The online bookstore co-founded by the ‘Drag Race’ icon defended its choice to carry the controversial books

The debut novelist talks writing, intersectionality and the queerness of spirituality

The author, activist and public figure has fought back against trans men’s erasure for decades

REVIEW: Nino Bulling’s graphic novel is an intimate portrait of a character who can’t bring themself to risk change, while hating how it feels not to

Xtra speaks with the Swedish author about her newly translated novel

REVIEW: Gabrielle Korn’s debut novel has a fun, strange set-up that quickly falls apart

Why a 30-year-old film talks circles around its modern cousins

In Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s latest novel, a young woman starts an affair with her childhood best friend’s mother—and chaos ensues

Get ready to love and laugh with Miss Chief Eagle Testickle

REVIEW: “Creep: Accusations and Confessions” is a scathing essay collection that analyzes the rotted power structures buttressing North American culture

Putting a bow on a banner year for queer and trans lit

“Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s” captures a vital and vibrant era of queer and trans life

Our culture maven S. Bear Bergman has some terrific suggestions on navigating family drama and crafting your own traditions

ANALYSIS: While the new biopic “Maestro” embraces Bernstein’s queerness, it still leaves questions lingering

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

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

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

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

Books

Why is RuPaul’s online store Allstora filled with homophobic books?

Christina Cooke’s ‘Broughtupsy’ reckons with the queer Jamaican immigrant experience

How Jamison Green’s visibility paved the way for a generation of trans men

‘Firebugs’ pulls at the complex strings of t4t love and the climate crisis

Desire, love triangles and bad gays are at the centre of Hanna Johansson’s ‘Antiquity’

‘Yours for the Taking’ asks what follows when patriarchy is overthrown

Radical, tender and unapologetically queer: ‘Tongues Untied’ still speaks volumes

The sexy cruelty of ‘Alice Sadie Celine’

A deeply Cree and gloriously queer conversation with Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon

Myriam Gurba’s penetrating insights into the inexorable fog of trauma and abuse

5 books we missed this year

‘Renegades’ documents the queer history Chloe Sherman helped create

Holidays got you blue? Here’s some joy and fight and warm hugs

Leonard Bernstein was a towering genius, a man of multitudes. Addressing his sexuality is no easy feat

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

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

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

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