Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 4 premiere recap: What is the Golden Beaver?

We don’t find out in this week’s episode, but it’s clear that a twist is afoot

By Kevin O'Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Season 5, Episode 8 power ranking: The final four

Which queens will make it to the finale?

By Kevin O'Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Season 5, Episode 8 recap: Makeover-the-top

A Lip Sync Assassin survives once again, while another RuPeter Badge winner goes home

By Kevin O'Keeffe

Reproductive Health

Britain’s Vagina Museum reopens with a trans-inclusive endometriosis exhibit

Ten months after it was forced to close, the museum is back to providing accurate and inclusive reproductive health info

By Quinn Rhodes

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Miss Chief’s memoirs, ‘Next Goal Wins,’ drag kings, gay bar history and more

Looking for a happy cry? S. Bear Bergman has you covered

By S. Bear Bergman

Nightlife

Queer people of colour are still left out of Chicago’s queer neighbourhood

Local drag performers say the area mostly serves affluent white men

By Adam Rhodes

TV & Film

‘Out in the Ring’ documentary unmasks the queer history of professional wrestling

Ry Levey’s debut feature celebrates today’s out performers who are transforming the sport while unearthing its hidden past

By Christos Tsirbas

Books

Posthumous books by Canlit legends Marie-Claire Blais and RM Vaughan

Community connections, tenuous and profound, resonate across time in these heady, heart-rending titles

By Christopher DiRaddo

Sports

For queer and disabled athletes, Danielle Peers ‘changed the conversation’

The non-binary Paralympic wheelchair basketball medalist was just named to Canada’s Order of Sport

By Julia Peterson

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Season 5, Episode 7 power ranking: The ratings are in

Whose TV spoof pilot will be picked up to series?

By Kevin O'Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Season 5, Episode 7 recap: Bringing drama

The queens perform in screen tests for various British TV spoofs

By Kevin O'Keeffe

Books

‘Daddy Lessons’ by Steacy Easton offers an uneven blend of memoir, literary analysis and pornography

REVIEW: At its best, this pedagogy of fucking makes transgressive queer desire palpable

By H Felix Chau Bradley

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Hot thrills from João Dall’Stella and a sexy musical with Baby Tate

Plus Kareem Khubchandani, W.A.W. Parker and a queer theatre series online

By S. Bear Bergman

Identity

The recent AI yearbook trend made me think about the girlhood I could have had

“I was intrigued by how it might let me have and hold something that had always seemed ephemeral and out of reach”

By Veronica Esposito

TV & Film

Experimental documentary ‘Orlando: My Political Biography’ is an invitation to connect with the non-binary child inside us all

Writer and philosopher Paul B. Preciado has created an unusual paean to freedom

By Eli Cugini

TV & Film

The story behind indie film ‘I Don’t Know Who You Are’

Young filmmaker M.H. Murray discusses the high cost of living in a city like Toronto—and the costs of living with trauma

By Rendy Jones

Playlist Q

Eclectic hip-hop artist Damez gets vulnerable with ‘Hell Now, Heaven Later’

“It’s okay to need help. It’s okay to get your heart broken and start over”

By Daria Lynn Cottingham

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race UK’ Season 5, Episode 6 power ranking: Star power

Which celebrity impersonations stole the spotlight?

By Kevin O’Keeffe