Pride

Celebrate Pride Week with this special event! 

 

In collaboration with Kingston Pride and Reelout Arts Project, Kingston WritersFest invites you to an evening of Pride.

 

Join Lambda-award-winning writer Michael Rowe for a conversation about Pride, a book that reflects on the 50th anniversary of Toronto’s first gay rights march. Michael will talk with Trevor Campbell, host and creator of the You Made Me Queer podcast, about the history of this important march and how it helped lay the groundwork for what has become one of the largest gay pride festivals in the world. They’ll also explore the challenges the queer community has faced since.

 

Accompanying the onstage conversation will be a gorgeous slideshow of photographs by artist Angel Guerra whose portraits shine a light on moments of joy, strength, ferocity, resilience and love. At a time when 2SLGBTQI+ rights are under renewed threat throughout the world, this is an opportunity to connect with community and offer solidarity, as well as celebrate.

 

A Q&A and book signing will follow the onstage event. Books for sale onsite by Novel Idea Bookstore.

 

Wednesday, June 12

6:30 - 7:30 pm

The Screening Room, 120 Princess Street

Tickets:

$20 General Admission for those who can afford the regular price
PWYC options: $5, $10 and $15 based on your ability.

This offseason event is included in your Golden Ticket Festival Pass.

 

About the author

Michael Rowe is the award-winning author of the novels Enter, Night, Wild Fell, and October, two books of essays, and a book of interviews. His nonfiction has appeared in the National Post, The Globe & Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, the Huffington Post, SHARP, and The Boston Globe, as well as eight years as a contributing writer to The Advocate. His second essay collection, Other Men’s Sons won the Randy Shilts Award for Nonfiction. Other awards include the Lambda Literary Award, and he has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, Award, the Sunburst Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the GLAAD Media Award. He lives in Toronto, ON.

 

About the interviewer

Trevor Campbell is a writer, host, and comedian who can regularly be heard on CBC Radio/Podcasts. His work has earned him four Canadian Podcast Awards, recommendations by Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Xtra, Yohomo and CBC, and an invitation to open for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee at the 2022 Hot Docs Podcast Festival. He is the host and creator of You Made Me Queer!, an accusatory podcast about queer origin stories for the Sonar Network, with past guests including Olympic gold medalist Mark Tewksbury, director Sook-Yin Lee, author Joshua Whitehead, drag legend Jinkx Monsoon, and The Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson. This June, he'll be releasing a new limited series podcast called Queerial, a true crime-ish satire with a twist. Though he’s often told he has a face for radio, Trevor can be seen on stage as a host and moderator for major festivals including Buddies in Bad Times Queer Pride, Toronto Comicon, Fan Expo Canada, MOTIVE Crime and Mystery Festival, and the Toronto International Festival of Authors.

 

About our Partners

Kingston Pride is a grassroots organization established in 1989 that works to promote awareness and inclusion of the 2SLGBTQIA* community.

Kingston has celebrated the diversity of the 2SLGBTQIA* community in Kingston and the surrounding area. Kingston Pride coordinates a wide range of activities, including: an annual Pride parade, social gatherings, dances, sporting events, educational workshops, speaker events, film showings, theatrical performances, art exhibitions and more.

 

Visit https://www.kingstonpride.ca/ to discover all of the exciting events happening from June 8 – 16!

 

Reelout Arts Project (reelout.com) exists to celebrate queer media arts and to contribute to community vitality by programming materials that focus on issues of sexuality, race, culture, religion, class, gender, ability, health and age, thereby purposefully drawing together and initiating challenging dialogue among disparate members of the queer communities in Kingston and the surrounding area as well as between the larger Kingston community and the queer community.