YVON THIVIERGE: CRITIQUE OF CBC'S NEW "SOPHIE" SITCOM

jeudi 28 février 2008

CRITIQUE OF CBC'S NEW "SOPHIE" SITCOM

I disagree wholeheartedly with the negative critiques of the new CBC sitcom "Sophie". I enjoyed last night's episode showing the star's best gay friend (no moratorium, please!) hitting it off with her noisy Swiss athlete neighbour, reminiscent of the best of "Will & Grace". Not only is this new show achieving above-average ratings in English Canada, it is based on the very successful Québécois series "Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin" whose gay director has shown interesting insights into gay roles that have been sorrily missing in the past for GBLT audiences. Furthermore, as if this wasn't enough evidence, it has been sold to ABC Family and France 2 which has already shown the original and will dub in French this English language adaptation that will most probably be shown in Québec.

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MY BIOGRAPHY, MA BIOGRAPHIE, MI BIOGRAFIA, LA MIA BIOGRAFIA

While I was born in Canada's capital, I was raised in Sault Sainte Marie and pursued secondary and pedagogical studies in Sudbury, both Northern Ontario cities, then earned bachelor's degrees in Français and, eventually, in Théologie from universities in Ottawa.

Although I started off as a school teacher in the Soo and eastern Ontario and finished off doing supply teaching in my hometown, I worked and lived most of my life as an English-to-French translator for the federal government in the Outaouais area.

After travelling through most of Europe and parts of Latin America, including for study trips in Spain and Mexico, intermingled with lengthy periods of dedicated gay rights militancy, I spent a few enriching years in Italy where I taught languages and performed in music ensembles at Rome's most prestigious venues, including for Papa Ratzi, whom I avoided, when he was still a cardinal.

I worked a couple of years for Jean Vanier's l'Arche as a live-in care-giver for the mentally-challenged, lived many months in a Quebec City boarding house on welfare then in a Catholic monastery south of Chicago as a postulant.

I am now living precariously back in the Sault that I was so eager to leave and where I am paradoxically, despite francophobic, homophobic and police repression drawbacks, enjoying life more than ever before.