Xtra News Flash

Jinkx Monsoon and the Doctor, TDOV recap, Quebec’s publicly funded transphobia, Manhattan murder suspect and Twitter censorship

5 queer and trans news stories we’re following: April 3

By Eve Cable

Politics

Toronto can’t afford a Mark Saunders mayorship

ANALYSIS: The former police chief is too polarizing to be a serious contender

By Syrus Marcus Ware

Politics

Canadian politicians must do more to respond to Uganda’s anti-gay laws

OPINION: Last week Uganda passed a sweeping LGBTQ+ bill and Canadian leaders haven’t adequately responded

By Dale Smith

Xtra News Flash

Supportive families key to trans youth health, boygenius slams anti-LGBTQ2S+ laws, Trans Bill of Rights reintroduced, Lizzo’s affirming shapewear and Texas lawmaker pranked

5 queer and trans news stories we’re watching: March 31

By Maddy Mahoney

Politics

How Republican lawmakers are using custody threats to eliminate gender-affirming care for trans kids

Parents call their experience “traumatizing”

By Catherine Caruso

Xtra News Flash

Nashville shooting blame game, censoring ‘Rainbowland,’ media progress in India, Twitter’s hateful cash haul and ‘Wizards of Waverly Place’ queer rumours confirmed

5 queer and trans news stories we’re watching: March 29

By Maddy Mahoney

Identity

Lane Tredger is Yukon’s first out non-binary MLA

“My dream is that I’m not the only queer and trans voice in the room”

By Julia Peterson

Xtra News Flash

Madonna queers Nashville, ‘Gen Q’ cancelled (sort of), Scotland’s new first minister, Grindr users targeted by police and queer curling in Halifax

5 queer and trans news stories we’re following: March 27

By Eve Cable

Power

The death of Eden Knight, a young trans woman, garners international attention

But we need more than outrage and temporary media coverage to save trans lives

By Katelyn Burns

Xtra News Flash

Hathaway/Coel power, trans happiness, Disney dig at DeSantis, trans athletics ban and oldest queen passes

5 queer and trans stories to follow: March 24

By Maddy Mahoney

Xtra News Flash

Queers on TV, P.E.I. Pride nixes politicos, Ugandan death sentence, Grindr’s HIV tests and a super-drag queen telethon

5 queer and trans stories to watch: March 22

By Maddy Mahoney

Xtra News Flash

Hockey got gay, New York’s AG hosts Drag Story Hour, anti-trans Scottish candidates, Billie Eilish plays queer and Tinder’s new relationship types

Bite-size queer and trans news for the week of March 20

By Eve Cable

Xtra News Flash

‘Willow’ cancelled, historic Hanlan’s, Australia rallies, tracking celebrity allies and a Michigan librarian reads censors to filth

5 queer and trans news stories to follow: March 17

By Maddy Mahoney

Power

It’s not just drag artists who need to worry about bounty hunting bills

OPINION: With a new anti-drag bill in Texas, Republicans are once again attempting to use the bounty system to bypass constitutional law

By Katelyn Burns

Parenting

Italy’s far-right government is scrubbing gay parents from children’s birth certificates

Milan, the last city in Italy to recognize both same-sex parents on birth certificates, has been told to stop the practice

By V.S. Wells

Politics

National 2SLGBTQI+ action plan takes first steps with community funding, clearing criminal records

Six months into the historic plan, some are still waiting for more concrete commitments

By Kevin Hurren

Politics

Pierre Poilievre’s courting of the far-right will have consequences

OPINION: Christine Anderson shows the delicate game the Conservative leader is playing

By Dale Smith

Identity

The making of a detransitioner

Elisa Rae Shupe was a weapon in the hands of TERFs and Christian conservatives. Now, over 2,600 pages of leaked emails help tell her story

By Jude Ellison S. Doyle