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

Two men dominate Toronto today: Haydain Neale and Tom Ford.  Ford’s film debut, A Single Man, will be screened for VIPs at The Varsity tonight, followed by a star-studded fundraising tribute concert to the late great Jacksoul frontman.  I dropped by The Shaun Proulx Show in advance to talk about both.

Related reading: Shaun Proulx talked to Haydain Neale for his former GGT column, Step Into My Parlour.