5th LGLFF - Bruce LaBruce

In his 20s, Toronto-based Bruce LaBruce edited and produced 'homo punk' fanzines and super 8 movies (Boy/Girl, I Know What It's Like To Be Dead, Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies, Slam!) which contributed to the launch of the so-called radical Homocore or Queercore movement in Canada and elsewhere.

His first legitimate porn movie, Skin Flick (1999), about "a gang of adorable neo-nazi skinheads which breaks into the home of an annoying, mixed-race, salt-and-pepper, bourgeois gay couple and sexually terrorizes them," was shot in London and produced in Berlin.

In 1998, LaBruce became a professional visual artist and writer, as a photographer and columnist for such gay porn magazines as Honcho and Inches, and as a photographer, writer, interviewer, and contributing editor for New York's Index Magazine. LaBruce writes regular columns for Toronto's eye Magazine, a free weekly, and Exclaim, an alternative music monthly, and now has a monthly column in Inches magazine entitled "Bruce LaBruce Must Be Killed". His 1997 book of memoirs, The Reluctant Pornographer, was preceded by Ride, Queer, Ride, a catalogue of his artistic work.

A retrospective of LaBruce’ films were shown in Lisbon during the 5th Festival de Cinema Gay e Lésbico (2001)