Queer Joy with Daniel MacIvor
Queer Joy with Daniel MacIvor
Podcast Description
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 Poulin, musician/composer Rufus Wainwright and our legacy award winner philanthropist Salah Bachir. Join host Daniel MacIvor where he shares unforgettable moments from the awards and interviews where he sits down for honest and insightful conversations with our Champions and their chosen charities. Experience Queer Joy with Daniel MacIvor, some true queer Champions and our PTP Pink Awards with host Queen Priyanka
Pink Triangle Press formed in 1971 as a collective to publish The Body Politic – a monthly newspaper that is regarded today as a game-changer in the queer media landscape. And in 1984 as an offshoot of The Body Politic PTP formed Xtra Magazine, more focused on social life and culture, lighter fare, available free in bars. And when The Body Politic closed its operation in 1987 Xtra took over as PTP’s main publication mixing arts and culture coverage with harder news stories. There were print editions published out of Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa. In 2015 Xtra moved entirely online where it continues the legacy of the original publication with award-winning journalism that strives to be – as its banner proudly states – queering the conversation. Check them out at xtramagazine.com.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of queer excellence and community advocacy, highlighting the stories of awarded champions like Elliot Page, Latoya Nugent, and Rufus Wainwright. Specific episodes explore topics such as 2SLGBTQIA+ refugee advocacy in Latoya Nugent's episode, the intersection of queer and Indigenous identities with Jeremy Dutcher, and the importance of sports inclusivity with Marie-Philip Poulin.

Celebrating the Champions and Changemakers of the PTP 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 Poulin, musician/composer Rufus Wainwright and our legacy award winner philanthropist Salah Bachir. Join host Daniel MacIvor where he shares unforgettable moments from the awards and interviews where he sits down for honest and insightful conversations with our Champions and their chosen charities. Experience Queer Joy with Daniel MacIvor, some true queer Champions and our PTP Pink Awards with host Queen Priyanka
Pink Triangle Press formed in 1971 as a collective to publish The Body Politic – a monthly newspaper that is regarded today as a game-changer in the queer media landscape. And in 1984 as an offshoot of The Body Politic PTP formed Xtra Magazine, more focused on social life and culture, lighter fare, available free in bars. And when The Body Politic closed its operation in 1987 Xtra took over as PTP’s main publication mixing arts and culture coverage with harder news stories. There were print editions published out of Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa. In 2015 Xtra moved entirely online where it continues the legacy of the original publication with award-winning journalism that strives to be – as its banner proudly states – queering the conversation. Check them out at xtramagazine.com.
“None of us stand alone.”
To finish this season we return to the awards night as queer icon and musical superstar Sam Smith introduces us to the 2025 Pink Award Legacy winner singer/composer/trans pioneer Beverly Glenn-Copeland. This episodes features an a up-close-and-personal chat with Glenn. Daniel and Glenn talk about the complicated nature of legacy and Glenn’s wife Elizabeth joins the conversation to share her experience as Glenn’s creative collaborator, and now care-giver, as the couple embraces the true heart of solidarity with Glenn’s recent diagnosis of Major Cognitive Disorder. To close the episode we share Glenn and Elizabeth’s powerful performance of the duet Harbour from their recent album “Laughter in the Summer”.

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