2Bmag online

Overlooking the wind-lapped waters of Dow’s lake, Ottawa’s queer community partied to raise funds for PTS, formerly known as Pink Triangle Services and redefining itself as the “Celebration for Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity.”

This year, the theme of Trans Pride in Montréal will be “My Sex Is Not My Identity”. A series of events are planned for Saturday May 5, including a conference and a burlesque gala party. At a time when the realities of transsexual and transgendered people throughout the world are often in the headlines and recognition of gender identity fuels numerous political debates, Trans Pride is a day to reflect on these issues, but also to celebrate the resilience, uniqueness and diversity of the trans community.

With almost all of the Montréal-based Top 10 personalities of the decade (Rufus was busy), 2B’s 10th Anniversary Exhibit Opening and panel was a friendly affair, with a tremendous showing of readers, collaborators, artists and supporters from the community. Photos by Emilio Edson Garcia aka El Negro.

The LGBT community has a lot to be proud of in the last 10 years, and 2B’s sister magazine Entre Elles was there all along! Come celebrate tonight (April 13) at their 10th Anniversary Exhibit at the Ecomusée du fier monde.

Cars can be more than just a means of transportation, they can also represent a lifestyle and reflect one’s personality, whether it is through one’s choice of make, model or colour. A new Italian car is available on the North American market that comes in large array of different styles and colours to let drivers personalize their car.

There are more than a few exceptional things about Jeremy Dias. In addition to being the only 20-something in our top 10 personalities of the decade, he’s also the only 2Bmag contributor in the bunch, and the only one with a charity named after him – well, it was in fact named after his teenaged fortune-telling business, but that’s another story…

When away on a trip to Buenos Aires to collaborate with art-zine YESSR on an exhibition exchange project called Flesh Garden, Guy Bérubé was present even from afar. With a 2,300-strong Facebook group for his La Petite Mort Gallery, Bérubé embodies his role as gallerist both in person and online: to tantalize, to challenge, and to get people talking. Guy puts the Top in Top 10 Personalities of the Decade for 2B’s 10th Anniversary…

Headlining the ARTSIDA after-party Cause Célèbre on April 7 will take the mythically renowned Montréal DJ Robert de la Gauthier within blocks of his old stomping ground, Le Garage. We sat down to talk to the surprisingly wholesome alumnus of all the great nightspots on fame, his new Yoga Jam sessions, and the importance of staying underground…

Apple has remained staunchly opposed to allowing pornography on the iPad, yet adult sites like Playboy and Manhunt have found interesting ways around the restrictions. Tech commentator Chip Robertson gets the scoop…

The last time I visited Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco, he was hosting a dinner party at his house. There were seven of us at sitting around the table, engaging in an impassioned discussion about the role of divas in gay male culture. The usual archetypes were invoked, from Madonna to Cher, Tina Turner to Annie Lennox. Suddenly, a text message interrupted the diva dialogue: Whitney Houston was dead. Ibáñez-Carrasco and I spent the rest of the weekend sporadically breaking out into numbers from The Bodyguard. However, we managed to take a break from our mourning theatrics to discuss his work with Universities Without Walls, HIV research, and the difference between mystique and caché.