dan savage is wrong. it's the gayest holiday on the planet.

FRIDAY
It`s a Winter Sweater Extravaganza!

G.B presents TERROR TRAIN a Halloween Special

Halloween Keg Party at Casa 217

PHANTASM - Don Coscarelli's demented horror classic on 16mm!

//VELVET 54 HALLOWEEN PARTY// w/ MINI//PRINCE CLUB//JONAH'S EAR//DUVALL//

FAGGITY ASS FRIDAYS: RETURN OF THE GAYEST UNDEAD EVER!

PARTY D'HALLOWEEN 

HUMAN NATURE : Halloween Party

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SATURDAY

Halloween Party ! Beauties and Beasts ! (helem montreal)

ISAAC ESCALANTE @ PARKING *HALLOWEEN PARTY*

VOYEUR HALLOWEEN (mary hell)

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SUNDAY
MONSTER MASHUP ☠ Halloween After Party

Cabaret Faux Pas: HALLOWEEN MINI-MOCK-OPERA! 

DIMANCHE 31 OCT @ PARKING // HALLOWEEN PARTY 

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  Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

Yesterday's Breedlove/Howard bill was kind of a treat, if filled with spurts of nostalgia and touching moments. Silas spun a humour-filled tale about his rise to Hollywood "fame," selling out, Billy Tipton, his film, meeting Kitty Tipton, and passing as a dude. Breedlove brought the usual eccentric persona he's honed over the years as a performance artist, complete with the pissing-in-a-bucket and purple dildo act many have grown to love. And he started out all sorts of naked. Talk about shedding inhibitions. There was a nice, intimate crowd and both performers interacted with the crowd with ease.

It brought all sorts of feelings out of me, like when Lynnee talked about the passing of Del Martin, lesbian activist who started the Daughters of Bilitis collective (in reaction to exclusion from the feminist circles at the time). Martin later published the quarterly issue of the Ladder, for lesbians, with her partner Phyllis. They were married in 2008, as California legalized gay marriage for a short spurt until they repealed prop 8. Isn’t it sad that Del passed away shortly thereafter, like 2 months later!?!?

It also made me reminisce about my own coming out experience, once as bisexual in 1996 and a few years later as total homo. I never actually read Breedlove’s Godspeed novel. I remember meaning too when it came out, but then for some reason, it slipped off my radar. Who would I be today if I had read it in time? Would I have felt not alone as an outsider? Then again, I read a lot of other novels and watched a slew of films, and read a ton of lezzie magazines.

All this heaviness for Hump Day! What are your thoughts on coming out? Were you around for the riot grrrl movement, Tribe 8 etc? And is it really over?

Ex-members of Tribe 8, Lynnee Breedlove and Silas Howard put on a show tonight at Divan Orange, (4234 St-Laurent) at 8 pm.

Lynnee and Silas were members of the San Francisco-based Queercore band, considered one of the first, from 1991 until about 2005. They were out, proud, punk practitioners of tribadism, but Silas has since transitioned to male and takes testosterone. Lynnee published a book called Godspeed, since turned into a movie of the same name. Silas continues to make art, after writing and directing By Hook or By Crook, a movie that debuted to rave reviews at Sundance 2002.

Tonight’s show is part of a multi-city tour, the Mighty Real Tour: A multimedia evening of dueling solos with:

Confessions of a Poser with Lynnee Breedlove: A comic look at bodies, the mystery of the purple dick, lesbo legacies and how to use them, fatherhood, and the impossibility of ever being man enough.

Thank you for Being Urgent with Silas Howard: A textured tale of a queer punk spilling into the crappy and exalted glitter of Hollywood’s desire and shame. He searches for true tales of fierce outsiders and re-imagines the mainstream, ruminating on American Dream loopholes, burlesque dancers with dementia, and tranny jazzmen.

It will be entertaining, there will be buckets and there will be knives.

Lynnee Breedlove with doggies.

The Montreal Burlesque Festival (the first here) wound down its 4-day run this Sunday. I was curious to check out the documentary film A Wink and a Smile at Cinema du Parc, but not much else as I am a big fan of things-that-are-not burlesque. The film had its moments, and as a documentary, it was pretty sex-positive and a cheeky look into the mainstreaming of the scene as a whole. My friend, Hour sex columnist Laura Roberts went to the all-star show on Saturday and I was dismayed to hear that Montreal favourite low-brow troupe the Dead Doll Dancers was not invited. Laura seems to think it has something to do with the fact that they are too low-brow. Anybody know what the deal is with this?

Events:

ZINE FAIR SHARE at the 2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy, 12-6PM. 2110 Mackay (metro Guy-Concordia), 514-848-2424 ext. 7431

TRESPASS THIS! "From Hardcore to Posicore: Reworking our personal and political communities through art" 6:30 - 9 pm
Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium, McGill University, 3450 University.

“A DIY punk rock investigation of writing and film performance, focusing on the use of fiction and metaphor to tell personal stories. Lynnee Breedlove and Silas Howard will examine the relationships between voice, style, and language along with issues of memory, identity, and desire. In particular, the workshop will explore the representation of outsider stories, new voices, and transgressive narratives in stories and film.”