Toned down, earnest Canadian gossip
I believe in the positive power of gossip. Especially in the need for home grown gossip! So just a quick tidbit: Gilles Marchildon, executive director of the queer lobby group
Egale, recently celebrated his 40th birthday, and will marry Gord Klassen this summer. The announcement was part of Gille's speech to those assembled at Egale's Annual Gala on Parliament Hill on May 12.
The text doesn't seem to have posted on the Egale site yet, but Gilles recalled some important history. Like the infamous
fruit machine of the 1950s, used to identity and ruin male homosexualists in the Canadian civil service. The machine's now on display in the War Museum in Ottawa.
And a reminder about
Everett Klippert, declared a dangerous sexual offender in the late 1960s because he was going to keep having sex with men. (There is talk that Klippert later married a woman, but I couldn't find confirmation anywhere. Anyone?)
I know Gilles Marchildon is not Tom Cruise. But then again, cranky wags in today's morning paper accused Cruise of fabricating relationships with various leading ladies in order to get good PR and sell his movies -- thus making him a "promosexual." At least our Canucks are a different kind of promosexual!