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It's a good time to be queer in Montreal. This week, there's not one, but two GLBTQ arts festivals to choose from. Divers/Cité, with its bilingually punning moniker, has already established itself as a premiere gay destination. Billing itself as a plouridisciplinary arts festival, Divers/Cité celebrates diversity with a series of art, dance, film and music events. Inevitably, though, the dominance of this festival has led to charges of corporate captivity, in particular by an oppositional group named Pervers/Cité. Opposing the exorbitant entrance fees and diminished liberation of Divers/Cité, Pervers/Cité presents a similar series of events, but cheaper and with a more radical bent. It's your choice, Montreal. For tonight Divers/Cité offers you Boulevard des Rêves, a collection of some of Quebec's best female vocal talents. On the docket for Pervers/Cité is the QPIRG Radical Summer Film Screening of Young Soul Rebels, an examination of youth cultural movements in 1970's Britain. It's your choice, Montreal.