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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Stop Doug Ford’s Runway Greed and Corruption Province-wide protest May30 Defend Toronto Protect Your Waterfront Save Toronto Island Thanks #mauricevellekoop for the image

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My mother Jess Bowness would have been 100 today. She died 10 years ago this month. Her obit included a call to action regarding Canada’s then pending legislation on medical assistance in death (#MAID), garnering stories on Jess’s life and death in local and national media. 1/3 @dyingwithdignity.ca

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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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Illustrating work - The Philanthropist Journal

Illustrator and anthropologist Julien Posture discusses how human misunderstanding and machine learning devalue creative labour.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"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?...

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Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle and the Drum

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle and the Drum

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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!!

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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.)

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Wishing you —and I mean you — a very happy National Liquorice Day. It takes allsorts. #drag #lgbtq #liquorice #allsorts

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Vintage ADRM Batik sarong, Indonesia, circa 1995 (label visible). #batiktuesday #syncretism #dei #canada #indonesia

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Another Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik” shirt (circa 1990), this one, a beautifully floaty chiffon silk. #batiktuesday #singapore #malaysia #dei #syncretism

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Cherished possession... a pen from the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, which closed in 2010. #LGBTQ #coolstuff

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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... 🇮🇪🇸🇬🇨🇦

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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.

A screen shot of the Fox News homepage on the afternoon of Mar. 13. NO mention of the stock market crashing.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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...

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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...

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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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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

For International Women’s Day, here’s an international woman: my mother, Jess Bowness, Winnipeg, 1965. #iwd

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

#batiktuesday Satin shirt, circa 1990. A Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik.” #immigration #syncretism #batik #malaysia

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Disengaging from Musk is not going to be easy.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

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.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

So… that means for trans health, the right to an abortion, and antitrust legislation..?

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IN Magazine @inmagazineca.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Friends Of Ruby is in need of donations after a flood destroyed their drop-in centre. The non-profit Toronto organization supports queer youth, some of whom are experiencing homelessness: inmagazine.ca/2025/02/frie...

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Friends Of Ruby Needs Donations After A Flood Destroyed Their Drop-In Centre - IN Magazine

On January 6, Friends of Ruby, a beloved Toronto organization supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, experienced an unexpected challenge when a water pipe broke at their 489 Queen St. E. location, causing subst...

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Tai Huynh @taimhuynh.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

One week until election day and look what @thelocal.to just dropped—an entire issue digging into Doug Ford's track record on everything from health care to education, online gambling to the Greenbelt, by some of the best journalists in the country. thelocal.to/7-years-of-d...

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7 Years of Doug Ford | The Local

After seven years in office, Doug Ford has left his mark on Toronto. From health care to education, online gambling to the Greenbelt, we examine the record of the Progressive Conservative leader seeki...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Re: Gulf of America tomfoolery... remember the Alberta tar sands? I grew up out West, and the common term in the 1970s and 80s was "tar sands." What do we call them today? Oil companies and governments in Alberta and Ottawa began pushing "oil sands"—the term most people use now. #greenwashing #trump

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I know: late to the party. But Fawzia Mirza’s delightful 2023 feature debut Queen of My Dreams just muscled ever so stylishly onto my all-time fave list of Canadian films—a perceptive and moving account of immigrant mother-(queer)daughter dynamics.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I think this recent acquisition, labelled Silma “veritable” wax fabric, is a Pakistani or Chinese knockoff of a Vlisco Dutch wax print, itself a knockoff of traditional Javanese batik. (Can’t find any info on “Silma” fabrics.) #batiktuesday #batik #dei #immigration #syncretism #indonesia #africa

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

An incredibly moving account of a conservative evangelical pastor’s faith journey following his gay son coming out to him. Based on the father’s revealing diary entries. The Times gets so many things wrong; this story is very right. #lgbtq #christian www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | My Father Was a Conservative Evangelical Pastor. Then I Came Out.

How did my dad go from hating homosexuality to imploding his church by embracing me? His journal entries show how he changed his mind.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The NAACP advisory calls out Lowe’s, TargetWalmart, Amazon, Meta and McDonald’s for reversing their DEI commitments, while praising Costco, Apple, Ben & Jerry’s and Delta Airlines for continuing theirs.

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“As of this moment, Canada will become part of the United States of America. The Government of Canada is hereby dissolved. The provinces will become full member states of the Union." The US president announces the annexation of Canada in the prescient 1973 novel Ultimatum by Richard Rohmer. #booksky

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