History History
In 1994, with the gay newspaper Homo Sapiens, under the direction of André Gagnon, Tony Esposito, in charge of the cultural pages, has a dream: to see the cultural calendar he puts together every month on every fridge of every gay, lesbian, bisexual and other queers of Montreal.
He also has a goal: showing the omnipresence of homo-, bi- and poly-sexuality in the arts.
He continues dreaming and showing with the magazine Orientations, under the direction of Bernard Gadoua, in 1996, widening the possible users of the calendar and readers of the articles to the whole Quebec province.
In November 1997, with Robert Savignac, the webmagazine Chicliste allows a step further. The calendar can now be updated right away; last minute events can be covered in time. And cyberspace knows no limit.
The articles stayed online, building rapidly a database. The calendar got bigger, spreading its wings from Toronto to Quebec City, stopping by Montreal and Ottawa.
After the "death" of Chicliste, due to the complicated breakup/revival the webmaster Robert was going through with his lover, another love breakup happened: the editor in chief, Tony, is back to be single. Need to rest, to look at his life. During that moment the ex-lover, using his newly Chicliste-acquired knowledge, started his own webmagazine, Orang-Outang.
It tookTony a whole year before coming back, in solo, but with friends and faithful collaborators and also new faces (or shoud we say new pens). And here is HOMni.