Questions for a Monday morning

Did your awkward Mother’s Day family photo show up on AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com?

National Post columnist Peter
Kuitenbrouwer
vows to avoid gay cruising area in Toronto — are you disappointed?

Why doesn’t Eric Dane just take his shirt off?

How many days before we break and see ‘Star Trek’ again?

Can gay US soliders trust Obama to scrap “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” now that he’s put it in handwriting?

The Pedophile Protection Act?” Have our homophobic foes finally lost what little wits they had left?

Next weekend, would you wear a plastic hoodie to literally inhale your cocktails?

Wanda Sykes: is she Awesome or THE Awesome?

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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