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Culture

10 queer pop culture Valentine’s cards to woo your boo

10 queer pop culture Valentine’s cards to woo your boo

Show your love, inspired by “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “Bottoms” and “Saltburn”

By Jordan Currie, Mel Woods • February 13, 2024 at 5:08 pm EDT
Music

What the internet is getting wrong about Tracy Chapman

What the internet is getting wrong about Tracy Chapman

ANALYSIS: The “Fast Car” hype misses why the singer-songwriter has been an icon to queer women for decades 

By Tara-Michelle Ziniuk • February 8, 2024 at 10:02 am EDT
TV & Film

9 queer films from last year to love (even if the Oscars didn’t)

9 queer films from last year to love (even if the Oscars didn’t)

“Barbie” this, “Oppenheimer” that—what about “Bottoms” and “All of Us Strangers”?

By Johnny Lin • February 5, 2024 at 3:19 pm EDT
Books

‘Yours for the Taking’ asks what follows when patriarchy is overthrown

‘Yours for the Taking’ asks what follows when patriarchy is overthrown

REVIEW: Gabrielle Korn’s debut novel has a fun, strange set-up that quickly falls apart

By H Felix Chau Bradley • February 2, 2024 at 12:00 pm EDT
TV & Film

Thriller ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ has its head in the clouds and its foot in its mouth

Thriller ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ has its head in the clouds and its foot in its mouth

The film is genuinely fun, freaky and frightening—but the lack of consistency can leave viewers feeling lost

By Lindsay Lee Wallace • January 31, 2024 at 10:19 am EDT
Queer View Mirror

Radical, tender and unapologetically queer: ‘Tongues Untied’ still speaks volumes

Radical, tender and unapologetically queer: ‘Tongues Untied’ still speaks volumes

Why a 30-year-old film talks circles around its modern cousins

By S. Bear Bergman • January 23, 2024 at 11:54 am EDT
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Politics

Poilievre’s concern over press freedom is just dystopian world-building

Poilievre’s concern over press freedom is just dystopian world-building

OPINION: In his false, bifurcated view of reality, queer and trans people are treated as villains

By Dale Smith • January 18, 2024 at 2:42 pm EDT
Rainbow Rewind 2023

50 queer and trans pop culture moments that defined 2023

50 queer and trans pop culture moments that defined 2023

From M3GAN to George Santos to “Padam Padam,” these are the pop culture things the gays will remember from 2023

By Mel Woods • December 21, 2023 at 2:48 pm EDT
Rainbow Rewind 2023

Righteous Queens and Shady Bitches 2023

Righteous Queens and Shady Bitches 2023

An annual tradition returns: the highs and the lows of the past year, personified

By Xtra Staff • December 18, 2023 at 5:24 pm EDT
Art & Photography

‘Renegades’ documents the queer history Chloe Sherman helped create

‘Renegades’ documents the queer history Chloe Sherman helped create

“Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s” captures a vital and vibrant era of queer and trans life

By Cooper Lee Bombardier • December 12, 2023 at 10:43 am EDT
Activism

Roz Kaveney on a lifetime of fighting for trans rights

Roz Kaveney on a lifetime of fighting for trans rights

The writer, poet and anti-TERF activist reflects on half a century of fighting for trans rights

By Jude Ellison S. Doyle • November 30, 2023 at 1:14 pm EDT
Homelessness

As the homelessness crisis worsens, Gay Villages are caught at a crossroads of identity 

As the homelessness crisis worsens, Gay Villages are caught at a crossroads of identity 

ANALYSIS: Unhoused people are a part of our communities, so what can we do?

By Nour Abi-Nakhoul • November 28, 2023 at 6:00 am EDT
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Nightlife

Queer people of colour are still left out of Chicago’s queer neighbourhood

Queer people of colour are still left out of Chicago’s queer neighbourhood

Local drag performers say the area mostly serves affluent white men 

By Adam Rhodes • November 15, 2023 at 5:08 pm EDT
TV & Film

‘Out in the Ring’ documentary unmasks the queer history of professional wrestling

‘Out in the Ring’ documentary unmasks the queer history of professional wrestling

Ry Levey’s debut feature celebrates today’s out performers who are transforming the sport while unearthing its hidden past

By Christos Tsirbas • November 14, 2023 at 2:08 pm EDT
Trans Health

The ex-gay movement crawled so the detransition movement could run

The ex-gay movement crawled so the detransition movement could run

OPINION: We’ve been here before. And history shows what might happen next

By Katelyn Burns • November 10, 2023 at 5:09 pm EDT
Environment

Disasters don’t discriminate against queer people—but disaster responses do

Disasters don’t discriminate against queer people—but disaster responses do

As natural disasters and social emergencies continue to rise, queer people are often left in vulnerable situations, with disaster response mostly prioritizing the needs of cis and heterosexual communities

By Eve Cable • November 3, 2023 at 12:50 pm EDT
TV & Film

For its subject’s ability to evolve alone, ‘Nyad’ is inspirational

For its subject’s ability to evolve alone, ‘Nyad’ is inspirational

REVIEW: The lesbian swimmer’s biopic highlights queer persistence and platonic love

By Frankie de la Cretaz • November 3, 2023 at 10:03 am EDT
Books

‘Valid’ takes on the surprisingly rich postapocalyptic transfeminine genre

‘Valid’ takes on the surprisingly rich postapocalyptic transfeminine genre

REVIEW: Chris Bergeron’s dystopian new autofiction novel delivers mixed results

By Veronica Esposito • November 1, 2023 at 2:18 pm EDT
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