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MAINE VOTERS WIPE OUT GAY MARRIAGE LAW
Rex wockner
Éric Messier
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As with most viruses, H1N1 is particularly threatening for people who
fall under the category of being susceptible to diseases. Having
said that, it is becoming more and more evident that HIV-positive
patients with a weakened immune system are part of that group
being considered increasingly vulnerable to the H1N1 virus.
to us that people with HIV fall under groups considered at risk. In
this group, there are those who are under active treatment, and
thus were inoculated first. Those who are not under treatment are
considered to be part of the regular group, those found in the
category “65 years of age and less, with chronic disease”. People
found in this category, can receive the vaccine at the hospital in
which they are treated or in the vaccination centres.
Over the last few weeks, medical professionals at the Clinique du
Quartier Latin have been very busy, and that’s not even being occupied with finding a cure. 2B spoke with Dr. Pierre Côté, who confirmed that people with HIV do in fact, appear on the vaccination
priority list.
The DSP also told us that the patients who are under treatment are
asked to bring their medications with them. According to Ms. Bonney, if people are concerned about confidentiality, this request
remains justified by the constraints surrounding the management
of available vaccines.
In early November, when we initially spoke to Dr. Côté, he indicated that this group did not appear on the list, but that assumption
proved to be inaccurate after we confirmed with the Direction de
santé publique de Montréal, where Deborah Bonney confirmed
Mrs Bonney also reminded us that the vaccination schedule that
was announced through a flyer at the end of October is no longer
correct. For updated information, please go to www.santemontreal.qc.ca, or call Services Québec at 514.644.4545.
Gays lost marriage in Maine on Nov. 3. A
«people’s veto» at the ballot box wiped out the
law passed by the Legislature and signed by
the governor. It had not taken effect, pending
the outcome of the vote.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, voters
took marriage away from gays by a margin of
52.82 percent to 47.18 percent. The vote total
was 299,808 to 267,785.
It was the 31st time same-sex marriage has lost at
the ballot box in a U.S. state. It has never won.
«Tonight hundreds of thousands of Maine voters stood for equality but in the end, it wasn’t
enough,» said NO on 1/Protect Maine Equality
Campaign Manager Jesse Connolly.
«We’re in this for the long haul,» he said. «For
next week and next month and next year -until all Maine families are treated equally. Because in the end, this has always been about
love and family and that will always be something worth fighting for.»
The very well-run NO on 1 campaign studied
and learned from the failed Proposition 8 campaign last year in California. No on 8 didn’t use
gay people in its television ads; NO on 1 did. No
on 8 took too long to respond to the opposition’s scary TV ads; NO on 1 responded immediately each time.
About the only thing NO on 1 could have
tried that it didn’t was to run alarmist, negative ads itself. Some observers thought NO on 1
should have tried that, but there was no loud or
sustained effort to change the campaign’s decision in that regard. The campaign believed
that calling its opponents «bigots» would alienate some of Maine’s libertarian-leaning voters who opposed vetoing same-sex marriage
based on general political philosophy more
than any strong pro-gay sentiment.
«We are fools to have spent all this money
and time and not have defined the opponents,» said Steve Hildebrand, who was Barack
Obama’s deputy national campaign director
and advises Obama on gay issues.
«It’s not enough to answer their charges,»
Hildebrand said Nov. 6. «We need to hit them
back and not let up on it until voters don’t buy
their lies anymore. (The NO on 1 and No on 8
campaigns were) malpractice in my opinion.»
NO on 1’s TV ads stuck to a theme of equality
for all Maine families.
The opposition repeated over and over that
legalizing same-sex marriage would provoke
Maine schools to inculcate children with homosexual propaganda. The anti-same-sex-marriage campaign also ran an ad arguing that
Maine’s domestic-partnership law, which does
not bestow all state-level rights and obligations
of marriage, provides same-sex couples with
enough equality.
During the campaign, Connolly dismissed
the opposition’s messaging as unbelievable.
«These are the same old doomsday tactics
that opponents of equality have been using
not just in Maine, but in every state from California to Iowa to New York,» he said in September. «They want to change the subject, to
talk about anything else. But Question 1 is only
about fairness and equality for Maine families.
We believe Maine people will see through this
cynical strategy.»
Some apparently did. Gay marriage was
a winner in the cities of Portland (73%), South
Portland (64%) and Bangor (54%), and in places
such as Kennebunkport (61%) and Bar Harbor
(73%). It lost in the cities of Lewiston (40%) and
Augusta (47%).
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
expressed deep disappointment over the outcome.
«This heartbreaking defeat in Maine unfortunately shows that lies and fear can still win at
the ballot box,» said Executive Director Rea
Carey. «Yet despite this setback, the tide clearly is turning nationwide in favor of marriage
equality.»
Some 8,000 people volunteered on the NO
on 1 campaign, its officials said.
Unlike in California, where voters amended
the state constitution to re-ban same-sex marriage, Maine voters merely struck down a law
that had been passed. A new same-sex marriage bill could be introduced in the Maine
Legislature, passed, and signed into law by the
governor, starting the process all over again.
Indeed, Maine’s GLBT anti-discrimination law
went that very route. It was passed twice only
to be vetoed by voters. Then, the third time it
passed, they upheld it.
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POLICE ILLEGALLY ARRESTING DREDGERS
(E-llico) According to Slate.com, a law inherited from the sixties and aimed at gay people
is still called upon to carry out arrests in the
streets, when in fact, this same law was declared unconstitutional by the New York Supreme
Court in 1983. It thus seems that the NYC Police
Department has been illegally arresting people
for 26 years because they dared to cruise in
the streets. In the last 26 years, NYC prosecutors
have instituted 4,750 proceedings, representing $70.000$ of bail and $190.000 in fines. Police officers charged 9,693 times for an amount
of $71.000 dollars in fines.
INDONÉSIA
GAYS GET THE WHIP
In Indonesia, the most populated Muslim country in
the world, one month after being approved by the local
parliament, a law using the whip against homosexuals
in the province of Aceh, bastion of Muslim orthodoxy, is
causing a strong dispute engaged by the governor of
Aceh, Irwandi Yusuf, which is opposed to such punishments. The new legal text is particularly severe for offences and crimes against the principles of Islam. In addition to infidelity, it punishes rape of a minor (400 blows
by stick), sexual relationship between non-married adults
(100 blows), homosexual act (100 blows) and gaming
(60 blows).
LESBIAN BISHOP CONSECRATED IN SWEDEN
The Church of Sweden consecrated the
world’s first openly lesbian bishop in a mainstream denomination Nov. 8.
Eva Brunne, 55, was installed as bishop of
Stockholm in a ceremony at Uppsala Cathedral.
She was elected in May, beating a colleague
413-365 in a vote cast by an equal number of
clergy and lay people.
Brunne is in a registered partnership with the
Rev. Gunilla Lindén and they have a 3-yearold son.
OK to Gay Marriage
The Church of Sweden will marry same-sex
couples, the general synod decided Oct. 22 in
a 176-62 vote.
Individual pastors will be permitted to opt out
of performing gay weddings.
The Lutheran church counts 74 percent of
Swedes as members, though only 2 percent go
to church regularly.
MORE THAN 1 MILLION MARCH IN RIO DE JANEIRO
FINNISH VICAR RETURNS TO WORK
AFTER GENDER REASSIGNMENT
A vicar in Finland’s Evangelical Lutheran
Church has returned to her job at Tainionkoski
Church in the city of Imatra after having gender-reassignment surgery.
Marja-Sisko Aalto had been away for a year
before returning on Nov. 1.
Local reports said some parishioners have
been supportive but that 500 people have left
the congregation in the past two years, including 64 in the last two weeks of October.
“NICO” T-SHIRT TO SUPPORT BULLYING PREVENTION CAMPAIGN
Apparel retailer TXT Carbon has teamed up with Nico Archambault, winner of season one of So You
Think You Can Dance Canada, to design a “Rise Above” t-shirt as part of Family Channel’s Bullying Awareness Week campaign. A portion of the proceeds collected from the sales will be donated by TXT Carbon
to PREVNet, a cause that is close to Nico’s heart.
The shirts are currently available exclusively online at www.txtcarbon.com and at select retailers nationally. Nico experienced bullying first-hand growing up and understands how it can destroy a childhood and
affect a person as an adult. An accomplished dancer and choreographer, he is living proof that surviving
bullying can lead to inner strength and achievement.
Marja-Sisko Aalto
Bullying is what happens in relationships when power and aggression are combined to cause harm. Bullying can be physical or verbal. It can happen face-to-face, behind another’s back, or through cyber bullying. It includes malicious gossiping, exclusion, racial harassment, sexual harassment, and homophobia.
Family Channel is the co-founder of Bullying Awareness Week and every November encourages children across Canada to “Stand UP!” to bullying. Nico’s participation is central to this year’s Bullying Awareness Week, and in addition to appearing in a bullying-prevention themed spot on Family, Nico will join
Family Channel’s Stand UP! Wave across Canada, which is happening on Friday, November 20th, during
Bullying Awareness Week. Nico will also be seen on Family Channel in the upcoming television movie Vacation With Derek.
