the Dolls with Keith Cole in 2018, are examples of this. Awards Harold Award (1999) Pink Triangle Award for Community Service in the LGBT Community (2000) National Tap Dance Award (2004) XTRA! Magazine Mouthiest Queer Activist Award (2010) NOW Magazine Best of Toronto Reader's Choice Award for Best Performance Artist (2014) Mayoral candidacy In 2010, Cole ran as a candidate for Mayor of Toronto in the city's mayoral election. His major campaign themes involved support for arts and culture, improvements to the city's bicycling network, and efforts to increase and develop a renewed sense of civic engagement in the city, where recent municipal elections have seen voter turnout of as little as 40 per cent or less. He also campaigned on the issue of adding green space to the city's Yonge-Dundas Square, staging a "MILF Diaper Toss" on May 9 after having a political discussion in which he was discouraged from pursuing the issue on the questionable grounds that adding trees to the square would encourage young mothers to litter the space with dirty diapers. He was one of two "minor" candidates, along with Rocco Achampong, selected by an online vote to participate alongside the six "major" ones in a debate on municipal voting reform sponsored by the civic advocacy group Better Ballots. Academic career Cole holds a BFA from York University and an MFA from the OCAD University. Since 2014, Cole has taught visual culture in the Faculty of Liberal Studies at Seneca College. In 2019, Cole was appointed to the Faculty of Community Services and Faculty of Arts as Artist-in-Residence at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). References External links IMDB Canadian drag queens Canadian performance artists Canadian LGBT artists Canadian LGBT people in municipal politics Canadian LGBT rights activists Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Queer artists Queer men Participants in Canadian reality television series Politicians from Thunder Bay Artists from Toronto Living people York University alumni Ontario municipal politicians