Arts

Picks of the week: Gay cruises

Cruising the nautical way

By Cameron Herdman

Arts

Picks of the week: Dieux du Stade calendar

Unabashedly sexual stadium gods

By Cameron Herdman

Arts

Best of the rest: gay porn highlights of 2009

A shortlist of notables to get you through the holidays

By Ed Woody

Arts

Supporting sex trade workers

Thrilliterate brings queer writers to WISH

By Samantha Sarra

Arts

Best of the web: Growing Up Star Wars

Flickr group is a riot… But where are the boy Leias and the girl Lukes?

By John Webster

Arts

Queen on the scene: Toronto nightlife

By Donnarama

Arts

Porndoggy: Joey Stefano

Remembering one of the most famous power bottom pornstars of all time

By Todd Klinck

Arts

Book review: Because I Have Loved and Hidden It

Purple polyamory

By Alice Lawlor

Vancouver

Queer cinema: a threat to our border?

Where are these border guards when I’m being bombarded by images of Hugh Grant?

By Karen X Tulchinsky

Arts

‘I’m just trying to be honest about who I am’: Lambert

American Idol star says he’s edgy in a vanilla sort of way

By Matt Thomas

Arts

Owen Pallett lays himself bare on new album

‘It may as well be a pornographic spread,’ he says of Heartland, to be released on Jan 12

By Lara Purvis

Music

⬆ MUSIC: Kox & Kuntz’ Favritest albums of 2009 ⬆

By Lina Harper

Arts

Nothing is sacred in new Kids in the Hall series

Scott Thompson dishes about Death Comes to Town

By Serafin LaRiviere

Trans

Art secrets

By Lina Harper

Pornography

Pornstar wishes you a happy holiday; Canada bans his film

By Brent Creelman

Arts

Xtra recommends: best queer books of 2009

Marie-Claire Blais, John Barton, Zoe Whittall (& one cheat)

By Marcus McCann

Culture

Montag back on the map

Minimalist melody man Antoine Bédard releases cover EP on home turf of Montreal

By Michael-Oliver Harding

Arts

‘I am from Abbotsford. I am gay. I am Christian. I’m not hiding anything.’

Singer risks coming out to release autobiographical CD

By Sean Horlor