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Rain showers didn’t stop more than 1 million people from marching in Rio de Janeiro’s 14th annual gay pride parade Nov. 1.
The procession down Avenida Atlântica in Copacabana included state Gov. Sérgio Cabral,
who rode on a float and said Rio always will be in the forefront of civil rights struggles.
Mayor Eduardo Paes promised to increase city funding for next year’s 15th parade to as much
as $465,000.
Last year’s march is believed to have infused $26 million into the city’s economy.
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N10Z (INTENSE) RELEASES NEW MALE PHEROMONE FRAGRANCE: MASCULINITY
The extreme popularity of Intense’s TEN cologne, the first fragrance formulated with a unique male-to-male
pheromone formula, has led its manufacturer N10Z to unveil a new male pheromone cologne, Masculinity which
will be in stores worldwide just in time for holiday gift giving. N10Z (pronounced “Intense”) is the world’s first pheromone formulated exclusively for gay men. Pheromones, which are odorless airborne chemicals naturally produced by the human body, are known to create sexual attractions between individuals. The N10Z pheromone
was first released in 1999 as a non-scented splash that can be worn alone or to compliment one’s own choice of
cologne. Due to the popularity of the pheromone, the N10Z line of male-to-male pheromone enhanced products
was expanded to include TEN, a cologne enhanced with the N10Z male-to-male pheromone formula. Since their
release, both products have become must-haves for men around the world who attest to its amazing ability to
help attract other men. The effects of pheromones have not only been validated by reputable scientific studies,
but also by the countless men who have repeatedly purchased N10Z line of products for many years.
IRISH HURLER COMES OUT
Photo: Aluka Digital Library
Irish hurling star goalkeeper Donal Óg
Cusack has come out as a gay man in a new
autobiography, becoming the first Gaelic Athletic Association player to do so. “I get more
out of men, always have,” he says. “I know I
am different but just in this way. Whatever you
may feel about me or who I am, I’ve always
been at peace with it.” Hurling is an ancient
team sport played with sticks and a ball on a
field with goals. It is thought to be the world’s
fastest-moving field team sport. For a detailed
explanation, see Hurling on Wikipedia.
UGANDA CONSIDERS DRACONIAN ANTI-GAY BILL
Legislators in Uganda, where gay sex is banned under penalty of life in
prison, are considering a bill that would criminalize touching anyone
in a gay way, funding or sponsoring gay organizations, broadcasting,
publishing or marketing gay material, homosexual advocacy, and the
failure to report to police awareness of the existence of a gay person
within Uganda’s borders within 24 hours of learning that the homosexual exists. Penalties for the various crimes that would be created by the
“Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009” range from three years to life in prison.
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The bill also creates something called “aggravated homosexuality”
and punishes it with the death penalty in the case of “repeat offenders” and people who are HIV-positive. The bill’s first sentence says: “The
object of this Bill is to establish a comprehensive consolidated legislation to protect the traditional family…”
For the full text of the bizarre legislation, see tinyurl.com/hatebill.
Help fight the bill: tinyurl.com/iglhrc-ug; Human Rights Watch’s analysis:
tinyurl.com/hrw-ug.
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CHINA: IGLHRC TARGETS GUANGZHOU PUBLIC SECURITY BUREAU
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission has set its sights on the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau in China over its harassment of gay men. The IGLHRC expressed
“dismay at the repeated acts of arbitrary detention and harassment of the police towards HIV
prevention outreach workers, and men suspected of being gay.” In August, the police tried to
eject around 100 gay men from Renmin Gongyuan People’s Park, claiming they were harassing straight people and committing petty crimes. In an unusual move, the gays resisted and the
police eventually left.
“The raids and patterns of harassment in Guangzhou discriminate against individuals by targeting them on the basis of their perceived sexual orientation,” IGLHRC said. ILGHRC launched a
letter-writing campaign to Police Chief Wu Sha. For details, see tinyurl.com/gayguang.
RAPPER BUJU BANTON
REJECTS TOLERANCE
(Têtu) Jamaican rapper Buju Banton met the
LGBT community leaders of San Francisco, in
October about the violently homophobic lyrics
in his songs. Buju Banton was asked to make
statements calling for tolerance towards homosexuals and to hold a meeting in Kingston
on respecting the LGBT people or to make a
donation to a Jamaican association that is
helping LGBT people, but all these suggestions
were rejected. The protests and the calls for
concerts cancellations should continue in the
USA and throughout the world.
LOVE AFFAIRS BETWEEN NEO NAZIS
(Têtu) Brotherhood, the first film from Danish
Nicolo Donato won the Marc-Aurèle d’Or for
best film at the 4th International Festival of Cinema in Rome. Brotherhood tells the chaotic
course of Lars, who joins, after a passage in the
army, a neo-nazis group which organizes raids
against Arabs and homosexuals. Little by little,
a loving passion builds up between Lars and
Jimmy, his mentor within the group.
ACT UP LAUNCHES A SPECIAL BOOK
(Têtu) Act Up has published a special book for its 20th anniversary, containing photographs,
posters, slogans, gadgets and original texts. From the condom on the obelisk in Place de la
Concorde to “die-ins” and pride walks, the book showcases 20 years of mythical photographs
carried out in particular by Jean-Marc Armani and Christian Poveda. In only 224 pages, “ACTION = VIE” amassed a 20 year long historical testimony of engagements from this association
on the AIDS front.
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Rio de Janeiro has been chosen as the best global destination by
TripOutGayTravel.com, MTV’s first travel website dedicated to the
LGBT, on November 2nd, for its first «TripOut Gay Travel Awards ».
More than 100,000 votes were cast to determine the winners of the
awards, created to honor the most stylish, exciting, and hottest destinations for services that attract, pamper, and market to the LGBT
traveler.
“The voting results showcase the places our community loves to
visit, where and with whom they choose to spend their time and
money, and which destinations and businesses truly excel in welcoming LGBT visitors,” said John Polly, TripOutGayTravel.com’s editor.
Montréal was chosen as a finalist in the “best global destination”
category, which was taken by Rio de Janeiro. Indeed, this gorgeous
city has something Montréal hasn’t: beaches. According to Polly,
Ipanema and Copacabana are the best beach spots in Rio : « Ipanema is a little more sophisticated with a safer at nightlife than Co-
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pacabana which was developed much earlier and has a stronger
urban feel to it ». Moreover, « Downtown has museums and ancient
churches with some very interesting people watching. In Lapa, everything exciting is old, but is new again; thanks to the nightlife area
outside of downtown. […] Clubs get started late too, around 1am or
2am. Expect to be out until the sun comes up ».
Not a place without danger
However, Rio is not a place without danger. Polly recommends taking taxis at night and not walking along desolate areas and do not
go to the beach at night. In addition, make sure that someone stays
on the beach to keep an eye on your belongings when you’re swimming. If you’re traveling outside of Rio for extended stays like in the
Amazon regions, look into getting malaria pills.
The “TripOut Gay Travel Awards” honor the destinations and travel services that deserve such unique titles including “Sexiest Place
on Earth,” “Best Breakout Destination,” “Ultimate Luxury Hotel,” and
“Best Gay Bar in the World” for the gay and lesbian community.
Also special mention went to Toronto for it’s annual Pride festivities.
Toronto was honored as a finalist in the “best annual gay destination
party” category. But Madrid Pride won the title. Meanwhile, Montréal
bar Le Drugstore was also up for an award in the “best gay bar in the
world” category, but lost out to The Abbey in Los Angeles.
Nominees were selected on the criterion of how popular they are
among LGBT travelers as well as how welcoming each destination,
airline, hotel collection or event is to the queer traveler. The « TripOut
Gay Travel Awards » seek to honor those places and also locales who
work hard to embrace gay consumers through media outreach, progressive legislation, public acknowledgement and inclusive employment policies.
TripOutGayTravel.com recruited an academy of 18 seasoned
writers, editors, and travel experts covering the LGBT travel market
to comprise this year’s list of nominations. Between them, they’ve
visited every continent and practically every country, state and gay
hotspot on the planet.
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Every year thousands of people zoom to Rio to celebrate the world’s
greatest celebration of dance, culture, good times, and good will. It’s the
standard against which all other carnivals are compared. Never ones to
miss a good party, it is no wonder that thousands of these tourists are gay.
However, this is definitely a time and place where the lines between
straight and gay are blurred. It would not be uncommon to see a man
and woman walking hand in hand through a street parade and then see
them suddenly in a three-way lip-lock with someone from the crowd. In
fact many of the locals say that during Carnival (Carnaval in Portuguese)
everyone is “a little bit gay.”
The specific dates change every year, but the 2010 Carnival festivities officially start on Saturday, February 13th and ends on Fat Tuesday,
February 16th.
Throughout Carnival, the streets of Rio have a spirit and vigor which
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has everyone enraptured for four days of infectious dancing and indomitable partying. At any
given moment multiple street parties are taking
place in various parts of the city. For gay travelers, there are two gay parades (bandas) that
meander through the streets of Rio’s gay area
in Ipanema, plus a massive nightly block party
that consumes the street, Rua Farme Amoedo.
