Eva Crocker’s queer, Canadian coming of age

In her debut novel, the Giller Prize-longlisted author explores the hypervisibility and policing of queerness—loosely based on her own experiences

By Ziya Jones

Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read listen to or look at: Sept. 10

By Sarah Taher

Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: August 27

By Gordon Bowness

Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: August 27

By Sarah Taher

Books

Loneliness and outrage in the age of Grindr

In an essay from his new memoir, Billy-Ray Belcourt ruminates on sex, intimacy and hook-up apps

By Billy-Ray Belcourt

Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: August 13

By Sarah Taher

Culture

Welcome to Tomboyland

In her debut essay collection, Melissa Faliveno reflects on gender and queerness growing up in working-class Wisconsin

By Melissa Faliveno

Arts

4 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to and look at: July 30

By Sarah Taher

Arts

4 happenings to wind you up or wind down with now

What to watch, read, listen to and look at: July 16

By Sarah Taher

Books

How femme memoirs challenge queer stereotypes about rural living

Working-class country living isn’t always bad for queer folks. Five authors tackle femme identity and queerness outside city limits

By Andi Schwartz

Arts

4 things to wind you up or wind down with this week

What to watch, read, listen to and look at: July 9

By Sarah Taher

Arts

4 things to wind you up or help you wind down this week

What to watch, read, listen to and look at: July 2

By Sarah Taher

Books

Inhabiting the in-between with Zaina Arafat

The Palestinian-American author on her debut novel, ‘You Exist Too Much’

By Nour Abi-Nakhoul

Culture

Harry Potter and the order of the deal-breakers

Most of us know what it’s like to consume art that’s problematic, then make a degree of peace with it—or not

By Casey Plett

Power

I dreamt of a march for Black queer liberation

The street awoke with the clang of our resilience ricocheting off the blank stares and raised eyebrows: They stared, we marched, they stared, we marched

By Cicely-Belle Blain

Books

Writing complicated trans characters with John Elizabeth Stintzi

The award-winning author on finding comfort in uncertainty, not-so-straightforward identities and their new novel, ‘Vanishing Monuments’

By Nour Abi-Nakhoul

Books

Rachel Matlow’s mother is dead. So why am I laughing?

Matlow’s funny and moving memoir ‘Dead Mom Walking’ is the book on grieving we all need right now

By Gordon Bowness

Pandemic Pastimes

Isolation row: Staying grounded through the unhinged days and nights of COVID-19

Writer and rocker Patricia Wilson shares artistic touchstones that steady a wayward soul

By Patricia Wilson