Opinion

Playing gay chat roulette (Part 2)

A sign for change

By Mike Miksche

Arts

Who said short films sucked?

Regina’s Queer City Cinema is dispelling myths about short form

By Chris Dupuis

Health

How one organization is fighting transphobia in Asian communities

Asian Community AIDS Services will launch multilingual brochures for trans youth and their families in 2017

By Emily Johnpulle

Opinion

Gay Syrian refugee to Canada sponsors lesbian Syrian refugee

Daily Xtra columnist says it’s time to pay it forward

By Ahmed Danny Ramadan

Power

Toronto organization seeks help to resettle LGBT Syrians

Queer Syrians face persecution from ISIS and their own communities

By HG Watson

Travel

City Guide: Bangkok

In the land of the free, Thais think of sex as a kind of appetite

By Daily Xtra Travel Editor

Power

Tel Aviv gay Pride: paradise or pinkwashing?

Israel’s gay-friendly haven is nothing if not complicated

By Robin Perelle

Travel

My gay sex adventure in Bangkok’s scandalous Sois

Ladyboys, Thai guys, circuit clubs and sex shows shock and impress

By Rod Peters

Travel

Rich in history, New Delhi is steeped in contrasts

Vibrancy and cultural diversity radiate from every street scene

By Ken Hickling

Power

Warning: Gay men can be deported from Egypt, court rules

‘I keep a bag packed,’ says human rights activist in Cairo

By Ahmed Danny Ramadan

Opinion

How a gay couple and their dog escaped Beirut for Vancouver

As one Syrian refugee couple makes it to Canada, others wait around the world

By Ahmed Danny Ramadan

Power

Accused umbrella gaybasher acquitted in Vancouver

Judge finds perpetrator’s identity not proven beyond doubt

By Matthew DiMera

Power

Alleged gaybasher tells court he would never use anti-gay slurs

Minhas says another Indo-Canadian man committed the alleged assault

By Matthew DiMera

Power

Gaybashing trial resumes one year after it began

Accused tells Vancouver court it’s a case of mistaken identity

By Matthew DiMera

Power

Indian Supreme Court agrees to hear petition against Section 377

Activists’ arguments against reinstated sodomy law to be heard in open court

By Natasha Barsotti

Travel

Japan

Land of Rising Sun contrasts modern edge with millennia-old traditions

By Aefa Mulholland

Power

Putin it up your ass: The Vladimir Putin and Phil Robertson buttplugs

By Raziel Reid

Asia

Not wanted in the Levant

ON SCREEN / Israeli films tackle subject of gay Arabs shunned by Israel and Palestine