Arts

Roller girls rock: training with Ottawa Roller Derby

Honey Bee teaches Capital Xtra’s Luna Allison how to skate, fall & get physical

By Noreen Fagan

Power

Eighty years after Stonewall, will we still be celebrating?

Xtra.ca asks cool queers to look ahead to 2049

By Kaj Hasselriis

Power

Out in Africa

International grand marshal Victor Juliet Mukasa

By Chaos McKenzie

Canada

An unholy mess

When religion, politics and homophobia collide

By Krishna Rau

Power

Looking back at Stonewall

A first-person account of the raid on New York City’s Stonewall Inn in June 1969

By James Dubro

Arts

Pride top 10

Your participaction checklist

By Gordon Bowness

Vancouver

Homo Month in America

Obama proclaims the unthinkable

By Karen X Tulchinsky

Power

Burnaby Teachers’ Association pushes for anti-homophobia policy

But school district chair says policy should be as broad as possible

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Power

Cleve Jones named a Grand Marshal for Pride

Activist worked with Harvey Milk

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Culture

2009’s grand marshals & honoured groups

Why they can’t stop, won’t stop

By Fred Kuhr

Arts

Book review: Second Person Queer

Feisty, in-your-face advice

By Jim Bartley

Video

First rally on Parliament Hill to protest criminalization of HIV

Activists, PHAs and MPs speak out against the law

By Noreen Fagan

Power

Gay leaders denounce Egale award to Jaime Watt

Work as a rightwing activist should disqualify him, they say

By Krishna Rau

Power

City’s new gay advisory committee formed

By Natasha Barsotti

Toronto

Follow the money

By Brent Ledger

Power

Obama recognizes June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month”

US president reconfirms his promises to end workplace discrimination, repeal ban on gays in military

By Michael Pihach

Toronto Diary

Pride Month begins….so is this finally over?

By Rob Salerno

Culture

Guerrilla Freeze: mission accomplished

Improv activists freeze for the cultural normalization of gay relationships

By Noreen Fagan