The View From A Window At Lola's Commissary, One Of My Favourite Toronto / Gaybourhood Restaurants. We Just Booked The Space For Our 2010 Pride Party This Morning. You've Got To Love Two Lesbians Who Insist Their Alley Wall Is Decorated!

Happy Canadian Music Week!  Who is your favourite Canadian artist / band?  So many to name: Esthero, Ivana Santilli, Jody Quine from Balligomingo, Molly Johnson, Jully Black, Divine Brown, Deborah Cox (I do favour the ladies), Sherri St. Germain, Mistress Barbara – and the beat goes on.

Patrick came home with a gay Dutch magazine yesterday, who did a two page article about his two lives as Patrick Marano / Eddie Stone.  As it is written in Dutch, we have no idea what it says, but along with his names, we recognized: “Tyra Banks“, “Shaun Proulx” and “power bottom”.  Perhaps best leave it at that.

Oy. I wrenched my back and so was off work yesterday as it hurt to sit.  How awful, to spend the day popping pills and lying in bed with the dogs, semi-comatose, slurring and drinking martinis.  This morning it felt a lot better, and it was off to the chiropractor for another adjustment.  As he was doing just that, I heard music wafting from his reception.  “Is that really Barbra Streisand?” I asked him, face down on his adjustment table, knowing it was indeed Babs.  Crack!  “Yes,” he replied. “Does that make me the gayest chiropractor in town?”

It does.

Some show news: Monday Kelly Cutrone, of “Kell On Earth” “The Hills” and If You Have To Cry, Go Outside fame is in town and coming on the show.  My Mentor Nate and my Assistant Richard are in love with her, and because Nate sent her a video last month saying as much and asking her onto the show, Cutrone has asked Nate to be her date at an MTV function that night.  Life is good!  Speaking of Monday, that morning I will be speaking at York University on the importance of queer visibility.  So honoured to be invited, and excited to speak!

Lastly: Y&R.  Are you watching?  It’s INSANE right now. So good.  I do need to do a Deconstructing Genoa City soon, but usually after each episode I’m shaking too badly from the excitement of it all to type properly.  Happy Hump Day!

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“You’re picky about the car you drive. You’re picky about what you wear. You’re picky about what you put in your mouth. We want you to be pickier about what you think.”

- Abraham

She Told JT She Was In DUBAI! (Thanks to Susan F. for spotting this and thinking I would get a kick. Did!)

Hey everyone, and happy Friday!  Heading into a Toronto weekend where the weather will be more like mid-April than early-March, there’s lots to love:

Joan Rivers last night.  Read the rest of this entry »

Cyndi Lauper

Look who is headlining Toronto Pride this year!  What a way to celebrate 30 years of Pride but with a free concert in Queen’s Park on Saturday July 3rd.  I’m getting tingles already!

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Does This Martini Make Me Look Gay?

Back in my late teens, early twenties, I got my first credit card.  It was a Simpson’s store card, and I promptly maxed it out at the Clinique counter as quickly as I could.  I’ve always been a product whore; the Clinique counter was not my first beauty high.  That happened at Caryl Baker Visage. Read the rest of this entry »

This, my friends, is leading edge:

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Illustration: Presh

Still feeling that gold buzz from the weekend’s Olympic finale, and it reminds me to recommend you run don’t walk to the Art Gallery Of Ontario, where their monster King Tut: The Golden King & The Great Pharaohs is drawing crowds from far and wide, continuing until April 18th. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week’s Toronto fundraiser for Pride Uganda was lower than hoped on attendance, but high on calls for queer freedom around the world.  Pride Toronto Executive Director Tracey Sandilands guest-blogs her thoughts. Read the rest of this entry »

Buyer Beware!

What. A. Week.

Here’s what I’m loving heading into what looks like a proper February weekend here in Toronto – full snowstorm in effect. Ella and I are heading out into it shortly

- Dynasty on DVD.  Read the rest of this entry »

So in the space of 24 hours I received news of the deaths of two great local gay men I’d like to tell you about: Read the rest of this entry »

Me. Want. Cherry.

I’m having a delicious week, so thought in honour of it I would post this pic I took at a bakery I was at last weekend.  (God, I just want to stick my face right in there, don’t you?  And the desserts!)

My final column for Xtra! has turned out to be a doozy, and I’m appreciating the amazing feedback over on Xtra.ca and on Facebook and Twitter.  The column is my insights after Read the rest of this entry »

Oh, BILLY!

Hey, Ho!

My pal Derek Forgie over at MTV sent the above image my way yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

World Exclusive Premiere!

