Arts

Crossing the thresholds of sex and shame with bare boobs

Joining the Sexual Overtones

By Noreen Fagan

Arts

Twilight author’s mission to eradicate youth sexuality

Stephenie Meyer’s series pushes purity and celibacy campaigns for teens

By Krishna Rau

Arts

American Hunks: Book review

Buddy boys through the ages

By Jim Bartley

Arts

Christmas invite from Augusten Burroughs: Review

What to do when you wake up next to Santa?

By Alice Lawlor

Toronto

Romance novel letdown

By Dainty Smith

Arts

Our dark materials: inside The Haunted Hillbilly

Mark Ambrose Harris on Derek McCormack

By Mark Ambrose Harris

Politics

Xtra shuffles editorial deck

Toronto’s gay and lesbian biweekly adapts to new realities

By Allison Martell

Power

Daily Roundup: The bitch is back

By Scott Dagostino

Power

Several US gay newspapers abruptly shut down

By Lina Harper

Canada

Rubbing elbows at writers festivals

Fests are a brief time-out from a writer’s life of scribbling in solitude

By Mariko Tamaki

Love & Sex

Against the Wall

By Lina Harper

Culture

Tribe: Northbound Leather’s fashion show & party

Check out the scenes at this year’s fetish event

By fab magazine

Culture

Ain’t no thing but a chicken wing

By Sean Horlor

Arts

Sarah Schulman discusses homophobia, family and her book Ties That Bind

Latest book explores how homophobia germinates in the family unit

By Mark Ambrose Harris

Culture

Book review: Intersex by Morgan Holmes

Intersexuality complicates our understandings of sex & gender

By Robert Teixeira