These crucial sites for sex, community, education and protest are at risk of disappearing forever

On the Cree-Métis artist and filmmaker’s long-awaited artist’s spotlight at this year’s ImagineNative Film Festival

The maxi-challenges largely don’t matter, making this the most look-based season of the series

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What to watch, read, listen to, or look at: Oct. 15

If you can’t escape the stifling city life, a cottagecore-inspired virtual existence could be your queer fantasy come true

Here’s what to expect from Xtra Weekly, Oct. 9

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: Oct. 8

The Toronto indie artist is back in the studio after releasing the superlative “2020 the Album”

In “Crosshairs,” the author conjures a near-future world where a resistance movement rises up against authoritarianism, racism and environmental disaster

Eric Cervini’s ‘The Deviant’s War’ follows the life and activism of Frank Kameny—a generation before Stonewall

Founding frontwomen Lucy Niles and Josée Caron go full-throttle for Xtra

Having made peace with her past, the former Spice Girl is crafting the best music of her career on her new self-titled album

The Anishinaabe violist and composer finds inspiration in nature, traditional teachings and family connections in Sioux Lookout

Here’s what to expect from Xtra Weekly, Oct. 2

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: Oct. 1

The new film adaptation of Mart Crowley’s revered and reviled play encapsulates a half century of change

Justin Ling’s ‘Missing from the Village’ is a careful, infuriating book documenting the murder of eight men in Toronto and the police inaction that failed to protect the community

Culture

Bathhouses outlasted the AIDS epidemic, but will they survive COVID-19?

The uncompromising Thirza Cuthand

‘Drag Race Holland’ shows how international ‘Drag Race’ seasons can showcase different realms of drag

Topline: Karamo Brown and Amy Coney Barrett

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

The inherent queerness of farming games

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4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

‘I want what I’m saying to hold weight,’ says rapper DijahSB; they also want you to dance

Catherine Hernandez’s new dystopian novel feels very real in 2020

The secret history of gay liberation

There’s ‘no question too gay’ for post-classic rockers Partner

Melanie C continues to bring the girl power

Musician Melody McKiver harnesses the sound at the centre of creation

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4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

‘The Boys in the Band’ has delighted and horrified audiences for 50 years

Chilling disappearances that still haunt 10 years later