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.
Next up: illustrator and designer Maia Faddoul thephilanthropist.ca/2025/08/illu...
August 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Next up: illustrator and designer Maia Faddoul thephilanthropist.ca/2025/08/illu...
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 film that takes place where your from.
April 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A film that takes place where your from.
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
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.
#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...
#batiktuesday Satin shirt, circa 1990. A Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik.”
#immigration #syncretism #batik #malaysia
#immigration #syncretism #batik #malaysia
March 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
#batiktuesday Satin shirt, circa 1990. A Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik.”
#immigration #syncretism #batik #malaysia
#immigration #syncretism #batik #malaysia
The best Eurasian villain in cinema has to be Dr. No, the German/Chinese psychopathic scientist with exquisite taste from the first-ever Bond film in 1962. Dastardly accomplishments aside, No can't quite match Bond's suave Eurocentricity. Dom Pérignon '55, indeed. What a parvenu.
February 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The best Eurasian villain in cinema has to be Dr. No, the German/Chinese psychopathic scientist with exquisite taste from the first-ever Bond film in 1962. Dastardly accomplishments aside, No can't quite match Bond's suave Eurocentricity. Dom Pérignon '55, indeed. What a parvenu.
February 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
February 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
CanFact tidbit: A feminist and popular lecturer, Anna eventually settled in Halifax where she cofounded what became the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; a gallery there still bears her name.
#eurasianthursday #immigration #singapore #canada
#eurasianthursday #immigration #singapore #canada
February 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
CanFact tidbit: A feminist and popular lecturer, Anna eventually settled in Halifax where she cofounded what became the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; a gallery there still bears her name.
#eurasianthursday #immigration #singapore #canada
#eurasianthursday #immigration #singapore #canada
Anna Leonowens of The King and I fame wasn’t a Welsh-born British governess as she claimed but a Eurasian from Bombay. Widowed young, she moved to Singapore and revised her biography, becoming a teacher. That's when the Siamese consul hired her to teach the Thai king’s numerous wives and children.
February 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Anna Leonowens of The King and I fame wasn’t a Welsh-born British governess as she claimed but a Eurasian from Bombay. Widowed young, she moved to Singapore and revised her biography, becoming a teacher. That's when the Siamese consul hired her to teach the Thai king’s numerous wives and children.