About the Organizers

(left: mike  //  right: quinn)

Quinn and Mike met in 2001 on a rainy fall evening over a pitcher of beer with a bunch of other queers at a college pub. Incidentally, this was technically illegal, as Mike was then-underage. Thankfully, Quinn would buy the liquor that evening, sowing the seeds of a relationship that would largely revolve around getting into Very Big Trouble (i.e. the time that Mike started dating Quinn’s ex-boyfriend. It lasted three weeks and would only happen once).

Years later, Quinn and Mike would find themselves to be neighbours on Vancouver’s ghetto-fabulous Eastside. One afternoon, a hung-over discussion around a cup of coffee and a cigarette revealed to the two boys that getting drunk at the local downtown bar just wasn’t the same as it used to be, especially on a Friday night. What were they to do?

Then, a monthly party with hot queers and cold beers showed up (more-or-less literally) around the corner. And for a time, things were good. The Very Big Trouble that they had missed had come back to find them. But Mike went off to live abroad for a year, and by the time he had returned, that party was no more.

Although this was a bad thing, Pride 2009 came around, and both Quinn and Mike were marvelling at the numbers of hot queers everywhere. And then they asked themselves where the hell all these tasty homos hang out the other 51 weekends of the year…and how to get them all together in one place at one time.

So, after much deliberation, they planned a party. And called it SPIT. And made a promotional blog. And got you to read it.