Out in Toronto: Aug 6–12, 2015

Choice events in the city this week


Art

Fruit Punch: Mixer for Queers in the Arts

A gathering of so many artistic queers that the venue may explode in a cascade of artist statements and voguing. Folks meet potential collaborators and pick the brains of their peers while enjoying sangria, a chocolate fountain and DJ Cameron Lee’s beats.

Saturday, Aug 8, 6pm. Younger than Beyoncé Gallery, 563 Dundas St E, Suite 201. facebook.com/youngerthanbeyonce

Photographic Triptychs on Male Beauty

This is a chance to see your favourite local boys — writers, dancers, burlesque performers and the like — more or less nude. Or at least their butts. And one good penis. Alistair Newton exhibits his series of 50 triptychs in celebration of Ecce Homo Theatre’s 10th anniversary.

Monday, Aug 10, 7pm. Videofag, 187 Augusta Ave. eccehomotheatre.com

Clubbin

Trade: Socks and Jocks

It’s a bit like that nightmare where you’re suddenly back at school and naked and everybody’s laughing at you. But instead, you’re in a jockstrap and sporty socks and everyone is devouring you with their eyes. And they’re not pimply high schoolers. DJs Joshua Reid and Michael Romano spin.

Saturday, Aug 8, 10pm. The Black Eagle, 457 Church St. blackeagletoronto.com

Comedy

A Minor Mid Career Retrospective

NYC-based comedian James Judd kicks off his North American tour with three nights of comedy in Toronto. He tells a different semi-autobiographical story each night — The Book Report, How I Made My First Friend and The Defense Rests — and conducts one storytelling workshop.

Friday, Aug 7–Sunday, Aug 9, various times. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen St W. soulo.ca

 

Gaymers

Board Games night: Geek Out

The Toronto Gaymers host a rousing night of Geek Out!, a game where folks compete to see who knows the most about pop culture. Those fuddy-duddies who know nothing of the doings of today’s rabble can instead play such games as Catan, A Channel, Tsuro and Resistance.

Saturday, Aug 8, 7pm. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge St. facebook.com/torontogaymers

(For more event listings, visit dailyxtra.com/lgbt-events)

Jeremy Willard is a Toronto-based freelance writer and editor. He's written for Fab Magazine, Daily Xtra and the Torontoist. He generally writes about the arts, local news and queer history (in History Boys, the Daily Xtra column that he shares with Michael Lyons).

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