Queer Joy with Daniel MacIvor

“ 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 conve...

“ We’re still punks.” Back at the Pink Awards ceremony we check in with our hosts Hollywood Jade and Emily Hampshire as Emily prepares for her big “Diva Moment” to end the evening, and in that meet our Anti-Diva and final Champion for 2025, queer icon and provocateur Carole Pope. Daniel sits down with Carole in Toronto to talk about the new documentary on her life and work, ANTI-DIVA: The Carole P...

“ We need to stand up and do something.”  For this episode Daniel had the opportunity to sit down at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto (one of this season’s award sponsors) and speak with the well-spoken and passionate civil rights attorney and activist Douglas Elliot. Doug talks how he came to law and activism and how those two ideas are inextricably linked for him. In part two we meet the warm and...

“ This why I’m doing all of this.”   It this Episode Daniel sits down with the youngest Champion the Pink Awards has yet celebrated, writer/director/performer Devery Jacobs who has been central to an Indigenious renaissance in film and television in North America over the last five years. Devery talks about her experience voicing Kahhori, the Marvel Universe’s first Kahnawake superhero, and speaks...

“ Who needs the ‘yes’ the most?” In part one Daniel speaks with writer/performer/producer and Pink Award Champion Zaiba Baig about her Peabody Award winning CBC/HBO series “Sort Of” and her journey to into television from the world of theatre. Zaiba introduces us to her Changemaker, Toronto’s Paprika Theatre Company, a youth-run professional theatre company, meets professional development artistic...

“ What a cool idea for an awards show!”  In part one of this episode Daniel sits down with Champion Harper Steele at her home in LA to talk about her journey through “Will and Harper” the documentary she made with her dear friend and writing partner comedian Will Ferrell. Harper talks about her experience as a person who transition after having had a full and storied career, the challenges she fac...

“ Our support goes beyond sponsorship.” Playwright, performer and content producer at Pink Triangle Press, Daniel MacIvor, takes us through the 2025 PTP Pink Awards by focusing on highlights of the evening with hosts Hollywood Jade and Emily Hampshire. This episode focuses on the profound effect that sponsors have in realizing the event itself and forwarding the Pink Awards’ mission. To that end w...

EPISODE THREE – Jeremy Dutcher and 2 Spirited People of the 1st Nations “The Indigenous Renaissance has begun.”  In part one, Daniel speaks with warm and wonderful composer/musician Jeremy Dutcher from Jeremy’s home in Montreal a few weeks before the Pink Awards, Canada’s top LGBTQ+ Activist Award Ceremony . Jeremy talks about where his queer and Indigenous identities intersect, and how that opens...

EPISODE SIX – Rufus Wainwright and pflag Canada “A new kind of family.” Anchoring this episode is Rufus’ breathtaking performance of his song “Going to a Town” at the PTP Pink Awards, a Toronto awards ceremony celebrating Canada’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy and LGBTQ icons and LGBTQ+ celebrities .  In a heartfelt and personal interview from Rufus’ LA home, Daniel speaks with Rufus and his husband, Jorn Weisb...

EPISODE FIVE – Marie-Philip Poulin and You Can Play “If you can play, you can play.” One of the world’s greatest hockey players, Marie-Philip Poulin, joins us in a break from practice a few weeks before the LGBTQ+ advocacy awards , to share her inspiring story on how she came to lead the top team in the PWHL.  To experience her humility and team spirit is to understand the value of sport and play...

EPISODE SEVEN – Legacy “It’s a hundred and fifty dollars more than we had this morning.” To close this season, we re-visit more hilarious and heartbreaking moments from the inaugural 2024 Pink Award, Canada’s LGBTQ+ advocacy s and LGBTQ+ activist award ceremony celebrating queer icons making a difference. Daniel speaks with our first Legacy Award winner, philanthropist, activist, art collector, bo...

EPISODE FOUR – Latoya Nugent and Among Friends “An incredible friendship, an incredible pride.” This episode’s Pink Award Champion from the LGBTQ+ activist award ceremony Pink Awards and LGBTQ icon   is activist Latoya Nugent.  Daniel speaks with Latoya in her office at Toronto’s Rainbow Railroad and discusses her work with the 2SLGBTQIA+ refugee advocacy organization and her personal story of act...

EPISODE TWO – Elliot Page and Skipping Stone “Thank you for being the light under the door.”  In part one, Daniel talks with fellow East Coaster and LGBTQ icon Elliot Page about the success of Elliot’s New York Times Bestselling memoir Page Boy. They speak about what Elliot learned from the process and how the book’s themes resound with notions of home. Later, we spend some time at the Pink Awards...

EPISODE ONE – Genesis “Without heartbreak how can we know joy, without protest how can we know celebration.” Playwright, performer and content producer at Pink Triangle Press, Daniel MacIvor, leads us through the journey of creating the inaugural PTP Pink Awards, an LGBTQ+ Activist Award Ceremony and Toronto Awards Ceremony celebrating LGBTQ Advocacy .   We re-visit moment-making highlights of the...

Queer Joy with Daniel MacIvor   Season 1: 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 c...