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RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 Episode 12 recap: Queens here, there, everywhere

It’s the end of the line for one member of the final five

By Kevin O’Keeffe

11 times Mr Ratburn was queer AF

Hey! It’s a wonderful kind of day! Mr Ratburn is gay!

By Eternity Martis

What you need to know about Canada’s blood donation ban on men who have sex with men

Gender fluid emojis, gay beer, and the Met Gala. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, May 10

By Arvin Joaquin

How memoirs by femmes became a second mother to me

If these texts offer a framework for how we might embody queer desire, then they can also model for us how we might survive abuse, how we might make it home

By Andi Schwartz

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 power ranking: Make-under

By Kevin O’Keeffe

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 Episode 11 recap: Accept me for what I am

The seasonal makeover challenge sends a fan favourite packing

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Culture

How queer is the 2019 Met Gala?

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Style

Whose camp is it, anyway?

As tonight’s Met Gala celebrates “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” a new generation of LGBTQ2 artists are reinvigorating and reclaiming this distinctly queer code

By Elio Iannacci

Xtra Weekly: The IAAF and Caster Semenya’s decade-long battle

Tony Awards, lesbian representation, and religious parents. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, May 3

By Arvin Joaquin

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 power ranking: Sleight of hand

By Kevin O’Keeffe

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 Episode 10 recap: A drag queen named Abra Cadabra

A new kind of challenge brings a dose of magic to the main stage

By Kevin O’Keeffe

How social media–savvy youth became the unofficial keepers of queer history

There’s a vast queer history that goes beyond Stonewall and marriage equality. Schools aren’t teaching that, so young people on the internet are doing it instead

By Michael Waters

Xtra Weekly: LGBTQ2 civil rights cases headed to the US Supreme Court

Men skinny-dipping, Lizzo, and The L Word. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, April 26

By Arvin Joaquin

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 power ranking: Breaking down the rap sheets

By Kevin O’Keeffe

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 Episode 9 recap: A solid improv challenge? Yes, and!

More than anything else, Season 11 deserves praise for its thoughtfully considered competitor arcs

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Culture

How queer is Lizzo’s ‘Cuz I Love You’?

‘Lizzo is a music star for a new kind of woke world.’

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Xtra Weekly: Jason Kenney and the United Conservatives have won — now what?

GSAs, queerbaiting and Lizzo. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, April 19

By Arvin Joaquin

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 power ranking: A titanic shift

By Kevin O’Keeffe

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