QBIPOC

  • Zami

    Debbie Douglas, Sylmadel Coke, Douglas Stewart & Deryck Glodon

    If you trace back the histories of most of Toronto's black queer and feminist organizing you will find that 101 Dewson Street is the common root. One of the many initiatives born there was ZAMI, the first organized black queer group in Toronto.

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  • Angela James

    Angela James was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010, becoming the first openly gay player, one of the first women, and only the second black athlete to ever be inducted.

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  • Blue Skinned Gods

    From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality.

    Genre: Fiction
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  • Shakedown

    Leila Weinraub

    Shakedown, a series of parties by and for black women, dominated Los Angeles’s underground lesbian strip club scene from the 1990s through the 2000s. This film is equal parts provocative, touching, sexy, and nostalgic for days long gone.

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  • nîtisânak

    Lindsay Nixon

    Lindsay Nixon’s nîtisânak honours blood and chosen kin with equal care.

    A groundbreaking memoir spanning nations, prairie punk scenes, and queer love stories, it is woven around grief over the loss of their mother. It also explores despair and healing through community and family, and being torn apart by the same.

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  • Blockorama

    Jamea Suberi

    Any QPOC who attends Toronto Pride usually knows where, when and who's performing at Blockorama. It is a space when you enter, you immediately breathe a sigh of relief as you feel that sense of belonging. For many, it's the one space in which that lingering feeling of homesickness is finally pushed back.

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  • Gays Lesbians of African Descent (GLAD)

    Patricia Koine

    The search for others who shared similar experiences, language and culture was the motivation of Patricia Koine to start GLAD - Gays Lesbians of African Descent.
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  • This Town Sleeps

    Part mystery, part ghost story, a long unsolved murder becomes the singular fixation of an Indigenous American man living in far northern Minnesota as he grapples with his identity and that of his lover, a heavily closeted white man.

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  • Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall

    Katherine Fairfax Wright

    Todrick Hall launches his most ambitious project yet: the full-scale original musical Straight Outta Oz. From a small town in Texas to big-time show business, comes an inspiring documentary of grit, perseverance and the redemptive power of art.

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  • Feeling Reserved, Alexus’ Story

    Jess MacCormack & Alexus Young

    In "Feeling Reserved" Alexus shares her story of a 'starlight tour', a practice of police brutality against First Nations peoples in Canada where individuals are driven out of town, stripped of their coats and shoes and left to freeze to death. In Alexus’ case a couple happened to drive by her and she was saved.

    Genre: Animation
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