#Pride Toronto 2017

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Operablr Pride Month 2024 Week #4 (June 22-28)

I can't believe it's the final full week of the month!! Hope everyone is having as much fun as I am!

Eliogabalo (Cavalli/Aureli) Keywords: Baroque opera, genderbending, GNC character, historical opera, opera in Italian

Hadrian (Wainwright/MacIvor) Keywords: Canadian opera, gay characters, MLM, historical opera, historical Rome

Billy Budd (Britten/Forster/Crozier)

Summaries, libretti, recommended productions, and more under the line! (Disclaimer: I have not necessarily seen all the productions recommended here. Most of them are those that have been recommended to me.)

Eliogabalo

Libretto: unfindable Summary: help Productions: Paris 2016 (French subs) Opera on Video search link: Eliogabalo Cavalli - Opera on Video Bonus: A very unfiltered look at the historical Eliogabalo's life: Eliogabalo: Obscure Emperor, Obscure Opera (westedgeopera.org) A slightly more detailed (and filtered) look: 147. Eliogabalo (Cavalli) – The Opera Scribe

Hadrian

Libretto: guess Summary: Hadrian – Rufus Wainwright Productions: Toronto 2018 (English subs) (^the only video I could find was on VK. You need account but it is free--it looks sketchy but isn't. If anyone knows of another video let me know!) Bonus: A panel with the creators! World Premiere of Hadrian: A New Canadian Opera | Hadrian Opera | Talks at Google (youtube.com)

Billy Budd

Libretto: English (Translate enabled) Summary: English (Translate enabled) Productions: ENO 1988 (English subs) Des Moines 2017 (English subs) Vienna 2001 (German subs) Opera on Video search link: Billy Budd Britten - Opera on Video Bonus: Some info on the original source material for the opera: Billy Budd - Wikipedia Bonus bonus: A (very long) analysis of the opera and its themes: Sea-changes: Melville - Forster - Britten (oapen.org)

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Profiles of Pride: June 20th! 🏳️‍🌈S. Bear Bergman🏳️‍🌈

S. Bear Bergman (born September 22, 1974) is an American author, poet, playwright, and theater artist. He is a trans man, and his gender identity is a main focus of his artwork.

Bergman was educated at Concord Academy, was one of the founders of the first Gay–straight alliance and a member of the Governor of Massachusetts' Safe Schools Commission for LGBT youth. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Hampshire College in 1996.

Bergman's first book, Butch Is A Noun, was released in September 2006 by Suspect Thoughts Press and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category. A new edition was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2010. Bergman's second book, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, was released by Arsenal Pulp Press in the fall of 2009 and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in the Transgender category. He co-edited with genderqueer author Kate Bornstein Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, which won a 2011 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Anthology category and a special Judges Award from the Publishing Triangle. He is also the author of four books for children (one of which, The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy, was a 2013 Lambda Literary Award finalist in the LGBT Children's/Young Adult category) and has a sixth book titled Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter published September 23, 2013 from Arsenal Pulp Press.

In addition, Bergman continues to lecture and perform at universities, festivals and theatres throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. His performances have received judges' awards at each of the last three biennial National Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival in Columbus, Ohio, including Best of the Festival and Best New Work. In 2005, Bergman was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant for playwriting, as well as a Millay Colony for the Arts Fellowship award. He has also been given an assortment of honors for service to the transgender community, including The Spirit of Stonewall Award, the Trans 100 has been selected to the Toronto Arts Council Leaders Lab for his work in equity in the arts, and similar.

Bergman is the founder and publisher of Flamingo Rampant, a micropress focused on making celebratory, inclusive picture books for LGBT2Q+ children and families. He also writes the popular advice column Asking Bear, which ran on the Bitch media platform from 2015-2017 and is now an independent column.

Bergman lives in Toronto, Ontario, and is married to educator J Wallace Skelton though Bergman has openly discussed his polyamorous orientation in his essays. They have three children.

In 2015, Bergman wrote, as a Contributor for the Huffington Post, an article entitled "I Have Come to Indoctrinate Your Children Into My LGBTQ Agenda (And I'm Not a Bit Sorry)." Which you can read here: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i-have-come-to-indoctrinate-your-children-lgtbq_b_6795152

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Happy Psychiatric Survivors Pride Day! Here are some photos from other demonstrations around the world against psychiatric harm:

[image ID] three photographs of demonstrators at psychiatric survivor pride events around the world (not all of which take place on October 9th).

