Tim, an employee at Gio's gay-bar in Winnipeg, with his boyfriend Collin Wynter won, in February 2002, a kissing contest sponsored by Hot 103 Radio and Garden City Shopping Centre.

When the Winnipeg Sun printed a positive story on the win, as well as an editorial in favour of the acceptance of homosexuality, the newspaper (as well as the Garden City Shopping Centre) received a number of complaints from homophobic Winnipeggers.