It’s a tough life.

With COLT Man Luke Garrett (NSFW, duh)
30 June 2008

With COLT Man Mitch Branson (NSFW, duh)
30 June 2008
(Thanks to Linda for the photos)

Adam Schwabe does a lot of things. His day job is actually very similar to mine, but when he’s not at work he’s a tireless online multimedia content producer. He lives in Toronto and while much of what he does showcases the stuff making his heart and mind ping in this city, I was captivated [...]

So what was your most enduring memory of Pride 2008?

About three hours after this photo was taken last Sunday, I’d packed Champ off home and was still feeling a little… partyish. Heading out the door to the gaybourhood, I passed the photo location outside the Co$ and where there were once parade-cheering multitudes there were [...]

Our winters are miserable and our politicians are fucktards, we aspire to mediocrity and bend over for multinational corporations, our cities are barely holding it together and our national mantra is “sorry!”
But after a day on the (officially-sanctioned, clothing-optional) beach in the sweltering sun, with cheeky, sexy friends, men and women who’ve immigrated from all [...]

So the forecast for Pride Day in Toronto was “sun, heat, cool and rain.” And we got all of that. And we had a rockin’ party. I spent a lot of time watching the kids having a blast, fiercing it out at an age when I was still thinking I’d some day get married and [...]

Well, actually, I don’t. But how can you not have fun when almost a million family and friends come out for North America’s biggest Pride party?

North and South from Wellesley (mouseover)

At Bloor and Church

A Toronto Transit Commission Vehicle (on Schedule, for a Change)

A Ridiculously Handsome Man

A Limit is Reached

An Aftermath

Well, not so much Saturday in the park as it was Saturday in streets and parking lots festooned with rainbow shit. The Dyke March was political and fierce (but disappointingly short) and much fun was had on the street and at the Mel C set at the Wellesley stage. And the Hidden Cameras show finishing [...]

For your sliding-into-the-festive-weekend-and-it-feels-so-good enjoyment, I’d once again like to take the opportunity to present Australia’s The Presets. A “Trouble Week” musical interlude, if you will.
Remember that it was the troublemakers who made history on this weekend.
“My People”, The Presets (Apocalypso):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ufW2INWmM

I’m here with all of my people
Locked up with all of my people
So let me hear [...]

Sometimes I think we’re our own worst enemies. By “we” I mean homos and by “worst enemies” I mean “happy Pride Week, jerkasses.”
So it’s like this. Leven and I often talk on the phone about the liberating experience of peeling off your shirt in environments which have, traditionally, been entirely appropriate for the partial or [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s “Trouble Week” here at This. That. No Other. (like “Shark Week”, only troublier), and what better ambassador for the best kind of trouble than the inimitable Eric Leven — New York blogger, filmmaker, activist and bon vivant — who celebrates 27 years on this planet today. Everyone says Leven’s [...]