Gordon Bowness is an award-winning writer, editor, and producer with more than 35 years of journalism and entertainment experience. A cultural commentator with a passion for social justice, he has contributed greatly to 2SLGBTQIA+ media in Canada. He is the founding editor of two queer magazines: In Toronto (now In Magazine) and Go Big. And he has played significant roles at Xtra Magazine, one of the world’s leading queer and trans publications, since 1992, recently as Xtra’s executive editor from 2019 to 2024. Born in Singapore and raised in Winnipeg, Gordon has called Toronto home for almost 40 years.
As the federal government overhauls Canada’s outdated Broadcast Act, arts organizations and other analysts – like those convened by OCAD University’s Cultural Policy Hub – suggest how to make policy consultation processes more meaningful.
Guided by concepts of participatory governance and bottom-up decision-making, national arts service organization Mass Culture is building networks across the arts sector with the long-term goal of fundamentally changing Canadians’ relationship to the arts.
