Archive 1997-2016
Imagine expressing pride in your sexuality while crooning “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” in front of a large audience. This Christmas, gay men around Ottawa will get to belt out a variety of tunes and affirm their identities at the same time.
James Joyce is not usually a name synonymous with joy and sentimental feelings.
It is summer in the mid-1980s and the Rainbow Bistro is packed during one of its first big acts. Blues musician Albert Collins is playing and the patrons are going nuts.
If this sounds like a commercial, it’s because it is. Well, in a sense. With less than six weeks left to game day, the city is already preparing to play host. It’s a chance it gets once in a “grey” moon. But behind the fanfare, corporate sponsorship and anticipation of watching football greats battle it out, there is much left undone. Enter the volunteers.