My Own Private Oshawa

Torontobased gay actor and comedian Jonathan Wilson has written and performs a semiautobiographical oneman stage show called My Own Private Oshawa which tells of his coming out when he was a high school student in Oshawa Ontario a bedroom community east of Toronto Thinking that he was hiding his homosexual orientation which he really wasnt Jonathan lived a selfrepressed existence in high school until he met transfer student Gordon who was the first open stereotypical and defiant gay student at the school Jonathan tells of Gordons influence in Jonathan working his own way through gay life as a teenager in the late 1970s Although Gordon and Jonathan drifted apart as adults Jonathan needs to head back to Oshawa to visit Gordon one last time