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Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 12, Episode 2 recap: Cell Tuck Tango

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 12, Episode 2 recap: Cell Tuck Tango

Six more queens make their first appearances—but who stands out?

By Kevin O’Keeffe • March 7, 2020 at 9:30 am EDT
Inspired

Rapper Säye Skye on music as LGBTQ activism around the world

Rapper Säye Skye on music as LGBTQ activism around the world
By Xtra Video • March 3, 2020 at 2:27 pm EDT
Politics

Inside Jason Kenney’s anti-LGBTQ2 Alberta

Inside Jason Kenney’s anti-LGBTQ2 Alberta

In a relatively queer-friendly country, the province remains an outlier under Kenney’s power

By Michael Ott • March 2, 2020 at 1:39 pm EDT
Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 12, Episode 1 recap: Splits for your nerves

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 12, Episode 1 recap: Splits for your nerves

It’s the first split premiere since Season 6, so it’s time to meet only half the queens

By Kevin O’Keeffe • February 29, 2020 at 9:30 am EDT
Environment

It’s time for queers to give up glitter

It’s time for queers to give up glitter

It may be a ubiquitous queer staple, but the sparkly stuff is slowly destroying our planet

By Ziya Jones • February 26, 2020 at 9:45 am EDT
Personal Essay

What being queer taught me about death

What being queer taught me about death

After my mother’s death, I turned to my queer community to learn how to grieve

By Zena Sharman • February 25, 2020 at 12:25 pm EDT
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Hey sweeties, we’re changing

Hey sweeties, we’re changing

Help us build an even better Xtra

By Rachel Giese • February 24, 2020 at 12:43 pm EDT
Analysis

How conversion therapy affects trans Canadians

How conversion therapy affects trans Canadians

A new study suggests 11 percent of trans and non-binary people in Canada have undergone the harmful practice

By Fae Johnstone • February 17, 2020 at 10:00 am EDT
Obsessions

J.Lo’s renaissance proves that she’s for real

J.Lo’s renaissance proves that she’s for real

And ‘The Inheritance’ brings gay stories—and gay nudity!—to Broadway

By Thomas Leblanc, Tranna Wintour • February 12, 2020 at 10:15 am EDT
Power

Gatekeepers in Quebec have a stranglehold on gender-neutral language

Gatekeepers in Quebec have a stranglehold on gender-neutral language

Can we live up to the rousing words of the French Revolution: Liberté, Egalité… Froeurorité?

By Caitlin Stall-Paquet • February 10, 2020 at 5:20 pm EDT
Parenting

How doulas can help LGBTQ2 parents navigate childbirth

How doulas can help LGBTQ2 parents navigate childbirth

Doulas can improve birth outcomes in marginalized communities. For LGBTQ2 parents, this means a trained companion to help them in the labour room and beyond

By Keren Landman • February 10, 2020 at 11:17 am EDT
Culture

Why drag is quintessentially Canadian

Why drag is quintessentially Canadian

A fantastically diverse collection of performers run rampant through the country’s fertile fields of gender

By Gordon Bowness • February 7, 2020 at 1:47 pm EDT
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Health

Why anti-Black racism in Canadian blood donation is also a gay issue

Why anti-Black racism in Canadian blood donation is also a gay issue

Canada’s history of banning men who have sex with men and Haitians from donating blood goes back to its panic over HIV/AIDS and miscegenation

By OmiSoore Dryden • February 5, 2020 at 12:48 pm EDT
Salty Queers

Forget marching. Conservative leadership hopefuls should run Pride Toronto

Forget marching. Conservative leadership hopefuls should run Pride Toronto

They’ll really get to know the queers whose votes they want!

By Arvin Joaquin, Erica Lenti • January 31, 2020 at 11:22 am EDT
Xtra Weekly

Lil Nas X wins Grammys, Lilly Singh represents bisexuality and Tan France struts down the runway

Lil Nas X wins Grammys, Lilly Singh represents bisexuality and Tan France struts down the runway

Here’s what to expect from Xtra Weekly, Jan. 31

By Xtra Staff • January 30, 2020 at 3:04 pm EDT
Power

Pride Toronto’s executive director is out. Now what?

Pride Toronto’s executive director is out. Now what?

Xtra editors weigh in on the organization, the celebrations and the future of the festival

By Arvin Joaquin, Erica Lenti, Gordon Bowness • January 29, 2020 at 4:52 pm EDT
Health

Getting coverage for top surgery is harder than you think. I would know

Getting coverage for top surgery is harder than you think. I would know

Last year, I finally decided it was time—but the insurance process is lengthy, frustrating and unnecessarily mysterious

By Abby Higgs • January 28, 2020 at 10:11 am EDT
Human Rights

Writing hate and LGBTQ2 resistance into the national story

Writing hate and LGBTQ2 resistance into the national story

Site for ambitious LGBTQ2 monument announced in Ottawa

By Gordon Bowness • January 24, 2020 at 11:30 am EDT
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