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Central Condo—Ottawa’s gayest and swankiest condo located at Bank and Gladstone—has been a source of controversy in town. Anti-poverty activists crashed last week’s launch party and clashed with police. They’re angry at the gentrification of Ottawa and claim the developers, Urban Capital Property Group, are pushing affordable housing out of the neighbourhood, decrying the residents as “social elites.”

Every year the Ottawa Fringe Festival, the region’s largest theatre festival, plays host theatrical productions from around the world. This year the festival is taking over downtown with 12 venues and over 50 shows from all over the world.

When you go to C.C. Trubiak’s website, the first thing you see is a Joe Dallessandro/Peter Berlin-inspired photograph of the musician’s lower torso and crotch. The “Enter” icon wittily appears as your cursor hovers over the fly in his jeans. What you see when you enter – as 2B did when we visited his charming apartment in Ottawa’s Gliebe for a private concert in his living room – is an artist living a trunk-full of paradoxes: the sensitive diva, the exhibitionist introvert, and perhaps the most contradictory of all: the gay folk musician…

“One day, I hope I will actually want to live.” Just two weeks before he killed himself, Jamie Hubley, 15, made that post to his Tumblr account. Jamie, the son of Kanata South Councillor Allan Hubley, had long dealt with depression; his public struggle was documented almost daily on his blog which has since been removed. Now, school boards must come to terms with the impact that homophobic bullying has on their students.

The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi plays at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, to Oct 15th. Ambiguity, gay love, multiple identities, and bilingualism make for an unsettling and splintered theatrical experience, by playwright Larry Tremblay, directed by Claude Poissant.

“Yes, a village is here!” proudly announced Glenn Crawford, Village Committee chair at the unveiling of the “We Demand” mural on Friday, August 26 on Bank and Gilmour Street. The mural designed and painted by artists from Falldown Gallery celebrates 40 years of queer civil rights activism and portrays the first LGBT demonstration held on August 28, 1971.

Join us for the launch of 2Bmag’s Capital Pride edition and new lesbian monthly Entre Elles, Wednesday, August 24, 8-10pm at Venus Envy. Featuring photo exhibit by Rah Illa and Nathan Hoo, and tasty morsels by Kinki Sushi!

Keeping up the raunchy and arty tradition of their alt Pride party, La Petite Mort Gallery will host its Annual Benefit for “Freakin’ Alzheimer’s” Sat., August 27.

Capital Pride launched their 2011 festival with Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, City Councilor Diane Holmes, and Ontario MLA Yasir Naqvi. The event held last night highlighted the festival’s resolution to being displaced from their city hall festival site location.