Leif Harmsen
@harmsen.net
Painter, webmaster-coder, art-historian, husband, brother, uncle, friend, neighbour, citizen, tourist, investor, renovator, cabaret, queeraoke, burlesque, club-kid, filmmaker, centrist, otter-top, cyclist, shill for PR, lumberjack, gentleman parvenu.
I'm getting in the Xmas spirit.
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I'm getting in the Xmas spirit.
My uncle Doug Shortt and his mother, my grandmother, Gwen Shortt. From "Real Canadian Stories: The Autobiography of Gwendolyn Shortt 1903-2003" written down by Leif Harmsen. harmsen.net/project.php?...
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My uncle Doug Shortt and his mother, my grandmother, Gwen Shortt. From "Real Canadian Stories: The Autobiography of Gwendolyn Shortt 1903-2003" written down by Leif Harmsen. harmsen.net/project.php?...
Douglas Jerrold O'Leary Shortt 1925-1946
Sub-Lieutenant (A), Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve
My uncle & our hero was a WWII pilot who died testing experimental aircraft 11 March 1946. He was 25 and engaged.
Walking to the Cenotaph at Victoria Park now.
Sub-Lieutenant (A), Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve
My uncle & our hero was a WWII pilot who died testing experimental aircraft 11 March 1946. He was 25 and engaged.
Walking to the Cenotaph at Victoria Park now.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Douglas Jerrold O'Leary Shortt 1925-1946
Sub-Lieutenant (A), Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve
My uncle & our hero was a WWII pilot who died testing experimental aircraft 11 March 1946. He was 25 and engaged.
Walking to the Cenotaph at Victoria Park now.
Sub-Lieutenant (A), Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve
My uncle & our hero was a WWII pilot who died testing experimental aircraft 11 March 1946. He was 25 and engaged.
Walking to the Cenotaph at Victoria Park now.
I'm practising Broadway tunes now for QUEERAOKE @queeraoke.ca tonight 6-9pm @ the proletariat London Brewing Co-op beer factory (as my good London friends well know)! So off-Broadway we're in Old East! Elbows up we're not travelling to the US, but we'll recreate the best of Broadway right here!
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm practising Broadway tunes now for QUEERAOKE @queeraoke.ca tonight 6-9pm @ the proletariat London Brewing Co-op beer factory (as my good London friends well know)! So off-Broadway we're in Old East! Elbows up we're not travelling to the US, but we'll recreate the best of Broadway right here!
Mario et moi are at the Pink Pony Club Experience at the Palace Theatre! It's about to start. So many fabulous local glitteratzi here!
November 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Mario et moi are at the Pink Pony Club Experience at the Palace Theatre! It's about to start. So many fabulous local glitteratzi here!
Heads up faggots! Lumberjax is back Sat 15 Nov 23:00h at the Well Bar in London 238 Dundas St. It's a masc4masc night not posted anywhere on the open internet (yet) except on the Pride London Community Calendar pridelondon.ca/calendar so follow that to know about this & all things of queer interest.
November 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Heads up faggots! Lumberjax is back Sat 15 Nov 23:00h at the Well Bar in London 238 Dundas St. It's a masc4masc night not posted anywhere on the open internet (yet) except on the Pride London Community Calendar pridelondon.ca/calendar so follow that to know about this & all things of queer interest.
I've been decorating:
Better Horrors and Goblins
Better Horrors and Goblins
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I've been decorating:
Better Horrors and Goblins
Better Horrors and Goblins
I've been decorating.
Better Ruins & Graveyards
Better Ruins & Graveyards
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I've been decorating.
Better Ruins & Graveyards
Better Ruins & Graveyards
We are about to see "The Play That Goes Wrong" at the Grand Theatre @thegrandlondon.bsky.social with my husband @mariolongtin.ca , our friends Marie from Paris, and Sarah from Old East. What could possibly go wrong?
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
We are about to see "The Play That Goes Wrong" at the Grand Theatre @thegrandlondon.bsky.social with my husband @mariolongtin.ca , our friends Marie from Paris, and Sarah from Old East. What could possibly go wrong?
come on down to scarryoke we're kicking it off now
October 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
come on down to scarryoke we're kicking it off now
BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
October 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
At Octoberfest now. Queers invade Octoberfest tonight at the German Canadian Club in London. Come join the fun. Ladyodeladiodelayeehoo!
germancanadianclublondon.com/octoberfest-...
germancanadianclublondon.com/octoberfest-...
