Power

Five things I wish I’d known before coming out as genderqueer at work

On my first day at work, I announced I was genderqueer. I wasn’t prepared for the response

By Sam K. MacKinnon

Opinion

Same-sex love in the saddle: the homosexual world of the American frontier

Men in the 19th-century frontier had wild dances, found love and took part in bachelor marriages

By Michael Lyons

Opinion

What happens when a condom breaks? (Part 2)

Men who have sex with men may be at an increased risk if a condom breaks. Could PrEP help prevent this?

By Mike Miksche

Opinion

Why it may be time for me to kill Mike Miksche (Part 2)

I’ve often felt I needed to choose between my ethnicity and my sexuality

By Mike Miksche

Opinion

Who was the real Tadzio?

Tracking down the real person behind the beautiful boy from Thomas Mann’s novel Death in Venice

By Jeremy Willard

Opinion

What happens when a condom breaks? (Part 1)

Condoms are supposed to be 98 to 99 percent effective when used correctly. Mine broke — so what happened?

By Mike Miksche

Opinion

I fought the cops in the 1990s and I support Black Lives Matter now

True inclusion should not be subject to popularity contests

By Greg Armstrong-Morris

Opinion

Why it may be time for me to kill Mike Miksche (Part 1)

I chose to use a pseudonym for “Hole and Corner” because I worried about my Lebanese-Muslim family reading about my sex life. Maybe I was wrong

By Mike Miksche

Opinion

Why queer people must stand against the death penalty

Not just in far-off countries where homosexuals are put to death, but wherever people are unjustly oppressed by the state

By Rob Salerno

Opinion

Stop ignoring the brutal, racist history of the Vancouver Police Department

Why do Vancouverites think our police force is special?

By Arshy Mann

Opinion

Ruth Ellis created space for gay and lesbian African Americans in the 1940–1960s

She was a queer black woman whose life spanned three centuries of living proud and helping others do the same

By Michael Lyons

Opinion

Ten things you might not know about the Vancouver Pride Society

Co-executive director shares a behind-the-scenes look at the VPS

By Andrea Arnot

Opinion

Why do we stigmatize STIs like syphilis, but accept other illnesses as normal?

The flu is a pain. Aunt Phyllis is just an inconvenience

By Kevin Moroso

Opinion

A client wanted me to hold a knife to his throat (Part 2)

He’s given me more details for this role-play than any of my other clients, but the more precisely laid out the scene, the more ways it can go wrong

By Devon Delacroix

Love & Sex

Will my Latin American mother cry tears of joy at my queer wedding?

My mother had no problem with other people’s fluid sexualities, but she had absolutely no desire for her daughter to be anything but straight

By Ludmila Leiva

Opinion

Trump-loving evangelist brings his homophobic, racist rhetoric to Vancouver

Why is Franklin Graham still headlining the Festival of Hope?

By Arshy Mann

Opinion

If the Liberal government abandons hundreds of LGBT refugees, does anyone care?

Canada broke a promise to hundreds of LGBT Iranians, who are now stranded in Turkey. Now what?

By Arshy Mann

Opinion

Are public health recommendations sex-negative? (Part 2)

Why we need more positive resources for men who have sex with men

By Mike Miksche