Ruth DyckFehderau- October 15, 2026
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Loud & Queer: The Authorized Version
The year was 1991 and Darrin Hagen (in those days, just as widely known as Gloria Hole) was vexed.
He had stood up to the new owner of the Edmonton gay bar Flashback and had consequently lost his bartending job. Alberta’s homophobia was getting so much airtime. The Delwin Vriend seven-year saga for sexual orientation as a protected human right had kicked off. The procession of AIDS-related funerals was getting longer. And, to top it off, the provincial government was having conversations around “community standards” and arts funding, conversations that smelled exactly like censorship of all things queer.
What was a young just-fired queen to do?
