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Intergenerational Chats

QUIRK-E

Sunday March 1st , 2026 12:00 – 4:00pm All AgesCreekside Community Centre, 1 Athletes Way, Vancouver BC V5Y 0B1 Have ...

Lonely

Garth McIver

Only the Lonely Know the Way I Feel, Roy Orbison song 1961 It is the mid 1960s in rural Manitoba. ...

Mistaken Identity

Sheila Gilhooly

This memoir is set in Vancouver in the 1980s. One night I was supposed to be sleeping over at Judy ...

Adopted Grammas

Bridget Coll

I am not a parent but I am a grandparent. I never thought I would be called Gramma Bridget until ...

Celebration (Or…) – 2025

QUIRK-E

There are so many ways of appreciating and celebrating the good and the beautiful, be it personal joyful events in ...

The Last Goodbye

Chris Morrissey

This excerpt from The Last Goodbye by Chris Morrissey was originally published in Basically Queer in 2017, p 98. Cyndia ...

k. d. and Me

Annie Newman

She lifted me off of my seat when she sashayed into the bar. How could she not! She did that ...

Family Secrets

Jan Bruce

I could hear my grandmother packing my things, readying for my departure. “I’ve packed all your things. When you’ve finished ...

Love in the 1950s – One Woman’s Journey

Greta Hurst

It was the kissing that reminded me of my first relationship with a woman in the 1950s. I hadn’t thought ...

Results

Garth McIver

His laboratory results came with the afternoon delivery. Judie, my receptionist, called Mark and he will be my last appointment ...

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