My Queer Kitchen with Jennifer E. Crawford: Pandemic Edition

In our first-ever cooking instalment, the “MasterChef Canada” winner asks if queer food is a real thing. Then they whip up strawberry rhubarb rye poptarts with beet and vanilla bean icing from their pandemic pantry

By Jennifer E. Crawford

Health

How does COVID-19 impact LGBTQ2 communities?

Queer and trans people face health disparities alongside precarious employment and housing that could be magnified during the pandemic

By Keren Landman

Abuse

Clear and queer conversations about intimate partner violence

A new podcast drama inspired by ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’ aims to get us talking about abusive relationships

By Jennifer Orme

Pandemic Pastimes

Xtra’s social distancing mixtape

Our favourite bops for dancing on your own

By Chelle Turingan

Conversion therapy

Surviving conversion therapy

Matt Ashcroft’s story illustrates why a federal ban on conversion therapy is vitally important

By Gordon Bowness

Music

Davia Spain is bringing hope and resolve to your playlist

The Black trans artist discusses her debut album, ‘Dawning’

By Tre’vell Anderson

Arts

Cassils transforms the way we see

Performance artist uses their trans body to fascinate and challenge

By Gordon Bowness

Environment

It’s time for queers to give up glitter

It may be a ubiquitous queer staple, but the sparkly stuff is slowly destroying our planet

By Ziya Jones

Health

Does being out help or hinder LGBTQ2 doctors?

Medical students applying for residency are asking that the application include an optional field to self-identify as queer

By Keren Landman

Power

Gatekeepers in Quebec have a stranglehold on gender-neutral language

Can we live up to the rousing words of the French Revolution: Liberté, Egalité… Froeurorité?

By Caitlin Stall-Paquet

Culture

Why drag is quintessentially Canadian

A fantastically diverse collection of performers run rampant through the country’s fertile fields of gender

By Gordon Bowness

Politics

The facade of LGBTQ progress in Cuba

Legal wins may make the country appear queer friendly—but the social realities for LGBTQ Cubans suggest otherwise

By Jonathan Bertucchi

Feature

What Kelly Canadian’s lawsuit says about the faults in Canada’s prison system

During his incarceration, the gay Dene man says he was assaulted by prison staff. It’s part of an ongoing institutional problem

By Emily Blake

Feature

Inside the technology that’s allowing gay HIV-positive men to start a family

For queer and serodiscordant couples who have always wanted biological children, sperm washing has created a way to make it happen

By Alexandra Kimball

Health

What Health Canada’s updates to sperm testing mean for donors and intended parents

There are only a few hundred sperm donors for Canadians to choose from. Starting next year, changes to regulations could bring in over one thousand new donors

By Alison Motluk