Power

Turning tricks for treats

The hottest gay Halloween costumes of 2013

By Taylor Parsons

Arts

The gays will rise on Halloween

A new series brings a homoerotic twist to the Walking Dead

By Taylor Parsons

Travel

Former Toronto councillor Kyle Rae receives LGBT tourism award

Travel Gay Canada honours Rae for promoting city as LGBT destination since 1981

By Xtra Editor

Arts

Sister act

Strange Sisters cabaret returns to Buddies after five-year hiatus

By Johnnie Walker

Toronto Diary

Student to lose his virginity for performance art

By Jeremy Feist

Culture

The Warwick rowers are naked and fighting homophobia

By Raziel Reid

Culture

Into the woods

A new indie video game with a Canadian gay connection

By Michael Lyons

Arts

Can a straight man play Hedwig?

A ‘prairie tough guy’ makes the iconic ‘slip of a girlie-boy’ his own

By Greg Armstrong-Morris

Actress talks about graphic sex filmed over many days

Blue Is the Warmest Colour’s Léa Seydoux opens up about working with the film’s controversial director

By Nicolas Kazamia

Arts

We love Lucy!

I Love Lucy – Live on Stage is brassy, glamorous and wonderfully nostalgic

By Johnnie Walker

Culture

The Cream of Comedy

Out comedian Brandon Ash Mohammed is nominated for the Tim Sims Award

By Ryan Kerr

Culture

The true colours of Cyndi Lauper

The gay icon is back in Canada with her She’s So Unusual tour

By Richard Burnett

Opinion

A very homo Halloween

Bringing darkness, fear and dread back to All Hallow’s Eve

By Ryan G Hinds

Culture

Tom Hardy will play Elton John in Rocketman bio-pic

By Raziel Reid

Culture

Popping culture: The Music Edition

By Simon Thibault

An interview with the star of Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Adèle Exarchopoulos chats with Xtra about her scorching performance

By Nicolas Kazamia

State of grace

Mohammed to Maya documents the intimacies of one woman’s transition

By Julie Cruikshank

Arts

Redefining PG-13

Amanda Lepore and Alaska join Sharon Needles on her latest tour de freak

By Ryan English