‘Work to Do’ shows just how dramatic a grocery store can get
Jules Wernersbach’s energetic novel delves into the intricacies of queer entrepreneurship, climate change—and class revolt
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Sara Ahmed says we need more complainers, not less
Whether it’s queer community, academic or government institutions, the feminist scholar says there’s value in complaints
Robyn made me dump my toxic ex-boyfriend
The Swedish pop star is known for gay anthems like “Dancing on My Own” and “Sexistential.” Her “Honey” album saved me and my best friend from a pair of doomed relationships
Gays, we need to get meaner
Billy Porter and Jordan Firstman went viral for spewing hate. In their defence, who said queer people have to be nice?
Alex from Degrassi on finding her calling counselling queer teens
Deanna Klymkiw tells Xtra about playing the franchise’s first out lesbian, and her career pivot since
Karim Diané on playing Star Trek’s first gay Klingon
The actor tells Xtra about carrying on Star Trek’s legacy of inclusion
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No, effeminate boys aren’t being ‘transed’
Hiding my transness nearly killed me. Let’s work to build a world where trans people’s lives aren’t quite so hard
The many eras of the AIDS Committee of Toronto—including its final bow
As Canada’s oldest AIDS organization closes its doors after more than four decades, Xtra dives deep into its community history and why it’s come to an end
The 20th-century journal that challenged the gender binary
From 1916 to 1940, “Urania” imagined a world beyond gender—and documented feminist movements around the globe
8 Alberta community leaders share their resources for trans youth
From summer camps to affirming churches, advocates say trans youth in the province aren’t alone
The drag king provocateur of the Harlem Renaissance
Gladys Bentley was a beloved and successful gender outlaw, but the world would ultimately fail her
7 of the best gay sex scenes in film and TV
“Heated Rivalry” has sparked new conversation around queer sex onscreen. But film and TV history is full of plenty of other steamy encounters
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Queer freedom is incompatible with a world in which ICE exists
Renee Nicole Good’s death at the hands of ICE agents should be prosecuted as a homophobic hate crime
Renee Nicole Good’s queerness isn’t an aside—it’s a key part of her story
We can’t ignore the misogyny and homophobia baked into Good’s killing—and erasing her wife does just that
Sapphics on television had a disappointing year
2024 was a great year for queer women on TV. But from ‘The Last of Us’ to ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ 2025’s Sapphic storytelling slid backward
The best queer and trans books of 2025
Our picks for the year’s best fiction and non-fiction, from Alison Bechdel to Ocean Vuong
The legacy of Little Sister’s censorship battle over queer books
Twenty-five years after the Vancouver bookstore’s win against Canada Customs, the struggle for the freedom to read isn’t over
2025 was about finding solace in the human-made slop
AI’s got nothing on good quality dumb entertainment—and only people can make that
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