2011 CALENDAR

presented by 52 PICK-UP X MUFF (Montreal Underground Film Festival)
7$/pay what you can
video program starts @ 8:30pm
performances @ 10pm
superstar dj @ 11pm

Every good thing must come to an end. Come see the swan song of Montreal’s underground cabaret phenomenon, where the bizarre, the gaudy and the gay have taken the stage over the years. Last night at House of Faux pas. Need I say more?

Featuring performances by Vincent Chevalier, An Darling, Douche La Douche, Joseph Gabereau, Esther Splett, Kitty Van Dyke and Sarah Laser followed by a shameless living room dance party by DJ Casino.

Something has gone HORRIBLY wrong this season. The belles and beaus are not pairing off the way they are supposed to. The gowns are straying dangerously far from the accepted palette. Hem lines are up. Gloves are off.

Experts believe the origin of this rash of unspeakable occurrences can be traced to unusual geothermal activity beneath Montreal, responsible for the recent heatwave. But locals tell of a near-forgotten legend. They speak of a coming terror. They call it the Hellmouth.

Join us August 5th for the debutante ball.
Demonic debauchery.
Debutantes gone wild.
The arrival of HELL’S BELLES.

queer movements in general and in montreal in particular have a long history of making links with anarchist struggles. is this still the case? can we claim anti-capitalism while dancing to Lady Gaga and Madonna, or are we more set on fighting neoliberalism? what about the fact that many individuals in our queer and trans communities may not identify with labels like anti-capitalist? how can today’s queer groups address capitalism alongside homophobia, transphobia, and racism (and other oppressions), using an intersectional framework? let’s hang out in the grass with a beer (or other beverage) and talk it out.

In collaboration with Perverscité, this ALCC event is sure to add some bizarre to your life.
You can barter, trade or buy bizarre items at this bazaar! There will be a booty bin of free stuff for those who arrive when the doors open.

What things can you expect at this bazaar? ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. There will be kinky items, lots of em, but there will be things you’ve only dreamed of and other things you can’t even make sense of!!!

If you have items that you’d like to sell, trade or barter, please contact us for information at info@thealcc.org or call 514-214-9046.

Daddy, Mommy, boys, girls, creepy uncles — perverts play with and in familial roles on the regular; and for many of us who do, these roles are large parts of our kink identities.
Panelists from across Canada and the US gather to discuss: is Mommy meaner? what is the relationship of kink family, leather family, and family play? what does a parent/kid identity mean for players? how do we care for, challenge, and empower each other in these sites of often-intense emotional play? Femme Daddies, Butch girls and more — how does genderfuck play into the power of these roles? And, where the fuck is the family dog?

Co-facilitated by Coral Short and Damien Luxe

Accessibility info: First floor, small step. Workshop will be in backyard, weather permitting.

Queers need more storytellers to remember them their roots and the history of the neighborhoods where they now live. This walking tour aims to revisite the Centre-Sud portion of Ste-Catherine and to claim the necessity of a social development of the gay village, after the economic and touristic development brought it gentrification.

Pass by St. Emilie to hang out, eat free food, drink, listen to good music and meet some peeps.
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If you want to bring something for yourself or to share with others, there’s a grocery store near St. Emilie.

This event is open to everybody, not just for people of color. Don’t be shy to come by yourself, bring your kids, invite your friends, partner-s, neighbours or strangers.

Hi everyone! The Midnight Naked Bike Ride is new event in Montreal, after the success of the World Naked Bike Ride in June. It is a way to celebrate freedom and to challenge the environmental issues of pollution and fossil-fuel-based transportation.

It is also an opportunity to challenge the social status that is displayed by our clothes, the cars we drive, and all the accessories that show our hierarchical position in society.

This is also an opportunity to show the diversity of body types and to highlight the beauty of humanity in its many colors, shapes, ages, and experiences.

At the ride, go as bare as you dare! Crazy costumes and wicked body paint are also more than welcome! Nudity is encourage, but not required.

