Maxence Arignon, a community relations director at Amica Jubilee House, as Anya Marx in drag. Photo credits Adrian Lam, Times Colonist.

John Bowes never thought he would see a drag show in a retirement home. When he was growing up, attending drag shows in underground gay bars was like “going to the Martian section of the city,” said the 82-year-old retired university professor, who spent decades in the closet before coming out. Clearly, things have changed, said Bowes. He said he has known since he was eight that he was gay, but only came out only when he was well into his academic career, after marrying a woman in suburban Chicago.

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