Season 3, Petersen is
still thrilled to be involved. “It was —
and still is — very surreal. I’ll be on set,
they’ll be like, ‘Cameras rolling . . . and
action!’ and right before I walk into my
scene, I’m like, ‘Holy shit, I’m an actor!’
I still have those moments!”
Part of what makes this journey so
sweet for Petersen is that she has found
a way to remain true to herself while
also finding a place in a mainstream
entertainment industry.
“When I look back at my external
changes, it’s funny because I started
out as an obvious tomboy, butchy; I was
still doing drag. I then went through a
transitional journey. Changing my look
was part of my growth, coming to terms
with my femininity. I needed the swing
of the pendulum. Ironically, I have had
to go full circle to come back and play a
very tomboy role.”
Off-set, Petersen and co-star Omari
Newton have also created a podcast
they call the Visible Minority Report.
“I’m a minority in disguise. I can walk
into a room and nobody knows that
I’m a minority, and I have to ‘come
out’ every single time to people. When
we first started doing it, I was saying, ‘I
don’t know if I fit. Do I fit?’ And Omari
was saying, ‘Let’s do this and let’s have
that conversation.’ It is a great conversation to have.”
Between her TV series, the podcast
and the tattoo shop, Petersen remains
incredibly busy. Asked about future
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always looking for life’s next big adventure. “No one ever boasts about
climbing a mole hill; they boast about
climbing Mount Everest,” she says.
“That’s the human challenge. That is
what makes things so sweet.”
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Victoria singer’s
new solo LP is
all about men
I turned my back on myself for a long
time. But if I try to write about something
outside my experience, it feels unnatural.
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Dreamboat, aka Victoria synth-pop
musician Aaron Bergunder, is set to
release Boy — his debut LP of autobiographical, ’80s-tinted, queer, minimalist
electronica — on July 1.
Now, no offence to the newly wed
and the nearly dead, but why Victoria?
Wouldn’t a city like Montreal or Toronto
offer more fertile ground?
Bergunder assures me that Victoria
artists are all too familiar with this line of
questioning. “You shouldn’t have to leave
where you live to find the fun you want —
make that space where you are,” he says.
Originally from Nanaimo, Bergunder
has a fathomable appreciation for Victoria’s supportive and tight-knit indie
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music scene. “I don’t need to leave; this
place is perfect for me.”
With a giggle of irony, Bergunder
describes his latest venture as “bummer
gay synth-pop.” With his lyrics’ smoky
shading and his music’s retro echo, it’s
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at the top of the list when asked the inevitable Musical Influences Question.
That list continues with Hot Chip; LCD
Soundsystem; Hamilton, Ontario’s Junior Boys; and the long-lived producer
Giorgio Moroder, who most recently
collaborated on Daft Punk’s Random
Access Memories.
Bergunder’s promoters at Hybridity
Music describe his LP as “a whole new
batch of songs about boys and men and
boys becoming men.” More to the point,
it’s about men thinking about men
(“Moves”), loving men (“Drowned”) and
leaving men (“Expansion”).
This wasn’t always the case for the
young musician, who acknowledges that
overtly gay lyrics were often hidden in
his earlier songs.
“It’s hard to write a gay love song
when you play with an indie rock band,”
he says. “I wanted to be campy — why
wasn’t I campy?”
It’s a conundrum for many queer per-
forming artists, and while it would seem
to get easier with each generation, there
can still be a disconnect between the
person and the performer. Bergunder
readily admits to drawing on his own
life for inspiration, but what happens
to authenticity when you’re veiling a
core part of who you are?
“I turned my back on myself for a long
time. But if I try to write about something outside my experience, it feels unnatural — I can’t get a single point across.
You need to write what you know.”
Embracing his gay identity has freed
Bergunder from that discord and allowed him to write about exactly what
he knows. “Every song is about someone
I’ve dated or fantasized about. It’s definitely all about men now!”
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rug stores that have been going out
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a treasure trove of secret alleys and
shops that cater to the unusual.
Relive exploring your grandmother’s
attic at Salmagundi 1 (321 W Cordova
St), the city’s best curiosity shop. With
its mishmash of creepy Victorian toys
and collectibles, browsing this store
leaves you feeling like you’ve violated
someone’s privacy.