The Meow Mix for Project 10 will be a lady-queer-cabaret event to remember! Hosted by Peaches Lepage, and featuring musician RAE SPOON, Brooklyn queer performance artist Damien Luxe, the night is gonna shake up the Mix and leave you wanting to break out your inner queer performer. Musical innovators Edges Blast and No Homo round out the programme of diva-led shenanigans by internationally renowned performer 2Fik.

This unmissable event is brought to you by MIM Productions and thedutymyth, with most proceeds going to Project 10, a Montréal org that works to promote the personal, social, sexual and mental well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersexed and questioning youth and adults 14-25.

As in many cities across North America, Montréal was home to a vibrant voguing scene from the late 80′s to the late mid-90′s. This brief but pivotal period of urban gay history was characterized by the fight against AIDS and the concurrent reign of Vogue Houses like The House of Pride and the scandalous House of Pantera. Insight into dance history and queer community fierceness, this panel will be LEGENDARY.

Link to podcast of show here!

A Film Night with ACT UP Footage and Prisoner Correspondence Project

A screening a compilation of largely unseen and forgotten home videos and raw media coverage of AIDS and activism including ACT UP Montreal and the Sex Garage Rallies from 1991-1993. A nice relaxing night in with the early nineties. Bring popcorn!

Followed by…

Prisoner Correspondence Project brings you RELEASED – 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison by Alex Juhasz (English w/ French whisper translation)

From its opening statements by former inmate Angela Davis, to Scarlot Harlot and Duran Ruiz’s deconstruction of a 20/20 Primetime expose, to a portrait of filmmaker Cheryl Dunye directing a feature film about queer women and prison, RELEASED boldly styles an innovative statement about women, prison, artistic collaboration, and the nature of documentary media.

Bill C-389, proposed to protect gender identity and expression under the Human Rights Act and to categorize crimes motivated by transphobia as hate crimes under the Criminal Code. Though the bill was hailed by many trans rights groups as an important step forward, others question the effectiveness of threatening longer jail sentences as a means of ensuring the safety of trans-identified and other gender-deviant individuals. What is the work still to do? What do we need to make our communities safer?

Presented by ASTT(e)Q (Action Santé Travesti(e)s et Transsexuel(le)s du Québec) and the Prisoner Correspondence Project.

We are offering an open stage and 10 minutes per person to wow us with a performance of any genre. All are welcome to perfom, but this is also an oportunity for new performers, musicians, spoken word artists, Drag queens/kings, contortioists, (insert your talent here), to get their toes wet… or dirty, on the stage.
performances should be as low tech as possible.
To confirm a spot in the show contact : ms.mandrew@gmail.com

two teams, two fags running rampant- a battle for territory and RESPECT. capture the flag gone homo in the GRITTY streets of Montreal.

Salivation Army by Scott Treleaven 2001 [22 min]
A tale of blood, sex, spit, punk, & cult recruitment: for three years the Salivation Army operated a counterculture zine aimed at restless queer youth. But during their brief existence what began as a small, local gang transformed into an increasingly dangerous cult network. Part confessional, part recruitment drive, this film is at once lush, vicious, erotic and instructional. A cut and paste portrait of the underground itself.

Community Action Center by A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner [69 min]
A sociosexual video that incorporates the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily inspired by porn-romance-liberation films, such as works by Fred Halsted, Jack Smith, James Bidgood, Joe Gage and Wakefield Poole, which served as distinct portraits of the urban inhabitants, and scapes and the body politic of a particular time and place.

Queer Soccer:
Back again for Pervers/Cité 2011! This is a very friendly, very gay, all-skill-levels-welcome game. Anyone should come so long as they aren’t too aggressive on or off the field. Short shorts, jock straps, sweat bands, tube socks and coordinated outfits all a plus! Fans & cheerleaders strongly encouraged. Bring your lemonade, you’re gonna need it!

