Jonathan Wilson in A Public Display of Affection | Photo by Dahlia Katz

Though I’ve most recently enjoyed him in the two consecutive Toronto Fringe hits Gay for Pay with Blake and Clay and its sequel, Blake and Clay’s Gay Agenda, I first saw Jonathan Wilson in his heartfelt, auto-biographical solo show My Own Private Oshawa. His achy theatrical memoir about queer adolescence in rural Ontario resonated. This was the late 90s, I was 19 at the time and had only been out a couple of years. A Public Display of Affection, presented by Studio 180 Theatre and Crow’s Theatre, is an inadvertent, though very direct, continuation. Continue Reading