Canada’s Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 3, Episode 6 recap: Palette cleanser

This season’s branding challenge takes on makeup, and one queen makes good

By Kevin O’Keeffe

TV & Film

Motherhood is hell in the Mexican horror film ‘Huesera’

REVIEW: The crushing weight of familial pressures on women and queer people make for juicy horror flick fare

By Sara Clements

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Pulpy romance novels, figurative painting and other culture picks from queer friends

Plus more of what’s up and on starting Aug. 18

By S. Bear Bergman

Canada’s Drag Race

Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 3: ‘After the Sashay’ with Lady Boom Boom

This week’s eliminated “Canada’s Drag Race” contestant talks genderqueer fashion and Mado Lamotte

By Lito Howse, Russ Martin

Books

Montreal author Neil Smith mines the tragedy (and dark comedy) of his own life for his heartbreaking new novel

Neil Smith’s tortuous upbringing made “family” the ultimate F word

By Matthew Hays

TV & Film

‘Freedom From Everything’ is a puzzling documentary with too many pieces

Mike Hoolboom’s documentary reinvents Hito Steyerl’s essay of the same name and connects COVID-19 to the AIDS crisis

By Michelle Krasovitski

TV & Film

‘Nelly & Nadine’ unearths a love story lost to time

REVIEW: Magnus Gertten’s documentary is a tender look at hidden love

By Michelle Krasovitski

Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 3, Episode 5 power ranking: Characters welcome

It’s another round of Snatch Game, but there can only be one winner

By Kevin O’Keeffe

TV & Film

‘P-Valley’ tells Black queer stories you won’t find anywhere else

The series, wrapping up Season 2 this weekend, depicts the layered experiences of Black queer Southerners with care and authenticity

By Daric L. Cottingham

Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 3, Episode 5 recap: Snatched again

How does the third installment of Canada’s Snatch Game stack up to the first two?

By Kevin O’Keeffe

TV & Film

‘A League of Their Own’ becomes the queer story it should have been all along

REVIEW: While uneven in its execution, Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham’s reboot justifies its own existence

By Ren Jender

TV & Film

‘The Sandman’ actor Mason Alexander Park on the ‘liberation’ of playing Desire

The non-binary actor spoke to Xtra about portraying one of fiction’s most beloved non-binary characters

By Mel Woods

Identity

Why I started a digital shrine to Justice Smith and Nic Ashe’s relationship

The actor boyfriends are the possibility models I didn’t know I needed

By Mikelle Street

The Buzz

Get ready to plot Kehlani on your ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ chart

Plus Abbi Jacobson is engaged, Shea Couleé joins the MCU and Frank Ocean’s latest business venture

By Mel Woods

Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 3, Episode 4 power ranking: who wore it best?

We got perhaps our best chance to compare these queens on an equal scale this week

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Billy Porter’s directorial debut, queer history and your new favourite song of the moment

Plus more of what’s up and on starting Aug. 5

By S. Bear Bergman

TV & Film

‘A League of Their Own,’ a trans skateboarding doc, and more streaming this August

Here are our picks of what’s new, queer and streaming this month

By Sarah Taher

Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 3, Episode 4 recap: Same, same, but different

In a twist fans have clamoured for for years, the queens must design with the same materials

By Kevin O’Keeffe