1. The first is a photo of the Mad Pride Week 2017 parade in Toronto, Canada.

2. The second image is a photo of a Bed Push at Mad Pride Parade in Cologne, Germany, in 2016. A Bed Push is a method of activism employed by multiple mental health agencies and advocates as a method of raising awareness about psychiatric care; activists wheel a gurney through public spaces. The bed being rolled in the image above is occupied by someone in medical restraints, and being pushed by activists dressed up in white coats, who are also wielding plastic syringes to create a necessary spectacle for onlookers and draw attention to the issue of psychiatric violence.

3. The third photo is of demonstrators at the Mad Pride parade in Salvador, Brazil, in 2009.

October 9th is Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day

“The problems of the ex-patient are more subtle but no less pressing. Many ex-patients try to cope with what has happened to them by pretending that the experience never occurred. However, because the experience of having once been a mental patient teaches you to think of yourself as less than human, this is not a satisfactory solution. People feel emotions. They are justifiably happy or sad, angry, calm, elated, and so forth. As patients, however, we were taught to think of ourselves as permanently crippled, and we tend to react to the normal ups and downs of life as affirmations of our secret deformity. In addition, society imposes penalties upon ex-patients which affect you whether or not you acknowledge your identity. For the rest of your life, you will lie on applications for jobs, schools, and driver’s licenses, and worry about being found out. Your friends and acquaintances will be divided into two groups, those who know and those who don’t, and it will always be necessary to watch what you say to the latter. Ex-patients are full of anger at what has been done to them, but alone and unorganized this anger is not expressed and is often turned inward against oneself. Our anger is the fuel of our movement, and when we come together, acknowledging our identity to ourselves and to each other, we will have made the first and largest step in striking back at our oppressors.”

— “Mental Patients’ Liberation: Why?  How?”, originally distributed in the early 1970s by Mental Patients’  Resistance of Brooklyn, New York

[image ID] Seven photographs from antipsychiatry demonstrations. They are described below, in order of appearance: 1. a picture taken at the National Association for Rights Protection & Advocacy (NARPA) Conference on November 10, 2000 in Sacramento, California. Fifty to sixty people stand around a red sign with white text that reads: NO FORCED TREATMENT EVER. 2. a picture taken on October 9th, 1999 in Toronto, Ontario during a march for Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day. Several people march in a line, including one man at the start of the march playing bagpipes. Behind him is a hand-painted sign being held up that reads: Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day. 3. pictures taken at a demonstration outside the California State Capitol building in Sacramento on February 28th, 2000. The signs in each of these pictures say: Psychiatric drugs can kill! 4. a picture taken at a demonstration outside the American Psychiatric Association’s 156th annual meeting in San Fransisco, California. The activist’s sign says: PSYCHIATRY IS NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSION: IT IS A TOOL OF OPPRESSION. 5. a picture taken at a demonstration outside the Jacob Javits Center, hosting the American Psychiatric Association’s 167th annual meeting in New York City on May 4th, 2014. The picture features an activist wearing a printed t-shirt and is cropped so as not to feature the face of the wearer. The t-shirt says: TO HELL WITH THEIR PROFITS, STOP FORCED DRUGGING OF PSYCHIATRIC INMATES! 6 and 7. pictures taken at a demonstration outside the California State Capitol building in Sacramento on February 28th, 2000. The signs in each of these pictures say: Psychiatric drugs can kill!, STOP expansion of forced treatment, Mental illness is NOT a CRIME, and FORCED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT IS INHUMANE. 8. a picture taken at an antipsychiatry demonstration on May 2nd, 1998 in Freedom Plaza, Washington D.C. Two people hold a hand-painted banner-sign that says: BET YOUR ASS WE’RE PARANOID. 9. taken at an antipsychiatry demonstration hosted by the Mental Patients Liberation Alliance during Mad Pride Week in 2000, between July 13th and 16th on the lawn in front of the New York State Capitol Building in Albany. [end of ID]

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C's Chat - 2023 Vancouver Canadians SS/3B #8 Josh Kasevich

C's Chat - 2023 Vancouver Canadians SS/3B Josh Kasevich. Drafted by Toronto in the 2nd round of 2022 MLB Draft out of Oregon @OregonBaseball + Palo Alto HS @PalyAthletics. 