Gay Wrestling:
A Night of Toss and Tumble Throwdowns
Wimp Rounds—Jock Rounds—Sibling Tag Team—Astrocest Duels
Choose your own opponents-make your own rules-take on your frenemies.
Come hang out on the grassy knoll even if wrestling ain’t your bag. Its a known fact that 4/5 attendees never hit the mound.
No worries —-No pressure
and due to increased injuries we are gonna have a couple ground rules set out, plus reinforce that opponents talk clearly about wrestling styles before heading in.

Through the PERVERS/CITÉ Festival, STELLA and the Feminist Alliance in Solidarity for Sex Worker’s Rights are giving a workshop on Sex Work!
Do you wish to have a safe space to think critically about sex work in a feminist and queer perspective?
Together, we will dismantle the way negative stereotypes of sex workers affect the way we socially think about them and about sexuality in general. Through engaging and varying medias, including video and poetry, we will lead discussions and activities on sex for money, decriminalisation of sex work and on strategies to build solidarity and meaningful alliances with sex workers.
The workshop is in English and French and is given by Véro Leduc (President of STELLA) and Julie Marceau (Spokesperson for the Feminist Alliance in Solidarity for Sex Worker’s Rights). Lusty Day will be amongst us to present us her wonderful video «Every Ho I Know».
A Ho-Cinema follows with an outdoor showing of «Never on Sunday» at 9 pm followed by an informal discussion with Émilie Laliberté, General Director of STELLA
Cum in Great Numbers!!!!- Presentation of the short film, Every Ho I Know (8 mins; with french s.t.) followed by a conversation and deconstruction of stereotypes related to sex work.
- Presentation of the decriminalization of sex work from a queer and feminist perspective and an exchange about the realities that this holds, with peticular relation to the Ontario court appeal Bedford vs. Canada 2010.

Video projection followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

New York based queer rapper and producer Le1f is gracing Montreal’s presence for the first time this August. He’s been described as the future of rap music by Das Racist, with whom he’s collaborated on track “Jungle Fever”. He has also collaborated with artists NGUZUNGUZU and Spank Rock. His music, which he describes as “ethereal and epic, but over hip-hop,” (Eye Weekly) builds on hip hop fundamentals while simultaneously drawing on influences as diverse as house, Afrobeat, and ghetto tech. Le1f‘s Kickstarter-funded first album Dark York is coming out summer 2011 and will surely blaze fierce new paths into the musical future. Le1f’s first show in Montreal will be THE show of the summer — don’t miss your chance to see an extraordinary performance from one of NY’s hottest up and coming MC’s. The show promises to be an amazing and rare experience – a gorgeously gritty explosion of sweat, glitter, and sex. On August 11, experience the music that “has been walking the bleeding edge of future and today” (lastnightsmixtape.com).

Indian lawyer and queer organizer Ponni Arasu speaks about the development of a gay rights movement in South Asia, the strategic use of human rights frameworks, the growing role of NGO’s, and the ever-expanding neoliberalization of the region. One of last summer’s most anticipated but postponed events. She’s back.

Hochelaga welcomes fierce queens from NYC and TO in a once in a lifetime backyard cabaret featuring the unforgettable Glenn Marla, Ryan G. Hinds, Kitty van Dyke, Joseph Gabereau…and more! Join us for a barbecue and stay for the show as the sun goes down over Iberville Boulevard.

We are a Montreal based feminist collective of queer and trans-identified folks. We are a sex and kink positive collective that is committed to anti- oppression and harm reduction based politics. We seek to create events where queer and trans people of all genders can play together in a consensual environment. In addition to this, we embrace honest dialogue about sexuality, consent, race, abuse, gender, queer issues, and fighting back against oppression in our own communities. And, ultimately, we are committed to getting (you) off!