These are perhaps the most popular unofficial
parades in the city, with music, dancing, drinks,
food, and above all, people having the time
of their lives. This is in addition to the elaborate
circuit-like dance club raves that take place
late into the night and into the next afternoon.
One would think that with so many drunk,
dancing, partiers on the streets that drama
would inevitably ensue. However, the opposite
is true. It is a time when differences are forgotten, and when what makes each of us unique
is celebrated. Experiencing Rio’s Carnival is like
entering an altered reality in which all the inhabitants have two goals: to make each other
happy and to have fun. Carnival’s gay travelers seem to appreciate this more than anyone.
Of course the week’s main celebration takes
place at the Sambadromo, the samba dance
parade competition televised to hundreds of
countries and viewed by millions of people
worldwide. Fourteen samba schools prepare all
year, each creating as many as 30 elaborate
floats and 1000s of spectacular multi-colored
costumes. The result is an unparalleled two
night parade and dance party. It is the type
of over-the-top splendor and artistry that one
must see to believe, and certainly something
everyone should see in their lifetime.
Zoom Vacations offers gay men and women
an incredible trip to Rio for Carnaval, February 12-17. The escorted tour combines air and
ground travel, hotel, exclusive concierge services, and plenty of unique experiences accompanied by fellow gays. For information,
visit www.zoomvacations.com.
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André Gagnon
[email protected]
I must admit that until a few years ago I had a prejudice against Florida as a vacation destination. I never saw
anything unique about the sunshine state. I saw it as too
commercial, too predictable, perhaps just good enough
for SnowBirds.
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When I was going to South Beach Grill, a place that
I liked in the Village, I had to admit that the references
on the menu and the décor to this new gay destination
didn’t mean anything to me. But it’s difficult to resist giving into the curiosity of exploring this sunny haven which,
as a victim of its own success, is less gay than it was at the
turning of the century, at the time where gay icons from
Madonna to Versace all wined and dined there.
South Beach has since rekindled my flame
with Florida. Of course one finds there is that silver lining that can sometimes be irritating, but
this seaside district in the south of Miami Beach,
the one that the gay community contributed
heavily to rebuild, has this touch of refinement
that pleases the gay man that I am. Since South
Beach is no distinct from the Art Déco district,
which is the historical part of this seaside resort
built in the last century.
It was when Miami was finally connected to
the continental railway network that the south
of Florida really shined in all its glory. With the
era that followed the First World War, Miami became a winter refuge for the fortunate Yankees
who brought along architecture combining the
grace and modernism inspired by European
designers and thinkers.
After the golden age of the 1950s, South
Beach and all its small hotels little by little fell
into decrepitude whereas the post-war period saw the motel era burgeoning, which was
completely adapted to the automobile civilization. South Beach then became a low class district with below par attendance. That was until
the gay community stepped in and made this
district glamorous once again.
Now classified and preserved, the Art déco
district gives a riviera allure to this historical
district that surely contributes to make it an
international destination where we can often
hear Mediterranean languages because, naturally, Miami, is one of the most Latin cities in
the United States. You will be pleased to know
that you can practice your Spanish every day!
South Beach also attracts many European tourists, French, Italian, and also German. I was
surprised to hear more European French than
Québec French! Really, South Beach is not a
destination for our Snowbirds!
I also appreciate the fact that South Beach
is a human-scale district and not an uninterrupted alignment of boring large hotels. The
Hotel Strand
standard fixture includes the small, 3-4 stories
hotels which dominate the strip. On Ocean
Drive, the avenue which as its name indicates,
lies on the outskirts of the beach, we find all
types of street-level stores, restaurants, cafés
and bars, giving the street a vibrant energy
and is also pedestrian-friendly. The terraces are
stretched on the sidewalk that was widened in
the 80s. If the street becomes too crowded, just
go to the other side and walk in the park along
the beach, under the coconut trees. Behind
Ocean Drive, Collins and Washington Avenues
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Hotel Pelican
Hotel Pelican
Hotel Astor
are garnished with every kind of shop you want
so that you will find everything on foot.
The stroll continues on Lincoln Road or Espanola Way. Espanola Way is recalling Florida’s
Spanish origins with its Iberian paces, while Lincoln Road is a rare find in the United States: a
pedestrian commercial street… which should
give ideas for Sainte-Catherine Street in Montréal. It is there that you will find most of the gay
bars in SoBe.
Suggestions for Lodging
To really be in the heart of all action and
benefit from South Beach by foot, it’s better
to drop your luggage in the Art Déco district
which abounds in small hotels ripe with taste.
If you want to plunge in the chic kitsch of Miami Beach, try Pelican Hotel on Ocean Drive,
just a few steps from famous News Café and
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Casa Casuarina, the old Versace Manor, now
a museum and a luxury hotel, an attraction to
be seen.
This small hotel owned by the Diesel conglomerate counts about thirty rooms all decorated with a different set of themes. The designer is said to have toured every flea markets in
Florida to recreate atmospheres from the early
glory days of Miami Beach.
Moreover, the Italian touch of the Café Pélican on the ground floor will bring you the
dolce vita while having an impeccable view
of the crowd which saunters on Ocean Drive.
If you’re looking for great luxury, you will find it
in the penthouse located on the roof, at $2500/
night… with obviously the greatest ocean view
over the dunes and the coconut trees.
For more economic budgets, but nevertheless with great class, The Strand is a ‘condotel’
offering suites and located in three Art Déco
buildings and a more modern building. The
suites are apartments, very modern and complete with living room and kitchenette. For the
price of a hotel room, you can make your own
meals, and you’ll have no problems finding everything at the nearest grocer.
If you go to South Beach to party and not
to spend too much time at the restaurant, you
will appreciate this place. The Strand, located
on Ocean Drive between 10th and 11th, is just
around the corner from the gay beach and
from the only gay restaurant-bar on Ocean
Drive, the Palace, whose funny mantra is “Every
queen needs a palace!”
Outside of the high season, prices are sometimes ridiculously low for a seaside place and
you will wonder why you once went to freeze
yourself in the North Atlantic. The Strand also offers to all its hosts a nice swimming pool located
on the roof where you can relax and enjoy an
ocean view.
If you prefer to stay away from Ocean Drive, I
recommend the Astor Hotel on Washington Avenue, near 9th. It is a nicely restored Art Déco
jewel built in 1936 in which you will enjoy your
coffee on the front patio and then a nice meal
at Maison d’Azur, the hotel French restaurant
which is said to be one of the best tables in Miami Beach.
La Maison d’Azur also offers evenings with a
DJ and Quebecers will feel at home since the
place is managed by, Québec born Stéphan
Fortier. Also, when I was there in April, the hostess, a pretty Latin-American to my surprise, was
raised Montréal!
Pélican Hotel
826, Ocean Drive
The Strand
1052, Ocean Drive
Astor Hotel
956, Washington Avenue
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For those of us that made it out to the Imperial, Image +
Nation’s 22nd edition was a delight. Cheers to the organisers
for having moved the festival to the last week of October
from the middle of November. What better way to
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spend a rainy week than watching queer cinema.
The 45 feature films and documentaries screened
at the festival were consistently good and there was quite
a variety for every audience (gay men, lesbians, trans) and
every taste (comedy, horror, documentary, shorts).
The closing film, Nancy Kissam’s Drool, was definitely the
gem of the festival. This black comedy features a stellar ensemble cast and deals with issues of domination, teen sexuality, racism, sexism with humour and wit.
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guage film about a lonely middle-aged factory worker/farmer who still lives with his mother. When he has an accident
and breaks his leg, he falls for a young Peruvian who comes
to take care of him and the farm. The film was beautifully
subtle with a fantastic performance by the lead, Joxean Bengoetxea, whose moans of exstacy while unexpectedly losing
his virginity were eerily authentic.
Underrated (and unfortunately underattented) was Canadian director John Greyson’s experimental documentary
Fig Trees. The documentary is based on interviews with well
known AIDS activists Tim McCaskell (AIDS Action Now – Toronto) and Zackie Achmat (Treatment Action Campaign –
South Africa), who refused to take antiretroviral medication
until there was a national actiom plan in South Africa. What
is remarkable is how Greyson combines these
tragic and uplifting interviews with opera, and
comic, at times ridiculous sequences (I have
yet to understand the albino squirrel) to make
a film that evokes both tears and laughter.
Lacking the same brilliance of Greyson’s
film, but certainly attracting a larger audience
was Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride. The documentary is a sort of comparitive piece that
follows organisers from the Vancouver Pride
society as they travel to Poland, Russia, Brazil
and Sri Lanka to rediscover the roots of pride
marches. Though the film has very noble intentions, to point out that we’ve taken our struggle
for rights and recognition for granted, it failed
to explore the issues facing our communities
and the international stuggle in depth. Pride in
North America has become very commercialised and apolitical, but the film falls short of criticising or analysing this. This being said, the film
has the potential to have a positive influence
on the community.
