''Super Queeroes'' is a Canadian multimedia web project, which launched in 2019 on
CBC Arts
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. Created as a
Pride Month
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project to mark the 50th anniversary of the
Stonewall Riots
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, the project featured
LGBTQ
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The LGBT term is ...
Canadians creating short video, essay or art projects in tribute to another influential LGBTQ Canadian trailblazer. It was conceived by writer and producer
Peter Knegt
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Knegt began his career as ...
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The project selected a total of 69 honorees because Stonewall had taken place in 1969; seven of the honorees were duos or groups, but were counted as a single honoree because they were being named collectively rather than as individuals.
The project won the
Canadian Screen Award
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for Best Interactive Production at the
8th Canadian Screen Awards
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Billy-Ray Belcourt
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Belcourt's works encompass a variety of topics and themes, including decolonial love, grief, intimacy and queer sexuality, and the role of Indigenous women in soc ...
Bif Naked
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Early life and education
Bif Naked was born in New Delhi, India, to teenage parents a ...
Deanna Bowen
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Martha Chaves
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Meryn Cadell
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Cadell is a transgender man who transiti ...
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Brent Carver
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Douglas Coupland
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Toller Cranston
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Thirza Cuthand
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He is credited with coining the term ''Indigiqueer'', for modern Indigenous LGBTQ people.
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Amber Dawn
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Michelle DuBarry
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Stephen Dunn
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Ali Eisner
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Brad Fraser
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Ladyfag
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Background
Born in Toronto, Canada, she ran a store selling vintage clothing and antiques. After becoming inv ...
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Zachari Logan
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Ashley MacIsaac
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Norman McLaren
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Rick Mercer
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Charles Pachter
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David Rakoff
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, Tedd Robinson, Walter K. Scott,
Tommy Sexton
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Educated in St. John's, he was an honours student before quitting after Grade ...
, Rowan Sky,
Scott Symons
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Joshua Whitehead
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An Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba,Zoe Whittall
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CBC Arts
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