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Love Like Mine

You thought your coming out story was complicated?

You thought your coming out story was complicated?

I was a lesbian who turned straight overnight. Then my husband came out as a trans woman.

By Lindsay • November 23, 2018 at 10:08 am EDT
Trans

Why silencing trans art endangers trans lives

Why silencing trans art endangers trans lives

This unspecified threat that cis people express in relation to trans art is resulting in that trans art being censored

By Katie Sly • November 20, 2018 at 3:20 pm EDT
Trans

Here, now and always: remembering transgender people every day

Here, now and always: remembering transgender people every day

Trans is here and it is here to stay

By Terrence Abrahams • November 19, 2018 at 4:30 pm EDT
People Like Me

Being loved back with Boy Meets Girl

Being loved back with Boy Meets Girl

A possibility for trans love that is rarely realized

By Gwen Benaway • November 16, 2018 at 11:33 am EDT
Culture

Long live the radical brown queerness of Freddie Mercury

Long live the radical brown queerness of Freddie Mercury

Despite its coyness, the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody can’t erase the legacy of the Queen frontman who taught the world to rock

By Eternity Martis • November 14, 2018 at 2:02 pm EDT
People Like Me

Everything Sucks! stared into my bisexual soul

Everything Sucks! stared into my bisexual soul

With the look between Emaline and Kate, everything made sense to me

By Rachel Chen • November 13, 2018 at 4:13 pm EDT
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Love & Sex

How Tumblr helped me find community and love

How Tumblr helped me find community and love

We found each other in the endless wastes of the internet

By Deidre Olsen • November 12, 2018 at 4:23 pm EDT
Opinion

Naked Heart festival gets real about success and struggles for queer and trans writers

Naked Heart festival gets real about success and struggles for queer and trans writers

The Toronto literary festival is in its fourth year

By Andrea Zanin • November 9, 2018 at 3:34 pm EDT
People Like Me

He clawed his way to my gay heart — a cartoon tiger

He clawed his way to my gay heart — a cartoon tiger

Discovering myself with the Thundercats

By Andrew Wheeler • November 2, 2018 at 2:56 pm EDT
People Like Me

Walking the queer tightrope with Janelle Monáe

Walking the queer tightrope with Janelle Monáe

Being queer doesn’t mean any one specific thing

By Mary Ann Thomas • October 30, 2018 at 3:19 pm EDT
Opinion

Why Toronto progressives still can’t win

Why Toronto progressives still can’t win

What does a progressive Toronto look like? The left doesn’t know either

By Rob Salerno • October 24, 2018 at 6:02 pm EDT
Love Like Mine

I came out as trans while in a heterosexual relationship

I came out as trans while in a heterosexual relationship

‘He said he was not attracted to men — even the man who used to be his girlfriend’

By Jonathan U • October 23, 2018 at 10:56 am EDT
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People Like Me

Escaping suburbia with The Kids in The Hall

Escaping suburbia with The Kids in The Hall

Buddy Cole was the fearless queer impresario I longed to be

By EC Marcon • October 17, 2018 at 12:29 pm EDT
Culture

Four short films to look out for at ImagineNATIVE 2018

Four short films to look out for at ImagineNATIVE 2018

Here are some of the films you don’t want to miss in this year’s film and media arts festival

By Xtra Staff • October 12, 2018 at 5:21 pm EDT
Coming Out

Queer and here: LGBT Canadian youth come out to immigrant families

Queer and here: LGBT Canadian youth come out to immigrant families

LGBT Canadian youth talk about coming out to a family that might have a different point of view

By Jordan Steinhauer • October 11, 2018 at 10:51 am EDT
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Meet Xtra’s new director of editorial

Meet Xtra’s new director of editorial

‘I can’t wait to launch this new chapter’

By Rachel Giese • October 10, 2018 at 4:09 pm EDT
Love Like Mine

How coming out to my wife changed our relationship — for the better

How coming out to my wife changed our relationship — for the better

‘She told me I must now embrace the man I was always supposed to be’

By Max Morgan • October 9, 2018 at 9:35 am EDT
People Like Me

How Mashrou’ Leila helped me celebrate my queer Arab identity

How Mashrou’ Leila helped me celebrate my queer Arab identity

Mashrou’ Leila’s music reflects ways in which I, like other queer Arabs, am allowed to exist

By Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch • October 5, 2018 at 3:04 pm EDT
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