Should your aesthetic lean toward
“kind to trees,” try the Old Faithful
Shop 2 (320 W Cordova St) for everything from canvas laundry carts to
state-of-the-art watering cans. If you
can afford a penthouse, you’ll definitely
want to visit Inform Interiors 3 (97
Water St). For those of us who live in
more cramped quarters, check out
Parliament 4 (115 Water St). If you
have an owl fetish, this place is for you.
Gastown is filled with boutique clothing stores for individuals who are Gapand Banana Republic–averse. Sharks
& Hammers 5 (54 Alexander St) sells
fun T-shirts and street wear; check out
the leather football. Menu 6 (114 Water
St) bills itself as a men’s skate shop but
will appeal to guys who like Hawaiian
prints and butch women looking for
something to wear to the beach.
Neighbour 7 (125-12 Water St), in
Gaoler’s Mews, looks like it should be
owned by a pair of gay men but isn’t.
The Community Frock Shop 8 (311
Carrall St) boasts a fine selection of
women’s vintage clothing and employs
residents of the Downtown Eastside.
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Stroll down the cobbled streets. Explore its historic
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WELCOME TO GASTOWN.
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parliament at Parliament. For more
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9 (1 Water St), where you can get a
diamond-encrusted Pac-Man necklace
for a grand or a cellphone case for under $30. This spot oozes gay aesthetic,
whether it wants to or not. For a tasteful experience that’s more in keeping
with the historic feel of the ’hood, treat
yourself to a haircut and hot shave at
JD's Barbershop 10 (235 Abbott St).
New restaurants have been sprouting
like weeds in Gastown, making it difficult to separate the yuppie bars from the
neighbourhood hangouts. Brioche Urban Eatery 11 (401 W Cordova St) may
seem expensive, but the portions are
large. Use the Water Street entrance for
that “down the rabbit hole” experience.
If you want to impress a date with
an expensive, swanky dinner and a
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beautiful view of the harbour, venture
about 20 minutes west to Lift 12 (333
Menchions Mews, not shown on map)
in neighbouring Coal Harbour.
For a good old-fashioned hearty
sandwich, check out Meat & Bread 13
(370 Cambie St); wayward vegetarians beware. If you’re looking for a
small space with a lot of flair, try the
Spanish-inspired tapas at Judas Goat
14 (27 Blood Alley) and ask for Jordan.
Craving a doughnut? Go to Cartems
Donuterie 15 (408 Carrall St); you’ll
never want to choke down another Tim
Horton’s doughnut again.
The influx of loft-dwellers and condoowners has taken Gastown from cool to
chic, although there are parts of it that
feel like Giuliani’s New York. But if you
ever need to escape for a few hours and
pretend you’re in a Bette Davis movie,
nothing beats Gastown.
Miami moms
and hot messes
BLITZ & SHITZ
RAZIEL
The Ryan and Amy Show,
which saw the return of
Ryan Steele and Amy Goodmurphy to
Davie Street after a year off from performing, was triumphant, gassy and as
much of a trip as the parents-returningfrom-a-rave-high-as-fuck-on-partymix sketch. Their techno moves and
pacifier pouts are legendary! Steele and Goodmurphy have great
chemistry and are like perverted soul
sisters onstage.
There was a “We’re worried about
your hole” video clip, about keeping
your butthole healthy and happy. After
all, it is the third most important body
part: “Head, heart and hole” are basically the new holy trinity. “Listen to your hole if you want to
be happy,” they sang to the melody
of “Listen to Your Heart” by Roxette:
“Listen to your hole if you want to survive.” The comparison clips of happy
and unhappy holes fit right in amongst
the toilet humour. Ryan and Amy are
simply scat queens, and I love them for
it! The farting was a continuous score
throughout the show, accentuated by
raucous applause and laughter. It was great to see The Junction so
busy with the sun still in the sky. The
house was as packed as it is at closing
time when everyone is rushing around
to find a dick to do their last bump off ! Ah, good times.
The show was two hours of dressup-box madness. There were so many
sketches, costume changes, video interludes and characters, it went by in a flash.
