A Pride Collection: Celebrating the 2SLGBTQ+ Community
Celebrating Pride Month with films, podcasts, and series that highlight 2SLGBTQA+ stories.
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MovieJust a Friend
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Sometimes the hardest part of coming out is not knowing how your loved ones will react. Just a Friend is a story of courage, self-discovery, and the bond between mother and daughter proving that when it comes to family, love is love and fear is forgettable.
Awards:
Toronto Shorts Film Festival...
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MoviePrivate Flowers
Movie
In 1832, a Canadian infantryman at Fort York was hanged for making love with another man. The victim's rank was Private and his name was Flowers. Private Flowers is a dance film that explores a dark chapter of Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ history.
Directed + Devised by mixed media artist HAUI featuring cho...
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E12: A Queen Prepares with Lemon from Canada's Drag Race
Multifaceted drag performer, model and dancer Lemon makes her Meighen Forum debut in this intimate and up-close conversation with actor and director Thom Allison. Lemon talks about her amazing journey from her hometown of Pickering, Ontario, to becoming the break-out star of both Canada’s Drag Ra...
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E11: Trans Families: An Interview w/ Kinley Mochrie, Colin Mochrie & Deb McGrath
In this beautiful story of family, identity and acceptance, join Kinley and her parents, Colin Mochrie and Deb McGrath, as they discuss with moderator Rebecca Northan what it means to be a supportive family, from Kinley’s coming out journey to dealing with uninformed relatives and transphobic tro...
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2 itemsCasey and Diana
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As the Toronto AIDS hospice, Casey House, prepares for the historic visit of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1991, residents and staff are inspired to beat the odds as a plague continues to ravage a generation. This potent and moving drama by Nick Green, vividly captures a moment in time when a rebe...
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2 itemsRichard II
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In a revolutionary adaptation by Brad Fraser, this Richard is the story of a king who believes that God gives him the right to live above the rules and who ultimately suffers the consequences. The story is embedded in a time of great freedom that is soon crushed - the late 1970s and early '80s: w...
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7 itemsJust Short of Reality
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Just Short of Reality is a series of shorts that are told through the genres of surrealism, silent film and dance. Co-existing in one neighbourhood, seven individuals are presented with adversity and choice in this allegorical tale.
Through six different chapters taking place in the same 24-hour...
