Beyond the Ghetto - Within the Village

Stephen Emery – Videographer – Video Podcaster
Beyond the Ghetto Within the Village Podcast

On-Line Media Outlet Information

Stephen Emery is a videographer and podcaster who has been documenting events, rallies, and LGBT artists/musicians in the Vancouver/Lower Mainland LGBT Community for the past 15 years and is currently producing a video project called Pride Across the Strait.  Stephen Emery has previously been a writer for Angles Magazine (1994-98), The Coming Out Show (1998-1999) and RadioGay.ca (2005-2008).  

Stephen’s recent video work can be seen at:
YouTube Stephen Emery channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/strumcody
Our Media Feed - http://www.ourmedia.org/user/83521

Official Beyond the Ghetto Within the Village website:
http://community.livejournal.com/beyondtheghetto/
iTunes Podcast Feed:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=135048300&s=143455
BTGWTV Online Archive Audio:  http://www.ourmedia.org/user/123329

Contact:   email: btgwtv@gmail.com

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Hello Stephen,

Thank you for applying for accreditation for selected Vancouver Pride Society 2009 events, Educate, Liberate, Celebrate.

We can confirm accreditation for East Side Pride, Gay Day @ Playland, Picnic in the Park, Davie Street Pride Party, Pride Parade and Sunset Beach Pride Festival. 

Best,
Alan Pronger
Director, Media
Vancouver Pride Society

office: 604-687-0955  mobile: 778-386-5413  fax: 604-687-0965
email: apronger@vancouverpride.ca
www.vancouverpride.ca

A gay youth NPD candidate goofing around with HARMLESS sexual innuendo with friends at a private party -where friends are probably mocking sexual conservativism (as gays often do) has to resign because some salacious smear mongerer decides to publish his private photos to gain what feeble advantage they may have in an election !?  Gawd this Province is freaking uptight, or are the Liberals just too tight a-holes...





For the REAL Ray Lam and the good he does for the Queer community and for Youth, go to my past Beyond the Ghetto Show: BTG12 Beyond Youthquest.

Canadian society is about to enter its next largest partner-benefits social movement.

Two 86 year old twins who have been living as partners for most of their lives are urging a class action lawsuit to grant NONconjugal benefits to partners who are NOT in sexual relationships.

This is something I have been waiting for, for years, and I have been talking about with a gay friend of mine whom I have known for 21 years but who is not my sexual partner (he is also single).

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/497314

On Beyond the Ghetto / Within the Village videocast

On November 28th 2008, the anti-gay group with the Godhatesfags website, headed by Fred Phelps, threatened to come to the Commercial Drive presentation of the play The Laramie Project and protest the opening night. Vancouver's LGBTQ community help a counter-rally that evening. Phelp's right wing religious radicals from the USA never showed up. More on the story at Xtra West website



You can find the video BELOW as well as on the show's iTunes feed listed on the site as of December 29th, 2008.




Click on strumcody's youTube channel to watch in high quality [recommended]

It is also on my videocast feed under LISTEN on the menu on the left.

This is Matthew Presidente's performance of 4-Bidden Love which I enhance with FInal Cut Pro. I am taking Level 2 of Final Cut Pro at Langara in October.


Online Videos by Veoh.com

Link is at:
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v16015490cXHqGfWA

It is also on strumcody's YouTube [click on high quality for best resolution]

Once again Pride 08 gets marred by a violent attack. 

Story in Vancouver Sun.

Story in Metro

CTV story with video

The earlier bashing was allegedly done by homophobic, anti-racist skinheads. Story is here in Xtra West.
More on the East Side Pride bashings and the victims' actions.

At Matthew Presidente's Groove Box show - tonight's theme being the Pride Hangover Show, we dedicated two songs to the victims and the people affected and injured in these bashings [including our band which was involved as a witness to the East Side Pride bashing]. Creep - for those who feel alienated by violence and oppression and Hedwig's Midnight Radio - how we rise above oppression and lift up our hands.

Dedication tunes performed at Numbers Caberet Post Pride Show: [with intro dedication comments by Stephen Emery]
1. Creep - Radiohead Cover by Stephen Emery, Matthew Presidente, Hazen Rice
2. Midnight Radio - Hedwig Cover by Matthew Presidente, Stephen Emery
[note: Matthew's intro comments and taping of this tune were from previous week's Pride show but the next week we dedicated it to victims - SE]
[recordings - courtesy matthewpresidente.com]



[a pic of the alleged psycho basher]

As of August 6th two people remain in hospital with serious injuries.  Word on the street is that this 2nd attack was not a bashing but a psycho mental patient.

Either way, a great 30th Pride has been marred somewhat and we Numbers performers and those of us at radiogay.ca hope that the victims' psychological and physical recoveries are swift and thorough.

Desolate Shore @ Surrey Pride - Stephen Emery (host of BTGWTV)

Desolate Shore @ Surrey BC Pride


This tune will be included in a larger soon-to-come videocast called Pride Across the Strait. Watch for it in mid to late August.

