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Identity

What a teenage flirtation taught me about trans visibility

What a teenage flirtation taught me about trans visibility

Trans visibility is getting better, but most of the world is still in the dark

By Dora Ng • March 31, 2018 at 9:12 am EDT
Hard Labour

When role reversal fantasies just aren’t sexy

When role reversal fantasies just aren’t sexy

The ability to detach is a hugely valuable skill for a sex worker, especially when the scene isn’t a turn-on

By Devon Delacroix • March 30, 2018 at 1:30 pm EDT
Profile

What Harrison Browne wants you to know about life on and off the hockey rink

What Harrison Browne wants you to know about life on and off the hockey rink

Browne is the National Women’s Hockey League’s first transgender player

By Rob Salerno • March 26, 2018 at 5:44 pm EDT
Opinion

The social conservatives have taken back the PC party. Now they’re coming for Ontario

The social conservatives have taken back the PC party. Now they’re coming for Ontario

If PC leader Doug Ford becomes premier, many of the gains made on LGBT rights will be under threat

By Arshy Mann • March 13, 2018 at 2:46 pm EDT
Opinion

Why is Facebook censoring Vancouver’s Dyke March?

Why is Facebook censoring Vancouver’s Dyke March?

Social media channels have a bad habit of going after marginalized communities

By Arshy Mann • March 8, 2018 at 12:18 pm EDT
Opinion

When will Toronto’s police chief admit something went wrong with the serial killer investigation?

When will Toronto’s police chief admit something went wrong with the serial killer investigation?

Instead of blaming the community, Mark Saunders should look at his own force

By Arshy Mann • March 6, 2018 at 6:23 pm EDT
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Ottawa

Out in Ottawa: March 1–15, 2018

Out in Ottawa: March 1–15, 2018
By Jeremy Willard • March 1, 2018 at 12:54 pm EDT
Hard Labour

When a one-on-one encounter becomes a ménage à quatre

When a one-on-one encounter becomes a ménage à quatre

Tricks often think of sex workers as fuck machines up for anything — that doesn’t mean you can surprise us with additional parties

By Devon Delacroix • February 23, 2018 at 2:41 pm EDT
Music

Why Facebook won’t let this gay artist change his band’s name to something gayer

Why Facebook won’t let this gay artist change his band’s name to something gayer

‘Get me Zuckerberg, I will kiss him, I will make him believe it,’ musician Will Riley says

By Arshy Mann • February 22, 2018 at 1:22 pm EDT
Ottawa

Out in Ottawa: Feb 16–28, 2018

Out in Ottawa: Feb 16–28, 2018

Choice events in the city

By Jeremy Willard • February 16, 2018 at 12:17 pm EDT
Hard Labour

Why role-play is more complex than you think

Why role-play is more complex than you think

From language, limits and safewords, each situation has its own set of unique challenges

By Devon Delacroix • January 26, 2018 at 1:00 pm EDT
Power

Andrew Kinsman’s sisters remember their little brother as kind and dependable

Andrew Kinsman’s sisters remember their little brother as kind and dependable

Police allege Kinsman was murdered by Bruce McArthur after disappearing from Toronto’s gay village

By Arshy Mann • January 19, 2018 at 7:15 pm EDT
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Vancouver

Out in Vancouver: Jan 18–24, 2018

Out in Vancouver: Jan 18–24, 2018

Choice events in the city this week

By Tom Coleman • January 17, 2018 at 8:40 pm EDT
Culture

How a neon heart is sparking renewed interest in recognizing Vancouver’s LGBT Village

How a neon heart is sparking renewed interest in recognizing Vancouver’s LGBT Village

Will one community member’s petition to make it permanent succeed?

By Chahira Merarsi • January 9, 2018 at 2:06 pm EDT
Power

Vancouver could become the first city in Canada to ban anti-LGBT conversion therapy

Vancouver could become the first city in Canada to ban anti-LGBT conversion therapy

‘I think there is still great value in bylaws like this,’ says gay survivor

By Ethan Reyes • January 5, 2018 at 2:38 pm EDT
Opinion

How did the internet go from being a safe queer haven to a minefield of unchecked rage?

How did the internet go from being a safe queer haven to a minefield of unchecked rage?

The tragedy of finding then losing shared community online

By Justin Saint • December 28, 2017 at 10:36 am EDT
Opinion

Here’s how Canada led the world on LGBT issues in 2017

Here’s how Canada led the world on LGBT issues in 2017

But Justin Trudeau and his Liberals still have outstanding promises to queer Canadians that must be kept

By Rob Salerno • December 27, 2017 at 6:16 am EDT
Love & Sex

As a queer disabled man, am I bad in bed?

As a queer disabled man, am I bad in bed?

When my able-bodied lovers don’t communicate their needs, I’m left wondering about my sexual skill

By Andrew Gurza • December 19, 2017 at 2:01 pm EDT
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