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Pride Winnipeg merchandise is also available on the website and contests will take place throughout Pride, including through media partner Corus Entertainment Group. “They will be participating and we’ll be doing contests on our Facebook and Instagram pages and the goal is to get Pride Winnipeg’s Instagram account up to 10,000 followers.” Prizes include jerseys from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, a package from Alt Hotels and more. There will be a post-Pride survey with prize incentives to help get ready for the national Canada Pride 2022, which will take place right here in Winnipeg. Diversity calls for accessibility and outreach and Karlenzig says the organization learned a lot from its first go-round with pandemic restrictions. While it has reached a new group of individuals, it has sadly lost touch with others. “A lot of the socially excluded groups Pride works with might not have access to computers, or a cell phone or Facebook or the library. If the library is closed, they can’t attend because of those social or economic barriers and we’re working with partners to address that — as are pride events everywhere,” he says. Pride Winnipeg’s new accessibility director is leading the charge toward full access for all. Additions include an accessibility button to make the website more readable. Image description has been added to social media for visually impaired users and last year’s virtual programming added ASL onscreen. “We had people with mobility challenges who wanted to join the parade so we worked with Winnipeg Trolley who provided a trolley,” Karlenzig says. The whole operation is run by volunteers, many of whom are contributing 40 or more hours per week in addition to their day jobs. Anyone who wants to join them is invited to contact Pride Winnipeg anytime, Karlenzig says. ”We’re always welcoming volunteers, so by all means, send us an email and talk to us, and if you have comments or concerns you can share them with us at info@pridewinnipeg.”
Pride Winnipeg Festival is virtually here! Running Sept. 3-12, Pride of the Prairies presents a rainbow-bouquet of performances and events celebrating GSRD (Gender, Sex and Relationship Diverse) communities — and it’s all available online. Barry Karlenzig is a long-time volunteer and current president of Pride Winnipeg. The first president to identify as bisexual, his tenure is marked by another distinction. “This is my ninth year with Pride and my second year as chair and I am currently the one chair who hasn’t done a physical parade at the festival!” As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt live events, Pride Winnipeg is stepping out on social media again this year, with posts on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube. The website at pridewinnipeg.com has links to the essential Pride Winnipeg App at the Apple Store and Google Play and all the sites are sources for program listings and other information. Virtual events start Sept. 3 with the flag-raising at City Hall and end Sept. 12 with a parade featuring submitted video footage from anyone who wants to participate. In between, there’s loads of music, drag performances, poetry and more. “One day might be drag performers, another might be live bands or DJs, spread out for all 10 days with no overlap scheduling,” Karlenzig says. “It will keep people in the spirit and make sure that people aren’t missing events, and we’re hoping to have them up online until the end of the month.” This year has the largest number of performers ever, including French and Indigenous performers, core programming from the Snowy Owl Monarchist Society and Sunshine House (two of the larger drag organizations), and contributions from Two-Spirited People of Manitoba. “You’ll find it all on the app with performer photos and bios, and if they already have music online, we’ll link to that. “The nice thing about going virtual is that we are reaching a younger audience which doesn’t normally have the chance to see events like some drag shows, which would take place at 18-plus years venues.”
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Virtual events start Sept. 3 with the flag-raising at City Hall and end Sept. 12 with a parade featuring submitted video footage from anyone who wants to participate.
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LGBT PURGE EXHIBIT IS BACK ON TRACK AT CMHR BY GREG KLASSEN Doing the rights Thing
External Relations and Community Engagement and Haran Vijayanathan as director, Equity and Strategic Initiatives. The CMHR “is very committed to a new way forward,” says Harrison. The museum still receives requests to censor certain content, but those requests are no longer honoured. “We don’t do that because it’s a very important part of Canadian history and it’s important that people realize all that was done to legalize gay marriage in Canada,” says Harrison. “It’s great to be part of an organization that is talking to the public in that way.” Harrison became aware of the Purge as an arts reporter with the Winnipeg Sun, when she was covering Brian Drader’s The Fruit Machine for TheatreProjects in 1994. “That was the first time I really heard about it. Reflecting on it since then, the Purge is something that is not well known, including within our community. It is an incredibly important moment in our history. There was significant harm done and some pioneers who fought for epic change that has benefited many of us today.” Many Canadians believe that these disgraceful activities stopped when then Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau famously said, “There’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” In truth, the Purge lasted for 25 more years. “It took a long while for provincial human rights codes to catch up with the thinking that was behind the Charter,” says Harrison, who has previously worked for Red River College, CentrePort and the Province in strategic communications. “Many of us believed we were OK, protected and equal. The reality was that for many people who worked in the federal civil service, they weren’t. They were victims of a terrible, dark moment in our history that I believe many Canadians are still unaware of.” The theory behind the LGBT Purge was that homosexuals were particularly vulnerable to blackmail because many were keeping their sexuality a secret. Designed by Frank Robert Wake, a “fruit machine” resembling a dentist’s chair, with a camera in front, was created to root out gay men. Suspected people would be shown photographs of naked men, and if their pupils enlarged, they were deemed “guilty.”
