Culture

Fly to reopen Aug 2 under new management

Original club founder Shawn Riker spearheads nightclub relaunch as Fly 2.0

By Rob Salerno

Culture

Boulet Brothers bring ‘perverse pansexuality’ to Fetish Weekend

LA’s princes of perversion host Vancouver’s second annual play weekend for Pride

By Raziel Reid

Culture

WorldPride leaves its mark on Church Street

Murals, rainbow crosswalks make gay village more recognizably LGBT

By HG Watson

Opinion

Kabuki all-stars

The rich and sexually confusing traditions of Japanese theatre

By Michael Lyons

Power

Universalist Muslims embrace queer brothers and sisters

Iftar dinner open to all faiths, genders and sexual orientations

By Adrienne Ascah

Culture

Downtown Eastside residents hold Pride parade

Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood too often forgotten, participants say

By Nathaniel Christopher

Health

New hep C treatments promise high cure rates, few side effects

Though Canadian data scarce, US study suggests hepatitis C on rise among gay men

By Dave Yin

Opinion

Xposed: YouthCO celebrates 20th anniversary

HIV and hep C organization has been empowering youth for two decades

By Rob Trinh

Opinion

Queer: echoes of hate, and pride

The term queer is political, loud and encompassing, guest columnist writes

By Matthew DiMera

Power

Arab lesbians defy tradition to form chosen families

Pressured by families and society, women create relationships on their own terms

By Ahmed Danny Ramadan

Power

Ottawa man allegedly beaten and robbed in gay cruising area

Gatineau police investigating incident as possible hate crime

By Julie Cruikshank

Opinion

Xtra Hot: Christopher

This man is Mr Gay World

By Drasko Bogdanovic

Opinion

You Love Jack offers fresh amateur gay porn

People are tired of ‘seeing guys pretend to have sex,’ says company president

By Graeme Gerrard

Power

Vision Vancouver’s Trish Kelly pushed out of parks board race

Vision co-chair concerned attacks would distract from party message

By Niko Bell

Power

‘Subdued’ AIDS summit to go on after Malaysian flight goes down

‘Any time we lose people of that calibre, and any time in that number, it is significant’: John Bishop

By Natasha Barsotti

Power

BC Court of Appeal rejects gay-panic defence

Ruling upholds conviction of man who claims he broke blind man’s jaw in self-defence

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Culture

The oyster has landed

Rodney’s oyster festival celebrates 45 years since man’s first steps on moon

By Serafin LaRiviere