Arts

Vancouver’s queer film fest celebrates 20 years

Check out xtra.ca and OUTtv’s video coverage of the opening gala!

By Xtra Staff

Culture

Vancouver Queer Film Festival – Bangkok Love Story

By Sean Horlor

Arts

The new Mayor of Canadian literature

Chandra Mayor shines light on working-class women

By Kaj Hasselriis

Arts

Mayor’s picks

By Kaj Hasselriis

Vancouver

Oscar the lesbian cat

He may be male but he is a key part of my lezzie history

By Sarah Leavitt

Arts

Out on Screen turns 20

Vancouver’s queer film fest still expanding

By Andrea Warner

Arts

The struggle to just be in between

Closing gala film looks at intersex identity

By Mike Vokins

Arts

Being a man to become a woman

Like a Virgin eschews gender binaries in favour of incongruity

By Auden Cody Neuman

Arts

Unearthing the ignored and forgotten

Retelling the entrapment case of Rex vs Singh

By Matthew Hays

Arts

Nico Muhly: ‘Meat’ the avant garde

Hair-raising happenings in indie music

By Kevin Ritchie

Arts

Avenue Q: Too cute

Mouthy puppets fuzzy on politics

By David Bateman

Culture

Women’s bookstore beating the oddds

Toronto Women’s Bookstore celebrates 35 years

By Julia Garro

Arts

Shaw’s queer ginger

THEATRE REVIEWS

By David Bateman

Arts

Night Music’s perpetual tease

By David Bateman

Culture

Stating the unsaid & printing the impossible

John Cameron Mitchell at Writing Outside the Margins

By Mariko Tamaki

Arts

Queer shoot-em-up promises gritty drama

But Bangkok Love Story delivers mostly cheese

By Allan MacInnis

Arts

Queer in the midst of strife

Daring to be out in unhappy places

By Brett Josef Grubisic

Arts

Little Sister’s vs Big Brother marks 20 years

Film offers an opportunity to look at where we’ve come from: Weissman

By Jeremy Hainsworth