Between the 1950s and 1990s, LGBT* members of the Canadian Armed Forces, the RCMP and the federal public service were systemically discriminated against, harassed and often fired as a matter of policy. In what came to be known as the LGBT Purge, people were followed, interrogated, abused and traumatized by their own government. Survivors of this witchhunt launched a nation-wide class action lawsuit against the Canadian government in 2016, with a historic settlement being reached in June 2018. Part of this settlement included resources to mount an exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) that would honour the Purge’s victims. In 2020, following revelations that the CMHR had forced employees at times to exclude gay content at the request of certain guests, including religious school groups, the future of the exhibit was uncertain. But in the last year, things have gotten back on track. “Our collaboration with the CMHR is now going well,” says Michelle Douglas, executive director of the LGBT Purge Fund. “The LGBT Purge Fund worked closely with the CMHR over the past year to understand all of the measures that would be taken to address the troubling racism and homophobia that was happening at the museum. We now have a high degree of confidence in the leadership at the museum and in their path forward. We look forward to working with them in telling the story of the LGBT Purge in a major exhibition that will launch in late 2024.” Part of this newfound confidence is the result of a change of leadership at the CMHR, including the hiring of CEO Isha Khan. In addition, two new leaders joined the management team in April — Riva Harrison as vice-president,
Recent additions to the management team Haran Vijayanathan (left) as director, Equity and Strategic Initiatives,
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Local artists and landscape architects are in the running to design the LGBTQ2+ National Monument, which is being created as a condition of the LGBT Purge settlement reached in 2018. Two Winnipeg-based teams are on a shortlist of five teams that were invited to submit design proposals. Winnipeg’s Team Wreford is made up of award- winning performance, installation and visual artists Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan; Indigenous & Two-Spirited People subject- matter expert and advisor Albert McLeod, and Public City Architecture. Team SOM is made up of filmmaker and artist Noam Gonick, award-winning multi- disciplinary Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore, landscape architecture firm HTFC Planning and Design and New York-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the architecture firm that designed One World Trade Center. Design proposals were due in August, and the general public will have a chance to see them sometime this fall. The LGBT Purge Fund is providing $8 million for the monument, to be erected in Ottawa, in a prominent location that includes space for large public events. The 2018 settlement called for funds to be set aside for “reconciliation and memorialization measures,” and those funds are considered a gift from victims of the Purge. The national monument is expected to be completed by 2025.
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“Queer history and queer contributions to human rights have always been undertold and no one really knows about it or learns about it,” says Vijayanathan. “We’re hoping this is an opportunity to start and continue that conversation and ensure that queer history is documented and available and accessible to everyone across the country and globally.” Vijayanathan, who has 15 years of experience advocating for historically marginalized and underrepresented communities, has also been working to offer internal education to CMHR staff. “We’re looking at what we need to do to ensure that all staff are informed and inclusive and supportive of any visitor that comes into the institution. That includes not misgendering people to acknowledging that different people exist in different ways. “We want people to walk away (from the CMHR) feeling empowered to make change happen rather than disempowered. That’s our goal right now — to create those brave spaces to have those conversations, both for staff and for visitors.”
“It’s good to remind Canadians that this did happen and that there were pioneers that underwent a tremendous journey and struggle to defeat this policy and to change the way these types of workplace policies are in our country,” says Harrison. “Many of us now benefit from their struggle and that needs acknowledgment and celebration and reflection.” Planning is still in the early stages for the 2024 exhibit. Harrison says a tremendous number of physical artifacts exist to draw from. The CMHR is planning for events leading up to the opening, including a panel of survivors talking about their experiences. Having joined the CMHR around the same time as Harrison, Haran Vijayanathan has been working with Winnipeg Pride as well as developing a Rainbow Equity council to solidify the CMHR’s relationship with the queer community. He feels it’s important to acknowledge that there is still hurt in the community. “It’s going to take some time and ongoing conversations and relationship building,” he says. “That’s the priority.”
