Books

Sex ed for everybody

Cory Silverberg’s latest book answers questions for kids of all ages

By Scott Dagostino

Arts

Bearded Ladies: How Rosamond Norbury frolics with drag

‘I’ve never seen someone who can make people relax like that,’ says film director

By Natasha Barsotti

Culture

Pride ‘best festival’ in New Westminster, says city councillor

New West Pride head welcomes rainbow crosswalk and ‘unprecedented’ support

By Nathaniel Christopher

Arts

Ottawa’s Ultimate Pride Guide 2015

All the parades and parties listed for your Ottawa Pride planning

By Jeremy Willard

Arts

Out in Toronto: Aug 13–19, 2015

Choice events in the city this week

By Jeremy Willard

Arts

Take a stroll with two average teenage, black, Muslim queer men

Naz and Maalik plays at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Natasha Barsotti

Books

Deliciously disabled queer writers front and centre

Morrison-Gurza, Trace and O’Connell change the dialogue around disability and sex

By Scott Dagostino

Arts

Please Like Me queers up CBC’s summer programming

A Q&A with comedian Josh Thomas about his hit show and all of its awkwardness

By Ryan English

Arts

Out in Vancouver: Aug 13–19, 2015

Choice events in the city this week

By Tom Coleman

Culture

Capital Pride gears up for launch

As Ottawa’s Pride draws ever nearer, is the new board ready?

By Marco Vigliotti

Arts

Meet one of the granddaddies of gay porn

Peter de Rome documentary celebrates 8mm pioneer of pleasure-seeking

By Brett Josef Grubisic

Arts

In the Turn: trans girl blossoms in roller-derby collective

Documentary on the Vagine Regime plays at Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Adrienne Ascah

Travel

A culinary guide to Montreal’s gay village

Montreal has an international reputation for being a great food city

By Daniel Baylis

Power

Witness captures violent police raid at Montreal’s Sex Garage

Photojournalist Linda Dawn Hammond documents historic 1990 event of ‘Montreal’s Stonewall’

By Richard Burnett

Sharp in the Dark

Sharp in the Dark, Part 23

October 1984

By Hope Thompson

Arts

Beloved Russian filmmaker recast as love-struck gay bottom

Eisenstein in Guanajuato to open Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Brett Josef Grubisic

A winning gay Thai love story

Josh Kim’s touching film about family and loss screens at the Vancouver Queer Film Fest

Created for Vancouver Queer Film Festival

Culture

Horror at Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival

And other films on the program director’s personal favourites list

By Pat Johnson