This is an accepted version of this page Bruce LaBruce (born January 3, 1964)[1] is a Canadian artist,[2] writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.

[4] He studied film at York University in Toronto and wrote for Cineaction magazine, curated by Robin Wood, his teacher.

[6][7] In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Pierrot Lunaire at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin.

This iteration of the opera included gender diversity, castration scenes and dildos, as well as portraying Pierrot as a transgender man.

He retained his traditional interest in exploring sexual taboos, dramatizing an intergenerational relationship between a young man and a senior citizen, but opted to do so within a film that would be more palatable to a mainstream audience.

LaBruce was inspired to create the film after reading a confession sent to XConfessions by a heterosexual woman who fantasized about going to a gay bar and having sex with a homosexual man.