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“There are so many other areas that people don’t know about, like Rainbow Resource Centre,” he says. Every year, someone is elected Emperor, Empress or Emprix. The group is modeled after European courts with titles such as Prince, Princess, Duke, Duchess and more whimsical titles like Keeper of the Royal Coffee Cup. Reigning monarchs and their Upper Houses have in the past presented fundraiser drag shows, bingo, reading at the library, meat draws, bake sales, jewelry raffles and bowling. During Hazlewood’s reign as Empress V of Winnipeg, SOMS raised funds for the Street Outreach collective. “And back in 2005, we went out and made sure people had access to things like condoms and literature about safe sex and so on — and things most people in the heterosexual community don’t think twice about. “We would go every year and get a Christmas wish list from all the children in the HIV/AIDS ward at Misericordia Hospital and we would buy them all their Christmas gifts.” Additionally, SOMS does general fundraising through private donors such as TD Bank and Telus. During the pandemic, they’ve moved online. “We’re constantly evolving and we’re trying to meet the needs of the community that we support, which in this case is obviously quarantined in many ways.” For Virtual Pride performances, popular entertainers Joan Costalotsa — who is both a
Pride Winnipeg Festival is aiming to have “virtually everyone” in the community participate — and that translates to “everyone virtually” participating online. Happily, the Snowy Owl Monarchist Society (SOMS) is preened and ready to take flight. “For Pride, we are presenting a 15-minute window of entertainment by some of our veterans and our up-and-coming performers from our community,” says Matt Hazlewood, a founding member and current board president of the volunteer-run service organization. “We make every effort to have representation at all events, simply because we know how important they are.” Founded in 1997, SOMS has donated more than $150,000 to organizations that directly impact the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, two- spirit and queer communities. A chapter in the Imperial Court System, which was founded in San Francisco in 1965, it is one of 70-plus courts across North America. “The way I like to say it is imagine us as the gay Shriners ... and you may also be familiar with the Daughters of the Nile, their female counterparts,” Hazlewood says. “So, extravagant dress-up, large festive balls and organizational events — but primarily we’re here fundraising for the underfunded, or not-funded groups that most people are unaware of, and just being there for the community in general.” He emphasizes that large, well-known organizations benefit from government funding and private donations.
past Imperial Crown Princess and a Grand Duke — two-time Empress Anita Stallion and recent Co-entertainer of the Year Ruby Chopstix are doing the honours. Looking to the future, SOMS offers a scholarship, recognizing individuals dedicated to proactively furthering the development of the community. It is awarded to a student who is or will be attending a post-secondary institution where the focus is science, social services or the humanities. Hazlewood says it’s all about giving back. In fact, it’s written right into their bylaws: To maintain a mandate of selflessness for the betterment of the SOMS, the community at large and the general public. “The way we look at it is it’s not really about promoting our own, but about looking after our own, like a family,” he says. “I like to think of that phrase, ‘If you have, don’t build a bigger wall, build a bigger table.’ And that’s what we do — we’re always trying to make sure that everybody has a seat.” Find more information about SOMS online at impcourtmb.ca.
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Entertainment Organizers have pulled out all the stops, with poetry, dance, DJs and an eclectic lineup of musical acts that include “psychedelic dreampop quartet” À La Mode, rootsy franco-Manitoba chanteuse Andrina Turenne, children’s outfit Jessee Havey and the Banana Band, folk singer- songwriter Madeleine Roger, roots rocker Mitchell Makoons, jazzy R&B duo The Grey Jays and many more. Drag performance groups include the the Haus of Queens & Wolves — featuring fabulous and funny Haus mother Feather Talia, plastic doll Rose Mortel and dancing queen Izabell Silver; Maison a la Heaux – featuring Maison mother Slaytana D’Sloot with Hellen Bedd; Mother-and- son comedy drag team Heart and Smoke — AKA Olivia Limehart Sky and Smokey Trixx Star; and three stars from The Imperial Sovereign Court of Winnipeg and All Manitoba (Snowy Owl Monarchist Society) — veteran performers Joan Costalotsa and Anita Stallion and relative newcomer Ruby Chopstix.
1. F rancophone electro-soul artist Rayannah. 2. S t. Boniface folk/roots singer-songwriter Andrina Turenne. Photo by Brodie Parachoniak 3. Roots rocker Mitchell Makoons got his start playing Métis fiddle songs. 4. H olly Ruth and Finley Allison have joined forces as roots/R&B duo The Grey Jays 5. R uby Chopstix joins veteran performers on the SOMS showbill. Photo by Ken Lozano
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Milestone Events Three milestone events will be streamed on YouTube.
Pride Merch Before you shoot that parade video, stock up on fresh Pride gear — T-shirts and tank tops, dog and cat bandanas, flags, unicorn headbands, pins, buttons and more items are available for sale online at Pridewinnipeg.com.
