Pride
How Gay Should We Be?
Running down the street jumping off roof tops brazed in pride colors from head to toe, driving down the street in your car with your rainbow stickers plastered to the back, strolling through the mall with your wrist limp and sashaying as if there were no tomorrow, or pierced in both ears dawning club [...]
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Heart to Heart – Our Greatest Challenge
A few weeks ago, I asked a diverse group of gay men and women from all over the world what they thought was the greatest challenge to the gay community. I gave them a list of choices to choose from, and one option for an issue not included on my list. The list and the [...]
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The New (GLBT) Generation
The other night I was flipping through the channels on the tube and came across a documentary titled Life on Christopher St., directed by Maria Clara, a 2002 expose focusing on urban gay youth and their lives on the most popular gay strip in the world in New York City. As the synopsis of the [...]
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Celebrities
A list of some gay, lesbian, bisexual celebrities – recognize anyone? Virginia Woolf Writer Michael Stipe Lead Singer of REM Clive Barker Author and Filmmaker Rosie O’Donnell Comedian and Actor Randy Harrison Actor Mitchell Anderson Actor Freddie Mercury Lead singer of Queen André Boulerice Provincial Cabinet Minister Boy George Singer & Songwriter Claude Rajotte Animateur [...]
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Year 2002 : A Catalyst for Change
2002, a year of concrete action Throughout Québec, Canada and the Western world, 2002 represented a year where associations fighting for the homosexual cause made progress with respect to social and change confirming and further strengthening their determination. Much remains to be accomplished, yet we are ever more determined to knock down the traditional engrained societal [...]
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The Gay Games: From Sydney to Montreal
From November 2nd to the 9th, Sydney, Australia was host to the sixth edition of the Gay Games. The Gay Games, you may ask? You bet. The Gay Games are a huge international sporting and cultural event that brings together thousands of athletes from every corner of the globe. Contrary to what you may think, [...]
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Drag-o-ween (A Tribute to Drag Queens)
For many, Halloween provides a welcome opportunity to let their hair down (or often, put it up). This often means false lashes, lots of makeup, sequenced dresses and hairy chests a go-go, as the holiday appears to have become amateur drag night for both gay and straight men everywhere. It’s a sort of taboo-free night [...]
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Drag-o-ween (A Tribute to Drag Queens)
For many, Halloween provides a welcome opportunity to let their hair down (or often, put it up) as the holiday appears to have become amateur drag night for both gay and straight men everywhere. What better time to talk about those mythical larger-than-life entertainers, such as Mado Lamotte, RuPaul, and Dame Edna Everage, that don those fake boobs, dresses, and lipstick each and every night to entertain us.
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Pride: Its Meaning and Its Goals
Many identify the Stonewall Riots as the beginning of community organization in North America. In 1969, tired of police harassment, the patrons of the Stonewall bar in New York City, led by a handful of drag queens and transgendered people, rose up in protest at the arrests and humiliation. Political activity was sparked by the [...]
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Origin of Gay and Lesbian Symbols
The Rainbow Flag, created in 1978 for San Francisco’s Gay Freedom Celebration by Gilbert Baker, depicts not the shape of the rainbow, but its colors in horizontal stripes. The Rainbow Flag has been adopted as the Gay and Lesbian flag. It represents the diversity yet unity of Gays and Lesbians universally. The [...]
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Équipe AlterHéros
Julie-Maude Beauchesne
François Paquette
Dee Gamme
Samuel A.
Marion Téjédor