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

“God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!” – Rev. Troy Perry