Angus Praught

Angus Praught

Angus Praught, a well-known public business figure in Vancouver, has been actively promoting the Vancouver region and Canada, as gay-friendly travel destinations on the world stage since 1996. In November 1999, Praught registered the URL www.gayvan.com online and in January 2003, launched Gayvan.com Travel Marketing. Gayvan.com offers an LGBT-specific interactive web portal, hotel booking engine, annual print and digital publications, as well as event production and consulting services.

In addition to serving two full two-year terms on the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) Board of Directors, Praught served five years on the Vancouver GLBA Board of Directors. He also partnered in a Vancouver gay hotel and bar, the Royal Hotel, from 1998 – 2001, and was the organizing chairperson for both the February 2000 IGLTA Vancouver Symposium and the May 2004 IGLTA Vancouver Convention. With over 25 years experience in the hospitality and travel industry on senior management levels, he has been a long standing member of regional and international tourism organizations and works closely with Tourism Vancouver as a marketing liaison for the LGBT travel segment. Praught also represents the destination on behalf of Tourism Vancouver and the Vancouver, Coast and Mountains Tourism Region, at various LGBT-focused events in the USA.

Recipient of Xtra West’s HERO Community Achievement Awards as Business Citizen of the Year, in both the 2002 and 2004, Praught is also the recipient of the Tourism Industry Leadership Award at the Travel Gay Canada conference in October 2012.

André Tardif

 

André Tardif is a pioneering multimedia producer whose career began in 1977 with Super 8 film and evolved through VHS, Super-VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, and digital formats. As the founder of Stargazer Video Productions, Inc. (established in 1992), he produced numerous fundraising events in Vancouver and over 500 scenes for the adult industry between 1996 and 2012. 

He has covered numerous events for Fugues magazine (2003–2012) as well as volunteering for the TBG (Toronto Botanical Garden) special events in Toronto for over 10 years. Now retired from commercial production, André has been a dedicated volunteer for Outlook TV since 2022, contributing nearly 60 stories to the platform. Based in Toronto, with regular engagements in Montreal and Vancouver, he is also deeply committed to preserving LGBTQ+ history through his extensive archives, which have been and continue to be donated to the Arquives in Toronto.

Fancy Pants

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Fancy Pants

Spreading JOY wherever she goes, Fancy has been an active member of the Vancouver queer community since 2015. She is a former Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and past Ms. Gay Vancouver 40. Her ministry of volunteerism, fundraising and philanthropy led her to volunteer with Outlook TV in 2018.

Representation matters to Fancy so her stories lean towards smaller non-profits and organisations, and marginalised individuals plus groups in an already marginalised community, that need promotion. She has reported on stories in BC, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.

She is very excited to be the new Co-host for Outlook TV.

Oli Salvas

Oli

Oli Salvas

Originally from Montreal, Oli is an artist who uses abstract painting, photography and various media to deliver his stance on social causes and to foster conversations about identity and arts education.

Oli works as an artographer, where he combines his occupations of artist, teacher and researcher. Oli’s areas of research and of creation are inspired by graffiti art, street art, urban culture and contemporary artists from Les Automatistes in Quebec.

Oli is the artistic director of La Maison Create|IV (www.createiiv.com) , where he publishes his visual work, artistic magazines and education articles as well as the work of other local artists.

Oli joined Outlook TV in 2018 and he is very thankful to use this platform to showcase the LTBTQ2s+ artists and activists across Canada, reporting on stories mainly from Vancouver and Montreal.

Oli is regularly heard on the French language station http://ici.radio-canada.ca

You can follow Oli on Instagram at @createiiv .

Mario Langlois

Montreal based Mario Langlois is a music producer/composer and radio producer.

As an artist, Mario has several releases to his name. His first release was Vini Vini Vici with Princess Demeny  and his latest, SuperGroove – Tonight , for everything in between look up Mario’s label website: https://klubkulturmusic.com/ave-mario

As DJ Ave Mario, he produces Klub Kultur, broadcasted monthly on TekGroove web radio where he spins Deep Techno and Underground House Music with several guest DJs.

The show celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025. You can listen to the shows here: https://soundcloud.com/klubkultur-1

Mario has been a media professional for years. He’s been a Radio Producer for Cogeco Media (98,5 FM, CKOI 96,9, Créativité Média) for the past 10 years        https://www.cogecomedia.com/en 

Before that, he was working as a Radio Producer for Radio Energie/Rouge FM (Bell, Astral Media, Radiomutuel) for 18 years.

Mario joined Outlook TV’s team to cover stories from Montreal. As a Reporter, his goal is to create content that celebrates and promotes gay culture and other issues that are not being noticed by mainstream media. There are not that many other communication channels that cover the LGBTQ+ culture.

Montreal is a beautiful and vibrant city with a dynamic community that deserves to shine and to be discovered by other queer communities around the world. It is safe, diverse and inclusive.

