Drawing a crowd

Ottawa International Animation Festival has plenty of queer content

By Julie Cruikshank

Hungry for Beauvoir

A new French film is dedicated to the life of groundbreaking writer Violette Leduc

By Lydia Perovic

Travel

Halloween in West Hollywood

WeHo’s annual Carnaval street party draws 500,000

By Xtra Editor

Video

Toronto International Film Festival wraps up

Highlights from the festival

By Frank Prendergast

Culture

Jake Gyllenhaal says gay rumours are ‘huge compliment’

By Raziel Reid

Toronto Diary

Cher turns down invitation to perform at Sochi Olympics

By Jeremy Feist

Loving Elliot

A highlight from the Queer Caribbean Film Showcase at the CaribbeanTales Film Festival

By Michael Lyons

Arts

True Blood hunk Ryan Kwanten in new Canadian flick

Star at TIFF to promote The Right Kind of Wrong

By Frank Prendergast

Arts

Boldly going where no man has gone before

Star Trek alum and Facebook sensation George Takei on Sochi, the Hollywood closet and William Shatner

By Richard Burnett

Power

Russia: Communications watchdog warns TV channel over airing of French musical

Agency says film contains ‘propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations’

By Natasha Barsotti

Fully male, fully gay

Feature-length biopic of Tom of Finland coming soon

By Serafin LaRiviere

Video

TIFF’s Noah Cowan on Russia’s anti-gay legislation

‘We are very, very concerned’

By Andrea Houston

Power

Filmmakers, actors, call for release of Greyson and Loubani at Toronto Film Festival

The Canadians have been imprisoned in Egypt since Aug 16

By Andrea Houston

Erotic, edgy & elderly

Bruce LaBruce talks about the heat and heart in his newest film, Gerontophilia

By Matt Thomas

Culture

It’s a drag queen’s world

By Raziel Reid

Culture

Manila Luzon stars in Necropolis

By Raziel Reid

Queer cinema growing up

Award-winning queer films at this year’s Atlantic Film Festival

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Cronenberg candy

Chris Dupuis highlights some of the homegrown queer flicks on offer at this year’s TIFF

By Chris Dupuis