WINNIPEG, Feb 13, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Last Wednesday, Canadian Alliance MP Jim Pankiw objected to the $20,000 public funding for a homosexual film festival in Saskatchewan. In the House of Commons Pankiw called the funding of the Queer City Cinema film festival a “strange misuse of taxpayers’ money” by the Canada Council.
The Globe and Mail reported Friday that the festival began in Saskatoon and moved to Winnipeg this week. Christian Truth Activists CTA, a group protesting the meeting, has distributed a leaflet noting that the films depict bondage, necrophilia and “the violent raping of children.” Gary Varro, the festival’s artistic director, claims the leaflet’s accusations are false. Bill Whatcott of CTA, who was on-site to protest the festival said that it drew far fewer people than last year.
(Globe and Mail, Friday, February 9, 2001)
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