Artist

Michael Yerxa

Known for his outspokenness as a cast member on MTV's "1 Girl, 5 Gays", Michael Yerxa has recently begun to collaborate behind the camera as a producer and director. In 2015 he collaborated with filmmaker Mark Kenneth Woods on the television documentary "Take Up The Torch", an inspiring look at the past and present heroes making the Canadian sports landscape more LGBT-inclusive. In 2016, Yerxa and Woods released their second collaborative effort "Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things" about the LGBT experience in Nunavut and the hidden history of sexual diversity in Inuit culture.

Videography

Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things

2016, 71:00 minutes, colour, English, Inuktitut, Closed Captioned, or French subtitles