A sea of bearded men showed up for The
Butch Factor, a documentary exploring gay
men’s relationship with masculinity. With testimonials from both so-called ‘’masculine’’ and
sporty gay men who felt they never quite fit
into the gay male community and more effeminate gay men who felt that they never fit into
the male world, the documentary offers great
insight into the gay male obsession with masculinity. Though perhaps the most interesting
testimonial came from a female-to-male transexual who describes the process of becoming
a man later in life. He reports feeling less emotional, more aggressive and definitely more
sexual. I’m sure the sea of bearded men would
have also enjoyed Against a Trans Narrative,
a sort of experimental documentary exploring
the experiences of trans men. I think the film
shows that the best way to explore questions of
gender is ask those who live, or have lived, as
both, or neither.
For those who didn’t get a chance to see
The Naked Civil Servant, do yourself a favour
and rent it. The British TV movie from 1975
was ahead of its time. The autobiography of
Quentin Crisp (a sort of British Truman Capote
if you will) follows the self-professed effeminate gay man and exibitionist through the
dirty 1930s through to the 1950s as he scandalises his way through London. The film is a sort
of survival guide. Unforgettable and still very
relevant, this classic of queer cinema should
not be missed.
A good year for the ladies, there was a
large selection of lesbian films this year to
tantalise. There was And then came Lola, a
San-Fransico lesbian hommage to the German film Run Lola Run. There was To Faro,
a sort-of German version of Boys Don’t Cry.
Also, I can’t think straight, a British romantic
comedy about two drop dead goregous
Arab women, one muslim and one Christian,
who fall for each other’s charms and into
each other’s arms.
Worthy of special mention was Quebecois director Olivier Lessard’s short film, Ceci n’est pas
un drag queen. Filmed in part at Mado, it is a
beautiful hommage to a lost friend. The series
of shorts, HomoHORROR was fantastic. Each
short was scarier than the last and left me having nightmares about gardening tools..
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68 Antiquités A-Z
1840, Amherst
68 Antiquités Boudreau
1757, Amherst
68 Antiquités Curiosités
1769, Amherst
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1761, Amherst
91 D’Ici d’ailleurs et d’hier
1358, rue Ontario Est
(514) 303-6603
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67 Pouf-Pouf
1675, rue Amherst
(514) 509-6536
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GALLERIES, MUSEUMS
47 Vert Design
1285, rue Amherst
(514) 846-9556
www.vertdesign.com
CABARETS
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1851, Amherst
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68 Le 1863
1863, Amherst
arrive without subtitles and having them made
would be very expensive and time consuming.
The festival could also use more debate. It
would have been nice, for instance, to have a
debate about the patholisation of trans people
after the screening of Diagnosing Difference.
Among the positive changes to the festival this
year was the increase of sponsorship from community organisations. Many community groups,
such as the ATQ (Association des transexuelles
et transexuels du Québec), GRIS Montreal (who
does outreach in high schools) and Ethnoculture, presented their organisations and the film
they sponsored.
For all the good and bad, cheers to the organisers and volunteers of the festival for all
of their hard work. Few of the screenings were
sold out and it is our responsibility in the community to support this festival and keep it alive.
So next year, mark off that last rainy weekend
of October and spend it at the cinema.
67 Lezako-T
1667, Amherst
15 Cabaret Mado
68 Jack’s
860, Amherst
have been more than 15 minutes of dialogue).
Unfortunately, prolongued homoerotic glances
between twin brothers was not enough to carry
this film. In the same vein, J’ai revé sous l’eau
made the same mistakes. The film about a
wayward youth who always seems to fall for
the wrong person (he falls in love with a male
and female heroin addict one after the other),
played out way too much like a two-hour music
video. Both films left the audience feeling that
they did not get to know the characters.
What the festival was lacking (and this is nothing new) was accessibility to francophones.
Of the 45 feature films and documentaries
shown, only 4 films were accessible to a francophone who does not understand English (2
French films with English subtitles mind you, and
one Portuguese film with French subtitles). In a
city with a francophone majority, it is disapointing to see a festival so inaccesible. It is hard
to blame the organisers though, since the films
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1200, de Maisonneuve E
67 Galaxie
1638, Amherst
There were quite a few films about gay parenthood this year. Of notable mention was the
Sweedish film Patrick, Age 1.5 about a suburban
gay couple who adopt a homophobic juvenile
delinquent by accident. The film was beautifully acted and the main character’s patience
and tenderness for his adopted son would inspire any parent, hetero or homo. There was
also Chef`s Special, a Spanish comedy about
a reluctant gay father who becomes the caretaker of his children after his ex-wive dies.
Among the disappointements were the
French films Donne-moi la main (Give me your
hand) and J’ai revé sous l’eau. Donne-moi la
main tells the story of two very handsome twin
brothers as they hitchhike their way through
France to Spain to attend the funeral of the
mother they never met. Though the cinematography was fantastic, the film was severely
lacking in character developement and dialogue (for an 80 minute film, there could not
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47 Les trésors du passé
1227A , Amherst
67 Seconde Chance
1691, Amherst
SHOPS
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88 Éco-Réno
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(514) 725-9990
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1447, rue Amherst
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64 Nautilus Plus
1439, St-André
HEALTH CARE
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1623, Amherst
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901, Ste-Catherine
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1360, Ontario E
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Bed and breakfast
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1637-C, Amherst
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1641, Amherst
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1830, rue Amherst
(514) 524-9650
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42 Nuzone
1729, St-Hubert
68 Sir Montcalm
1453-55, Montcalm
67 Studios du Centre-ville
1495, Amherst
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RESTAURANTS - BISTROS
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1690, Ontario E
66 100 Secrets
1440 rue Amherst
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13 Cora
66 Chipotle & Jalapeño
1481, Amherst
24 Dsens
47 Ella Grill
1237, Amherst
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15 la Pot´Anse
1441 rue Amherst
(514) 452-4830
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67 Pho Viet
1663, rue Amherst
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1101, Rue Sainte-Catherine Est
(514) 526-2244
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1310, De Maisonneuve E
514.658.2874
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1799 Rue Amherst
(514) 528-8228
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1844, Amherst
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1565 rue Amherst
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1227A, rue Amherst
(514) 510-7991
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Sauna 3481
3481, Montée Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert , Québec
(450) 462-3481
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5018, St-Laurent
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(514) 528-3326
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Sauna du Plateau
961, Rachel E
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6527, St-Hubert
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1423, Montcalm
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1757, Amherst
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1889, Amherst
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1438, Cartier
SERVICES
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1269, Amherst
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Cartes, photographies aériennes,
GPS, guides de voyage, globes
terrestres, etc
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(514) 843-8116
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1499, rue Amherst
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et soins corporels
(514) 814-7824
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1180, rue Montcalm
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Comptable Agrée inc.
1760, rue Amherst
(514) 528-7097
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Artiste peintre
(514) 521-3200
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1305, Papineau
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1310, Wolfe
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PETSHOP
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1457, rue Amherst
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1059, rue Amherst
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1314, rue Ste-Catherine E
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SOCIAL SERVICES
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Santé et mieux-être pour hommes
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TAVERNS
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1441, Amherst
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1295, Amherst
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1661, Sainte-Catherine E
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OTTAWA´S INTERESTING PLACES
1 Centre National des Arts
53 Elgin
2 Musée des Beaux-Arts
380 Sussex
3 LookOut
41 York
Sundays
TANTRA ZONE
Tantric workshop for couples and men
alone.
