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Locker Room (TV Series)
''Locker Room'' is a Canadian television series, which aired on PrideVision from 2002 to 2005. A magazine series about LGBT issues and topics in sports, it was billed as the world's first LGBT-themed sports series. Hosted by Paul DeBoy,"Gay sports show pops out of closet ; Raunchy Locker Room mixes Benny Hill, jocks and 'pure '80s porn'". ''Toronto Star'', January 24, 2002. the series also featured contributions from Paul Bellini, Nina Arsenault, and Jason Ruta Jason Ruta (born August 7, 1979, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian television personality and actor.Ben Kaplan, "Less chalk and cheese, more steak and eggs; Jason Ruta and Arisa Cox took two very different paths to end up at the same spot, and .... References 2002 Canadian television series debuts 2005 Canadian television series endings 2000s Canadian LGBT-related television series 2000s Canadian sports television series OutTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming Sexual orientation and sports 2000s Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PJ DeBoy
Paul J. "PJ" DeBoy (born June 7, 1971) is an American actor and talk show host. Early life DeBoy was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He shares his name with his cousin, actor Paul DeBoy. He and Paul are cousins of Delegate Steven J. DeBoy Sr. Career DeBoy started his career in New York, where he performed with Miss Coco Peru and Kiki and Herb. He moved to Toronto in 1998. There, he hosted the show ''Locker Room'' on PrideVision and the late-night talk show ''Last Call'' on Toronto 1,"Pop goes the news; Zev Shalev, the brain behind Toronto 1's current affairs shows, admits to being celebrity obsessed". ''Toronto Star'', December 20, 2003. and has appeared in various feature films such as '' Hedwig and the Angry Inch'' (2001)'', DoUlike2watch.com'' (2003), and ''Shortbus ''Shortbus'' is a 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The plot revolves around a sexually diverse ensemble of colorful characters trying desperately to connec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Arsenault
Nina Arsenault (born January 20, 1974) is a Canadian performance artist, freelance writer, and former sex worker who works in theatre, dance, video, photography and visual art. Early life Arsenault grew up in a trailer park in Beamsville, Ontario. She has two master's degrees. At one point prior to her transition, Arsenault was an instructor at York University, where she taught acting. She has said she realized that she was a trans woman in August 1996 and her transition was in full force around 1998. By 2007 she had undergone over $150,000 in surgery during her transition, financed through work in the sex trade as a web cam girl, a stripper and a self-described "hooker erforming oral sex only. Career Arsenault wrote a regular column on transgender issues for 36 issues of ''fab'', a biweekly Toronto-based LGBT magazine. Her last column was in early 2007. She has appeared on the television series ''Train 48'' and ''KinK'', as well as the Showtime movie '' Soldier's Girl''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OutTV (Canadian TV Channel) Original Programming
OutTV (stylized OUTtv) is a Canadian English language specialty channel that was launched in September 2001. It broadcasts general entertainment and lifestyle programming aimed at the LGBT community. The network is owned by OUTtv Media Global Inc., majority owned (51%) by Ronald N. Stern through OM Acquisitions. History As PrideVision The channel was launched on September 7, 2001 as PrideVision TV. Owned by Headline Media Group, it was Canada's first 24-hour cable television channel targeted at LGBT audiences. It was also the second LGBT-focused channel to be established in the world, after the Gay Cable Network in the U.S., which shut down in 2001. PrideVision TV was one of 21 digital specialty services that were granted a Category 1 license by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000; all digital cable and direct broadcast satellite providers would be obliged to carry the network in their lineup. Headline Media Group ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Canadian Sports Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Canadian Television Series Endings
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Ruta
Jason Ruta (born August 7, 1979, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian television personality and actor.Ben Kaplan, "Less chalk and cheese, more steak and eggs; Jason Ruta and Arisa Cox took two very different paths to end up at the same spot, and they couldn't be happier about it". ''National Post'', December 13, 2008. Ruta first came to prominence as a participant in the second season of '' U8TV: The Lofters''."M8, H8 & CRE8 on U8TV ; Eight fresh faces ready to be taped, watched and talked about 24/7". ''Toronto Star'', January 8, 2002. The show followed the lives of eight Canadians living and working in a fully wired loft TV studio, producing and hosting shows. Unlike season one's Mathieu Chantelois, who was openly gay from the very beginning of his time on the show, Ruta came out as gay during his time in the loft. He hosted the Gemini-nominated magazine series ''So Gay TV'' for U8TV and PrideVision,"Reality bites: An oral history of The Lofters". '' The Grid'', August 7, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands division. The newspaper's offices are located at One Yonge Street in the Harbourfront neighbourhood of Toronto. The newspaper was established in 1892 as the ''Evening Star'' and was later renamed the ''Toronto Daily Star'' in 1900, under Joseph E. Atkinson. Atkinson was a major influence in shaping the editorial stance of the paper, with the paper having reflected his values until his death in 1948. The paper was renamed the ''Toronto Star'' in 1971. The newspaper introduced a Sunday edition in 1973. History The ''Star'' was created in 1892 by striking '' Toronto News'' printers and writers, led by future mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocken, who became the newspaper's founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bellini
Paul Bellini (born September 12, 1959) is a Canadian comedy writer and television actor best known for his work on the comedy series ''The Kids in the Hall'' and ''This Hour Has 22 Minutes''. He has worked on several projects with Josh Levy and Scott Thompson, and has appeared in small parts on television shows and films. The Kids in the Hall Paul Bellini attended York University in 1978, where he met Scott Thompson, later to become a member of The Kids in the Hall. For the troupe's eponymous TV series, which ran from 1988 to 1995, Bellini served as Thompson's writing partner. He received several Gemini Award, Emmy Award and CableACE Award nominations as part of the show's writing team.Andrew Matte, "Is there one last chance to touch Paul Bellini?: Helping out the kids: Gemini-winning writer pitching ideas in Toronto". ''National Post'', January 22, 2000. During the same era, Bellini and Thompson also collaborated in a queercore band called Mouth Congress.Mike Vanderbilt"Now yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Post
The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with Monday released as a digital e-edition only.National Post to eliminate Monday print edition , June 19, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2017 The newspaper is distributed in the provinces of , |
Sports
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
