Style

2010 Trend: Black

By Sean Horlor

Arts

Book review: Because I Have Loved and Hidden It

Purple polyamory

By Alice Lawlor

Arts

Xtra recommends: best queer books of 2009

Marie-Claire Blais, John Barton, Zoe Whittall (& one cheat)

By Marcus McCann

Canada

Family time in gaie Paris

By Abi Slone

Culture

Haunted Hillbilly comes alive on stage

Stellar performances and a fantastic original score

By Mark Ambrose Harris

Arts

Twilight author’s mission to eradicate youth sexuality

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

By Krishna Rau

Arts

Crossing the thresholds of sex and shame with bare boobs

Joining the Sexual Overtones

By Noreen Fagan

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