Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Montreal and the Vancouver Olympics

Tonight I'll be "speaking" at the Resistance from Vancouver to Montreal event at McGill. We'll be maxing and relaxing alongside some popcorn and hot cocoa whilst watching three short movies for about an hour. Then, the talking begins as we process what we've just seen and try to understand this whole Olympics thing. I mean fuck, what kind of assholes tow away "undesirables" so the city looks clean, white and drug-free? Vancouver is what it is, brothers and sisters—warts and all. Montrealers will weigh in on this issue, drawing parallels from our own 1976 fiasco. Oh yeah that's when the Village got "created," because they wanted fags to go be fags elsewhere than in the tourists' faces, right...

 

I might post pics. Maybe i won't, i haven't decided. In the meantime, our fair city bears down as we wait for a morbidly obese snowstorm descending in a few...

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Meet Lina


Lina Harper is the voice behind Kox & Kuntz, Montreal's queer blog on xtra.ca.

Kox was a popular bar in Montreal's gay village. It was raided by police in 1994.

TWITTER: @linamariepony

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