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A Welcome Sight to Art Lovers: Third Sex Takeover at the New Zealand pavilion at this Year’s Venice Biennale
> The New Zealand pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, running now through November at Arsenale, recreates a sun-drenched, lazy beach island setting to present Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp, introducing visitors to the Fa’afafine, Samoa’s “third gender” community. The Fa’afafine are people in Samoa who forages identify themselves as non-binary, a gender that is…
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Cherry Valentine: Gypsy Queen And Proud
] All of us in the LGBTQ+ community have our own coming-out tale. No one has the same even though we may share alike characteristics, and tragically far too many have very sad endings. George Ward is a 27-year-old mental health nurse who has had a long struggle for acceptance. What makes his story…
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Authentic Voices of PRIDE: a series of videos sponsored by Chevrolet
The LGBTQ+ community has every reason to be skeptical when big business rushes to embrace us. History has taught us that too often that their focus is purely on getting their hands on the pink dollar which the media has led them to believe is a potential pot of gold. It’s therefore a joy…
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Flashback Friday : Rufus Wainwright’s Opera HADRIAN from 2018
On October 13, 2018, the Canadian Opera Company presented the highly anticipated world premiere of Hadrian by composer Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor. The opera recounts the epic love story of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his young lover, Antinous. Erased by history, their story is reclaimed for the 21st century by its creators in a…