Second weekend of each
month
MARC: 1 (514) 759-8645
web.me.com/marccoulombe1/Marc/
Bienvenue.html
3 Kinki
41 York
10 Galerie La Petite Mort
306 Cumberland
12 Dare To Be Naughty
256 Bank
13 After Stonewall Bookshop
370 Bank
14 Wilde´s
367 Bank
15 Steamworks
487 Lewis
15 The Buzz Restaurant
374 Bank
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PM
23 Bar Aigle Noir Combo DJ Dave Romeo
14 Bar Parking Boys Night Out DJ Ian Key
with dancers
34 Bar Stud Staff Price Mondays DJ Steve
Couture
15 Cabaret Mado The Happy of Tracy
Thurdays
Our dier friend Jimmy
OTTAWA-GATINEAU
9 Venus Envy
320 Lisgar
11 Inn on Somerset
282 Somerset ouest
34 Bar Stud Wednesdays Fusion DJ Denis
Faubert
15 Cabaret Mado Open Mic Night
DJ Lady McCoy 10 PM
31 Cocktail Club Lounge Karaoke 9 PM
23 Bar Aigle Noir Wednesdays Rage
28 Sky Pub Electro-Lounge Wednesdays
DJ Archi-Tech
14 Bar Tunnel Underwear Night
15 Taverne Normandie Karaoke en Folie
1295, Amherst St. DJ Manon Vendette. 9
PM
31 Woof Bar Dinner-show with Alexandre
Rémy, female impersonator
30 Club Tools Pink Wednesdays guest DJ
Centre KoSA Imani Gospel Choir December 23, TA (California Transit Authority- Chicago with Danny Seraphine). December
30 and 31
Tuesdays
9 One in Ten
216 Bank
10 Silhouette Piano Bar
340 Somerset W
15 Club Campus Crazy Nights with Gary
from 3 PM
37 Taboo Club Happy Hours All night
31 Cocktail Club Lounge Karaoke from 9
Swizzles Bar & Grill Monday night Brit TV
The Lookout Bar Cocktail Mondays 4$
7 Edge Nightclub
212 Sparks
10 CellBlock
340 Somerset W
Wednesdays
OTTAWA-GATINEAU
5 Mambo
77 Clarence
10 Centretown Pub
340 Somerset W
Mondays
Red-Lite, 1755, de Lierre St., Laval RedLite Sundays, DJs Uppercut & Scott Free
15 Club Campus Crazy Afternoon with
Joey
31 Cocktail Lounge Michel Dorion The
best 80’s & 90’s music, with guests, quizzes and videos from 7 PM to 9 PM
31 Taverne Rocky Germain’s Music from
5 PM
31 Bar Woof Rendez-vous BearWWW
meet the members of the bearwww. Surprises and free snacks. From 4 PM to 9 PM
23 Bar Aigle Noir Wet Sundays from 5 to
8 PM
34 Stud Bar Domingo Lino 1st Floor: DJ
Sylvio 2nd Floor: DJ Candela
14 Bar Parking Perfect Sunday
OTTAWA-GATINEAU
Centretown Pub, T-Dance (and pools everyday) startingf 2 PM
Edge Club and Lounge Draft 2$, Dance,
Drag Shows with Robyn DaCraddle
The Lookout Bar Social Cocktail in PM
(also Saturday PM)
15 Club Campus Crazy Nights with Gary
from 3 PM
15 Cabaret Mado Mado’s Monday
Sauna St-Hubert Underware Tuesdays on
a disco music, men in underware and
drag queens
34 Bar Stud Uppercut Tuesday Night DJ
Bobzilla
37 Club Taboo Free Billiards Nights
Club Campus Export Tuesdays gift drawing
Cocktail Club Lounge Karaoke 9 PM
23 Bar Aigle Noir Dédales New weekly
game
14 Bar Tunnel Black Out Night DJ Denis
31 Woof Bar Guitar Heroes Night Popular
video games
OTTAWA-GATINEAU
Swizzles Bar & Grill Karaoke with host
Stray Cat
Carlos and orlando
Swizzles Bar & Grill Weekend Boys Go Go
Review with DJ Evil Billy
The Lookout Bar Wednesday Go Live
Showcase up and coming music artists
Thurdays
34 Bar Stud Thursday Dance DJ André Morin. Dance, pop music
22 Bar Relaxe Video Night 1309, East Ste-Catherine St.
14 Bar Parking Electro Overdose DJ Mini
15 Cabaret Mado Varied Shows
67 Gotha Lounge Good Vibes acoustic
Band. 6 PM to 9 PM
26 Drugstore DJs and Ambiance ambiance
7 PM
101 Cheri Loft Dinner-Show billiards, dance
and karaoke 5 PM to 9 PM
DJ Manon Vendette. 9 PM.
28 Sky Pub Thursday Pop Stars with DJ Mario Léonard, Popeline and his guests 10 PM.
31 Cocktail Lounge Sportive Thursday 6 PM
to 9 PM.
37 Club Taboo Erotico-Duets dancers present super sexy duets
14 Bar Tunnel Business Nights DJ Francis G.
17 Club Unity The 4 Thursdays Taking turns:
DJs Torus, Akitel Shake ou Groove. Music
R&B et House. 10 PM.
23 Bar Aigle Noir Junk Nights Shows. 9 PM
31 Taverne Rocky Drag queen show with
Chantal Robert. 9:30 PM
31 Woof Bar Karaoke with the singer and
host Johnny
Centre KoSA Bent (Altera Vitae Productions) Espace 4001 November 5 Kim Richardson & Barbara Secours December 17
OTTAWA-GATINEAU
The Lookout Bar Thirsty Thursday Social
Fridays
34 Bar Stud Fridays 5 to 9 DJ Denis Beaulieu
31 Taverne Rocky Fridays and Sundays with
Burt the music player
« Radio », from 10 PM to 3 AM dance with DJ
Frank Circus
Wild Fridays
31 Cocktail Lounge Night With DJ Sylvie G
80’s and 90’s music. 9 PM.
31 Bar Woof Friday’s Special manager Daniel’s Happy Hour
26 Drugstore DJ & Ambiance 7 PM.
101 Chéri Loft Dinner-Show Billiards, dance
and karaoke from 5 PM to 9 PM.
15 Cabaret Mado Mado receives Mado and
Nana welcome the best drag queens. 11 PM
and 1 AM.
101 Bar Chéri Loft Chéri Loft Disco, retro and
social music. Mix night with a special invitation
to lesbians. Chinese fondue and buffet. 5 PM.
14 Bar Parking Traffic Fridays Resident DJ
Serge Duchesne et international DJ.
17 Club Unity College Night DJ Bamboo takes
your requests. Hip Hop music. 10 PM.
28 Sky Pub Sky Show with Michel Dorion or
Miklos and shooter Girl Miss Cookie. 11:30 PM
23 Bar Relaxe Video Night
28 Complexe Sky Electronic Friday Lego Bar
Electro music with DJ Bobzilla. 10 PM.
30 Complexe Bourbon Danse Country with
the Bolo Dance Club. 9PM.
67 Gotha Lounge The Fridays Duo Jazz & Jam
Jazz (1st Friday of the month) From 6 PM to 9 PM.
23 Bar Aigle Noir Bud’s Fridays Sexy night and
dress code, leather and latex in the back
room.
34 Bar Stud House Tribal Fridays Techno-house
music with DJ Sylvio
26 Drugstore DJs Fridays From 5 PM to 10 PM.
30 Club Tools 1st Friday. Fetish Tools. Kinky
leather community celebration. 2nd Friday.
Dance Poz. 2nd Friday. Fetish4Play Fetish
night with dress code (leather, latex, PVC,
uniforms, goth, glam, etc.)
28 Sky Pub X-Static Fridays House music and
happy house with DJ Eddie Jasmin
28 Complexe Sky F*ckstar Fridays Boys room.
Electro-rock night with DJ Louie Louie and
guests
DJ Manon Vendette. 9 PM
28 Cabaret du Sky Hot & Sweaty
Hip hop music, top 40, with DJ Mario Bro et
Shooter Drag Purina
23 Bar Aigle Noir 9 PM. Soirée Jocks 1st Friday of the month. Night dedicated to sportive guys.
31 Woof Bar Soirée Cuir de Pascal 9:30PM
19 Stock Bar 360 Degrees à faire tourner la
tête !
14 Bar Parking Juicy
DJ Prick Guay, Stéphane Lippé or Alain Jackinsky
OTTAWA-GATINEAU
Edge Club and Lounge Fridays Nite with
Robyn DaCraddle
Swizzles Bar & Grill Karaoke Fridays
The Lookout Bar Friday Fixxx, Ladie’s social
Fabulous night with DJ
Zam
St.-Brigid’s Centre Mr. Leather Ottawa Weekend The Competition takes place tonight.
There is also the leather fair on Friday 13 (4
PM to 7 PM) and Saturday 14 (12 to 5 PM).
Note that 10% of the sales will be given to
Gay Zone.
Club SAW INSIDE OUT, OTTAWA-GATINEAU
LGBT FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL Inside Out is back
in the Nation’s Capital for a second year with
more queer cinema hailing from every continent on the planet. A cultural capital with a
vibrant queer scene deserves a distinguished
film event in four days of non-stop cinematic
excellence. See insideout.ca. Venues: Empire
7 Cinemas, National Gallery of Canada, SAW
Gallery / November 20 to 22
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Saturdays
23 Bar Aigle Noir Switch Change the beat !
23 Bar Relaxe Soirées Vidéoclips sur demande
31 Bar Cocktail Soirée Exotica Mix Night
31 Bar Woof Bear Bust
31 Bar Cocktail Nights Saturday Be Box Hip
hop with DJ Torus.
23 Bar Aigle Noir The 5 to 7 Cases more
than 600$ in prices.
14 Bar Tunnel The Sundays PM Xtreme
28 Cabaret du Sky Hot & Sweaty Hip hop,
Top 40, with DJ Blaster & Guests & the
Shooter Drag Purina.
101 Bar Chéri Loft Dinner-Show from 6PM to
9PM and DJ Francis ou Annie. Starting 9PM.
15 Cabaret Mado Mado welcomes…
Mado & Nana welcome the drag queens.
11 PM & 1 AM.
14 Bar Parking The Sundays Workout House
Music with international DJs.
16 Taverne Normandie Crazy Karaoke
DJ Manon Vendette. From 9PM.
15 Club Campus The Crazy Afternoon
With Joey
34 Bar Stud House Club Night DJ Laflamme
10 PM.
28 Sky Pub Lino Be DJ David Laguer & MC
Tequila.
28 Cabaret Sky Viva Glam With V-Nus &
DJ Mario Bro.
28 Complexe Sky The Sundays DJs Guests
31 Cocktail Lounge Social dance MC Ann
St-Georges.
17 Club Unity Soirée Muscle Beach Sheena Hershey hosts the best R&B, Hip Hop
DJs, 10PM.
30 Club Tools Saturday of the Stars
26 Drugstore Show Live
34 Bar Stud Saturday Lime DJ André.
10PM.
