Power

A behind-the-scenes look at Fiona Mantha

Quiet queerleading

By FC Estrella

Ottawa

NEW! The best of us

Stan Persky on 1980s bar culture

By Billeh Nickerson

Arts

Michel Tremblay’s Albertine in Five Times

The Shaw fest’s flawless production of a masterpiece

By David Bateman

Arts

Sarah Waters’ transgressive gothic

Chilling revelations in a queer old house

By Alice Lawlor

Culture

Coyote named writer-in-residence at Vancouver library

Xtra West columnist will hold readings, workshops

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Toronto Diary

Summerworks: Gay Cabaret is not one of the stages of beatification

By Rob Salerno

Books

Oh my legs!

By Scott Dagostino

Arts

Shakespeare & the hypocrisy of sex laws

Actor Kris Joseph on Measure for Measure

By Dale Smith

Arts

The alchemy of writer Brian Dedora

Autobiographical collage a dark, magical ride

By Butch Banji

Culture

Celebrities 5th Anniversary vid…and don’t forget to check out HOOK ME UP on Sunday

By Sean Horlor

Books

Prince of Sodom: Michael Ignatieff’s The Russian Album

By Gordon Bowness

Arts

Intimate details with strangers

Edmund White teaches older queers to write memoirs

By Tony Correia

Canada

Ditching the anti-wingman

A friend who chronically bangs your prospective lays ain’t worth having

By Chris Dupuis

Vancouver

Remembering Radclyffe Hall

Bearing the brunt of 1920s English prejudice

By Robert Rothon

Power

Rebranded Centre moves to online hub

‘You can have a building but the reality is [the site] is truly the face of Qmunity’: board member

By Xtra Staff

Arts

Code write

Debra Anderson wins Dayne Ogilvie Grant

By Xtra Staff

Power

Fab fraud

By Natasha Barsotti

Arts

Pushing buttons: Montreal’s Nora Rohman

Community organizer is loud and proud about her sexuality

By Deanne Smith