HEAR HERE :: Happy Pride! It’s creeping up on us here in Toronto, where I’m based. Big love to the sponsors of Prides everywhere in these times when so many of them are pulling out. Boo to those who are, now that the political tide has turned and SSLGBTQ people are the “enemy” to be feared and done away with. These pull-outs march with us when it’s a guaranteed PR win, but are fair-weather allies when the going gets tougher. Here on my Substack I recently posted an open letter to Pride sponsors who bailed, and you can read it here ICYMI.
Friend of the show, choreographer and Canada’s Drag Race star Hollywood Jade joins us at the tail end of this episode. We’re going to look at Pride and the SSLGBTQ+ community through his thoughtful, astute perspective.
He’s another voice in the mix as we continue to celebrate queer stories and voices all Pride Month; today we have some more fantastic creatives coming on. Deborah Root is joining us - her visual art has been exhibited around the world - and so too is Carlyn Moulton who owns the divine Oeno Gallery in Price Edward County, one of my fave galleries, period. Deborah is going to share about being invited to participate in an exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC this past March. Her work was a lovely painting of two gay men, partners, just laughing together, fully clothed, a moment in time captured. The exhibit itself wasn’t gay per se, but was going to feature a lot of queer and black artists.
However, in Trump’s America, the exhibition never saw the light of day.
We’ll be with Deborah and Carlyn to talk about that and what happens to art - especially queer art - when there’s a dictator in the White House.
But first up, Supermodel work! Another artist, bon vivant, designer, loud voice, and now author of the supermodel time capsule you didn’t know you needed joins us. John Walke is the author of Model, He Wrote, which includes never before seen images from his shutterbug times charming everyone from Anna Wintour to Linda Evangelista at New York Fashion Week.
Enjoy the listen.
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