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"So that started to influence my own practice, and Hanlan's Point is a place that I really love." Glynn said he started taking mental snapshots of scenes from the beach that he thought were "beautiful or inspiring or funny." "And then I kind of came up with this concept about this whole 'Garden of Hedon' thing, which is about this idea of Hanlan's as this sacred queer space. "In the past few years, I started becoming more inspired by painters that did homoerotic work," he says.
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He's appropriately titled the series with a pun: "The Garden of Hedon." One of his next projects is a series of paintings about Hanlan's Point, the clothing-optional queer beach on the Toronto Islands.
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While the screening of Thot or Not at Inside Out will kick off Glynn's summer, he'll be spending much of the rest of it at the beach - at least when it comes to his work. In 2020, he released his debut children's book Rain Boy, which he describes as "a queer, ugly duckling story," and earlier this year, he won two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators for his works " Wonder Makes Me Soar" and " Together Alone at the Zoom Funeral."ĭylan Glynn at Hanlan's Point Beach in Toronto. Then all of a sudden at 3 a.m., I start to come up with these puns that amused me, and then this story just started to take shape." Screening at this year's Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, the short is just one of the many projects Glynn - a Toronto-based painter, animator and author - has offered up as of late. "And then also gossiping with my boyfriend at the time about people in the community. "I was watching Sex and the City way too much," Glynn says, remembering when he conceived of the short. With his new animated short film Thot or Not, Dylan Glynn couldn't help but wonder: what if he channeled his inner Carrie Bradshaw to explore the social media habits of gay men? Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens.