We’re celebrating 8 big years of GGT this year with a look back at some of the favourite stories we’ve published.

Shaun Proulx talks to Rev. Troy Perry

(From the former GGT column, ‘Step Into My Parlour’)

Billed as Canada’s largest and sexiest weekend, the Mr. Leatherman Toronto Competition is back at the end of this month. Included among the judges is the Reverend Troy Perry.

Nearly four decades ago while Perry was in his twenties his watershed disclosure of his homosexuality destroyed his life and branded him a pariah. In a headline-making scandal the Pentecostal minister from California – first licensed in Florida at the age of fifteen – lost his wife, his ministry, and was abandoned by his two sons amidst persecution leading to a failed suicide attempt. Read the full story

We’re celebrating 8 big years of GGT this year with a look back at some of the favourite stories we’ve published.

STEPPING OUT OF THE CLOSET – AT FIFTY-EIGHT

(From the former GGT column, ‘Turnstyle’ with guest writer ‘Mr. X’ – September, 2002)

EDITOR’S NOTE: MR. X IS A PSEUDONYM TO PROTECT THE IDENTITY OF THIS PROMINENT TORONTO BUSINESSMAN NOT OUT TO HIS WIFE AND
THREE GROWN CHILDREN.

When I was asked to write this it was with a great deal of trepidation that I agreed. After some thought I realized that there are no doubt hundreds like me, struggling as I’ve struggled with the realization after years of being married that I am gay. Read the full story

We’re celebrating 8 big years of GGT this year with a look back at some of the favourite stories we’ve published.

DATE-AND-DASH

(From the former GGT column, ‘Dating With Scissors’ by Jesse Trautmann)

My friend Matt met Chris at a bar one night. After some chatting, they discovered that they had quite a bit in common.  They both used to work for Chrysler, and both now make a living navigating through the cubicle labyrinths of RBC’s banking offices in west Toronto. Matt got Chris’s number. A date was planned, but by the next week, neither boy had called the other. Instead, ‘we text messaged each other, like 1,800 times,’ Matt said, ‘and finally set a date for Friday.’

Little did Matt know that this incessant texting behaviour was foreshadowing the outcome of a soon-to-be-ill-fated date. Read the full story