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Power

Pro-Putin conductor Valery Gergiev scheduled to perform in Toronto this November

Pro-Putin conductor Valery Gergiev scheduled to perform in Toronto this November

An LGBT advocacy group is asking Roy Thomson Hall to cancel the performance

By Arshy Mann • July 25, 2017 at 2:15 pm EDT
Arts

Meet the man behind Toronto’s dance party for LGBT Middle Easterners

Meet the man behind Toronto’s dance party for LGBT Middle Easterners

From being a homeless teen to an Old Catholic priest to founder of Arabian Knights LGBTQ, Kerolos Saleib knows the importance of self-love and community

By Mike Miksche • July 21, 2017 at 11:28 am EDT
Politics

NDP leadership hopeful Niki Ashton pledges to fight transphobia, gender-based violence through government action

NDP leadership hopeful Niki Ashton pledges to fight transphobia, gender-based violence through government action

Pledging $500 million of federal funding devoted to a national strategy

By Arshy Mann • July 20, 2017 at 5:14 pm EDT
History

The titillating narrative of sex work and lesbianism in the Roman Empire

The titillating narrative of sex work and lesbianism in the Roman Empire

Lucan’s dialogues about same-sex female love were telling, but its characters still didn’t get happy endings

By Michael Lyons • July 19, 2017 at 2:16 pm EDT

A victory for Pride in Budapest, but is it enough to curb Hungary’s slide towards heteronationalism?

A victory for Pride in Budapest, but is it enough to curb Hungary’s slide towards heteronationalism?

For over a decade, the parade had been cordoned by police to protect revellers from harm. This year was different

By Katie Toth • July 12, 2017 at 2:10 pm EDT
Hard Labour

I wore a snowmobile suit and winter boots for a sex-work client (Part 2)

I wore a snowmobile suit and winter boots for a sex-work client (Part 2)
By Devon Delacroix • July 7, 2017 at 1:48 pm EDT
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Opinion

The complicated journey towards identity as a gay Canadian man of colour

The complicated journey towards identity as a gay Canadian man of colour

I’ve grown up trying to navigate what it means to be gay, male, Chinese and Canadian. It turns out I can be everything

• July 7, 2017 at 10:53 am EDT
Arts

Out in Vancouver: July 6–12, 2017

Out in Vancouver: July 6–12, 2017

Choice events in the city this week

By Tom Coleman • July 5, 2017 at 6:58 pm EDT
Opinion

What nobody tells you about being a trans woman of colour author

What nobody tells you about being a trans woman of colour author

When mainstream media decides to make public figures out of us, you learn that rising to the top is lonely

By Kai Cheng Thom • July 5, 2017 at 4:03 pm EDT
Opinion

Stop using pseudoscience and sex shaming to argue against PrEP

Stop using pseudoscience and sex shaming to argue against PrEP

Maclean’s just published an anti-scientific article on PrEP

By Niko Bell • June 28, 2017 at 6:04 pm EDT
Dyke March

13 badass photos from Toronto’s Dyke March 2017

13 badass photos from Toronto’s Dyke March 2017
By Eternity Martis • June 26, 2017 at 1:54 pm EDT
Pride

Black Lives Matter Vancouver draws large crowd to reclaim Pride with march through gay village

Black Lives Matter Vancouver draws large crowd to reclaim Pride with march through gay village

March on Pride centres voices of Vancouver’s queer and trans Black and people of colour communities

By Tessa Vikander • June 26, 2017 at 1:09 am EDT
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Power

This student was called a racial slur then stuffed into a recycling bin

This student was called a racial slur then stuffed into a recycling bin

So why didn’t his school intervene sooner to protect him?

By James Goldie • June 21, 2017 at 8:08 pm EDT
Power

Ukraine’s LGBT community defies the haters and marches on

Ukraine’s LGBT community defies the haters and marches on

Pride marchers surprised anti-LGBT protesters by taking an unexpected shortcut

By Michael Colborne • June 21, 2017 at 7:08 pm EDT
Power

The silent war for Indonesia’s LGBT community

The silent war for Indonesia’s LGBT community

Two refugees look back at their exodus from Jakarta to Vancouver

By Niko Bell • June 20, 2017 at 4:35 pm EDT
Arts

Out in Toronto: June 15–21, 2017

Out in Toronto: June 15–21, 2017

Choice events in the city this week

By Jeremy Willard • June 15, 2017 at 1:19 pm EDT
Health

What gay trans guys wish their doctors knew

What gay trans guys wish their doctors knew

Vancouver study peers into the lives and troubles of trans MSM

By Niko Bell • June 13, 2017 at 3:57 pm EDT
Arts

Six LGBT events you won’t want to miss at Luminato 2017

Six LGBT events you won’t want to miss at Luminato 2017

The Toronto celebration of arts and creativity is back with stand-out performances

By Chris Dupuis • June 12, 2017 at 4:41 pm EDT
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