My dear friend Brian Finch, who writes the marvy ‘Acid Reflux‘ on GayGuideToronto.com dreams big.  He’s after a free copy of Kathy Griffin’s new DVD, ‘She’ll Cut A Bitch’, and even spent all day many days, actually making the mandatory video Ms. Griffin requires before sending out a $5 DVD which is fairly demanding of her just for a damn DVD, but I digress.  I’m happy to play a part: The Cherry on this video sundae Brian is offering her.  Fingers crossed!  Warning: Nudity.

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It is a mild spring day here in Toronto.  Historically, this time of year brings a nasty weather best described as “God’s cruel joke”. Read the rest of this entry »

Spotted this morning on a hike with Ella: Read the rest of this entry »

Wowie zowie, what an exhilarating week!  So much to appreciate going into the weekend! Read the rest of this entry »

There’s probably no great coincidence that the majority of plays being produced right now are comedies.  Read the rest of this entry »

Every Friday Christine Fix from Soaps.com comes to the show and we let loose on All Things Young & Restless.  Thought you’d enjoy a listen!

Y&R

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My Fave Shot Of The Collins Sisters By Annie Liebovitz.

Can we talk?  Getting set to interview Jackie Collins and Joan Rivers today – hear them tomorrow and Friday respectively on PROUD FM and watch for our chats in the next batch of OutTV shows coming soon!  Today on the show, my pal Buck Angel talks about his recent Yale University honour and the threats that saw the institution hire bodyguards for him. Read the rest of this entry »

I got a bunch of emails after my regular Feel GOOD Friday! post last week pointing out I had omitted my normal weekly Law Of Attraction mention.

Mon erreur!

So, if I look back at last week to identify what aspect of the Law Of Attraction was dominant, I have to say it was Read the rest of this entry »

Another week bites the dust – with a long weekend ahead for those of us in Ontario, Canada!  Here’s what I’m loving heading into three days off: Read the rest of this entry »

Phyllis Witnesses Y&R's First Gay Kiss, Wishes For A Shred Of Such Affection From Nick.

Let’s start where all things begin: a gay kiss.

Specifically, that up there is the official first gay kiss ever on The Young & The Restless.  It took place last week between Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Thursday!  Ron M., who listens to my show, sent me this shot he found.  Isn’t it just amazing?  I love the dirty moment that Grace Jones and Divine are clearly having, I love Grace’s hotness on the bike, and bless those two young gay things lapping it all up, oblivious in such a dangerous time.

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Yorkville Park

What an easy-breezy winter we’re having!  And yes, I AM beating that drum again!  We’re almost mid-February (have you entered our draw for gorgeous Jackie O Valentine’s flowers yet?), there has been little winter wrath, and once we hit March, for me, anyway, we’re home-free.  Spring starts March 21st and anything that happens that even closely resembles winter hell won’t hang around like that point.  Finish line!

Out on the streets shopping and strutting this weekend, I came across some … sights to share: Read the rest of this entry »

And He Is.

Joyeux vendredi!

Here’s what I’m loving as we head into another weekend!

• Beau Kazer is our special guest on the show today, as Fridays are always our Y&R study group.  Brock Reynolds!  Brock Reynolds! Read the rest of this entry »

Photo: Kyle Whitelaw

Hey Everyone!

I know I promised on Twitter I’d get this up earlier than today, but technical difficulties, Sweetie! Here’s my Adam Lambert interview from last week’s show for your eternal listening pleasure Read the rest of this entry »

Your Bespoke Lining Doesn't Always Need To Be This Outrageous, But For Some Reason In My Case It Was Decided This Was Necessary. Good Decision: Love. It.

Hellooooo!  I hope your week has been going deliciously!  Some pics below from my week, categorized ‘Bullshit’ and ‘Funshit’ – you will decided which is which. Read the rest of this entry »

"Hihowareyou? How has your winter been?"

Happy Groundhog Day, everybody!  According to our furry sources, we’ve got another six weeks of winter ahead.  Hey, as an aside, does Groundhog Day EVER reveal any other forecast?  I don’t recall so, but I digress. Read the rest of this entry »

As I have mentioned before, I just love my pal, the writer, journalist and weekly guest on my show, Susan G. Cole.

So it was my pleasure to attend part of the launch party last night for a new anthology she has edited called Outspoken.  It’s available now at better bookstores (ISBN 978-0-88754-799-7 $19.95.)  Susan has culled from different lesbian writers across Canada to put together a great book of scenes and short stories and monologues.  Last night at the party, I got to hear many of the women involved read from their work, including the amazing Mariko Tamaki.  What a great range of stories.  From completely engaging to completely LOL, from crushing on a teacher to shaving your legs, Outspoken is full of amazing tales for anyone who loves great writing and great women.

