Audio / Visual Materials

Queen City

Queen City Inside a dark bar on a busy Regina street exists a community that is outrageous, loud, flamboyant, and entertaining. But why do grown men and women dress up in flashy costumes and lip synch songs to an audience night after night? This forty-five minute 2006 documentary by David Geiss examines the world of Saskatchewan drag queens.

Watch clips from Queen City by clicking here.

Tykie's Comin Out

"Tykie's Comin Out" is featured on Step Right Up, the third CD recorded by Saskatchewan singer-songwriter- pianist Jeffery Straker. It was inspired by a real person with whom Straker went to school from K-12 in small town Saskatchewan. Straker performs frequently in the province and has toured nationally and internationally. Step Right Up was the #5 selling album in Saskatchewan in August 2010, ahead of both Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. He's sure neither of them cared.

(transcript of lyrics)

Watershed Stories

CD Cover “Small Town” is one of sixteen songs comprising Watershed Stories, a cycle of songs composed for the Prairie Pride Chorus by its musical director David L. McIntyre. The songs were based on the personal journeys of members of Regina's LGBT community chorus.

The work quickly became the chorus’s signature piece and has been performed to much acclaim in several Saskatchewan communities as well as in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.
Copies are available from the Prairie Pride Chorus website.

Audio Files
	SmallTown.mp3 4,836 KiB (5:09)	(transcript of lyrics)

Doug Wilson Film Vignette

In September 1975 Doug Wilson, a University of Saskatchewan graduate student in Education, placed an ad in the campus newspaper seeking others interested in participating in a university gay organization. He was promptly suspended from his duties supervising student teachers in the public school system by the Dean of Education with the backing of University President R. W. Begg. A highly publicized legal and political battle to overturn this decision and to establish an antidiscrimination policy on campus rocked the University for over a year. The Doug Wilson Case was one of the most important campaigns of Canada’s early gay rights movement and is recognized as a turning point for attitudes towards homosexuality at the University and across the province.

In 2005 Dacian Productions included this Doug Wilson Vignette (Quicktime, 6.3 MiB, 3:15) in their 100 Saskatchewan Stories, a major documentary series produced in conjunction with the province’s centennial.

Sisters With a Difference

Sisters With A Difference. The Quinlan Sisters 1981-1984. An introduction to gay writer and performer Peter McGehee's a cappella satiric revue. The act began in Saskatoon before dreams of fame and fortune beckoned the three sisters, McGehee, Fiji Robinson and Wendy Coad to Toronto. The film was produced by Robinson as a contribution to her ongoing project the Resurrection of Peter McGehee.

The Fabulous Sirs

The Fabulous Sirs, Peter McGehee and Fiji Robinson, continued the a cappella act The Quinlan Sisters that they had created in Saskatoon with Wendy Coad in the late 1970s. McGehee's satiric lyrics and clever vocal arrangements contributed to the popularity of both cabaret acts with queer and arts audiences. Used with permission of Fiji Robinson and the estate of Peter McGehee.

Audio Files
	Sirs_Boy.mp3 2,487 KiB (2:39)		Sirs_Dyke.mp3 3,035 KiB (3:14)

Camp FYrefly Saskatchewan

Featuring staff, leaders and campers at the 2nd Camp FYrefly held at Lumsden Beach in August 2010.

Camp FYrefly Saskatchewan is an annual educational, social, and personal learning retreat for sexual minority and gender variant youth (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified, two-spirited, intersexed, queer, questioning, and allied). It focuses on building and nurturing their leadership potential and personal resiliency. The event is presented by committees of dedicated volunteers in partnership with the Faculty of Education, University of Regina and the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan.

The T Effect

Jack Saddleback is a Cree Two-Spirited Transgendered Man from the Samson Cree Nation in Hobbema, Alberta. He is an award winning artist covering topics of gender, race and sexuality. Currently at the University of Saskatchewan pursuing a degree in Sociology and a minor in Entrepreneurship.

In November 2011 Saddleback began a continuing video series The T Effect with Jack (available on Youtube) chronicling his life experiences and the changes he has noticed since commencing testerone hormone therapy. To see other episodes of the T Effect and other works by Saddleback click here.

Riot Lung

Leah Horlick is a writer, poet and spoken word performance artist originally from 'the land of natural glitter (wintry,wintry Saskatoon)'. She presently lives in Vancouver where she is pursuing a MFA degree in Creative Writing. Riot Lung is the title poem from her first published collection issued by Thistledown Press in 2012. The performance was recorded at the 2011 Vancouver Poetry Slam.

AV Materials in the U of S Library

Several branches and units of the University of Saskatchewan Library hold AV materials of LGBT interest.
Two Spirits (2009) is one title in a growing collection of DVDs in the Reserve Stacks of the Murray Library being developed by the Women’s and Gender Studies Liaison Librarian. Public Performance rights have been obtained for these titles. They may be signed out for limited periods. Click here for catalogue records of Murray Reserve titles.

Included in the Neil Richards Collection of Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Special Collections unit is a copy of Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992), the National Film Board’s groundbreaking exploration of lesbian history in Canada.

Most of the other older films in the Richards collection were produced in Canada and like Forbidden Love are only currently available in VHS format. Click here for catalogue records of Richards Collection titles.