Celebrating the Champions and Changemakers of the 2024 PTP Pink Awards Queer Joy is a seven part podcast celebrating the 2024 Pink Triangle Press Pink Awards. The PTP Pink Awards are a national pay-it-forward celebration of queer excellence where community champions choose changemaking charities from the queer community to uplift and amplify. In 2024 we celebrated champions writer/actor/producer Elliot Page, musician/composer Jeremy Dutcher, activist Latoya Nugent, athlete Marie-Philip Pouli ...
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EPISODE ONE – Genesis “Without heartbreak how can we know joy, without protest how can we know celebration.” Playwright, performer and content producer at Pink Triangle Press, Daniel MacIvor, leads us through the journey of creating the inaugural PTP Pink Awards, an LGBTQ+ Activist Award Ceremony and Toronto Awards Ceremony celebrating LGBTQ Advoca…
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Jeremy Dutcher and 2 Spirited People of the 1st Nations
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21:08EPISODE THREE – Jeremy Dutcher and 2 Spirited People of the 1st Nations “The Indigenous Renaissance has begun.” In part one, Daniel speaks with warm and wonderful composer/musician Jeremy Dutcher from Jeremy’s home in Montreal a few weeks before the Pink Awards, Canada’s top LGBTQ+ Activist Award Ceremony. Jeremy talks about where his queer and Ind…
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EPISODE SIX – Rufus Wainwright and pflag Canada “A new kind of family.” Anchoring this episode is Rufus’ breathtaking performance of his song “Going to a Town” at the PTP Pink Awards, a Toronto awards ceremony celebrating Canada’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy and LGBTQ icons and LGBTQ+ celebrities. In a heartfelt and personal interview from Rufus’ LA home, Dani…
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EPISODE FIVE – Marie-Philip Poulin and You Can Play “If you can play, you can play.” One of the world’s greatest hockey players, Marie-Philip Poulin, joins us in a break from practice a few weeks before the LGBTQ+ advocacy awards, to share her inspiring story on how she came to lead the top team in the PWHL. To experience her humility and team spir…
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EPISODE TWO – Elliot Page and Skipping Stone “Thank you for being the light under the door.” In part one, Daniel talks with fellow East Coaster and LGBTQ icon Elliot Page about the success of Elliot’s New York Times Bestselling memoir Page Boy. They speak about what Elliot learned from the process and how the book’s themes resound with notions of h…
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EPISODE SEVEN – Legacy “It’s a hundred and fifty dollars more than we had this morning.” To close this season, we re-visit more hilarious and heartbreaking moments from the inaugural 2024 Pink Award, Canada’s LGBTQ+ advocacys and LGBTQ+ activist award ceremony celebrating queer icons making a difference. Daniel speaks with our first Legacy Award wi…
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EPISODE FOUR – Latoya Nugent and Among Friends “An incredible friendship, an incredible pride.” This episode’s Pink Award Champion from the LGBTQ+ activist award ceremony Pink Awards and LGBTQ icon is activist Latoya Nugent. Daniel speaks with Latoya in her office at Toronto’s Rainbow Railroad and discusses her work with the 2SLGBTQIA+ refugee advo…
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2:30Queer Joy with Daniel MacIvor Season 1: Celebrating the Champions and Changemakers of the 2024 PTP Pink Awards Queer Joy is a seven part podcast celebrating the 2024 Pink Triangle Press Pink Awards. The PTP Pink Awards are a national pay-it-forward celebration of queer excellence where community champions choose changemaking charities from the quee…
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