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I had an interesting chat with an associate of mine after a meeting yesterday morning.  As everyone in attendance dispersed, he pulled me aside and began to describe how difficult it would be to accomplish what we are going to accomplish.  This bad thing was going to happen … that obstacle would be in the way … these people were the road blocks … he was likely going to have to jump through hoops …

The Law of Attraction is always on.  You cannot turn it off. If you want to go about life saying “I have to work so hard for everything I get” – guess what?  You have to work so hard for everything you get!  In the case of my associate, I simply suggested to him to tell the story the way he wants it to be:  “What about: ‘It’s going to be really great when we figure this all out.’  Or, ‘I can’t wait to see what we come up with.’  Or, ‘It’s exciting to me to think of what we’ve got planned here.’”Same story, just told differently.

Every story we tell about any subject in our lives will garner different end results, and more importantly, garner different experiences in getting to those end results.  It’s amazing the stories we tell each other, and more so, that we tell ourselves, and it’s amazing how often we take the simplest things (’cause really, in my associate’s case, as far as I’m concerned, this is a done deal) and make big hairy deals out of them.  And it’s the sum total of all the big hairy deals we have going on needlessly in our heads all day every day that actually starts to create ruts in our lives.

Because the Law of Attraction is always on.

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Last night I remembered why I don’t bother watching award shows.  Ugh; I’m so glad I recorded it all so I could fast-forward through 98% of it.  Beyonce: Seen it and I’m so over hair-tossing.  The Michael Jackson Tribute: He deserved better than Celine, Usher, that old guy, and a couple of American Idols.  Pink: The one exception.  Loved it, brilliant, captivating.  And I’m not even a Pink fan.  Black Eyed Peas: Dull squared, considering what a great album The E.N.D. is.

And then there was this: Read the rest of this entry »

Let us start out giving praise and thanks.  The new Tucker McCaul – ex-Days Of Our Lives player Stephen Nichols – has arrived.  He has teeth, and everything!  Read the rest of this entry »

I Shot This During Toronto's Last Cold Snap - Here We Are Again This Weekend With Another One. Cozy Time!

Holy moly what a week!  I feel so much appreciation for the amazing people, events and circumstances that lit up these last few days of January for me, including:

• Thanks Shinan Govani at The National Post for the ‘main man’ mention in his column this week. Read the rest of this entry »

Today on the show in honour of Matthew Shepard’s mother Judy joining us in less than an hour, we are asking you where it is you see homophobia the most.  In case you don’t know, Matthew was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming just over ten years ago at age 21, a homophobic act that is still as appalling to me today as it was the first time I heard about it. Read the rest of this entry »

About Adam Lambert.

So normally I’d just post one, maybe two pics of cool people I get to interview for The Shaun Proulx Show.  However, given the response I’ve gotten over on Twitter (shout out to all my new Tweeters: I love how much you love Adam Lambert!), I thought the least I could do would be to put together a little image diary of my time with him. (All photos: Kyle Whitelaw.) Read the rest of this entry »

Photo: Kyle Whitelaw

Hey Everyone!

This morning I am interviewing Judy Shepard, mother of slain gay teen Matthew Shepard, who is in Toronto speaking to York University. Her new book, The Meaning of Matthew, is out now.  We’ll air our talk on today’s show at 5:10 pm.

Tomorrow is the radio air date of yesterday’s chat with Adam Lambert (our interview got a mention in today’s National Post), and the TV date for our chat will be sometime in April, when the next batch of shows hit OutTV.

Above is a cool pic from yesterday’s shoot – I’ll post more later!

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Hey, some fun success for some of the less self-aggrandizing Haiti fundraisers over the weekend here in Toronto: local Craig Dominic and Ryan G Hinds‘ To Haiti With Love raised a whopping $4000.00 last night.  Tomorrow night, Heather Mackenzie from Big Momma’s Boy on Parliament Street is organizing Give Hope To Haiti 7 to 10. Its a variety show hosted by my pal Deb Pearce. As well, my gal pal and GGT blogger Richard Ryder is performing along with others.  $3000 in prizes to be won! Read the rest of this entry »

Visiting With Kids In The Hall's Scott Thompson Was A Great Highlight This Week. The Whacked-Out Convo We Had On-Air Even More So!

