Xtra News Flash

Hockey got gay, New York’s AG hosts Drag Story Hour, anti-trans Scottish candidates, Billie Eilish plays queer and Tinder’s new relationship types

Bite-size queer and trans news for the week of March 20

By Eve Cable

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 15, Episode 12 power ranking: Stars of the stage and screen

Who’s at the top of the ranking after this season’s Rusical?

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 15, Episode 12 recap: And now, a word from Luxx Noir London

In an episode already stacked with greatness, a monologue becomes the centrepiece

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Xtra News Flash

‘Willow’ cancelled, historic Hanlan’s, Australia rallies, tracking celebrity allies and a Michigan librarian reads censors to filth

5 queer and trans news stories to follow: March 17

By Maddy Mahoney

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Live theatre virtually, Two-Spirit model Jazz Moise and Black queer history

Plus more queer culture to catch up on starting March 16

By S. Bear Bergman

TV & Film

Cara Delevingne’s globe-trotting ‘Planet Sex’ docuseries doesn’t quite climax

REVIEW: Cara Delevingne’s sexual exploration is a vanity project peppered with grounded humanism

By Rendy Jones

Social Media

Will Meta’s advisory board’s policy to ‘Free the nipple’ really free trans and non-binary people?

Moderation policies continue to be a topic of debate, leaving people to wonder if the recent changes will be enough

By Amanda Scriver

Books

In this debut story collection from Anuja Varghese, horror and shame commingle with joy and transformation

REVIEW: With “Chrysalis,” Anuja Varghese’s protagonists reject fairy-tale lives, embracing the unexpected

By H Felix Chau Bradley

Xtra News Flash

Oscars make history, rural Pride networks, India and same-sex marriage, Scream VI is super gay and queer Juno winners

5 queer and trans news stories we’re watching the week of March 13

By Eve Cable

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 15, Episode 11 power ranking: Stand-up to stand out

We get our first truly major power shift of the season

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 15, Episode 11 recap: ‘Free Willy!’

Longer episodes of “Drag Race” return, in spectacular fashion

By Kevin O’Keeffe

TV & Film

The 5 queerest moments from the 2023 Oscars

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” was everything, the queers ate on the champagne carpet and yes, Lady Gaga made an appearance

By Mel Woods

Xtra News Flash

Oscars’ gender, indecency expunged, a big queer Tennessee benefit, beautiful Minnesota and welcome, Suzy Eddie Izzard

5 queer and trans news stories we’re following: March 10

By Maddy Mahoney

TV & Film

‘Cassandro’ captures the triumph and heartbreak of the queer experience

REVIEW: Roger Ross Williams’s lucha libre biopic is a thrilling tour de force

By Barry Levitt

Family

Black parents of trans kids speak to the power of public support

Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade dedicated their NAACP Image Award to their trans daughter, Zaya

By Pascale Diverlus

TV & Film

‘Aftersun’ and the man I used to be

I see myself in Sophie, but I also see me in her father Callum, played by Paul Mescal

By Emma Ambrose

Drag

Drag is under attack. What role does ‘Drag Race’ play in fighting back?

OPINION: As attacks on drag and trans people escalate in the U.S., what can RuPaul do?

By Mel Woods

Queer View Mirror

The soft masculinity of ‘Top Gun’ is underappreciated lesbian joy

As “Top Gun: Maverick” roars into the Oscars, its predecessor’s model of masculine bonding is worth looking back on

By Kerry Manders