Emily Anne Fraser

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Emily Anne Fraser

Emily Anne Fraser has been a Vancouverite since she was just five years old. She and her family

moved here from Toronto Canada in 1995. One of her first memories was walking the sea wall at Stanley Park, and it was then she knew she could never leave this city. Growing up, she took a liking to theatre as early as grade 8 at Vancouver Technical Secondary, and has gone right through to post education earning her a degree in film production, two acting certificates, and several awards for her achievements in acting.

Emily has been a reporter for OutLook TV and is now one of our hosts.
She continues to work behind the scenes for various television shows such as The Flash, Supergirl, and Riverdale to name a few.
To see Emily on screen, you can catch her on “The Switch”. All episodes are on OutTV Go.

Darren Monette

 

Darren Monette is an actor- singer- dancer who moved from Edmonton in 1987 and has never looked back.

Currently a business owner on Granville Island and has worked in musical theater both as a performer and a producer  on just about every filming production in Vancouver in the 90s he’s also an alumnus of Theater Under the Stars.

Singing with many choral groups in the city and having worked in Radio years ago he is now happy to be back reporting and hosting for Outlook TV.

Patrick Masse

Patrick Masse

Patrick Masse is an amplifier and activist for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, and any underrepresented or marginalized person.

Since his debut album came out in 1998 he’s released five studio albums.  He hosted and produced the first ever  Songbird North Pride edition and was an active member of the diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism committee at the Songwriters Association of Canada.
A few years ago he went on the other side of the camera for Outlook TV, where he focuses on the Artist interviewing the Artist. He’s also a regular on the CTV News Channel.
For more information on Patrick go to www.patrickmasse.com

Garry Wolfater

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Garry Wolfater

Garry is a retired Vancouver school teacher who originally hailed from Saskatchewan. He was a founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Educators of BC and continues to take a keen interest in current LGBTQ events.

Garry has been involved with Vancouver LGBTQ organisations over the years including leading Kayaking trips off the coast of Vancouver Island, hiking, skiing etc. He is a lover of gardening and a member of Vancouver’s Green Streets program. Garry is an avid reader and a member of a gay book club.

Originally Garry volunteered as a camera assist with OutLookTV and now has added reporting to his skills. He has covered many events including local LGBTplays, LGBT organisations, Whistler Pride and bringing news from LGBT organisations in Europe.

Conni Smudge

Conni Smudge

Chris Bolton has yearned for the spotlight ever since he was a boy. He would often put on shows in the living room after the big Family Sunday Dinner. Belting out the Commercial “Wonderful, Wonderful Wonder Bra-aw-aww” was his Fave. Later he attended Gastown Actors Studio where he was inspired under the tootle age of the phenomenal Jessica Van Der Veen. Developing a character named Conni Smudge has been a twenty year journey and it has been his most rewarding to date. “She” has taken him all over the Globe. Conni’s wit, charm and approachable nature has afforded her the honour of performing in the most unlikely of places. From the Biker Bars of Nanaimo to the Grand Theatres of Europe, Mz Smudge has done them all. Chris/Conni adores being a reporter with Outlook TV. It gives “Her” the ability to show the World what an amazingly Inclusive, Loving, Entertaining city Vancouver is!

Barb Snelgrove

Barb Snelgrove

Barb Snelgrove is Promotions Director Roundhouse Radio 98.3  and is a reporter for OutlookTV and OUTtv nationally. She has written for numerous local media outlets as well as on-line publications such as The Huffington Post and SheWired.com. Barb also runs the Vancouver based LGBTQ communications firm megamouthmedia consulting.

A long time community advocate, Barb has been awarded the Vancouver Pride Society Outstanding Community Member Award, has been named as one of OutTV’s “Top Queers of the Year” and was named to the GayVancouver.net Annual List of “Ten People Making a Difference in Vancouver”. She has been a Van Pride Parade Grand Marshal (Local Hero Category), was awarded the 2013 TELUS Pride Legacy Award as Community Superstar, nominated for the 2014 City of Vancouver Award of Excellence Award (under Gender & Inclusion) and was inducted into the Canadian Queer Hall of Fame in Toronto alongside Jane Rule and Jack Layton last Fall.

Brandon Bent

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Brandon Bent

Brandon Bent is a blogger, film-maker and writer, who reports for us from Toronto.

He currently writes a popular blog “Brandon Bent’s Blog”  (http://www.brandonbent.com)

He also is owner of Bent Magazine (http://www.bentmag.com/), which is a queer arts and entertainment magazine that will be in full production by mid-2018.

Brandon is an established video and film producer. He has produced documentaries, music videos, and commercials, just to name a few. His focus is on the LGBTQ community and he hopes to produce a number of films in the future documenting LGBTQ history. He feels that there are so many important stories that need to be told from which we all can learn.