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April 27, 2024, 5:03 a.m.
- Description
- Artist, teacher, bon vivant, “The Best Gay Dad Ever,” dog’s best friend; remembering John Weiss in love and leather.
On a sunny day in early March 2024, Kirk Cederwahl finally had his first ever zoom call. I don’t know how he managed to avoid the entire zoom process over the last four years, but it was fitting that Kirk was willing to endure zoom’s tech support torture seminar to chat with me about his recent donation of the John Weiss Collection to The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives. John Wiess (1946-2017) was many things to many people. John was an artist and middle-school art teacher up in North Bay, a spirited host who adamantly refused to cook a single thing, and such a gregarious misanthrope that he actively sprinted away from people he didn’t want to talk to in public. Kirk spent years sprinting after a bolting John; and with good reason. Kirk was John’s boy and John was Kirk’s daddy.