28 Sky Club Atomic Flash Deluxxe Mix
Night with DJ Louie Louie
31 Bar Woof Bearotica Erotic dancers,
side-shows & some surprises. On invitation
only.
Centre KoSA Freddie James Project ‘Old
School’ Party November 28
OTTAWA-GATINEAU
Edge Club and Lounge Dance Party with
DJ Ilon
Swizzles Bar & Grill Weekend Boys Go Go
Review with DJ Evil Billy
The Lookout Bar Saturday Night Live Drag
Party, Social Cocktail all PM (also Sundays PM)
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women who militate for human rights. The
Beauty, American Gigolo, American Pie,
cost of entry of 40 $ includes a receipt of
Caligula, Lolita, and many more. See starz.
Spotlight on Handel The Arte Musica Founda-
charity of 75%. The 25 $ entry will be granted
mediaroom.com (password: starz originals)
tion celebrates the 250th anniversary of the
to the students who present a valid chart. Es-
Starting November 10, Starz Inside
death of George Frideric Handel (1685-1759).
tern Bloc, Montréal, November 19
Music
All activities will take place at the Michal and
Renata Hornstein Pavilion. “Spotlight on Han-
Dance
Social
del” provides music lovers with an opportunity to explore vocal and instrumental cham-
Phase 2 Phase 2 is an alternative to bars or
ber music by Handel, who remains to this day
website as a way of meeting and finding a
one of the most produced composers on the
companion. The group is dedicated to men,
lyrical stage. Four concerts, a course and a
gays, bisexuals or in a questioning phase,
lecture are on the program. Montreal Mu-
aged 25-40. The group proposes two types of
seum of Fine Arts’ Maxwell Cummings Audi-
activities: discussion meetings and activities.
torium , 1379 Sherbrooke Street West Novem-
Meetings take place at the Centre commu-
ber 18 to 22
nautaire des gais et lesbiennes de Montréal
DJ Champion
(CCGLM, 2075, Plessis) and are directed by
DJ Champion : additional date
competent animators. Phase deux dot org,
The November 19 concert of francophone
Until December 13
DJ Champion is sold out, so an additional
date is announced for January, 28, 2010. The
Films
artist, as always accompanied by his band,
the G-Strings, will present his new Resistance,
Rencontres internationales du documen-
while also offering extracts from Chill’Em All.
taire de Mon-tréal (RIDM) The 12e edition of
Metropolis (Montréal) January 28, 2010, 21h
the RIDM offers an international selection of
more than 100 films from 30 coutries, a variety of surprising and inspiring movies. Among
the Québec’s firsts, we have Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed Country, honored at
Sundance and a hot moment at thet latests
Hot Docs. As a world premiere, the festival is
presenting Magnus Isacsson’s L’art en action,
a moving portrayal of the two founders of
l’Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable :
Annie Roy et Pierre Allard. Pasolini documentarist will also be put in the spotlight during
the RIDM.
Agora de la danse celebrates its 20 years PPS
Venues : Cinémathèque québécoise, Ciné-
Danse celebrates its 20 years of existence by
ma ONF, Agora Hydro-Québec, UQAM,
offering the complete cycle DIASPORAMA.
Grande Bibliothèque, Centre Segal, Goethe
Four works in the looks of postcards which
Institut. Visitea le ridm.qc.ca, Until November
excite the flavors of their city of adoption.
Multidisciplinary
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From November 12 to 14, we present Mi-un
Amnesty International : Artistic Cocktail
Television
ni d’eux by Luc Dunberry (Berlin) and Je suis
moche by Mireille Leblanc (Göteborg). The
following week (November 19-21), we will see
Amnesty International will be the host of an
Artistic Cocktail at the Eastern Block, which
Starz Inside, “Sex and the ci-nema” The pro-
Bain public by Linda Mancini (New York) and
is a center dedicated to the production and
gram Sex and the cinema premiered on Starz
…Et comme si l’air allait s’embraser by André
the diffusion of media and interdisciplinary
Inside November, 10, at 10 PM. Described
Gingras (Amsterdam). Other events: Forum
arts. First, discover the video art, then visit the
as a “steamy trip through the looking glass
on creation and migration (November 13th,
expo-sale of current art gathering a skewer
of the camera lens, depicting how sexually
1:30 pm); Teenager studios (Ado’danse) with
of renowned artists, 50% of the sales will go to
charged films reflect our own sexual libera-
the pupils of the 3rd in the 5th secondary of
the artists and 50% to Amnesty International
tion, unzipping America’s obsession with
Saint-Louis School; Profit event: Rencontres
and tax receipts will be emitted. Amnesty is
sex, both from a cinematic and social per-
interdisciplinaires, 3rd edition, (November
an independent world movement men and
spective. Films explored include: American
17th, 20 h).
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strong music markets (the UK scene, French
vibe, Scandanavia influence and the dark
German scene) and that combines with the
openness of the Dutch people and their love
of melody and strong songs, makes it a natural
thing for us to create music that appeals to a
large number of people.”
Supporters of the tectonic sound of Dutch progressive
trance, please take note. Ferry Corsten, the name that
brought us epic proportions by creating and producing
some of the most memorable euphoric tracks of the late
90’s, stands as a true testimant that the sound
By Danny Legaré
of ‘trance’ is once again on the rise. The once
“flying” Dutchman has been the mastermind
behind the commercial progressive trance genre, a sound
that had its heyday back in the Ibizan-drenched summers
of 1999-2001. With his release “Twice In A Blue Moon”, Ferry
Corsten is part of a determined crew of producers and djs
destined to bring back those euphoric “hands in the air”
moments of trance’s yesteryears. Corsten was in Montreal
in early July to give Montrealers a slice of what we’ve been
missing.
Trance Nation revisited
While many were quick to feel abandoned by the genre
that gave us unabridled pleasure via the Gatecrasher/
Trance Nation compilations, Corsten gives us an update
to the evolving trance sound after going through a bit of
a creative slump in the last few years. “It went through a
bit of a dip, but right now we are in a very exciting music
again which has re-ignited my enthusiasm for the genre,”
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fluences has been really beneficial and people are creating
some great music.” While his sound has paved way for much
of the current onslaught of electro-trance producers, Corsten says that listeners might be surprised at the amount of
music in his repertoire. “I can’t count the number of names I
have released things under in the past,” says Corsten. “There
are so many tracks out there that people might not even
know are mine.”
Yet even he admits to going back to embracing the elements
of the earlier trance sound that made him an international star.
“After my brief sidestep to the more electronic sound, I am back
to focusing on big melodies and anthemic hooklines and I’m
loving it,” says Corsten. “1999 was the big birth year of trance
and all the media projected a very short life span for it but a
decade later it’s just as big now as it was then.”
The Dutch Midas Touch
It’s also been known that between Corsten, alongside Tiesto and Armin van Buuren, that the Dutch rule the trance
world with an iron glove. Whereas Nashville would be home
to country twang, Detroit the birthplace of techno legends
and Seattle would be the grunge’s melting pot, it seems that
Amsterdam is known for its iconic trance dj’s and producers.
“I always like to think that the Dutch are surrounded by very
Twice In A Blue Moon
Which brings us to the release of “Twice in a
Blue Moon”. After listening to TIABM, it seems
to have a more introspective sound, which includes an ambient track along with vocal tracks
by Maria Nayler (“We Belong”) and Betsie Larkin
(“Made of Love”), and also a song highlighting
the birth of Corsten’s daughter called “Gabriella’s Sky”. TIABM might convince the listener that
Corsten is headed back to the emotional and
uplifting sounds of his earlier work, a slight departure from his electro-themed release “L.E.F.”
Is electro on the way out?
“I wouldn’t say it’s on the way out,” says
Corsten. “However I personally feel that genre
is going through the same dip that trance went
through.”
Along with record releases, remix duties, dj
gigs, it seems to be more predominant now
more than ever the siginificance to internet
radio exposure on a weekly basis. “It’s the only
way to directly reach everyone on a weekly
basis,” says Corsten. “Usually my fans only see
me once or twice a year and this is a perfect way for them to hear me once or twice
a week. I feel like I am contributing to spreading this music on a worldwide basis. I was on
an airplane and noticed the person next to me
listening to my radio show…it was then I realized the reach.”
Twice in a Blue Moon is out on Ultra Records.
www.ferrycorsten.com
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Photos: tellingstrangerspersonalthings.blogspot.com
a clear intention of the need for a night like this
in the city.
You began Mec Plus as monthly event happening on a Sunday at the Belmont on St. Laurent.
There have been Fridays and Saturdays thrown
in there as well. Living in a city like Montreal,
where people going out almost any day of the
week - does it make a difference what day
Mec Plus Ultra lands on?
The recipe for Mek Plus Ultra, a monthly event of unabashed gay lovin’ fun, is simple. For those who have yet to
parade through the turnstiles of MPU’s homebase, Belmont, you might be pleasantly surprised to take in what is
one of the most talked about, hottest and equally anticipated monthly happenings this side of of the border. You
might also want to take note that the event’s promoters Julien De Repentigny, François Guimond and Antoine
Bedard are regular dudes involved in the various branches of media, yet doing extraordinary things. Having the
not-so-small of feat of breathing new life into Montreal’s gay nightlife, they took it upon themselves to think outside
the proverbial box in order to give MPU’s clientele something fresh and innovative to look forward to each month.
