Sports

Winter Olympics not for you? Try these pieces of queer media instead!

Actual sports not your thing? From anime to comics to games, here are three alternatives

By V.S. Wells

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Andrea Gibson, Sam Jay and a spicy collection of sexy stories

This week’s queer culture-catch up features plenty to love

By S. Bear Bergman

Books

Ignored for 40 years, Kay Dick’s paranoid dystopian novel ‘They’ rings true today

A bisexual writer and editor who was ahead of her time, Kay Dick’s prescient oeuvre deserves reappraisal

By Eli Cugini

TV & Film

Growing up queer in suburbia

Catherine Hernandez gracefully adapts her hit novel “Scarborough” for the big screen

By S. Bear Bergman

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Catch-up with Roxane Gay, Morgan M. Page and ‘High-Risk Homosexual’

And other recommendations for what’s up and what’s on, beginning Jan. 20

By S. Bear Bergman

Books

Walking a fine line with Rick Mercer

The comedian’s new memoir explores how he rose to fame by honing in on political satire

By Max Gao

Queer View Mirror

The siren song of Andrew Holleran’s 1978 novel ‘Dancer from the Dance’

How one queer classic keeps moving me after all these years

By Christopher DiRaddo

Books

Bisexuality is a superpower to author Jen Winston

Their new collection of essays, “Greedy,” reimagines the bisexual identy as a force for radical change

By Molly Sprayregen

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Queer community groups, Joviale and a new A. Light Zachary chapbook

And other recommendations for what’s up and what’s on, beginning Jan. 6

By S. Bear Bergman

Culture

The husband stays in the book

How queer authors who write about non-queer subjects are forced to be closeted, and why one author has had enough

By Michael Harris

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Fat trans mermen, lesbian erotica and Billy Porter

Our recommendations for what’s up and what’s on, beginning Dec. 16

By S. Bear Bergman

The Buzz

RIP to Anne Rice, LGBTQ2S+ ally and legend

“Interview with the Vampire” author Anne Rice passed away this week

By Mel Woods

Books

8 fantastic books we somehow missed in 2021

It was a bountiful year for queer and trans literature in Canada. It’s hard to keep up

By Christopher DiRaddo

Books

Navigating love and life with compassion and grace

A conversation with S. Bear Bergman on his new illustrated advice book, “Special Topics in Being a Human”

By Andy Bandyopadhyay

Books

Shayda Kafai’s ‘Crip Kinship’ traces a legacy of Sins Invalid’s disability justice activism

The Sins Invalid collective was instrumental in the evolution of the disability justice movement. A new book chronicles their history

By Dev Ramsawakh

Books

Alan Cumming unpacks years of ‘Baggage’ in a fast-paced memoir

The Broadway star reflects on abuse, authenticity and why NYC is home to misfits like him

By Christos Tsirbas

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac with Jully Black and Madison Violet

And other recommendations for what’s up and what’s on, beginning Dec. 2

By S. Bear Bergman

Excerpt

The battle against AIDS was waged on the streets

“Up Against the Wall” explores the meaning and impact of the AIDS epidemic as told through posters over the last 40 years

By Jennifer Brier, Matthew Wizinsky