Ryan and Amy as Pee-wee Herman. Amy
as serial killer Aileen Wuornos sitting
at the 1181 bar. Amy as a twinked-out/
tweaked-out (and perfectly smooth,
Raziel was happy to see Ryan Steele and Amy Goodmurphy return to The Junction
June 13 for two hours of dress-up-box madness. VICTOR BEARPARK
toned and bronzed) power bottom in the
video clip Twinks, which had such great
lines it made the Shit Gay Guys Say viral
comedy videos seem stale in comparison.
The two were at their best as musical
duo Moms over Miami — Susan and
Judy — whose songs were as awkward
as the mom jeans riding up their asses.
Lyrics like “You get your period, but you
like how the tampon feels. Tiny victories, tiny victories” felt oddly anthemic
roaring out of The Junction’s speakers. Moms over Miami’s other hit, “Yolot”
(“You Only Live One Time”), was a perfect reminder to live it laughing.
5150
Everyone was so released at Club La
Lohan, it was like Oasis was host to a
crowd just freed from a 5150 psychiatric
hold — or maybe about to be put into one.
Oasis’s regular Saturday dyke dance
party was overtaken by a bunch of
Lohan-life hipster queers turning the
club above Denny’s (E! True Hollywood
North glamour!) into a trashed room at
the Chateau Marmont. The Lohan tumult had Oasis seeing
one of its busiest Saturday nights in
months, with the line going down Thurlow (and in highest Lilo reverence, up
noses). Everyone who is anyone (who
isn’t currently in rehab) was there. It was the first Davie party for DUI
Events, known for their underground
East Van all-nighters. I loved hearing DJ
Maxwell Maxwell back on the decks, and
although DJ Matisse spins a good beat,
her DJing for DUI, WiG, JiZ and now
Club La Lohan homogenizes the parties. Club La Lohan was hyped with a Burn
Blog, like Regina George’s Burn Book
in Mean Girls, made up of pictures of
club kids and queens with lines like
“April Keller has dollar-store lipstick
on her snaggle tooth,” “Jem shaves her
back,” “Berlin — cold, hard, shiny, plastic.” The portraits were printed out and
hung around the club, foreshadowing
future mugshots. Lindsay Lohan — and the celebrity
culture she embodies — has captivated
an entire generation of young gay men
who have felt an affinity for the Betty
Ford babe their whole lives. First as
kids watching The Parent Trap, then
as mean girls watching Mean Girls, and
now as hot messes watching Lohan’s hot
mess — her magnum opus. Wherever she takes us next, only
one thing is certain: thanks to Club La
Lohan’s $150 Botox/filler “Hollywood
makeover” prize package, we’ll look
surprised to be there. For daily updates, follow
@blitzandshitz on Twitter.
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CruiseyT Summer Solstice Cruise
What would summer be without
CruiseyT? Experience the nightclub
life on the ocean while taking
in the sights of the city, harbour
and mountains. Performances by
Joan-E, Summer Clearance and
Conni Smudge, with DJs Del Stamp
and Zach Shore. 5–9pm; boarding
4:30pm. Harbour Cruises, foot of
Denman Street. $30 advance at
cruiseyt.com, Little Sister’s and
Priape.
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The Cobalt, 917 Main St. $12
advance at Priape.
Wed, June 19
Bingo for Life Presented by
Friends for Life and Celebrities;
hosted by Joan-E and friends.
8–10pm. Suggested $10 donation
for entrance, plus the cost of bingo
cards. Celebrities Nightclub.
Fauxgirls With Mandy Camp
and Coco. 11pm. The Junction. $3
donation to Dogwood Monarchist
Society.
Thurs, June 20
P-Can Nude Life Drawing A
men’s-only drawing group where
all are nude. No skills required, but
bring drawing materials and a towel
to sit on. 6:30–9pm, near Oakridge
Canada Line Station. Exact location
upon RSVPing to funvan@shaw.
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membership, $50.
Fri, June 21
Project Empty Bowl Annual
fundraiser for A Loving Spoonful to
deliver free meals and nutritional
counselling to people with HIV/AIDS.
6:30pm. Coast Coal Harbour Hotel,
1180 Hastings St. $100 advance at
604-682-6325. alovingspoonful.org
Sat, June 22
Priape Leather & Fetish Ball
Featuring DJs Nick Bertossi and
Adam Dreaddy. Must be 19 or older.
Dress code is leather and fetish only.
No street-wear permitted; jeans
are acceptable only with a harness.