Without divulging too much in prose, 2B spoke with one of promoters of Mek Plus Ultra, Antoine Bedard to give
us a refresher course of how MPU came about, it’s current popularity and the mark of it’s 1st year anniversary.
2B: How did the concept of Mec Plus Ultra
come about?
Antoine Bedard: The concept of Mec Plus
Ultra was born before I got involved. Julien
De Repentigny and François Guimond approached me and asked me if I was interested
in helping them organising a gay night outside the village. I also remember them telling
me that there were no good nights in the village anymore and that they thought it would
be great to have a night somewhere on the
Plateau, in a bar that’d be central, not too far
north, not too far south. They wanted a night
where people our age (25-35) could socialize in
an environment that wouldn’t be too loud but
also where people could dance if they wanted
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to. The other thing that was important to us: offer a varied and original selection of music, to
avoid the predictable gay club sound.
What type of people drive the creative wheel
behind the Mec Plus Ultra brand?
AB: It’s interesting that all three organisers
have very different personalities and backgrounds, although professionally speaking we
all work in similar fields. Julien De Repentigny
is a graphic designer, François Guimond is a
video director and editor and I am a musician
and sound designer. I think that the fact that
we each in creative own way helped in making the night what it is: Julien is in charge of all
the graphic design (flyers, posters), François
does the projection and I take care of some of
the music and the booking of guest DJs.
What has been the reaction from the people
that attend your events?
People got really excited about Mec Plus
Ultra right away. A large number of people
came up to us and thanked us for doing something outside the village because there were
very few places where gay guys could meet on
the Plateau. There was Meow Mix at Sala Rossa
and Fagetty Ass Fridays in the Mile End already,
but those two nights attract mostly younger
crowds and have more of that bold queer attitude to them, which is not everyone’s cup of
tea. The success of our very first parties gave us
We decided to plan Friday night parties
mostly because people like to dance at Mec
Plus Ultra and many people felt upset that
they had to work the day after. But it’s interesting that Mec Plus Ultra has a very different
vibe if it’s on a Sunday or on Friday. Sundays
attract a slightly older crowd that like to chat
in the pub area - it definitely is a more social
night. Fridays, on the other hand has more of
a mixed crowd and attracts lots of younger
people, so the result is a slightly wilder party.
The last one was our first Saturday and we
beat our record of attendance. I think we’ll
keep changing the dates of our party from
one weekend to the other. Even if our Sunday
nights might not be as wild, we’d like to keep
them in our schedule because we want to
welcome as many people as possible, those
who like to dance on the stage and scream
but also those who like a more laid back cruising night at the bar.
Is there any chance Mec Plus Ultra will become
more of a weekly fixture?
It would be tricky to make Mec Plus Ultra
weekly because, first of all, we all have jobs
that keep us really busy and second, it would
be really hard to come up with good ideas
every week for our nights. We like keeping our
Mec Plus Ultras as fresh and different as possible. We think that doing it every week would
make every night seem the same and that’
exactly what we’re trying hard not to do.
Mec Plus Ultra is nearing its 1st anniversary.
With most club nights and promoters changing
theme nights almost monthly, what can you
say is the one factor that has helped Mec Plus
Ultra become so successful?
It’s definitely the combination of our creative
minds I think. There is a great balance amongst
the three of us. Because we are so different, I
think we attract also really different people
and that’s important to us. The social aspect of
the night is also another key factor that made
Mec Plus Ultra a success. The Belmont might not
have the most glamorous decor but its divisions
are ideal: big dancefloor, and great pub area.
The configuration of the room makes it perfect
for both the party animals and the cute quiet
boys to mingle. Another thing that makes Mec
Plus Ultra exciting is that the guest DJs are really
varied: from Ghislain Poirier, to B’ugo and from
Hatchmatik to Dragonette, the music is never
exactly the same so that’s something that
every one enjoys I think. Same for the projections and the themes of course.
What are the defining factors that enable you to
decide on a theme for a Mec Plus Ultra night?
The themes have to be sexy but not vulgar,
if there’s a stunt, it can be participative but it
can never be imposed on people. Sometimes,
themes come from the time of the year that
we’re in (Après Ski) or a movie reference (Gold
Member)... It’s all just an excuse to make the
night a little different. We like adding a little bit
more fun to the night either by giving away
things to the boys (MPU pins, hot chocolate
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I think the village will see some major improvements in the next few years. There have been
great efforts to make it more attractive, in the
summer particularly and I think people really
like the idea of having rue St-Catherine become pedestrian during the warm seasons. In a
way, it would be great to see gay bars open all
over the city like in London or New York. I think
our generation is passed the “ghetto” mode
and it’s time for all gay people to be visible in
all aspects of urban life, including the nightlife.
What is your secret to survival with being ‘out of
the village’?
exact same formula anyway. We feel pretty
lucky to still be able to do what we do. Since
we started, there have been another gay
nights outside the village and I hope we encouraged that in a way or the other because I
think people really enjoy going out in bars that
are not in the village every now and then (or
always for some!).
“You can take the village out of the gay, but
you can’t take the gay out of the village”. With
many gay-ish parties, both underground and
beyond being held outside the village milieu,
do you see a trend happening?
and Bailey’s, Mister Freeze popsicles...) or by organizing really basic games for people to meet
each in a funnier way, like keys and locks that
people have to match, or the “Hi my name is”
labels that people can write whatever they
want on. It’s nothing too crazy but it’s always
been well received. The only challenge now is
to find a about 20 more themes for the upcoming year!
Have there ever any other concepts like Mec
Plus Ultra before?
I don’t think there was another night like Mec
Plus Ultra before to be honest. Not with the
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It’s not, in fact, a big secret: many people
were sick of going to the same bars and same
club nights over and over again. Mec Plus Ultra
was a real breath of fresh air when it started
and we’ll work hard to keep it that way. And
the fact that we’re at the corner of Mont-Royal
and St-Laurent is a must. Had we been near
metro Jarry, I’m not sure if people would have
showed up - the location is the other secret for
sure.
What can Montreal’s LGBT community expect
to see and hear about Mec Plus Ultra in the future?
There is certainly a movement. I think it’s due
to the fact that the Village was founded by a
community that really needed a place in the
city where you could be yourself and not worry
about being harassed. The reality of being gay
has changed since the late 90’s. You can now
hold hands anywhere in the city without creating a scandal. You don’t feel like the village is
the only place where you can live to be accepted by your neighbours.
We’ll have a crazy first anniversary in November that we’ll work really hard to promote.
I can’t really tell you all the surprises that we’re
planning to organise but there will be big ones
for sure. We’re hoping to have more great guest
DJs next year, perhaps bigger names and live
music performances... Look us up on Facebook
to hear about all our upcoming parties!
Could you say that the Montreal Gay Village
expanding?
Mek Plus Ultra celebrates it’s first year anniversary this coming Friday, November 27, 2009.
For more information, join the Mek Plus Utra fanpage on Facebook.
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A BURLESQUE CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION AT CAFÉ CLEOPATRA
This Friday December 11th and Saturday
December 12th, Café Cleopatra will be
decking its halls with a troop of performers
that would make even jolly ol’ Saint Nick turn a
whole new shade of red.
Since coming out, fashion suddenly became
a part of my life. The queer identity (especially the gay male identity) in popular culture is
wrapped up in the image of the fashionable
gay man. From “Queer as Folk” to “Queer
Eye for the Straight Guy”, we as a people are
presented as having a relationship to culture,
trends and fashion.
Arguably, this identity could be described as
one of the many stereotypes that a straight culture has imposed on us, however, there is truth
behind that stereotype.
The fashion-beauty industry, like other industries, offers a haven for people who are different. A place to express themselves, advance,
and grow. It also offers a place to be safe.
It is no wonder why we are disproportionate
represented in fields from like retail, cosmetics,
and hair. The artistic qualities of the community give us a freedom, in spite of our repression.
In all honesty, I am not a fashionista, although
I secretly aspire to have a sense of style. I find
that being gay doesn’t naturally give you one,
or at least, I never got one when they were being handed out.
Still, sitting on the runway, I feel inspired by
the art that dashes in front of me. Sitting in the
front row, you can hear the clacking of the
heels as they hit the runway with precision and
purpose. You can see the smiles the models hid
behind their eyes when the stop momentarily
Tradition will be turn on its head by a body
and sex-positive selection of performances
presented by Glam Gam Productions. After the
performances DJ Beehive & DJ Like The Wolf
will take over for a late-night dance party.
Throughout the night, audience members
will have the opportunity to give back to AIDS
Community Care Montréal, a local non-profit
organization by either purchasing homemade
cookies, or taking part in other interactive
fundraising events.
Tits the Season… To Be Naughty at Café
Cleopatra (1230, Saint-Laurent Blvd)
Friday December 11th & Saturday December
12th
Tickets $10 at the door, $8 with non-perishable
food item donation
Doors at 9pm Show at 10pm / After-show
party with DJ’s Beehive & Like The Wolf
Non-perishable contributions will benefit
St.James Centre
Photos : Buckman Coats
With brown bangs swept across his forehead,
he sat straight up, his eyes glued on the models
as the they took to the runway at Fashion Cures
à la Mode last month in Ottawa. The girls pose
at the end of the catwalk, and he seems to see
something beyond the dress.
