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That’s the Way It Is

If the Spice Girls were so disposable, why are we still humming “Wannabe” 25 years later?

If the Spice Girls were so disposable, why are we still humming “Wannabe” 25 years later?

The Spice Girls topped the charts for just a short time, but they will forever be fetish objects for queer kids from the 1990s 

By Thomas Leblanc, Tranna Wintour • July 27, 2021 at 10:21 am EDT
Books

What can queers learn about ourselves by conversing with the past?

What can queers learn about ourselves by conversing with the past?

Comedian Tricia Black interviews writer Brian Francis about his hilarious and touching new memoir

By Tricia Black • July 26, 2021 at 11:26 am EDT
Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6’ Episode 6 recap: Witches better beware

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6’ Episode 6 recap: Witches better beware

An “American Horror Story”-themed acting challenge pushes the dolls to overact the house down

By Kevin O’Keeffe • July 22, 2021 at 9:04 pm EDT
Xtra Weekly

Topline: Things need to get better for everybody, not just some people

Topline: Things need to get better for everybody, not just some people

It’s hard to watch crackdowns on LGBTQ+ people in China and other countries

By Paul Gallant • July 22, 2021 at 1:30 pm EDT
Sports

Your big queer and trans guide to the Tokyo Olympics

Your big queer and trans guide to the Tokyo Olympics

Despite controversies, coronavirus and cancellations, the Olympics are happening. Here’s what you need to know.

By Mel Woods • July 22, 2021 at 12:36 pm EDT
Protest and Pleasure

Screw capitalism: For love to actually win, we need a revolution

Screw capitalism: For love to actually win, we need a revolution

In the fifth installment of the “Protest and Pleasure” series, why marriage equality isn’t the key to our liberation and how capitalism is bad for sex lives

By Chanelle Gallant • July 19, 2021 at 1:48 pm EDT
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Sex

What safer sex looks like in a post-pandemic world wildly in flux

What safer sex looks like in a post-pandemic world wildly in flux

Can we really have a “hot vax summer”?

By Bobby Box • July 19, 2021 at 1:46 pm EDT
TV & Film

How this straight actor prepared to play gay in The CW’s ‘Kung Fu’

How this straight actor prepared to play gay in The CW’s ‘Kung Fu’

Aussie Jon Prasida talks about being an ally and about Asian representation on screen

By Max Gao • July 16, 2021 at 9:20 am EDT
Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6’ Episode 5 recap: Getting real

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6’ Episode 5 recap: Getting real

Pink Table Talk invites the queens to open up, and some bare all

By Kevin O’Keeffe • July 15, 2021 at 7:45 pm EDT
Xtra Weekly

Topline: Meet you at the bar

Topline: Meet you at the bar

My hometown queer bar is under threat. Send in the queens!

By Gordon Bowness • July 15, 2021 at 10:58 am EDT
HIV/AIDS

Coming of age during the AIDS crisis: A dialogue

Coming of age during the AIDS crisis: A dialogue

Authors Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Alexander McClelland discuss how a lost generation of queers came out, grieved and thrived through the height of the epidemic

By Alexander McClelland, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore • July 14, 2021 at 1:21 pm EDT
The Xtra Long Read

Vaxxed, waxed and ready to travel?

Vaxxed, waxed and ready to travel?

From Berlin to Bangkok, global queer tourism destinations are gearing up to welcome you back. But visitors should expect surprises

By Loren Christie • July 14, 2021 at 1:00 pm EDT
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Music

How on earth does Elle Barbara, a celebrated mother of Montreal’s ballroom scene, make music while doing so much mentoring?

How on earth does Elle Barbara, a celebrated mother of Montreal’s ballroom scene, make music while doing so much mentoring?

Never mind the inter-house rivalries, vogue still has the power to bring people together

By Jesse Locke • July 14, 2021 at 9:05 am EDT
That’s the Way It Is

After the ‘Ellen’ trainwreck, which talk show diva will be the new queen of daytime TV?

After the ‘Ellen’ trainwreck, which talk show diva will be the new queen of daytime TV?

Meghan McCain was easy to hate watch, but Wendy Williams remains the best sort of weird

By Thomas Leblanc, Tranna Wintour • July 13, 2021 at 10:57 am EDT
Power

When investigations into the deaths of trans women go unsolved

When investigations into the deaths of trans women go unsolved

A veteran journalist explores what the Bruce McArthur case can teach us about other unsolved murder investigations and the policing of sex work

By Nour Abi-Nakhoul • July 12, 2021 at 4:03 pm EDT
Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6’ Episode 4 recap: Let’s play some football

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6’ Episode 4 recap: Let’s play some football

The “Big Game” makes for a fine Rusical—and a disappointing elimination

By Kevin O’Keeffe • July 8, 2021 at 6:17 pm EDT
Books

Death is around every corner in this queer author’s grimly funny debut novel

Death is around every corner in this queer author’s grimly funny debut novel

In “Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead,” Emily Austin examines the intersection of queerness, religion and mental illness

By Mel Woods • July 7, 2021 at 11:59 am EDT
Tik Talk

In these trying times, thank goodness for the TikTok butches in bikinis

In these trying times, thank goodness for the TikTok butches in bikinis

How fun and sexy queer TikTok trends are a blessed balm for the hell of the world

By Mel Woods • July 6, 2021 at 11:42 am EDT
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