My queer friends taught me to say ‘I love you.’ Now I say it as often as I can
My family showed love through action, but my friends helped me learn to say it out loud
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Frank Ocean soundtracked my two earliest—and most devastating—romances
“Blonde” and “channel ORANGE” both came out during pivotal moments in my queer awakening. A decade later, how can I listen to them without breaking my heart?
‘Canada’s Drag Race All Stars’ finale recap: The first Canadian ‘All Stars’ champion is …
A Lip Sync Smackdown for the Crown delivers goops and gags before crowning one queen
Mark Carney is set to fold on trade. What’s next?
If the prime minister is willing to cave on this issue, it seems reasonable to expect there will be others down the line
Transphobia is rotting women’s sports media
Sports media is perpetuating a problem that doesn’t actually exist
‘Canada’s Drag Race All Stars’ Episode 5 recap: Gauntlet, revisited
Some significant improvements to the C.U.N.T. Test challenge help make this a banger semifinal episode
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‘Canada’s Drag Race All Stars’ Episode 4 recap: The Matrix revolution
Aurora Matrix lands in the bottom three for the first time, and her competitors are eager to knock her out of the competition
‘By Hook or by Crook’ still pushes queer cinema boundaries 25 years later
Filmmakers Harry Dodge and Silas Howard discuss the lasting resonance of their boundary-pushing trans-butch buddy caper
I know why gay people are so obsessed with ancient Greece
Stories like “The Odyssey” and “Hadestown” changed my life. Could they change the world?
Music, fashion, film, mess
Charli XCX’s new album is infinitely more fun to talk about than to actually hear
‘Canada’s Drag Race All Stars’ Episode 3 recap: Reset to the mean
After starting the season with a bang—or two—this episode gets back to business as usual
Looking for my relationship in marriage memoirs
My queer marriage may not look like the marriages I read about, but maybe I don’t want it to
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What is ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ afraid of?
“All Stars 11” claimed to cede control to the queens, but seemed terrified of putting its frontrunner in any danger
‘Heartstopper Forever’ ends the story I needed in high school
As a young gay kid, I felt trapped in the closet by bullies. “Heartstopper” could have made my happy ending arrive sooner
What will Hanlan’s Point look like if Billy Bishop Airport expands?
The Toronto beach is Canada’s oldest surviving LGBTQ2S+ space, but a plan to build up a nearby airport has advocates on edge
Jamil Jivani’s comments about Pride show how he wants you to hate him
The Conservative MP’s culture war posts about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s attendance at Toronto Pride are bait for persecution points
‘Maddie’s Secret’ is the movie about eating disorders we need
John Early’s pastiche of after-school specials mixes belly laughs with gut punches. It’s a rare masterwork
Van Goth made ‘Canada’s Drag Race’ look easy. But victory has a price
The drag phenom’s run complicated our idea of what a reality TV villain could be. She tells Xtra about clawing her way to the top—and her fight for what comes next
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