He doesn’t hear the music, or the see the
crowd, his gaze is
By Jeremy Dias
fixed on the details
of dress. The seam,
the layers, the texture, the construction. He
reads the story the dress tell. A woman with
something to say, coy and yet sophisticated,
smart and humble... The story of the designer?
No, the story of the dreams of the designer, her
lovers, her friends...
As dress slips backstage he smiles, and claps.
The models parade together, and the designer
Aida Flores, waves from the runway.
From the corner of his eye, he sees my
confusion, and whispers “It is more than just
a piece of clothing to wear out, it is an expression of the artist who created it. The cut,
the draping, the fabric, the way it moves (or
doesn’t)...says something about the artist,
society, life---dreams, death. And when you
wear it, you feel something. And the clothing says something about you. Do you understand?”
He pauses dramatically, and I smile... “I am
trying to”.
So go take a seat on dirty Santa’s lap,
sneak a few kisses at the mistletoe booth and
be sure not to miss a merry evening of classic
burlesque, comic reinterpretation and just plain
debauchery; because Tits the Season… to be
naughty!
to pose, and then turn to walk back passing
another girl.
So when you grab your tie in the morning, sort
through your jeans on the floor, or sift through
your closet, take pride in yourself, and your expression. Fashion is art.
Jeremy Dias is the Founder and Executive Director of Jer’s Vision: Canada’s Youth Diversity Initiative; he is also the Executive Director of the international Day of Pink. For more information see: www.jersvision.org and www.dayofpink.org.
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Sirens of the Sea Remixed
Above & Beyond presents Oceanlab
Anjunabeats/Ultra/EMI
If there was one vocal trance album for 2009 that had to figure
on your iPod, Sirens of the Sea Remixed by Above & Beyond presents Oceanlab would be the album to beat. Voted the #6 DJs in
the latest DJ Mag Top 100 Poll, Above & Beyond are a bona fide
dance music success story. As artists, DJs, remixers, and label owners, the trio leaves no stone unturned. Spread evenly across two
discs, SOTS Remixed is unmixed, dj-friendly and covers more ground
across the trance spectrum than most discs of the genre would aspire to. A side project to Above & Beyond’s critically and commercially acclaimed epic trance sound, Oceanlab features a more vocal driven approach and features vocalist
By Danny Legare Justine Suissa on vocal duties throughout
the project. Disc 1 features the club friendly, upbeat productions from Gareth Emery, with his stellar reworking
of ‘Lonely Girl’, Lange’s return to his old skool epic trance roots on ‘I
Am What I Am’ and the very consistent Oliver Smith giving his tech
trance madskillz to “Ashes’. Other notable tracks are proggy outfit
16 bit Lolitas’ take on “On a Good Day”, and Andrew Beyer figuring
on “Secret”. The rest of the two disc set is sprinkled with Above & Beyond club mixes of their biggest hits and also includes club staples
“Sky Falls Down” and “Clear Blue Water”, with remixing duties by
the Dutch Trance Mafia kingpins Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten, respectively. The epitome of vocal trance tracks, “Satellite”,
also makes an appearance in its original form for those who may
have overlooked the track during its release in 2004. No filler on this
one, Sirens of the Sea Remixed is a definite keeper for the glowstick
generation and beyond.
For further inspection, feel free to check out Anjunadeep:01 for
a deeper sound to Above & Beyond’s otherwise uplifting trance
fan fare. Anjunadeep takes a notch deeper with more progressive
sounds that A&B would fit in during one of their marathon dj sets.
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For Lack of a Better Word
deadmau5
Mau5trap Recordings/Ultra
Let’s face the facts. deadmau5 has taken the electronic dance
music world by storm. Literally. Since 2006, the 28-year old Toronto-born Joel Zimmerman has racked up over 5,000,000 hits on his
Myspace page, had tracks featured on Tiesto’s In Search of Sunrise
and Armin van Buuren’s “A State of Trance” radio show, released
countless productions and remixes, garnering him a Juno Award
and a nod from the Grammies, not to mention accolades from
some of the biggest names in the industry. Whether or not you can
dig his brand of electro-tech-minimal proggy sample-rific house or
put up with his zanny theatrics of donning a mousehead during
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his dj sets, the boy has got what seems like a million tricks up his sleeve.
The follow up to his debut Random Album Title conjures much of the same
vibe as its predecessor, although For Lack of a Better Word takes a different direction in incorporating as many different branches of the electronic
music spectrum. The opener “FML” pounds through the speakers as a relentless techno stomper, only to seque into the two part, electro pop ditty
“Moar Ghosts & Stuff”/”Ghosts & Stuff”. “Bot” and “Word Problems” both
illicit clubbish-type house floor fillers, and the title track itself brings a whole
new dimension to his otherwise staple clicky minimal house (think his collaborative effort with Kascade “I Remember” sans the seductive vox). The
record’s last two tracks reward the listener with pure electronic bliss. “The
16th Hour” is four-to-the-floor bang-on techhouse with “Strobe” having an
ambient intro that could have been ripped straight from Depeche Mode’s
“Black Celebration” era, and 4 minutes into the 10 and a half minute epic,
while retaining similar chord progression, closes the album on a funky progressive note.
Wait for Me
Moby
Little Idiot/EMI
For those of us waiting for the return of the Little Idiot’s tech wizardry of
‘Everything is Wrong’ or ‘Animal Rights’ or even the ambient mastery of
‘End of Everything’ under Moby’s Voodoo Child moniker might be in for
a mild disappointment. While ‘Wait for Me’ doesn’t pick up where 2007’s
disco-tinged ‘Last Night’ left off, it does harken back to the days of ‘Play’
and ‘18’ where prolonged female swooning over laidback breakbreat was
fresh and innovative. Not to say ‘Wait for Me’ isn’t breaking new ground, it
is. It forges new territory for new fans, and the faithful will be rewarded with
a return to a more introspective sound through the instrumental guitar-driven piece “Shot in the Back of the Head”, which is reason enough alone to
snag this release. ‘Wait for Me’ will go down as Moby’s most personal and
cohesive release to date, relinquishing all corporate type pressures and
incorporating a somber mood to relay his vision on such standout tracks as
lead-off single ‘Pale Horses’, the haunting ‘Mistake’ and “Jtlf,” which runs
abound with acoustic guitars, a gorgeous synth/string and the soothing,
wonderful voice of a female singer. ‘Wait for Me’ may not be car-stereo
blasting out of the windows material, but is prime headphone/solitude music and may require repeat listens in order to revel in its tranquil glory. But in
doing so, the journey will be worth it.
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cherche partenaire sexuel, 35-55
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C-6063 Cuba Chico sincero, honesto, me gusta la música romántica, los animales,
la playa y paser. Busco mi media naranja, si eres mayor que yo
mejor. Tengo 26 años ADRIAN CASYELLANOS
A-6042 A handsome masculine tall
black guy living in Australia, well
endowed, well travelled, educated, seek a matured gentleman for
funtimes and possible relationship.
Ability to travel or accomodate is
important.
S-5984 Belgique Houdeng-Goegnies 22 ans sportif blanc en shorts
(rugby-foot), passif ch blacks
arabes actifs 18-80 ans tous pays
pour correspond - relations intimes.
Écrire avec photo.
L-5875 France Bretagne 55 chât
foncé moust 1m74 70kg imberbe
sérieux sportif ch ami (Qué/Cuba)
40-55 viril tendre -si poss poiluéchanges renc vacances.
F-6053 France Homme très passif petit ... 13 cm, âge 40 ans, 1.75 mètres,
brun, 60 kilos. Adore tout et très sérieux, adore lire, écrire et aussi platonique... photo obligatoire.
F-6057 France Français, 37 ans,
agréable, cherche à correspondre
avec Latinos habitant Cuba, Brésil,
Mexique ou ailleurs, parlant français ou anglais. Joindre photos – réponse assurée.
L-6060 London Handsome black
guy living in England, 33 years old,
5’9’’, good built body, caring, honest, seek mature Canadian man
for friendship and relationship.
K-5652 Russie Moscou 28 1m84
79kg light hair gray eyes athletic
well-hung educated ISO friendship,
holidays/visit or 1-2-1. Travel arts
music photo nature books, etc.
Your photo gets mine.
A-6055 Africa Young guy, affectionate, kind, sincere, easy going.
I’m chocolate slim with black hair
and black eyes. 5’9’’ and 60kg.
I’m looking for a real man who is
ready and willing to meet. Age is
not important; I’m looking forward
to hearing from you soon.
A-6059 Africa Black Ghanaian of
25 years. Versatile, body-builder,
honest, educated, broadminded. I
love traveling, music, and football.
Looking for a man for friendship,
possible one to one.
C-6064 Cuba I am Yoandy, Cuban,
age 23, naturally tanned skin,
brown eyes, 1m73, 85 kg, athtletic
and brawny body. Not much experience.
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