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Who is the queerest pet of all time?

Forget March Madness. Help us settle a more pressing matter

Culture

How queer is Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’?

His latest film leaves much up to audience interpretation — including a queer reading

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Opinion

Why Vancouver’s funding cut to a women’s shelter is a win for trans rights

Vancouver Rape Relief excluded trans women from using its support services

By Adrienne Smith

Culture

The Spice Girls are kind of gay, viva forever

That’s the kind of girl power we’re here for

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11’s power ranking goes orange

By Kevin O’Keeffe

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 Episode 4 recap: Trump and goats and Oprah, oh my

The only time in our lives we were rooting for Kellyanne Conway

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Opinion

Two Catholic school graduates fact-check their sex-ed textbook, ‘Fully Alive’

It taught our Grade 7 selves everything we knew about sex. But we have concerns

By Erica Lenti, Eternity Martis

Power

Does someone need to cast a Silencio spell on JK Rowling?

By using queerness retroactively, Rowling has turned her legacy into a farce

By Eternity Martis

Power

Ontario reverses its reversal on sex ed. Now what?

A roundtable discussion on new curriculum and what it means for LGBTQ2 youth

By Arvin Joaquin, Erica Lenti, Eternity Martis, Rachel Giese

The ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 power ranking lip syncs for its life

By Kevin O’Keeffe

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 Episode 3 recap: The six merry murderesses of the Lip Sync for Your Life

‘Drag Race’ herstory is made with a battle royale

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Power

Should allies like Beyoncé and Jay-Z win queer awards?

AKA: Should we reward allies for being good humans?

By Arvin Joaquin, Erica Lenti, Eternity Martis

Culture

Big Dyke Energy, explained

Make room for the superior BDE

Culture

How queer is ‘Captain Marvel’?

The film’s core relationship is refreshingly not a romance, but a bond between two women

By Kevin O’Keeffe

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11’s queens shake up the ranking

By Kevin O’Keeffe

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 11 Episode 2 recap: Good God, girl, get a grip

Season 11 is in trouble — and it’s only week two

By Kevin O’Keeffe

Power

Eight badass LGBTQ2 women to celebrate on International Women’s Day

These activists, actors, athletes and authors make every day Women’s Day

By Erica Lenti, Eternity Martis

Culture

Ariana Grande’s ‘thank u, next’ is the queer break-up track we need

How the hit song embraces the LGBTQ2 tradition of gratitude for our exes

By Andi Schwartz

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