The traditional flag-raising at City Hall kicks off the festival on Friday, Sept. 3 at 12 p.m. A one-hour vigil for those who have died or been subjected to violence begins at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 5. And finally, the virtual parade begins at 11 a.m. on the closing day of the festival, Sunday, Sept. 12. The parade is an inclusive event. Anyone who wants to participate is invited to submit a video of
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participants will be invited to share their own history. “Both Noam and I ‘joined’ Winnipeg’s gay scene in the 1980s, so we’re familiar with that time, which of course was harsh with the advent of AIDS and police brutality to gay people,” Klassen says. “But what’s been fascinating to me is to discover that it was actually easier and freer to be gay in Winnipeg in the 1940s and ’50s. There were quite a few known places to hang out. It was only once gays started to organize and demand our rights that violence and misinformation escalated.” Four two-hour classes will be conducted via Zoom on Thursday evenings in October. Learn more and sign up online at McNallyrobinson.com/classes.
examined the arc of Canadian history from a queer perspective.” Gonick researched the LGBT Purge as a design finalist for the National LGBTQ 2+ monument in Ottawa, and the so-called fruit machine that was used to identify gay men will be one topic of discussion. “We’re also looking at the case of a man tried for having gay sex in Regina in 1895 who was ultimately released, because he was a member of the Anglican church and had so much support from the ‘pillars of the community,’ ” Klassen says. An activist since he came out in 1984, Klassen, who grew up Mennonite, says Manitoba’s queer history and human rights’ struggles will be part of the focus, and
Participants can expect a lot of stimulating discussion during McNally Robinson Classroom course When We Were Twinks: A Queer Herstory of Canada. Writer Greg Klassen and filmmaker/artist Noam Gonick have joined forces to present classes starting Oct. 7. The idea for the course arose when Klassen participated in an Indigenous cultural and historical sensitivity workshop and read Canada’s history from an Indigenous perspective. “I found it very moving. It also made me realize that perspective is everything and that I had never really
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SUPPORT LGBT* BUSINESS In recent years, the Manitoba LGBT* Chamber of Commerce (mb-lgbt.biz) has organized the PrideMART business fair at The Forks during the Pride Winnipeg Festival. For the second year, PrideMART is off the table, but the Chamber has continued its mission to “to cultivate, contribute to and promote a thriving community of LGBT* owned and allied businesses, professionals and business students” as it works to support the provincial economy. Visit the Chamber website to peruse the membership directory, and check out the FaceBook page for news and events. By the way, congrats to winners of the Chamber’s 2020 Business Awards:
Member of the Year: Capital Grill owner and Chef Wayne Martin Employer of the Year: Little Brown Jug owner Kevin Selch. Corporate Ally Award: Duboff, Edwards & Schachter Law Corp. Community Builder: Taylor McCaffrey LLP
lawyer Robynne Kazina. Entrepreneur of the Year: Beyond Flowers owner Gloria Sawatzky.
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JOIN THE CLUB Reigning Miss Club 200 Prairie Sky and past Miss Club 200 pageant winners Anita Stallion and Lita Takeela helped to rally support for the Garry Street nightclub during some of the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The club opened in 1988 and Allen Morrison has owned it for the past 20 years. He’s a champion of the community, and the community showed him some love, helping the Miss Club 200 alumni raise more than $40,000 through their GoFundMe page. Want to support the club? Check out dinner menus and keep tabs on news and events at Club200.ca. REEL PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL Pandemic or no, it’s on with the show for the Reel Pride Film Festival. The Winnipeg Gay & Lesbian Film Society formed in 1985 and two years later, it joined forces with Plug In Gallery to mount its first festival. Today, the volunteer- run Reel Pride can boast it is Canada’s longest-running international LGBTQ 2+ film festival. Live and online screenings are planned for the 2021 event, running Oct. 12-17. The festival has grown to include an art show and it will hold the 18th Canadian LGBTTQ Short Films Competition this fall. Winners of the 17th competition in 2020 were Jim Agapito for Bakla! (Jury Choice Top Manitoba Film Award), Jonathan Lawrence for Alter Boys (Audience Choice for Top Short Film) and Theola Ross for Bloodlines (Jury Choice Top Short Film). Learn more at reelpride.org.
First presented in 1987, Reel Pride is now Canada’s longest-running international LGBTQ 2+ film festival.
Winning films in the 17th Canadian LG- BTTQ Short Films Competition: (Clockwise from top) Director Jim Agapito’s Bakla!, Theola Ross’s Bloodlines, and Jonathan Lawrence’s Alter Boys.
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