![]() The beauty of the rest of the province is also on full display, on road trips to the Northumberland Strait, Cape Breton, Sable River, a cabin just outside Pugwash, and even an unnamed empty island where boaters are permitted to camp for the night, where Page recalls "stars pulsing, reaching, as if forming sentences" First experience at a gay bar Her visibility meant the world to me," Page writes. "Running into her on the sidewalk, seeing her at a party, eating the wraps she made at the mall, I didn't have a crush, but I yearned to be near what was possible. (Tourism Nova Scotia/CBC)īrushes with out and proud queer people for the first time, like at the Halifax Shopping Centre food court, where Page finds himself drawn to a woman working at The Healthy Way sandwich shop. Reflections Cabaret, The Pavillion, and the Halifax Brewery Farmer's Market are just a few places in Halifax mentioned in Page's book. There's also bike rides around the city, like one instance where Page pedals across the peninsula to deliver a greeting card purchased at Biscuit General Store with "suggestive lesbian innuendo" to an unrequited crush. He writes about nights at the Pavillion, an all-ages punk venue on the Halifax Commons, where teenagers mosh in "a pit overflowing with pubescent pheromones." ![]() There's trips to the Halifax Brewery Farmer's Market downtown on Lower Water Street, "where I've spent countless Saturday mornings weaving through the crowds, collecting produce, eating fresh cinnamon buns, listening to the fiddle echo through the main hall." Page might be a celebrity, famous enough to have sat across from Oprah on multiple occasions, but in Pageboy, Halifax is as much of a main character as Hollywood. In Elliot Page's new memoir, Pageboy, the Oscar-nominated transgender actor writes about coming of age as a young queer person in Halifax and all the difficulties of growing up at a time, and in a place, rife with intolerance.Ī recent New York Times book review of Pageboy described Page as "possibly the most famous trans man in the world," and there's no question that Page is the most famous queer Nova Scotian. ![]()
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