The Pinco Triangle is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Patrick Crowe and Tristan R. Whiston and released in 1999.
[1] A profile of LGBT life in Sudbury, Ontario, the film mixes interviews with past and present LGBT residents of the city with vignettes depicting aspects of the directors' own childhoods in the city, acted by a cast including Michael "Bitch Diva" Fitzgerald and Lorraine Segato.
[2] The interviewees included Michael Boyuk, a performer now associated with The B-Girlz drag comedy troupe, and Paulette Gagnon, an arts administrator who was previously profiled in the documentary film Mum's the Word (Maman et Ève) in 1996.
[4] The directors started making the film in 1992, while Crowe was working for the National Film Board of Canada; it began when Crowe made a "pinco triangle" to carry with him at that year's Toronto Pride Parade, and conducted "person on the street" interviews with former Sudburians he met while displaying the symbol.
[2] In press interviews to promote the screening, Crowe drew a contrast between 1999, when nobody ever asked him why the film was not screening in Sudbury because the answer was self-evident, and 2018, when the environment for LGBT people both in Sudbury and across Canada has changed so much that people now regularly ask him why it did not.