Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce was BOTD in 1964. Born Justin Stewart in Southampton, Ontario, he studied film in Toronto, and wrote for Cineaction magazine. In the 1980s, he launched and edited the homo punk fanzine J.D. and produced a series of Super-8 short films, including Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy’s Home Movies. His 1991 debut feature No Skin Off My Ass, a sexually explicit comedy about an effete hairdresser (played by LaBruce) who falls in love with a mute skinhead, became an underground hit, attracting celebrity fans including Kurt Cobain. His next feature Super 8 1/2, a queer-themed parody of Fellini’s 8 1/2, was followed by Hustler White, again starring LaBruce as a writer pursuing a hunky street hustler. Parodying elements of Sunset Boulevard and Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, Hustler White became notorious for a sex scene involving a man being penetrated by an amputee’s stump. Hailed as the godfather of the Queercore movement (the grittier, sluttier cousin of New Queer Cinema), LaBruce combined hardcore sex, radical politics and camp in films including Skin Flick, The Raspberry Reich and The Misandrists, and released two sexually explicit zombie films Otto and L.A. Zombie. His 2013 film Gerontophilia, a romance between a comely young nurse and an elderly man, premiered at the Venice Film Festival. In 2011, LaBruce directed a transgender-themed stage version of Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, which was filmed in 2014. Other work includes omnisexual porn film The Affairs of Lidia, and Saint-Narcisse, an erotic drama about twin brothers who have an incestuous relationship. His most recent film The Visitor, a pornographic remake of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film Teorema, portrays a libinious refugee who seduces all the members of a bourgeois family. He published a memoir, The Reluctant Pornographer in 1997. In 2025, he was awarded the Canadian Governor-General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, promising his fans not to be corrupted by his new-found respectability.