October 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
At Octoberfest now. Queers invade Octoberfest tonight at the German Canadian Club in London. Come join the fun. Ladyodeladiodelayeehoo!
germancanadianclublondon.com/octoberfest-...
germancanadianclublondon.com/octoberfest-...
First, find R2D2, then ask him to insert the matching data key into the centre of the Getty Library oculus and begin to turn the various concentric dials this way and that. That way you can download the plans of the Death Star and other interesting things.
September 29, 2025 at 8:45 PM
First, find R2D2, then ask him to insert the matching data key into the centre of the Getty Library oculus and begin to turn the various concentric dials this way and that. That way you can download the plans of the Death Star and other interesting things.
It's Sexy theme nite at Queeraoke tonight. 6-9pm at the London Brewing Co-op. Everybody's doing a thing!
September 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It's Sexy theme nite at Queeraoke tonight. 6-9pm at the London Brewing Co-op. Everybody's doing a thing!
Fair. My point is that Europe does many things better than Canada. Proportional Representation voting systems and trains are great examples. But Europe could in kind learn from our vastly superior Canadian elevators, plumbing, electricity, water heaters, insulation etc. and my house is 1870!
July 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Fair. My point is that Europe does many things better than Canada. Proportional Representation voting systems and trains are great examples. But Europe could in kind learn from our vastly superior Canadian elevators, plumbing, electricity, water heaters, insulation etc. and my house is 1870!
Plus Chris Dupuis is coming from Toronto. He recently wrote the book about the queer classic Winter Kept Us Warm and will be at the screening to sell and sign books.
July 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Plus Chris Dupuis is coming from Toronto. He recently wrote the book about the queer classic Winter Kept Us Warm and will be at the screening to sell and sign books.
PRIDE LONDON ART SHOW GALA OPENING
This Friday 11 July
18:00-21:00h
TAP Centre for Creativity 203 Dundas St.
pridelondon.ca/event/gala-a...
This Friday 11 July
18:00-21:00h
TAP Centre for Creativity 203 Dundas St.
pridelondon.ca/event/gala-a...
July 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
PRIDE LONDON ART SHOW GALA OPENING
This Friday 11 July
18:00-21:00h
TAP Centre for Creativity 203 Dundas St.
pridelondon.ca/event/gala-a...
This Friday 11 July
18:00-21:00h
TAP Centre for Creativity 203 Dundas St.
pridelondon.ca/event/gala-a...
I bought me a Pansy Ass Ceramics @pansyassceramics.bsky.social jockstrap from Jonathan Bancroft-Snell Gallery @canadianceramics.bsky.social to go with my Delft tobacco canisters on my 18th C Dutch dowrey chest.
July 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I bought me a Pansy Ass Ceramics @pansyassceramics.bsky.social jockstrap from Jonathan Bancroft-Snell Gallery @canadianceramics.bsky.social to go with my Delft tobacco canisters on my 18th C Dutch dowrey chest.
Get ready for Queeraoke @queeraoke.ca again TONIGHT at the London Brewing Coop Mon 16 June 6-9pm. There ith no theme this evening... OR THO IT THEEMS! 📺
Come and thing your heart out!
Queeraoke: we're tho off Broadway that we're in Old Eatht.
Come and thing your heart out!
Queeraoke: we're tho off Broadway that we're in Old Eatht.
June 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Get ready for Queeraoke @queeraoke.ca again TONIGHT at the London Brewing Coop Mon 16 June 6-9pm. There ith no theme this evening... OR THO IT THEEMS! 📺
Come and thing your heart out!
Queeraoke: we're tho off Broadway that we're in Old Eatht.
Come and thing your heart out!
Queeraoke: we're tho off Broadway that we're in Old Eatht.
Ours collect on their own. Thorny, beautiful and fragrant; what's there not to love about roses? From the plain white farm roses wild in a field to the inbred overly complicated grafted human intervention French-formal pruned roses, we love them all.
June 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Ours collect on their own. Thorny, beautiful and fragrant; what's there not to love about roses? From the plain white farm roses wild in a field to the inbred overly complicated grafted human intervention French-formal pruned roses, we love them all.