The Pinco Triangle

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rdf:langString Yves Simard

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rdf:langString Patrick Crowe

rdf:langString Tristan R. Whiston

rdf:langString Cathy Gulkin

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rdf:langString Alan Moon

rdf:langString Keith Clarkson

rdf:langString Michael Fitzgerald

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rdf:langString The Pinco Triangle is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Patrick Crowe and Tristan R. Whiston and released in 1999. A profile of LGBT life in Sudbury, Ontario, the film mixes interviews with past and present LGBT residents of the city with vignettes depicting aspects of the directors' own childhoods in the city, acted by a cast including Michael "Bitch Diva" Fitzgerald and Lorraine Segato. The film takes its name from blending the pink triangle, a common LGBT symbol, with the INCO Triangle, the former employee magazine of INCO's mining operations in Sudbury. The interviewees included Michael Boyuk, a performer now associated with The B-Girlz drag comedy troupe, and Paulette Gagnon, an arts administrator who was previously profiled in the documentary film Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) in 1996. The film's climax is a drag production number staged in front of the Big Nickel. The directors started making the film in 1992, while Crowe was working for the National Film Board of Canada; it began when Crowe made a "pinco triangle" to carry with him at that year's Toronto Pride Parade, and conducted "person on the street" interviews with former Sudburians he met while displaying the symbol. Due to limited financing, the film was not fully completed until 1998.