Due to the nature of our events, they are strictly private events limited to Against The Wall members. Contact us: againstthewallparty@gmail.com

Montreal’s fourth annual Queer Lit Book Fair in Montreal is being held from 12pm to 6pm on Saturday, August 13 2011 at Centre St-Pierre (1212 rue Panet). This year’s  bookfair will include more than thirty queer bookstores, distros, and independent zinesters and authors including Montreal-based Kersplebedeb and l’Insoumise, as well as some out-of-town authors like NYC-based zinester Cristy C. Road and works by Pakistani poet Kyla Pasha. Cristy Road will also be doing a reading from her forthcoming graphic novel Spit and Passion following the bookfair at le Cagibi, beginning at 6:30pm.

The event is free, wheelchair accessible, free on-site childcare will be available all day, and snacks and beverages will be served outside.

More details at qteam.org

Qteam and Queer Between the Covers present a very special, last-minute addition to the busiest Saturday of your life.
Right after the queer bookfair – and before Big Freedia & the Equeerie fundraiser – join us for a reading by NYC-based author, artist, zinester and musician, Cristy C. Road!
Cristy will be reading from “Spit and Passion,” her very exciting forthcoming graphic novel.
More about Cristy:
Cristy C. Road is floating in a pool of her own blood, sweat, and occasional tears. Road is a 28-year-old Cuban-American artist and writer. Blending social principles, sexual deviance, mental inadequacies, and social justice- she thrives to testify the beauty of the imperfect. Road is author of, among other things, “Indestructible,” “Bad Habits,” “Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick,” and the widely-anticipated “Spit and Passion.” She is also involved in local organizing in NYC and is part of a punk band called the Homewreckers.
Can’t make the reading? Cristy will be tabling with her works all day at Queer Between the Covers, taking place earlier on August 13th (12-6pm, 1212 rue Panet). 

A Night at the Races! The closing party to end all closing parties! 17 DJs! Live equestrian runway interventions! The Official after-party for BIG FREEDIA’s Garden Party unites all of queer Montréal! With: Gay Bash Parties, MEC Plus Ultra, l’Équeerie, Anti-Capitalist Ass Pirates, POMPe and more! All proceeds go to a queer non-profit creation and media. Brought to Pervers/cité by Forget the Box.

ROOM 1: Race Track Room
DJs:
Jonny Bonny Rock (POMPe)
Francois Guimont (Mec Plus Ultra)
Thomas Promise (LegWork Tuesdays)
Jackie Spade (Circus Afterhours)
Scooter (Toronto Cub Camp)
Le Raunch (Timeless Rainbow Shit Show)
Like the Wolf (Monster Ball)
Casino (Shameless)
With performances by THE HOUSE OF BOGUE.
Host: Douche La Douche (Cabaret Faux Pas)

ROOM #2: The Gaybash Room
DJS:
Shaydakiss (Osheaga)
A-Rock  (Osheaga, Piknic Electronik)
BUGO (Gaybash)
HATCHMATIK (OLDgOLD/Peer Pressure,Gaybash, MTL),
miami george (TO,gaybash,Miami),
paul revered (TOronto),

Performers: MSTR SSTR, Tanya Stasilowicz, STILLNOT FAMOUS,Tony Vice, Ian Invincible, briana Darwin\
Hosts: Sally and Tyler

www.equeerie.com

The 2011 Montreal Pride parade is proudly brought to you by … Viagra. No kidding. Welcome to the community parade that requires that you sign up months ahead of time to participate and dedicates more space to floats advertising banks, pharmaceuticals and condom companies than to members of the community. This is not the image we want to present to poor ‘normal’ ‘straight’ folks about what it means to be queer. Unfortunately we’ve been too frazzled so far trying to get this festival and program together to come up with a good way to tell them what IS important to us, but get in touch with us if you’ve got any brilliant ideas. perverscite@gmail.com

Read any great zines lately and want to share the love? Have a zine that you’ve made and want to trade? Come to the UGE for a relaxing afternoon of zine swapping! Drink some tea, eat some snacks, peruse the UGE library, and reflect on the awesome week of events!