Opinion

Is the queer community ready to defend public sex?

Identity, community, and privacy arguments may not be sufficient for Project Marie

By Steven Maynard

The Daily Package

Castro’s legacy, Indian pride, and the beauty of positivity

Your Daily Package of newsy and naughty bits from around the world

By Niko Bell

Arts

How a psychic experience and a dead writer inspired Daniel MacIvor’s new play

Who Killed Spalding Gray? is a departure from MacIvor’s usual style

By Chris Dupuis

Project Marie is the latest chapter in Toronto police’s long history of targeting queer sex

Xtra Spark urges community members to follow activist group Queers Crash the Beat

Created for Queers Crash the Beat

Power

Trans bill likely to pass Senate

Bill C-16 passed its final House vote Nov 18, 2016

By Dylan C Robertson

Opinion

Why Project Marie was a witch hunt on gay men

Shame tactics might try to vilify gay sex, but it won’t stop cruising

By Mike Miksche

Arts

Out in Toronto: Nov 24–30, 2016

Choice events in the city this week

By Jeremy Willard

How to run a Queer Film Festival in Uganda

And what you can do to make sure the first annual Queer Kampala International Film Festival is a success

Created for Queer Kampala International Film Festival

Power

Should Pride applicants have to prove that they’re LGBT-friendly?

A proposal to restrict participation in Halifax Pride raises questions about queer credentials, free speech and safe spaces

By Derek Brown

Power

Defence argues Crown failed to make its case in Brent Hawkes trial

Prosecution maintains that alleged victim’s memories are credible

By Matthew DiMera

Opinion

RIP, Yonge Cinemas (Part 2)

Yonge Cinemas may be gone, but at least there’s still Steamworks

By Mike Miksche

Power

Judge rules against allowing rebuttal witnesses in Brent Hawkes trial

Closing arguments are expected Wednesday

By Matthew DiMera

Opinion

Leitch’s hypocritical Trump-style politics have no place in Canada

If Conservatives have any principles, they must rally against leadership candidate’s anti-immigrant rhetoric

By Rob Salerno

Arts

Bank Street BIA to highlight culture and history in Ottawa’s Village

Community input needed for first phase of Village Legacy Project

By Jeremy Willard

The Daily Package

Gay history, trans remembrance and the evil bisexual problem

Your Daily Package of newsy and naughty bits from around the world

By Niko Bell

Power

Expert witness questions memories in Brent Hawkes trial

’I think we need to be concerned about the reliability of a 40-year-old memory,’ court hears

By Matthew DiMera

Power

Vancouver Pride cuts some events to focus on core, AGM hears

New managers say VPS committed to consulting community, especially marginalized groups

By Nathaniel Christopher

Opinion

What the rise of the alt-right means for HIV prevention

We need to talk to each other openly about sex and our sexual health

By Mike Miksche