Official afterparty play party at
Steamworks Vancouver. 9pm–3am.
Red Room Ultra Bar, 398 Richards
St. Tickets $20 at Priape, more at
the door. priape.com
Nanaimo Pride Dance 8pm–1am.
Pleasant Valley Hall, 6100 Doumont
Rd, Nanaimo. $15. nanaimopride.org
Wendy Ho Hustla brings a hilarious
hip-hop lady to town. 9pm doors.
Rhizome Open House &
Celebration 4–11:30pm. Rhizome
Café, 317 East Broadway. No cover;
donations accepted. rhizomecafe.ca
Summer Sparkle Dance Party
Fundraiser for the Catherine White
Holman Wellness Centre. 19+.
9pm–1am. WISE Hall, 1882 Adanac
St. Sliding scale, $10–50.
Bears, the Baths and Beyond
The fourth Saturday of each
month, Steamworks bathhouse
has music, food and hot, furry
men. 1–6pm. Steamworks, 123 W
Pender St. Lockers/rooms, $8–50.
steamworksonline.com
Sun, June 23
The Continental A documentary
film about Steve Ostrow and the
legendary Continental Bath and
Health Club in NYC’s Ansonia Hotel.
Part of the Vancouver International
Film Festival (Best of Hot Docs).
6:15pm. International Film Centre,
1181 Seymour St. $12. viff.org
OFK T-Dance Out for Kicks’ first
tea dance of the season. It’s time to
trade the soccer boots for dancing
shoes! 4–8pm. The Junction. $10.
Mon, June 24
Chris Pureka The genderqueer
folk singer performs with special
guests the Emy Reynolds Band.
7:30–9:30pm. Biltmore Cabaret,
2755 Prince Edward St. $10 door.
Thurs, June 27
Changing How We Deal with
Depression & HIV Speakers Mary
Petty and Glyn Townson offer some
basic tools for starting the healing
and recovery process. RSVP by June
21 to [email protected] or
604-893-2239. 6–8pm. Chateau
Granville, 1100 Granville St. Free and
open to all.
Fri, June 28
Calgary Gay Rodeo 20th
Anniversary Features traditional
rodeo events like bull and steer
riding, barrel racing and roping, as
well as goat dressing and wild drag.
Getting those undies on a goat is
not as easy as you’d think! More
than 4,000 attendees are expected.
Fri, June 28–Sun, June 30. Symons
Valley Ranch, 260011 Symons Valley
Rd NW, Calgary. argra.org/index.php
Cops for Cancer A gala black-tie
masquerade fundraiser for the Cops
for Cancer foundation. Emceed by
Say Yes to the Dress host Monte
Durham and Mr Canada 2004
Darren Storsley. Featuring a fashion
show and musical performances in
a heritage Shaughnessy mansion.
7–11pm. Secret location revealed
once $25 ticket purchased at
mnd-fashionshow.eventbrite.com.
Sat, June 29
East Side Pride An all-ages
event celebrating and showcasing
the community. Features live
performances and the Pride Market,
stocked with info and goodies
from local artisans and community
organizations. Noon. Grandview
Park, Commercial Drive. Free.
vancouverpride.ca
Now That’s Entertainment
A variety show presented by New
West’s Royal City Pride Society.
the
medicinal
Hosted by Laff Riot Girls’ Lee Ann
Keple, with comedy, burlesque,
magic and drag. 8–10pm. Columbia
Theatre, 530 Columbia St, New
Westminster. $20 advance at
thecolumbia.ca and Red Brick, 50
Sixth St, New Westminster; $25 door.
Stonewall Pride DJ She spins
at this Sunshine Coast Pride
dance in Roberts Creek. Doors
8pm; dance 9:30pm–1am. $15.
sunshinecoastpride.com.
Gear Saturday: VML Put on your
gear and join the Vancouver Men in
Leather at this monthly event. VML
is always looking for guys to help
out: to get involved, send an email
to [email protected]. Dress
code is leather, rubber and fetish.
9pm until close. PumpJack Pub.
No cover.
Hershe Bar Fierce DJs, a steamy
dance floor, singles bracelets and
loads of debauchery with DJs Riki
Rocket and Miss M. 10pm–2am. Red
Room Ultra Bar, 398 Richards St.