#VanCanadians #MontysMounties #AtTheNat #NextLevel #BlueJays #LosAzulejos

The latest guest on C’s Chat is 2023 Vancouver Canadians shortstop/third baseman Josh Kasevich. The pride of Palo Alto, California was a two-year letter winner at Palo Alto High School where he excelled as a two-way player. He batted .398 and .408 over his junior and senior seasons of 2017 and 2018 and was 5-1 with a 0.52 earned run average with 48 strikeouts over 40 innings as a senior with the…

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. Dream Painting F20 2022 Acrylic on wood panel 48 × 48 in ╱ 121.92 × 121.92 cm @KylePYip achieved a significant breakthrough in 2017 when he discovered the unique ability to perceive and examine artworks that emerge during his dreams in vivid detail. Successive images that once appeared immaterial are coterminously reverse-engineered into tactile, obdurate objects. These works reveal how the unconscious has been branded by advertising formulas redolent of monotonous imagery of the commodity form, and how the subversive hybrid of these methods metaphorically maps a similarly disruptive kind of complex new identity. The bands of simple Gestalt forms incorporate an aspect of both the ancient and modern world, and the overall vexillological format of the works also involves how visual attention is augmented through the practice of serial repetition. #Art #ArtCollector #ArtFollowers #Aesthetic #CanadianArt #ColourField #ConceptualArt #ContemporaryArt #COS #Discrete #DreamPainting #EmergingArtist #Flag #HighFashion #Hypersurreal #Hypersurrealism #JunoNominee #KYLEYIP #Minimalart #OntarioArtist #PartialGallery #Pride🌈 #RENAISSANCESHOW #SacredGeometry #Surreal #Surrealism #TorontoArtist #Vexillology #Visualart (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQ285MAwEl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🎉🌈💕 Pride Toronto 2017 - June 25th, 2017 ✊🌈🍁

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Olly Alexander wearing Ashish A/W 2017 shorts in a performance at Toronto Pride (June 26, 2017).

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Brooke Lynn Hytes - Telephone (Toronto Pride, Barbara Hall Park, Toronto, 06/22/17)

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Year in Review - 2017: Top 5 Moments 5/5: Toronto Pride (July 2nd)

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Meanwhile, in Canada . . .

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I want to thank everyone for an amazing year. Here is 12 paintings from each month that I felt were sentimental to me in my daily life and improving on my skill. I want to thankyou all for making me feel validated as an artist when somedays I don’t think I am at all. May there be alot more 2018. #scottuminga #youareallthebest #2018 #artistoftumblr #artistofinstagram #digital #digitalart #dream #artist #aesthetic #pride #lgbtq #nature #space #cyber #scifi #calendar #toronto #2017

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HARRY STYLES LAYOUTS. 🌷🌈👑 H show 8, Toronto

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Natasha at Pride Parade Toronto 2017 (x) (x) (x)

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. Dream Painting F19 2022 Acrylic on wood panel 48 × 48 in ╱ 121.92 × 121.92 cm @KylePYip achieved a significant breakthrough in 2017 when he discovered the unique ability to perceive and examine artworks that emerge during his dreams in vivid detail. Successive images that once appeared immaterial are coterminously reverse-engineered into tactile, obdurate objects. These works reveal how the unconscious has been branded by advertising formulas redolent of monotonous imagery of the commodity form, and how the subversive hybrid of these methods metaphorically maps a similarly disruptive kind of complex new identity. The bands of simple Gestalt forms incorporate an aspect of both the ancient and modern world, and the overall vexillological format of the works also involves how visual attention is augmented through the practice of serial repetition. #Art #ArtCollector #ArtFollowers #Aesthetic #CanadianArt #ColourField #ConceptualArt #ContemporaryArt #Discrete #DreamPainting #EmergingArtist #Flag #HighFashion #Hypersurreal #Hypersurrealism #JunoNominee #KYLEYIP #Minimalart #OntarioArtist #PartialGallery #Pride🌈 #RENAISSANCESHOW #SacredGeometry #ShushuTong #Surreal #Surrealism #TorontoArtist #Vexillology #Visualart (at Toronto, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClLwnNKAtJJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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