Tag: canada
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Regina Gently: I Never Wanted To Do Drag. Other People Wanted Me To Do Drag
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else One of the big perks of doing this show is that I get to reach out to people I admire with the flimsy excuse that I want to interview them for my podcast, and then get the opportunity to talk one-to-one with them […]
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“We Need To Be More Inclusive” says Barb Snelgrove
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else Barb Snelgrove is a radio presenter, inductee in the Canadian Queer Hall of Fame, and owner of megamouthmedia, a boutique media relations firm. She is also a life-long Vancouverite, and has seen the queer scene shift and change since she first started going […]
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Sex work, white cis-men, and dark, dark rooms (with Tim Lagman)
On this episode we talk to Tim Lagman, a certified sex educator and pleasure advocate based in Toronto, Canada. Tim also hosts the ‘Sex Ed with Tim’ podcast, where he interviews sluts (his word, not mine!) from all walks of life and delves into the good, the bad, and the stinky sides of love, sex, […]
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Connie and Carla Revisited – does it stand up in 2021?
The world has changed quite a lot since the 2004 release of the Connie and Carla movie. Queer characters are no longer relegated to the role of best friend or comic relief. Instead they are taking centre stage, their stories celebrated rather than played for cheap laughs. So, where does that leave Connie and Carla? […]
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Lotus Hotel, Vancouver, Canada (with Jordan King)
This week we are heading back in time to the early 00s – this is the time when the Spice Girls were unravelling, we had e-mail but not social media (not even MySpace!), and electroclash was at its peak. And it was at this time that my guest Jordan King – a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, archivist, […]
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The Beaver, Toronto, Canada (with Casey Mecija)
We caught up to talk about The Beaver, an alternative queer space in the heart of Queen West, Toronto, that closed in 2020 primarily because of restrictions in place due to coronavirus. Find out more about Casey by visiting her website And, if you want to hear more about The Beaver check out my interviews […]
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The Henhouse, Toronto, Canada (with Joseph Amenta)
Ok, ok, a bit of a sensationalist headline…. But, what do you do when you don’t quite fit in with the commercial queer scene, and how do you find your scene? This week I’m joined by writer, director and filmmaker Joseph Amenta to talk all about The Henhouse, a small, queer dive bar in Toronto’s […]
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Psychic City, Montreal, Canada (with Tranna Wintour)
Listen & Subscribe for Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Everywhere Else How was it that, in days of yore (ok, pre-internet) queer kids that were scattered all over the world still somehow managed to find and fall in love with the same movies and books and music? I explored this, and a few other […]
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XY, Vancouver, Canada (with Rogue)
I caught up with THE Jewish non-binary drag artist Rogue to find out about their first time there, Drag Race girls, and I got a little advice about the art of sucking up. Follow Rogue on Instagram. Transcript Rogue 0:00 It was just a community. Like I think the people that went there knew what […]
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Citibar, Montreal, Canada (with Gerard X Reyes)
Did you know that there are three distinct styles of voguing? I didn’t, and, in my ask-a-bunch-of-stupid-questions approach to interviewing I found out all about them when I sat down to chat with Gerard Reyes – choreographer, dancer, teacher, video artist, somatic sex educator, intimacy coordinator and Montreal’s kiki ballroom scene pioneer. We caught up to […]