Culture

Today’s Pick: Vancouver Queer Film Festival

By Sean Horlor

Arts

Ruggers bare it all for art

Ottawa Wolves launch 2011 Calendar

By Noreen Fagan

Media

Colbert fears US ‘gay drain’ to Canada and Mexico

By Lina Harper

Arts

A proud burlesque fundraiser

The Get Naked Benefit

By Noreen Fagan

Arts

Montreal author Daniel Allen Cox returns with Krakow Melt

Novel is a strange fusion of queer rebellion and arson

By Matthew Hays

Arts

Video: Vancouver Queer Film Festival opening

Check out our interviews with the event’s organizers and film directors

By Angelina Cantada

Arts

YouTube dancer’s latest: Scissor Sisters at the grocery store

By Brent Creelman

Culture

I make an UGLY lady

By Sean Horlor

Arts

Queer metal band Heavy Filth plays Toronto and Montreal this weekend

Catch them at Pervers/Cité and the Church Street Fetish Fair

By Deanne Smith

Culture

Mary Harvey is a bundle of energy

Harvey tackles duelling roles as actor and budding playwright

By Noreen Fagan

Arts

Swimming in the Shallows

A summer fling with a gay shark

By Noreen Fagan

Arts

Books: Date with a Sheesha – Anthony Bidulka

Russell Quant, from Saskatoon to Saudi Arabia

By James K Moran

Arts

Porndoggy: Cinemale offers efficient way to see nude male celebrities

There’s something hot about regular actors showing off their cocks

By Todd Klinck

Arts

And the last gay DJ standing was?

By Xtra Staff

Arts

Behind every World Cup…

By Ed Woody

Arts

Books: One Bloody Thing After Another – Joey Comeau

Comeau offers a sparse horror debut

By James K Moran

Arts

Diagnosing Difference

Timely film challenges gender identity disorder

By Rob Salerno

Arts

Eli Clare talks trans pride, disability and the history of the freak show

Writer’s poetry collection, The Marrow’s Telling, is hard-hitting

By Jorge Antonio Vallejos