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Jessica Ruano

When Venus aligns with Venus
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When Venus aligns with Venus

Popular writers’ series finds new home at sexual health haven

September 13, 2011
Performing sexual abuse into survivors’ bedrooms
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Performing sexual abuse into survivors’ bedrooms

Falling Open: sharing intimate stories

June 20, 2011
Queer chorister sings with the Ottawa Classical Choir
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Queer chorister sings with the Ottawa Classical Choir

Verdi’s Requiem performed at the National Arts Centre

May 20, 2011
Hamlet & Horatio: lovers in a dangerous time
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Hamlet & Horatio: lovers in a dangerous time

Shakespeare redux gets torrid gay affair

April 13, 2011
Kate Barry explores Olympia model Victorine Meurent
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Kate Barry explores Olympia model Victorine Meurent

The lesbian in the painting

August 18, 2009
Happy Birthday’s Nathan Ings is bustin’ out
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Happy Birthday’s Nathan Ings is bustin’ out

Toto Too’s latest gift

July 7, 2009
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Gender-fucked fairytale premieres at Ottawa Fringe Festival
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Gender-fucked fairytale premieres at Ottawa Fringe Festival

Enter, Screaming and other Fringe gems

June 16, 2009
Tone Cluster’s Show Tune Showdown celebrates five years
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Tone Cluster’s Show Tune Showdown celebrates five years

All camp, all the time

May 5, 2009
Lesbian love spell
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Lesbian love spell

Storytelling couple living a fairytale romance

March 24, 2009
TAINTED LOVE: Jonathan Hobin photographs the darker side of childhood
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TAINTED LOVE: Jonathan Hobin photographs the darker side of childhood

Hobin’s first Ottawa date will give you ‘goose’ bumps

March 3, 2009
Company of Fools pokes fun at convention
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Company of Fools pokes fun at convention

In conversation with the king of the fairies

February 10, 2009
Toto Too commissions its first new play
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Toto Too commissions its first new play

Gay troupe is in search of the perfect man

January 20, 2009
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Pansexual absinthe café culture, circa 1888
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Pansexual absinthe café culture, circa 1888

Bohemians let loose in Fringe offering

June 3, 2008
Daniel MacIvor play has Fringe benefits
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Daniel MacIvor play has Fringe benefits

Evolution Theatre to tackle gay playwright’s most popular work at Ottawa Fringe Festival

May 13, 2008
Play explores former Ottawa mayor’s lesbian relationship
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Play explores former Ottawa mayor’s lesbian relationship

Charlotte Whitton’s first lady

April 22, 2008
Dead dad stars in latest gay theatre offering
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Dead dad stars in latest gay theatre offering

Aronovitch delivers salt-and-pepper papa

January 9, 2008
Teacher helped found early gay-straight alliances
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Teacher helped found early gay-straight alliances

Jim McNabb to direct next Toto Too play

December 19, 2007
Kris Joseph’s Life Up On the Wicked Stage
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Kris Joseph’s Life Up On the Wicked Stage

Director and actor traded engineering for theatre

December 16, 2007
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