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The 2024 election is taking a toll on trans mental health. Here’s how to keep it together

ANALYSIS: Telling trans people to “just vote” isn’t helpful

By Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Music

With posthumous album, SOPHIE gets one final goodbye

‘SOPHIE’ is a fitting farewell that might never feel like it is enough

By Niko Stratis

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars’ Episode 7 recap: Global Snatch

We get our first truly international Snatch Game—unfortunately, it’s the Snatch Game of Love

By Kevin O'Keeffe

Books

‘What I Know About You’ is a tale of the silence the repression of gay desire can wreak

REVIEW: Éric Chacour’s first novel is at turns gorgeously lush and frustratingly opaque

By H Felix Chau Bradley

Books

‘Something, Not Nothing’ tackles anticipatory grief from the other side

Sarah Leavitt’s graphic memoir about her partner’s death unpacks the emotional aftermath of a loved one receiving MAiD

By Tara-Michelle Ziniuk

Books

‘Still Life’ captures the messiness of writing trans autofiction

Katherine Packert Burke’s novel explores how little one can really understand about one’s own life while in the middle of living it

Music

‘We never stopped performing’: Pansy Division’s Jon Ginoli on honesty, legacy and queer joy

Lead singer and lyricist reflects on the queer punk band’s album “Deflowered” ahead of their anniversary tour

Youth

Americans parents of trans kids to their Canadian counterparts: ‘Have a plan’

Ahead of upcoming provincial elections, parents who’ve been there share what they’ve learned from the onslaught of anti-trans hate in America

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars’ Episode 6 recap: There’s always time for a cocktail dress

A longer episode with two clever challenges makes this the best “Global All Stars” instalment yet

By Kevin O'Keeffe

4 takeaways from TIFF 2024

The queer and trans films and storylines you need to know going into awards season

Daniel Minahan on ‘On Swift Horses’ and how queer people have found each other through history

The director explains how the queer literary canon and coming of age during ACT UP influenced his depiction of suburban queer lives in the 1950s

By Michelle Krasovitski

Thank goodness for Luca Guadagnino’s horny, lingering camera

REVIEW: In “Queer,” Daniel Craig’s and Drew Starkey’s bodies provide the perfect canvas for the director’s gaze

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars’ Episode 5 recap: Hi, Boobie!

A strange “Barbie” twist on an acting challenge produces decidedly mixed results

By Kevin O'Keeffe

J Stevens talks ‘Really Happy Someday’ and real-time transition filmmaking

The director co-wrote the film with star Breton Lalama, who plays a musical theatre actor whose voice is changing

Books

All ‘Hookers Go to Heaven’ navigates the changing world of sex work

Angel B.H.’s intimate and nuanced debut novel makes a clear point: ultimately sex work is work, and work is oppressive

By Noelle Perdue

Queer and trans people should be wary of provincial parties’ shift to right

OPINION: In British Columbia, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick, the rights of queer and trans people are on the ballot

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Global All Stars’ Episode 4 recap: International pop girls

The girl groups challenge comes, and a queen gets a victory she’s been waiting for

By Kevin O'Keeffe

At 40, I celebrate aging as proof of queer survival

Entering middle age, I do not fear death, because it has been a constant companion for me since my 20s

By Blyth Barnow

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