$12 advance (first 100), $15 after at
flygirlproductions.com, Little Sister’s
and Kokopelli Salon.
Reach Around at FiveSixty Three
floors of dancing, drinking, social
interaction and hot men. DJ John
Lepage (San Fran) headlines, in his
Vancouver debut. Hosted by Robyn
Graves. Doors 9pm. Club 560, 560
Seymour St. Tickets $10 at Priape or
ticketzone.com or at the door before
10pm. djjohnlepage.com
Submit your event listing
to [email protected].
Deadline for the July 4–17
issue is Wed, June 26.
Mon, July 1
CruiseyT: Canada Day Fireworks
Cruise The perfect way to end a
summer long weekend, with a great
view of the fireworks. DJs Mattilda
Ho and Drew spin, and Joan-E and
Conni Smudge perform. 7:30–
11:30pm; boarding 7pm. Harbour
Cruises, foot of Denman Street.
$30 advance at cruiseyt.com, Little
Sister’s and Priape.
Victoria Pride 2013 A week of
Pride festivities kicks off in Victoria,
culminating in the parade on
Sun, July 7, starting at noon at
the intersection of Government
and Pandora. The Pride Festival
starts immediately afterward at
MacDonald Park in James Bay. More
info at victoriapridesociety.org.
United: Big Roger To celebrate
Canada Day, Big Roger presents DJ
Alexander (LA) in his Gorg-O-Mish
debut, laying down the after-hours
style that has him playing gigs from
coast to coast. Doors at 1am. GorgO-Mish, 695 Smithe St. $30 advance
at clubzone.com/me/bigroger. More
tickets at door if available.
Calgary Gay Rodeo — Symons Valley
Ranch, Fri, June 28–Sun, June 30
Sun, June 30
XOXO Shane Stiel DJ Shane Steil
(San Diego), winner of Just Circuit
magazine’s 2012 award for Best
Up and Coming DJ, makes his Big
Roger Events debut at a special
Canada Day weekend edition of
XOXO. 10pm–2am. Ginger 62, 1219
Granville St. $15 advance at Little
Sister’s, Priape or clubzone.com/
me/bigroger.
Truckerdisco Celebrate Canada
Day weekend in style. Ital-disco,
nu-disco, forgotten and future
favourites, with guest DJ HiFi Brown
(Berlin, San Fran) joining Taffi
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Louis. 9pm–3am. $6 advance at
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Priape; $8–10 door. Oasis Ultra
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The Continental —
VIFF, International
Film Centre,
Sun, June 23
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Priape 1148 Davie St, priape.com
Little Sister’s 1238 Davie St, littlesisters.ca
Kokopelli Salon 2052 Commercial Dr, kokopellisalon.ca
Celebrities Nightclub 1022 Davie St, celebritiesnightclub.com
PumpJack Pub 1167 Davie St, pumpjackpub.com
Numbers Nightclub 1042 Davie St, numbers.ca
The Junction 1138 Davie St, junctionpub.com
Oasis Ultra Lounge 1240 Thurlow St, oasisondavie.com
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Offer subject to change without notice. 1. Smart plans available monthly or with a 2-year Tab24 agreement. Additional long distance, roaming, data, add-ons, provincial 9-1-1 fees (if applicable) and taxes are extra & billed monthly.
2. Additional data: $5/200 MB, charged in $5 increments. Data transmission charges of 3¢/kB apply when roaming ($7.99/24-hour period for up to 50 MB in the U.S. Additional charges of $7.99 will apply for access to each additional 50 MB
of data usage during the same 24-hour period). 3. Airtime includes calls from Canada to Canadian numbers only, billed by the minute. Each additional minute costs 45¢ (20¢ for Call Forwarding). 4. Plan includes messages sent from Canada
to Canadian, U.S. and international wireless numbers. Sent/received premium messages (alerts, messages related to content and promotions) and messages sent while roaming not included and charged at applicable rates. 5. Service
includes up to 3 messages, each 3 minutes in length that can be saved up to 3 days. 6. Price after $50 bill credit that will be applied against a customers’ second invoice, with new activation on a 2-year Tab24 agreement on a Smart plan.
Taxes extra. Device savings recovery fees and/or servicedeactivation fee apply according to the terms of your agreement.TMFido and related names & logos are trademarks used under licence. © 2013 Fido Solutions