10%-Qtv season five, episode seven (2000.02.07)

episode seven		season five
	original broadcasts	Monday, 2000.02.07 Saturday, 2000.02.12 Sunday, 2000.02.13
	repeat broadcasts	Monday, 2000.02.14 Saturday, 2000.02.19 Sunday, 2000.02.20

Homo History
	Last episode, Chris shed some light on the history of some of the many words we - and others - use to describe the various folk in our queer community. This week our viewers pitch in with the background behind the words "mary" and "drag." If you've got the dish on some other queer words we haven't covered yet, let us know.
Toronto's Queer Community "Welcomes" Julian Fantino
	If you live in Toronto, unless you make your home under a rock you've no doubt heard the ruckus over Julian Fantino's non-candidacy and then "surprise" appointment as the city's new Police Chief. Fantino and the gay community have been at odds since he started "Project Guardian" in 1993 while he was Chief in London, Ontario. In what some call a "gay witch hunt," 61 men were charged with child exploitation after a bag of porn tapes featuring teenage boys was found. Entire movies (After the Bath by John Greyson) and radio series (The Trials of London on CBC) have been made about the story. Fantino met with a packed house at the 519 Community Center recently to start some bridge-building. While he was evasive on joining Mayor Mel in the Pride Parade, refused to talk about Project Guardian, and was generally vague about everything else, there seemed to be some promise for us working together to understand each other.
"Dragging it Outta' You"
	This week Alan takes to the straight streets to ask the het folk "If your fiancé told you they 'swung both ways,' would you still go through with the wedding?"
Cobblestone Maple Leaf Troup's "Swept Away"
	While the adults (to use the term loosely) on the school boards argue over things like "protection" and "promotion" in discussing the realities of homosexuality with kids, the kids are telling their own stories, in their own words. We hook up with a young theater group that's touring Ontario high schools to do just that. Their favorite audience response so far... "Is this true? Are they really gay people in Toronto?"
"Village Voice"
	It's pretty cold at the corner of Church and Wellesley these days, but that doesn't seem to stop folks from coming out and having their say. Perhaps all that anti-freeze in their blood really does do some good.
David Oiye, Artistic Director, Buddies in Bad Times Theater
	As the third Artistic Director since Buddies' inception (following Sky Gilbert and Sarah Stanley), David Oiye has some big shoes to fill. With Stanley helping to put the theater on relatively solid ground, Oiye says he wants to continue to position Buddies as a player in Toronto's diverse theater community, but to also reach farther and wider with its audience base and maybe crank up the humor department.

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