What does your Queertopia Look Like?
ARTS / Queers Arts Festival asks, 'Now that we're acceptable, what do we do?'
Jackie Wong / Vancouver / Thursday, July 15, 2010
http://www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/What_does_your_Queertopia_Look_Like-8920.aspxEnter Vancouver's three-year-old (and recently renamed) Queer Arts Festival, produced by the Pride in Art Society.
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Crossing the Concourse
Sara Davis Buechner in music and words
When 36-year-old David Buechner became Sara Davis Buechner in 1998, the acclaimed classical pianist risked everything. Coming out to family, friends and professional colleagues was fraught with pain and fear.
"The fact that most people know that I am a transgendered woman certainly cost me plenty in terms of a professional career and decent teaching positions in the United States," Buechner says. "That had a great deal to do with my decision to move to the west coast of Canada, where I was greeted wholeheartedly and judged fairly on my record as a musician and as a teacher."
