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.

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 .

Patrick Masse

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

Kelly Legge

Kelly Legge (she/her) joined Outlook TV in 2018 and reports in and around Victoria, Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. You might also spy her more handsome alter-ego, Drag King Persi Flage, Victoria’s silly, nostalgic, dance dance revolutionary anti-hero (Insta: persi.flage).

Kelly has a passion for community building. She co-founded Staches and Lashes Collective, a group of drag performers who host queer arts events, privileging LGBTQ2* programming for kids and youth. She is also co-founder of the King for King Collective, a group to network and build skills for local Kings. Kelly also sits on the Victoria Pride Society Board as Chair of Youth Initiatives.

Kelly has a diploma in film making and loves her day job at a non-profit where she gets to create educational videos. Queer story-telling is her jam, and she is thrilled to be part of the Outlook TV family!

Brandon Bent

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

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!

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.

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.

Having started a successful comedy troupe, “Some people’s children…” in Japan, Fred Kamperman then moved to New York City to formally study acting, directing and improv at Herbert Berghof Studios. When he moved to Vancouver, he joined OutLookTV as the “Sporty Shorts” reporter and soon became a producer. After a hiatus, he came back as the Executive Community  Producer for the OutGamesTV which was broadcast across Canada.  Working with community partners like HIM( Health Initiative for Men) with ShawTV and OutTV,  he took the legacy from the games,  and put together a crew of volunteer reporters, camera operators and editors to recreate OutLookTV, a weekly GBLTQI  life style magazine show.