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Rainbow Rewind 2025

The top 10 ‘Drag Race’ lip syncs of 2025

The top 10 ‘Drag Race’ lip syncs of 2025

International seasons dominate the list of best performances of the year

By Kevin O'Keeffe • December 16, 2025 at 10:40 am EDT
Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 4 power ranking: Read you, wrote you

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 4 power ranking: Read you, wrote you

Which queen came out on top in the Reading Battles maxi-challenge?

By Kevin O'Keeffe • December 12, 2025 at 12:23 pm EDT
Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 4 recap: Battle it out

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 4 recap: Battle it out

A fan favourite maxi-challenge from “Canada vs. The World” makes its return

By Kevin O'Keeffe • December 12, 2025 at 10:45 am EDT
Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 3 power ranking: Big Sister

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 3 power ranking: Big Sister

Social strategy comes into play in a big way—but does it pay off?

By Kevin O'Keeffe • December 5, 2025 at 1:00 pm EDT
Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 2 power ranking: Queens overboard!

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 2 power ranking: Queens overboard!

How do the power rankings ship-shape up after the first elimination?

By Kevin O'Keeffe • November 28, 2025 at 8:18 am EDT
Drag Race

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 1 power ranking: Forever your girls

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ Season 6, Episode 1 power ranking: Forever your girls

Which queens find themselves “Straight Up” at the top of the first ranking of the season?

By Kevin O'Keeffe • November 21, 2025 at 10:03 am EDT
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Politics

The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights

The lies Danielle Smith is telling to overturn trans kids’ rights

The Alberta government is invoking the Notwithstanding Clause to protect its three anti-trans laws from being challenged in the courts

By Mel Woods • November 18, 2025 at 7:15 pm EDT
TV & Film

Mae Martin’s ‘Wayward’ doesn’t work

Mae Martin’s ‘Wayward’ doesn’t work

Martin’s new Netflix series, starring Toni Collette, tackles the troubled teen industry. The show is confused and wholly conventional

By Michelle Krasovitski • September 26, 2025 at 4:38 pm EDT
Love Like Mine

I had a threesome with my monogamous partner, and it couldn’t have been better

I had a threesome with my monogamous partner, and it couldn’t have been better

There’s more than one route into opening a relationship—waiting for the perfect moment is a good way to start

By Denys Johnson • September 24, 2025 at 10:23 am EDT
Activism

Meet four LGBTQ2S+ activists who are fighting ICE

Meet four LGBTQ2S+ activists who are fighting ICE

Since its inception, ICE has held a long record of violence toward the LGBTQ2S+ community. Here some of the activists who are fighting back

By Rohan Zhou-Lee • September 23, 2025 at 3:19 pm EDT
Taking Space

Away from home or school, queer youth find space to hope

Away from home or school, queer youth find space to hope

As anti-LGBTQ2S+ legislation targets young people, they find refuge in drop-ins and book clubs

By Phoebe Fuller • September 4, 2025 at 8:00 am EDT
E•MO•TEN

Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘EMOTION’ showed me the dark secret about true love

Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘EMOTION’ showed me the dark secret about true love

On her classic album, Jepsen basks in the sunny glow of a crush. But she’s equally interested in the cold and black night that follows

By KC Hoard • August 21, 2025 at 9:00 am EDT
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Politics

This Canadian think tank is claiming ‘victory’ over anti-trans legislation

This Canadian think tank is claiming ‘victory’ over anti-trans legislation

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute routinely publishes material targeting trans rights

By Denio Lourenco • August 13, 2025 at 4:13 pm EDT
TV & Film

‘Big Brother 27’ star Jimmy Heagerty is making for great TV. It could be even better with more queer people

‘Big Brother 27’ star Jimmy Heagerty is making for great TV. It could be even better with more queer people

By very virtue of their sexuality, queer houseguests cannot have the same experience as their straight competitors

By Kevin O'Keeffe • July 24, 2025 at 4:10 pm EDT
Proud Lives

Andrea Gibson helped me see life in the good light

Andrea Gibson helped me see life in the good light

Gibson’s poetry about queerness and mortality taught thousands of people how to reject apathy and embrace life

By Lindsay Lee Wallace • July 17, 2025 at 9:41 am EDT
Politics

What are we really talking about when we talk about ‘political violence’?

What are we really talking about when we talk about ‘political violence’?

ANALYSIS: The vast majority of political violence in America is coming from the right wing, and is aimed at marginalized people

By Jude Ellison S. Doyle • June 26, 2025 at 1:41 pm EDT
Politics

Quebec’s new anti-trans policy will not make prison safer for women

Quebec’s new anti-trans policy will not make prison safer for women

OPINION: The new policy announced by Minister of Public Security François Bonnardel is political posturing

By Ziya Jones • June 19, 2025 at 1:48 pm EDT
Politics

The U.S. government is coming for poppers—again

The U.S. government is coming for poppers—again

With a raid on a popular poppers brand, the Trump administration continues a decades-long attack on our right to party

By Adam Rhodes • June 6, 2025 at 12:33 pm EDT
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