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Have your bottom and eat him too

Hungry Bottom Comics reviewed by Lambda

By Michael Lyons

Opinion

The charnel house of truth

Can participants in a moment accurately chronicle it?

By Kevin Dale McKeown

Opinion

Thanks for everything, Quentin Crisp

England’s stately homo was an unlikely activist

By Jeremy Willard

Opinion

Lesbian couple married at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

Pair wanted their wedding to tackle queer history amnesia

Opinion

Two decades of Xtra in Vancouver

Our first columnist, 20 years later

Opinion

Elsa Gidlow and her kind

Lesbian writer/philosopher bridged the Victorian and modern eras

By Michael Lyons

Power

Virginia attorney general wants to ban all oral and anal sex

Ken Cuccinelli says he wants to protect children

Power

Hillary Clinton teaches gay rights for dummies

Power

Do you want my blood or don’t you?

Power

Russia: Putin signs nationwide anti-gay gag bill into law

Moscow and St Petersburg activists arrested as they stage protest, Pride rally

By Natasha Barsotti

Opinion

An unlikely hero

The life and lies of author Bruce Chatwin

By Jeremy Willard

Opinion

Remembering a different Church Street

Video interview with Dean Odorico on Toronto’s changing gay village

By Brandon Matheson

Opinion

The curious case of Dr Barry

An enigmatic, androgynous 19th-century medical visionary

By Michael Lyons

Opinion

Subcultural slumming

Fairy resorts, degenerates and sexual freedom in The Bowery

By Jeremy Willard

The Gay Liberation Front

The GLF objected to the un-socialist depravity of 1970s’ gay clubs and tubs

By Kevin Dale McKeown

Arts

Lambda honours Canadian writer Jeffrey Round

Queer literary awards turn 25 at New York City ceremony

By Michael Lyons

Opinion

Spiritual concerns

Exploring two-spirit traditions in Canada’s history

By Michael Lyons

Power

Toronto’s bathhouse king, Peter Bochove, dead at 65

Bochove fought the city after the 1981 bathhouse raids

By Andrea Houston

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