Why hello, Friday, what took you so long? Actually, another week has sped by, and what a great one it was – I hope yours was too! Here’s my love list as we head towards a really oddly balmy weekend (it IS January in Toronto, right?)

• Beau Kaizer who plays Brock on Y&R emailed me last night. He’s heard about my Y&R addiction and wants to come on the show and chat. Woop! AND that’s not all – Victoria ‘Drucilla’ Rowell is coming aboard when she visits Toronto for Casey House’s Snowball. Her character is probably the most missed in daytime. Read the rest of this entry »

When John Announced He Was Generous, I Decided To, Too! So You Should For Sure!

Hey everyone! I’m a Hollywood celebrity and I make millions, and I just want you to know what I’ve done. You know what I’ve done? You won’t believe what I’ve done! I’ve donated to the Haiti earthquake. Well, not the Haiti “earthquake”, as my publicist pointed out the fifth time I said that in an interview, but to the victims of the earthquake. Read the rest of this entry »

Let’s talk Tyra.

I guess when she started her talk show and said she was the Oprah for the next generation, she meant it.  Following in Oprah’s footsteps, the former model recently announced she, too, is quitting her talk show.

It’s probably a good thing she didn’t last as long as Oprah, if what I witnessed over last month’s holidays is any indication.  Can you imagine the horror on my face when I turned on the boob tube Read the rest of this entry »

I love graffiti. Like any artform, I don’t love all end results, but I love the renegade nature of the concept of graffiti, and I love the artists who express themselves this way. There’s much debate on it here in the city, Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Tuesday! Have you spent much time with our friends in Genoa City?  Lord, how their lives are racing these days! Like a meth-head, day two!  Here’s a little Y&R snack pack for your pleasure. Read the rest of this entry »

Boys blowin’ up my phone$ phone$ it really WA$ Ke$ha’s party tonight – I couldn’t $top Tweeting!  Huge lineup$ to get your face glittered, AND you could al$o po$e IN FRONT OF KE$HA’S ALBUM COVER! AAACK!

I ran into my friend the recording arti$t and fellow blogger Will W., $o we immediately took advantage of thi$ wonderful opportunity:

My date for the evening wa$ wunderkind Matt $im$, promoter and Xtra columnist.  I grabbed him for a $pecial HIMBO! One Minute With … immediately after the $how for hi$ take on Ke$ha:

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Okay, this week sure went by faster than last week, the first workweek of 2010, which seemed endless after a two week Christmas vacation.  Hope yours was groovy – here’s what I’m loving as we head to a well deserved weekend!

• Spring in the city?  Following last weekend’s cold snap, glorious Toronto warms up to plus temps for a few days! Bless!
• I have a new gig: a semi-regular column for Soaps.com on The Young & The Restless.  Read the rest of this entry »

My daily commentary The 4:20 apparently upset a few people listening to yesterday’s show.  One woman phoned the studio and said I needed to be “reigned in”.  Ironic, considering the theme yesterday was political correctness.  So I should be “reigned in” because someone doesn’t like what I think?  Got it.  Several other people said they wished they’d heard it; here’s a transcript: Read the rest of this entry »

Happy Thursday!  I hope everyone is having a wonderful week – so mild suddenly here in Toronto!  Here’s a bunch of pics from the week thus far!

If I had 1000 reasons why I love my dog, Ella, as of this photo I now have 1001.  That’s a ‘Danger – No Entry’ sign she’s sauntering past.  Who’s my girl? Read the rest of this entry »

I just want to give a shout out to my Facebook peeps.  Friends, I’m lovingyoulongtime.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to tell you that as much as I do enjoy your Friendship, I don’t enjoy those cuddly kisses you keep posting on my wall.  Read the rest of this entry »

I like Kathy Griffin as a comic, but I don’t love her rabidly the way so many of my friends do.  And I appreciated the opportunity to have her on as a guest on my PROUD FM and OutTV shows  last year, but she wasn’t my favourite interview (you can hear our chat below).  Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re not an OutTV subscriber, you’re not just missing my show but you missed a cute Happy Holidays promo that ran last month, featuring a couple characters you might recognize.  The editors put together this cute outtakes video with an HQF (high cute factor), so I thought I’d post for those suffering post-holidays blahs

Happy Holidays | Deck the Halls OUT takes!

From Inisde The Allan Gardens Conservatory Yesterday Afternoon.

I don’t know what this time of like is like where you live, but these days on the show, Wigmore teases me about my new found appreciation of this thing we’re in here in Toronto called Canadian winter.  Read the rest of this entry »