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In conversation this week, I was reminded about an incident that happened to me this past winter outside Jarvis Collegiate, a school close to where I live. Walking by during a lunch hour where the streets and school property were filled with students, I heard one call out loudly: “Faggot!”
I kept walking, and heard “Faggot!” called a couple more times.
Then a piece of wood went flying past my head. A piece of broken tree branch, about a foot long. Not a twig, a branch.
To cut the story short, I chose to keep walking. But I also chose to share what had happened to me on my former radio show that afternoon, as example of how homophobia exists even in cities often praised for their “tolerance” like Toronto. It created some great dialogue, and I felt I’d turned something negative into a positive.
But something kept nagging me. Here’s my commentary from the day that followed: Read the rest of this entry »
Happy Monday!
Catching up with the mailbag, I came across this lovely note about an interview I did with the one-and-only Carol Channing on my former radio show:
Shaun – An endearing, utterly beguiling interview with a legend. You handled it with such aplomb and skill and it was obvious Carol adored chatting with you. I brought carol to NH in 2007 and again in 2008 to do a couple of AIDS benefits and her interactions with those infected and affected was amazing. Your interview style is delightful and you captured the Carol I have been privileged to know for many years. Bravo!!! Sincerely, Paul Brogan
Thanks Paul! If you never caught the kooky convo, check it out below – and keep scrolling down to find out which Y&R legend thinks pot should be legalized!
And which star of Y&R thinks marijuana should be legalized? Puffa-puffa!
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Hey, so we’re adding a commentary element to The Shaun Proulx Show on OUTtv, based on my popular daily “4:20″ commentaries I used to give every day at … 4:20 … on my former radio programme. Leafing through old scripts I wrote, I came across the one below from April, 2009. It’s in keeping with my earlier post featuring recent video of Toronto neighbours in confrontation with local door-to-door evangelicals. xS
And now a word on Jesus.
So a long weekend approaches, we’re off because Jesus died and was resurrected about this time a while back.
God, Jesus has caused a lot of strife, hasn’t he? I mean, the faith founded in his name still wrestles with the ultimate question of Who He Is. During his lifetime his followers had differing answers and after his death it took more than 300 years of violent contention and suppression before even the murkiest answers emerged.
I’m sure he didn’t mean for all this when he came to us in that manger way back, that star in the sky blinding him like a disco ball.
But, even today, the Christian right sure like to use the poor bugger as they perform their most un-Jesus like acts, trying to stop people from loving people.
Understandably, too, these days people are turning their backs on Jesus in record numbers.
Then there’s those of us who take his name in vain far more frequently than probably HE would appreciate, and did I mention a fair number of wars seem to have been caused in His name?
But throughout recorded history, people have always had spiritual needs. We have a need for a basic understanding of life. We have a need for a sense of meaning, and purpose. We have a need to feel connected to something greater than ourselves.
As we celebrate Easter, be it on the dance floor, or by hunting chocolate eggs in the most unusual of hiding spots, or attending Church to praise Him, wouldn’t it be nice if we could all take pause and remember one little thing?
Jesus said LOVE, bitches!
Who's That Girl?
Got. Great. News. Yesterday. Not. Allowed. To. Tell. Yet. Bursting.
But here’s what else I’m loving heading into the weekend!
Cool women like my friend Kristen. That’s her, above, looking so sexy swinging on a swing that I feel straight suddenly. Her self-deprecating wit can be found on her blog, Shambled Ramblings.
Robyn’s latest fun electro-pop release, Body Talk. More summer aural awesome.
Sergio, for spending 45 minutes on the phone with me deciphering contract jargon that was making my head hurt.
Law Of Attraction: Yesterday I was catching up with my friend Jim Halterman from LA. It had been just a few weeks since we spoke, and in that conversation we shared fairly large career desires. But when he asked ‘what’s new?’ yesterday, I shared a few developments and realized in the sharing that my latest news was all related to what we’d spoken about only weeks back. My ideas shared with Jim in that first conversation are already becoming reality; Law of Attraction gains stronger momentum the more you practice it deliberately.
Eddie’s new sexy porn bedtime stories, on Twitter (for those of you 18+).
The Kids Are Alright. Loved this lesbian mum movie! Annette Bening and Julianne Moore are wonderful as long time companions and Mark Ruffalo is surprisingly good and sexy as their sperm donor they wish they’d never met. Laugh and cry.
My pal who has been off drugs for two years but needs to keep very bizzy. Yesterday he presented me with a gorgeous huge purple wool scarf he knitted himself.
And finally, my new movie: Drink, Swear, Hate is in theaters now!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Dyke Bonding
Holy photos! I’ve dug through the gazillion pics that keep coming in from Vancouver Pride and below are some of my faves! These were all shot by Eddie, documenting my day documenting Vancouver Pride for OUTtv – it was my b-day that day and the whole essay he did made for one cool gift I didn’t even notice him doing!
xS
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Cazwell Drives The Ice Cream Truck. Photo: Shaun Proulx Media
Okay, so, Toronto is a sauna. The humidity is so oppressive I’ve fashioned a muumuu from gauze, and that’s that.
No, it’s not, actually. Here’s something that’ll either cool you down or heat you up, courtesy of Cazwell, he of the addictive ‘All Over My Face’ single two summer’s ago (his other song about Beyonce and Burger King never caught on as well).
Every gay man I know is currently sharing this on Facebook. So watch, enjoy, and if you happen to see the dude in the blue undies, bring him to me.
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