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by Buddies
on December 12th, 2018
in Columns
Some context for the Long Table and the situation with Sky Gilbert The following is the text of an email interview conducted by Kelly Nestruck with Buddies Artistic Director Evalyn Parry for a column that appeared in the Globe & …
by Buddies
on December 3rd, 2018
in News
We’re thrilled to be partnering with b current performing arts for this year’s emerging creators unit, helmed by Catherine Hernandez. Our 2019 ECU Participants are Ophira Calof, Brock Hessel, Shohana Sharmin, and Jade Walker and Kasden Leo Indigo. Learn more about the Emerging …
by Buddies
on November 21st, 2018
in Columns
Below are the opening remarks made by Evalyn Parry at our Long Table discussion on November 19. You can watch an archived video of the full event on our facebook page. Late last week, we made a curatorial decision, which …
by Catherine Hernandez
on September 25th, 2018
in Columns
I wrote this piece shortly after we were told our father may not survive the night after a complication with his surgery. While we still do not know what the future may bring, we cheer him on every day while …
by Evalyn Parry
on September 12th, 2018
in Gertrude and Alice
“Is there repetition, or is there insistence? I am inclined to believe there is no such thing as repetition.” – Gertrude Stein When we began to talk about bringing Gertrude and Alice back to the Buddies stage, I felt it …
by Johnnie Walker
on August 17th, 2018
in Columns
Let’s make a canon! And let’s fill it with queer art, or queer-ish art, or art that has no idea how queer it is. Queer art is often secret art: black-market, whispered-about, read-between-the-lines art. And since secret art can be …
by Catherine Hernandez
on June 14th, 2018
in Columns
Sit in uncertainty. I mean that. Really sit with it. Don’t fight it. Don’t try and author into being a success story that isn’t yours. Let it guide you. What does your anxiety about the future tell you about your true path?
by Buddies
on June 13th, 2018
in Columns
It’s 1979. It’s three years before the Toronto bathhouse raids will galvanize our community. Ten years after the Stonewall riots. Three years before the AIDS epidemic will begin. Six years since homosexuality has been removed from the DSM. Twenty-six years …
by Michael Lyons
on June 8th, 2018
in Shakespeare's Criminal
William Shakespeare – the son of a glover, grandson of an affluent farmer in Stratford-upon-Avon, prolific playwright, husband, father, respectable businessman – is a lie, a myth based on a loose collection of historical data points that are bickered over …
by Dave Deveau
on June 8th, 2018
in Shove It Down My Throat
In 2013, Luke Donovan, a 19-year-old self-described queer anarchist, was involved in an altercation following a New Year’s party. A group of men (between five and 12 of them, depending on the source) hurled homophobic slurs and physically attacked him. …