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SisterFlirt.ca

May 17, 2021

Just about 5 years ago I registered the domain name rubberchickenministries.org (RCM) for my current work as Sister Flirtatious Romanovsky of Middlesex, TOPI. This is a mostly-digital continuation of the work I did in the 1980s and ’90s in Toronto ON as Sister Flagellation of [read more]

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My Coming Out Story

October 10, 2020

First posted here in 2010.   In recognition of the upcoming “National Coming Out Day” I decided to add my story to the intertubes. Growing up I knew from a young age that I was ‘different’. At first it was the fact that I had [read more]

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Pulse Orlando Remembered

June 12, 2020

June 12, 2016 – Pulse Orlando Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 | Stanley Almodovar III, 23 | Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 | Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 | Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 | Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 | Luis S. Vielma, 22 | Kimberly Morris, 37 | [read more]

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R&P in Queer History

January 13, 2020

Do you know the music of Romanovsky & Phillips? Do you have an old photograph, or perhaps a story of seeing them perform ‘back in the day’? Ron and Paul would like your help. In preparation for a possible documentary and also to add to [read more]

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Tired, Old, Queen

June 11, 2019

Not to put too fine a point on it- I am one of those “tired old queens” people like to talk about. For years I rejected Queen (along with Queer) as my voice and general appearance leans to the masculine. And both terms were too [read more]

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Pride Posts

June 2, 2019

June is celebrated as Pride Month in many places. I have picked out just a few posts from the hundred+ in my LGBTiTQQ2S category to highlight. Today in Canadian Queer History looks at “Operation Soap” – the 1981 Toronto bathhouse raids that became our ‘line [read more]