Posts tagged Canada

French Canada: Where animated gifs are part of your official state broadcasting (on Tumblr, no less). radiocanada: L’Oscar a échappé à Yan England. Selon Mario Jean, c’est à cause de sa gomme. #GalaOlivier.

French Canada: Where animated gifs are part of your official state broadcasting (on Tumblr, no less).

radiocanada:

L’Oscar a échappé à Yan England. Selon Mario Jean, c’est à cause de sa gomme. #GalaOlivier.

Somebody finally found a use for hideous Square Viger, also known as Needle Park! Watch out for sharps, boys, but have fun. This is one of the great things about Montreal - people are always findings new ways to inhabit old spaces, giving new life to the dead. Hopefully however, this 1980s social disaster framed in raw concrete - wedged between Old Montreal, the Gay Village and Chinatown at the heart of the formerly gracious heart of what was the francophone business centre of Montreal - will be raised so the Square can be restored to its past glory.

traceurdiary:

Montreal city is a Parkour paradise!

I became officially Canadian today

I’ve never felt foreign or unwelcome in the five years since I first arrived at Dorval Airport. I chose Quebec because of its values… because of its people. I chose Canada because of its human rights record, and I chose Montreal over more attractive economic and meteorological climates because I see a special and intimate respect and love for other people here, an empathy that is in fact extremely rare in this world. I am thrilled to have my sentiments officialized by the Government of Canada, but more importantly, I am honoured by the fact that I have never been made to feel like a foreigner here. It is my countless interactions with everyday people - people who have become friends, people I have met in passing - that make me proud to be a part of this society. Merci donc à vous tous :)

Helem Montreal invited Daniel and me to march with them in the Montreal Pride Parade! :)

Montreal’s fabulous-slash-hot-mess avenue du Parc on a sexy summer’s eve.

To Our Glorious Dead - Trilingual world wars monument to imperial (Commonwealth) troops in Outremont, Quebec. English and French on the sides and back

To Our Glorious Dead - Trilingual world wars monument to imperial (Commonwealth) troops in Outremont, Quebec. English and French on the sides and back

The best thing about Montreal is the people who live here.

The best thing about Montreal is the people who live here.

Handy advice if you’re visiting our dearest neighbours… Rules of Ontario 1st rule: You do not talk about Ontario.2nd rule: You DO NOT talk about Ontario.3rd rule: If someone says “sorry” or goes limp, offer them your place in the line-up.4th rule: It only takes two guys to form a line-up.5th rule: One line-up at a time.6th rule: No shirt, no shoes, no service.7th rule: Line-ups will go on as long as they have to.8th rule: If this is your first time in Ontario, you HAVE to join a line-up. By Daniel Raillant-Clark

Handy advice if you’re visiting our dearest neighbours…

Rules of Ontario

1st rule: You do not talk about Ontario.
2nd rule: You DO NOT talk about Ontario.
3rd rule: If someone says “sorry” or goes limp, offer them your place in the line-up.
4th rule: It only takes two guys to form a line-up.
5th rule: One line-up at a time.
6th rule: No shirt, no shoes, no service.
7th rule: Line-ups will go on as long as they have to.
8th rule: If this is your first time in Ontario, you HAVE to join a line-up.

By Daniel Raillant-Clark

So many roses in this town have lost their petals and kept their thorns. Will they live for another season or will they rot away? natalievinebergphotography: Montreal

So many roses in this town have lost their petals and kept their thorns. Will they live for another season or will they rot away?

natalievinebergphotography:

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Don’t-cite-us-Quebec Facts: The Robot Dance was invented by a Quebecoise beauty show contestant in 1988.

My life as a gay man in dates. How far we’ve come, how far to go…

A very special edition of Fuck Yeah Quebec…

1982 - Born in New Zealand. Homosexuality is illegal there. Robert Bazell of the NBC reports on a new form of “cancer” that seems to be only affecting homosexual men - the first media report of AIDS. Later that year, the term AIDS will be adopted by scientists.

1986 - “Homosexual Law Reform in New Zealand”

1987 - First treatments for HIV appear (AZT). President Reagan mentions AIDS for the first time - 20,849 Americans had already died.

1990 - US Federal Government finally provides emergency care for people infected with HIV

1995 - Saquinavir, a new type of protease inhibitor drug, becomes available to treat HIV. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) becomes possible.[1] Within two years, death rates due to AIDS will have plummeted in the developed world.

1995 - I think I might be interested in boys

1997 - I lose my virginity. I have unsafe sex. My father tells me that he was against the decriminalization of homosexuality. My employer turns a blind eye as I am victimized at work as a fag and I pretend it isn’t happening.

1999 - I determine that after three years of sex with men and not a single woman, I’m definitely not bisexual. I finally escape the mental and physical torture that was Tauranga Boys’ College (nothing suggests to me that they’ve done anything to combat homophobic bullying since then, but I’d love to proven wrong.) The Government of France passes the PACS civil union act, which offers limited legal recognition of gay couples for the first time. California passes its slightly better domestic partnerships legislation. Canada allows gay families to adopt.

2001 - I move to France.

2002 - I meet Daniel, who had moved to France from California several years earlier.

2003 - Daniel and I get engaged. During our engagement, Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec pass gay marriage laws. California allows gay families to adopt.

2005 - Daniel and I have a marriage ceremony in Paris and sign the paperwork under the lighthouse in Stanley Park, Vancouver, by chance just a few weeks after gay marriage is legislated across Canada. New Zealand legislates “separate but equal.”

2006 - One of my best friends diagnosed HIV, under 30 years of age. Several more friends will be diagnosed as the years roll by, all of them under 30. We work through it together.

2007 - The first case of someone being cured of HIV is reported. A San Francisco man, Timothy Ray Brown, coinfected with leukemia and HIV, is cured of HIV through a bone marrow transplant in Germany. Other similar cases are being studied to confirm similar results.

2008 - Daniel and I decide that we are sick of being second class citizens and move to Montreal. Gay marriage hoo-haa begins in California

2009 - 30 million people worldwide have died from HIV-related causes since the beginning of the epidemic (over half a million in the US)

2013 - US, New Zealand and France still embroiled in saga of gay marriage legislation. 31 US states, New Zealand and France do not allow gay families to adopt. Gay men continue to die of HIV related diseases. Daniel and I are happy, healthy and glad to be able to go on with our lives. We wish the same for everybody around the world, regardless of their sexuality, gender or health status.

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