10 Facts About Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce was born on January 3,1964 and is a Canadian artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer, and underground director based in Toronto.

Bruce LaBruce has claimed both Justin Stewart and Bryan Bruce as his birth name in different sources.

Bruce LaBruce studied film at York University in Toronto and wrote for Cineaction magazine, curated by Robin Wood, his teacher.

Bruce LaBruce has written and photographed for a variety of publications including Vice, the former Nerve.

Bruce LaBruce has been published in Toronto Life, the National Post and The Guardian.

In March 2011, LaBruce directed a performance of Arnold Schoenberg's opera Pierrot Lunaire at the Hebbel am Ufer Theatre in Berlin.

Bruce LaBruce subsequently filmed this adaptation as the 2014 theatrical film Pierrot Lunaire.

In 2018, LaBruce directed the short film Scotch Egg as part of Erika Lust's XConfessions series.

Bruce LaBruce has frequently been identified with the New Queer Cinema movement that emerged in the 1990s, although at the height of that movement's prominence, he rejected the association on the grounds that he felt more personally aligned with the queercore movement.

The queercore movement was born in the 1980s and LaBruce was one of the fathers.