The Gay Icon Classics Of The World by Robert Joseph Greene

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. Greene chanpions love through literature and uses his stories to advocate for Gay rights.

He published Gay Icon Classics of the World, a feature short stories centred on same-sex romances, set in countries controlled by some of the world’s most anti-gay regimes. Greene is one of Canada’s few Black male romance writers, and has been working to redefine love on the world stage for over a decade. Robert Joseph Greene is a Vancouver based Canadian author of gay romance fiction, best known for his teenage drama, This Highschool has closets. Purchase your ticket to see Keyboard Fantasies.

Legendary singer, composer and transgender activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland has been gathering momentum in recent years thanks to a reissue of the extraordinary folk-jazz explorations of his debut self-titled album (1970) and the widespread discovery of his acclaimed masterpiece Keyboard Fantasies (1986) an ahead-of-it’s-time synth exploration which somehow combines the essence of new-age minimalism, early Detroit techno and the warmth of traditional songwriting. He has worked since 2014 as faculty and as a designer for The Banff Centre.

He lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is currently an LTF Assistant Professor in the School of the Arts at McMaster University. Syrus Marcus Ware is a Black, transgender, disabled artist, activist and scholar. Her work has been included in exhibitions and screenings at Le Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia the Royal Ontario Museum LagosPhoto Festival Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Maryland Institute College of Art ltd los angeles and Ryerson Image Centre and Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto. Using archival, performative and process-oriented strategies, her work explores the personal and political possibilities afforded by considering experiences of emotions related to longing and loss. Michèle Pearson Clarke is a Trinidad-born artist who works in photography, film, video and installation. His activism in many ways laid the foundation for events, organizations and movements addressing Black Canadian LGBTQ2 communities today. McFarlane has served on the board of the Toronto Inside Out Film festival and was a founding member of a number of Black queer groups and organizations in the early ’80s and ’90s, including Zami, Sepia, and AYA Men, an organization that provided voice and visibility for Black LGBTQ2. This list is just a starting point in our work to share, support and uplift Black Queer artists contributions.Ĭourtney McFarlane is a visual artist, poet and manager of children, youth and adult services at Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Community Health Centre. Out on Screen is highlighting Black Queer Canadian artists to know.

The Gay Icon Classics Of The World by Robert Joseph Greene