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Drag Race

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 12, Episode 2 recap: Cell Tuck Tango

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 12, Episode 2 recap: Cell Tuck Tango

Six more queens make their first appearances—but who stands out?

By Kevin O’Keeffe • March 7, 2020 at 9:30 am EDT
Love Like Mine

Carly Rae Jepsen’s music was the soundtrack of my first gay love

Carly Rae Jepsen’s music was the soundtrack of my first gay love

Somewhere between the lyrics and catchy harmony, I fell in love

By KC Hoard • March 4, 2020 at 10:44 am EDT
Ask Kai: Advice for the Apocalypse

My trans partner is traumatized by her transition, and is too triggered to support me through mine. I’m so hurt. Can this relationship be saved?

My trans partner is traumatized by her transition, and is too triggered to support me through mine. I’m so hurt. Can this relationship be saved?
By Kai Cheng Thom • March 3, 2020 at 11:07 am EDT
Ask an Expert

Yes, you can have a healthy, happy open relationship. Here’s how

Yes, you can have a healthy, happy open relationship. Here’s how

Sex therapist Susan Wenzel answers your burning questions about non-monogamy

By Eternity Martis • March 2, 2020 at 11:37 am EDT
Obsessions

Madonna’s Madame X is a hot but brilliant mess

Madonna’s Madame X is a hot but brilliant mess

And a bisexual reveal on ‘Love is Blind’ shows that toxic masculinity hurts us all

By Thomas Leblanc, Tranna Wintour • February 26, 2020 at 12:01 pm EDT
Culture

7 unforgettable moments in Black queer pop culture

7 unforgettable moments in Black queer pop culture

From “Moonlight” winning the Oscar to Dominique Jackson from “Pose” reading for filth, we’ve got a lot to celebrate this Black History Month

By Tre’vell Anderson • February 21, 2020 at 3:07 pm EDT
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Music

A Valentine’s Day playlist for all of your big, queer feels

A Valentine’s Day playlist for all of your big, queer feels

Whether you love or loathe the holiday, we have a song for you

By Xtra Staff • February 14, 2020 at 11:52 am EDT
Power

Gatekeepers in Quebec have a stranglehold on gender-neutral language

Gatekeepers in Quebec have a stranglehold on gender-neutral language

Can we live up to the rousing words of the French Revolution: Liberté, Egalité… Froeurorité?

By Caitlin Stall-Paquet • February 10, 2020 at 5:20 pm EDT
TV & Film

What I learned celebrating trans women’s brilliance at Essence’s Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon

What I learned celebrating trans women’s brilliance at Essence’s Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon

Seeing the women of ‘Pose’ honoured shows how the shared humanity of Black queer and trans folk is finally being recognized

By Tre’vell Anderson • February 7, 2020 at 5:48 pm EDT
Culture

Why drag is quintessentially Canadian

Why drag is quintessentially Canadian

A fantastically diverse collection of performers run rampant through the country’s fertile fields of gender

By Gordon Bowness • February 7, 2020 at 1:47 pm EDT
Health

Why anti-Black racism in Canadian blood donation is also a gay issue

Why anti-Black racism in Canadian blood donation is also a gay issue

Canada’s history of banning men who have sex with men and Haitians from donating blood goes back to its panic over HIV/AIDS and miscegenation

By OmiSoore Dryden • February 5, 2020 at 12:48 pm EDT
Love Like Mine

Accepting my mental health made me appreciate my relationship

Accepting my mental health made me appreciate my relationship

I learned more about myself and my partner when I began accepting my mental health as part of my identity

By Jon Higgins • February 3, 2020 at 10:40 am EDT
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Salty Queers

Forget marching. Conservative leadership hopefuls should run Pride Toronto

Forget marching. Conservative leadership hopefuls should run Pride Toronto

They’ll really get to know the queers whose votes they want!

By Arvin Joaquin, Erica Lenti • January 31, 2020 at 11:22 am EDT
Trans

Powerful trans documentary offers major lesson in diversity for Hollywood

Powerful trans documentary offers major lesson in diversity for Hollywood

Sundance’s ‘Disclosure’ redefines what it means to be for us, by us

By Tre’vell Anderson • January 28, 2020 at 9:58 am EDT
Activism

A searing exposé of anti-Black racism in Canada

A searing exposé of anti-Black racism in Canada

In his new book, ‘The Skin We’re In,’ journalist Desmond Cole describes how the Black Lives Matter protests at Toronto Pride helped define a year of activism

By Desmond Cole • January 27, 2020 at 10:27 am EDT
Culture

‘The Circle’ is queer AF

‘The Circle’ is queer AF

The queer reality TV takeover continues!

By Arvin Joaquin, Erica Lenti • January 24, 2020 at 1:11 pm EDT
Human Rights

Writing hate and LGBTQ2 resistance into the national story

Writing hate and LGBTQ2 resistance into the national story

Site for ambitious LGBTQ2 monument announced in Ottawa

By Gordon Bowness • January 24, 2020 at 11:30 am EDT
Opinion

I objectify beautiful men all the time—and I’m not ashamed of it

I objectify beautiful men all the time—and I’m not ashamed of it

Even a new film about the price of ‘lookism’ couldn’t change my mind about the way I view handsome people

By RM Vaughan • January 23, 2020 at 1:32 pm EDT
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