Deb Pearce

{{short description|Canadian broadcaster and comedian}}

Deb Pearce is a Canadian broadcaster and comedian, who, in the 2000s, hosted the midday program and then co-hosted the morning program with Patrick Marano on 103.9 Proud FM in Toronto, Ontario.[http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/On_the_air_Proud_Butch_FeMme-3129.aspx "On the air: Proud Butch FeMme"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227140118/http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/On_the_air_Proud_Butch_FeMme-3129.aspx |date=2009-12-27 }}. Xtra!, June 7, 2007. She was previously a host on 92.5 Jack FM. After being let go from Proud FM,{{Cite web|url=http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Another_bloodbath_as_Torontos_Proud_FM_fires_four_hosts-8624.aspx|title=StackPath|access-date=2011-04-01|archive-date=2011-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101152414/http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Another_bloodbath_as_Torontos_Proud_FM_fires_four_hosts-8624.aspx|url-status=dead}} she became a host of television programming, including Rogers Television's foQus and OUTtv's Bump!.[http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Comic_Deb_Pearce_puts_Toronto_in_foQus-9432.aspx "Comic Deb Pearce puts Toronto in foQus"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120024230/http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/Comic_Deb_Pearce_puts_Toronto_in_foQus-9432.aspx |date=2010-11-20 }}. Xtra!, November 18, 2010.

An out lesbian, Pearce has previously performed as a drag king.{{Cite web|url=https://www.frameline.org/distribution/distribution-catalog/distribution-film-index/a-drag-king-extravaganza|title=A Drag King Extravaganza|access-date=2019-01-07|archive-date=2019-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107124429/https://www.frameline.org/distribution/distribution-catalog/distribution-film-index/a-drag-king-extravaganza|url-status=dead}}{{cite book |last1=Moffatt |first1=Kenneth James |title=Troubled Masculinities: Reimagining Urban Men |date=2012 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=9780802098238 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l_rhdt9kXEwC&pg=PA154 |language=en}}