I am still rocking on the memory of this concert two weeks ago in my city of Burnaby BC, Canada. Here is a great clip by the videographers at Xtra West.



Hey folks. Check back in August for the BTG/WTV video Pride Across the Straight where we bring you coverage of Victoria, Vancouver, and Surrey Pride performers and their fabulous festival audiences.

This is my first ever TV interview. (I pretended I was back on Co-Op). I interviewed local community media host Imtiaz Popat whom I used to volunteer with at Angles Magazine in the 90s. We know each other's work and style well so he was an easy person to interview. I also helped with the editing.

A chilling BBC report on the prevalence of HIV in the British barebacking porn industry stating that in the UK HIV infection in gay men is at its HIGHEST RATE in history!

Watch the online stream here.

Stephen's personal opinion is that barebacking porn videos, both gay and straight, should not be allowed to be commercially distributed until a cure or vaccine for AIDS is found. Not so much because I think the protrayal can lead to harm by inspiration - it might or it might not depending on the individual - but because it turns out that, despite "precautions",  it is an unacceptable occupational risk to the performers.

Hey folks:

This is a video and interview, along with performances past and present about Vancouver Drag Artist Paige Turner. [Before you play this you might want to scan down and turn OFF the Christmas show which starts with "radiogay.ca"]

Matthew Presidente and I do a fairly tight acoustic version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch's TEAR ME DOWN at Numbers Caberet Vancouver in March 2008.
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I have decided that cannot continue to do my internet radio show Beyond the Ghetto - Within the Village any longer. I have been doing this myself for some time and I really need more support and a team to do the high quality programming that I want to do. Further, as the Vancouver community becomes larger and more corporate, it is getting too difficult to spend the time gaining media access to the events without a steady crew of volunteers and the clout of larger or traditional media outlets.

Therefore, I will be working on my music and my writing and plan to be very active in those areas. Perhaps I will post some of that creative work on this feed.

I want to say a sincere and deep thanks to my co-hosts Ron, Andrew, and Shinji and the support of those at radiogay.ca (Tim and Joe).
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Last Show - Sayonara Show featuring Drag Artist Paige Turner.

The video interview I have done with Paige Turner will be the last thing I broadcast when I finish it soon. I need to work on my career, music, and writing.

I want to say to those who have helped me with shows, thank you very much for your support over the past two years. It is very much appreciated. We had some great shows.

So watch for that video, coming in a couple of weeks.

Stephen

Here is a Local band named Locus on CHannel M TV Vancouver.  Brothers Kelvin and Jase are twins (of course) and very talented musicians.
Their tunes apear on out Multicultural Perspectives shows.


WE at BTG are still on hiatus. We will be back someday.  In the near future with some Halloween videos.

No other city in Canada has a halloween parade with tens of thousands of people in costume.  Vancouver has the Parade of Lost Souls.  This year, 2007, was AWEsome.

Stephen talks to Alex and Andrew, partners who have been in a two year long distance relationship across Canada: one English and one French Canadian. The trials and tribulations of loving from a distance, across cultures.



Music: [chosen by Drew - except Ellegarden]

1. Leaving on A Jet Plane - Blink 182
2. Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
3. Take it All Away - Puddle of Mudd
4. Run - Snow Patrol
5. Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
6. I Hate It - Ellegarden

We're taking a much needed break for awhile. Please listen to this and our past shows.  We will be back in the near future.  Thanks for listening [go to Listen link on the left to choose a podcatcher and iTunes link]

Here is a little clip of an interracial couple talking about stereotypes in the gay community on the Tyra Banks show (which we never watch :)





We have a new show in production about long distance dating.  Coming soon; be patient ;)

Do the AIDS Walk for Life in your major city this coming weekend September 23rd.  It will do us all good.


AIDS is NOT over. AIDS is spreading alarmingly worldwide.  India now has the most citizens in the world with AIDS (surpassing Africa).  HIV infection amongst heterosexual women, men, and youth is growing. First nations communities, even in the remote arctic, are in crisis with this syndrome. IDVU populations have to deal with co-infections of HIV and HepC on top of harrowing poverty and homelessness.  HIV infection among gays remains steady now though it was going down a few years ago; new infections hitting our youngest generations hardest. As family structures change, middle age and senior citizens are being left out of the safer sex messages geared to youth and young adults; and are getting infected.

There is hope in the developed world with the newer medications, extending the life expectancy for HIV from 10 years to 24. However, living daily with toxic medications on a 24 hour schedule has created a challenging set of obstacles for many. For the first time in history, children who have been born with HIV are entering adulthood - the first generation of kids who have never been HIV negative in their lives. Nonetheless, people who live in poverty and who don't have resources to health alternatives and current treatments still die quickly. 

AIDS is not over. Help HIV+ people live quality lives. Help new education programs reach newly vulnerable populations: Do the AIDS Walk for LIFE in a large city close to you, September 23rd.

AIDS is not over, it has just shifted; people are now fighting to live. Nutrition matters, living above poverty matters, vitamins matter, healthy food matters, keeping consistent employment is hard; keeping food down can be hard; fighting nausea and side effects extremely challenging.



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