Gordon Bowness
@gordonbowness.bsky.social
Aging drag queen, former Canadian football star, recent queer media linchpin, forgetful historian and decent Malay cook • he/him • gordonbowness.com
HUGE news in 2SLGBTQ+ media and health! @scripthealth.bsky.social just launched, an authoritative and independent health portal run by and for queer and trans people.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
HUGE news in 2SLGBTQ+ media and health! @scripthealth.bsky.social just launched, an authoritative and independent health portal run by and for queer and trans people.
A delight to work with the folks @thephilanthropist.ca on this series profiling illustrators... something I know a bit about ;-) Kicks off with the unique perspective of illustrator and anthropologist Julien Posture.
Illustrating work - The Philanthropist Journal
Illustrator and anthropologist Julien Posture discusses how human misunderstanding and machine learning devalue creative labour.
thephilanthropist.ca
July 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A delight to work with the folks @thephilanthropist.ca on this series profiling illustrators... something I know a bit about ;-) Kicks off with the unique perspective of illustrator and anthropologist Julien Posture.
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"And so once again/ Oh, America, my friend/ And so once again you are fighting us all/ And when we ask you why/ You raise your sticks and cry and we fall/ Oh, my friend, how did you come/ To trade the fiddle for the drum?" Oh, America, your friends up here are grieving, too youtu.be/u6z79WMOPtk?...
Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle and the Drum
YouTube video by Joni Mitchell
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June 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"And so once again/ Oh, America, my friend/ And so once again you are fighting us all/ And when we ask you why/ You raise your sticks and cry and we fall/ Oh, my friend, how did you come/ To trade the fiddle for the drum?" Oh, America, your friends up here are grieving, too youtu.be/u6z79WMOPtk?...
"And so once again/ Oh, America, my friend/ And so once again you are fighting us all/ And when we ask you why/ You raise your sticks and cry and we fall/ Oh, my friend, how did you come/ To trade the fiddle for the drum?" Oh, America, your friends up here are grieving, too youtu.be/u6z79WMOPtk?...
Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle and the Drum
YouTube video by Joni Mitchell
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"And so once again/ Oh, America, my friend/ And so once again you are fighting us all/ And when we ask you why/ You raise your sticks and cry and we fall/ Oh, my friend, how did you come/ To trade the fiddle for the drum?" Oh, America, your friends up here are grieving, too youtu.be/u6z79WMOPtk?...
My fella, @mauricevellekoop.bsky.social, won Best Book @dougwrightawards.bsky.social. A wonderful evening of art, history, heart and silliness. Captain Canuck was there, along with creator Richard Comely who was inducted into the Giants of the North. Congrats all. And Lou Skuce!!
June 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My fella, @mauricevellekoop.bsky.social, won Best Book @dougwrightawards.bsky.social. A wonderful evening of art, history, heart and silliness. Captain Canuck was there, along with creator Richard Comely who was inducted into the Giants of the North. Congrats all. And Lou Skuce!!
A must read. Pick it up and you will be enchanted. #booksky #memoir #graphicnovel
(Of course, I am biased—that’s me depicted at left.)
(Of course, I am biased—that’s me depicted at left.)
I’m thrilled to share that my graphic memoir ‘I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together’ has been shortlisted for the Trillium Book Awards! As if that weren’t enough, I’m also up for a Doug Wright Award!! Big congratulations to all the other nominees, winners for both announced in June!
May 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A must read. Pick it up and you will be enchanted. #booksky #memoir #graphicnovel
(Of course, I am biased—that’s me depicted at left.)
(Of course, I am biased—that’s me depicted at left.)
Genius. #ruthbuzzi #crazybird
Ruth Buzzi singing Lady Bird
YouTube video by Matt Tucci
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May 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Genius. #ruthbuzzi #crazybird
The 10 Commandments in 2 minutes
YouTube video by Michael R. Barrick (Atratus)
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April 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
April 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Wishing you —and I mean you — a very happy National Liquorice Day.
It takes allsorts.
#drag #lgbtq #liquorice #allsorts
It takes allsorts.
#drag #lgbtq #liquorice #allsorts
April 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Wishing you —and I mean you — a very happy National Liquorice Day.
It takes allsorts.
#drag #lgbtq #liquorice #allsorts
It takes allsorts.
#drag #lgbtq #liquorice #allsorts
#batiktuesday Batik sarong bought in Singapore in the early 1990s. #dei #syncretism #immigration #canada
April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
#batiktuesday Batik sarong bought in Singapore in the early 1990s. #dei #syncretism #immigration #canada
Happy Tartan Day from the Winnipeg Centennial Maple Leaf Choir (1976 edition)… in our fetching Maple Leaf tartan uniforms. I am easy to spot because my head is twice as large as anyone else’s… and I am 1 of only 3 boys left in this “mixed” choir.
April 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Happy Tartan Day from the Winnipeg Centennial Maple Leaf Choir (1976 edition)… in our fetching Maple Leaf tartan uniforms. I am easy to spot because my head is twice as large as anyone else’s… and I am 1 of only 3 boys left in this “mixed” choir.
Vintage ADRM Batik sarong, Indonesia, circa 1995 (label visible). #batiktuesday #syncretism #dei #canada #indonesia
April 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Vintage ADRM Batik sarong, Indonesia, circa 1995 (label visible). #batiktuesday #syncretism #dei #canada #indonesia
An affair with the police commissioner's son whom he met at the India Office Ball in celebration of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz's visit in 1867? I'm in. #lgbtq #history #unitedkingdom
For #WorldTheatreDay we are sharing our colleague @martinspychal.bsky.social's research on Lord Ronald Gower, MP for Sutherland and a keen frequenter of London's theatres. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/l...
Lord Ronald Gower (1845-1916): the social life of a queer MP at the time of the Second Reform Act
In the second of his blog series on Lord Ronald Gower (1845-1916), Dr Martin Spychal explores Gower’s London social life during his first year in Parliament, including a brief summer romance with t…
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March 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
An affair with the police commissioner's son whom he met at the India Office Ball in celebration of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz's visit in 1867? I'm in. #lgbtq #history #unitedkingdom
Another Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik” shirt (circa 1990), this one, a beautifully floaty chiffon silk. #batiktuesday #singapore #malaysia #dei #syncretism
March 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Another Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik” shirt (circa 1990), this one, a beautifully floaty chiffon silk. #batiktuesday #singapore #malaysia #dei #syncretism
Cherished possession... a pen from the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, which closed in 2010. #LGBTQ #coolstuff
March 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Cherished possession... a pen from the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, which closed in 2010. #LGBTQ #coolstuff
#batiktuesday Another swatch from a vintage hand-me-down shirt circa 1970. #singapore #immigation #syncretism #dei
March 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#batiktuesday Another swatch from a vintage hand-me-down shirt circa 1970. #singapore #immigation #syncretism #dei
My mother's birthday was on St Patrick's Day, so she liked to wear a Kiss Me I'm Irish button. Invariably, people would look at this short brown woman in green and ask, "You're Irish?" She would ALWAYS reply, "I'm Irish coffee!" Later she took to wearing a button roughly doctored like this... 🇮🇪🇸🇬🇨🇦
March 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My mother's birthday was on St Patrick's Day, so she liked to wear a Kiss Me I'm Irish button. Invariably, people would look at this short brown woman in green and ask, "You're Irish?" She would ALWAYS reply, "I'm Irish coffee!" Later she took to wearing a button roughly doctored like this... 🇮🇪🇸🇬🇨🇦
The markets are tanking because of Trump's tariffs... but you wouldn't know from the Fox News homepage. One huge reason we're screwed: It's a different world over there. The lies and obfuscation are outrageous.
March 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The markets are tanking because of Trump's tariffs... but you wouldn't know from the Fox News homepage. One huge reason we're screwed: It's a different world over there. The lies and obfuscation are outrageous.
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That time Justin Trudeau, then newly elected opposition leader, manhandled Maurice and I at Pride to get in on a photo of us in our underwear and floral headpieces (shoving aside Kathleen Wynne who, at the time, was the most powerful elected queer official in North America). So long Justin...
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
That time Justin Trudeau, then newly elected opposition leader, manhandled Maurice and I at Pride to get in on a photo of us in our underwear and floral headpieces (shoving aside Kathleen Wynne who, at the time, was the most powerful elected queer official in North America). So long Justin...
Ethereal Merle Oberon starred in Wuthering Heights, Scarlet Pimpernel, Dark Angel... Her Anglo-Indian heritage was a secret, yet the Welsh/Sri Lankan star's career was cut short by racism according to Mayukh Sen's biography Love, Queenie #booksky #EurasianThursday
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/a...
A Hollywood Star With a Secret That Could Have Ended Her Career
Merle Oberon was a popular actress who was once nominated for an Oscar. But a fact that she hid from the public threatened to unspool her entire life’s work.
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March 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Ethereal Merle Oberon starred in Wuthering Heights, Scarlet Pimpernel, Dark Angel... Her Anglo-Indian heritage was a secret, yet the Welsh/Sri Lankan star's career was cut short by racism according to Mayukh Sen's biography Love, Queenie #booksky #EurasianThursday
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/a...
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Justin Trudeau leaves behind a LGBTQ2S+ legacy that Mark Carney must continue
Trudeau’s allyship was at the forefront of his term. How will Carney follow? | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: The outgoing Liberal leaves behind a positive LGBTQ2S+ legacy of legislation, protections and allyship—but his successor still has some heavy lifting to do
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March 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Justin Trudeau leaves behind a LGBTQ2S+ legacy that Mark Carney must continue
#batiktuesday Swatch from another hand-me-down shirt, circa 1965. #singapore #immigration #syncretism #dei #canada
March 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
#batiktuesday Swatch from another hand-me-down shirt, circa 1965. #singapore #immigration #syncretism #dei #canada
That time Justin Trudeau, then newly elected opposition leader, manhandled Maurice and I at Pride to get in on a photo of us in our underwear and floral headpieces (shoving aside Kathleen Wynne who, at the time, was the most powerful elected queer official in North America). So long Justin...
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
That time Justin Trudeau, then newly elected opposition leader, manhandled Maurice and I at Pride to get in on a photo of us in our underwear and floral headpieces (shoving aside Kathleen Wynne who, at the time, was the most powerful elected queer official in North America). So long Justin...