Arts

Nocturnal labour

All-night art fest Nuit Blanche to feature a glitter-filled dance party

By Serafin LaRiviere

Travel

My Montreal: Nick Bostick

Part vintage store, part theatre, part café, Eva B is a magical place

By Xtra Editor

Power

Anti-gay pastor facing human rights trial to run for Massachusetts governor

Scott Lively says people need candidate to say ‘abortion is murder, and homosexuality is condemned by God’

By Natasha Barsotti

Power

Are Germany’s rainbow-like Olympic uniforms a political statement?

German Olympic Sports Confederation says nein, it’s just fashion

By Natasha Barsotti

Culture

Highlights from Folsom Fair 2013

Pornstars, leather, puppy play, floggings and more

By Xtra Editor

Arts

Mashrou’ Leila makes a good party

This Beirut band with a gay lead singer is shaking things up in the Middle East and around the globe

By Serafin LaRiviere

Power

South Carolina National Guard refuses to process gay couples’ benefits at state facilities

State follows example of Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma

By Natasha Barsotti

Power

Gay health pioneer and advocate Gens Hellquist dies

‘He had an enormously deep passion and he was tireless’

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Arts

Britney works

New Britney Spears video, in which she dances with sharks, is released

By Andrew Jacome

Power

Belgium: Transgender man opts for death by euthanasia after failed surgery

Nathan Verhelst was ‘ready to celebrate my new birth’ but didn’t like the image he saw in the mirror

By Natasha Barsotti

Health

From tired to twinky

Infusion electro-mesotherapy from Viora: testing a new face-care technology

By Nick Green

Power

Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Russian leader recommended for role in preventing US military action in Syria

By Natasha Barsotti

Arts

ProArte dancing

Q&As with two of the annual dance showcase’s hottest dancers

By Chris Dupuis

Arts

Review: The Best Brothers

Daniel MacIvor’s latest play is virtually flawless

By Jeremy Willard

Travel

Granada, Spain

A romantic city of hidden Moorish gardens, palaces and medieval streets

By Aefa Mulholland

Power

BC coroners urged to investigate sexual orientation in youth suicide

Coroners should ask ‘thoughtful and sensitive’ questions, new report says

By Jeremy Hainsworth

Power

New Jersey governor Chris Christie tries to block gay marriage

Christie asks state supreme court to review county-court decision favouring gay couples

By Niko Bell

Arts

Review: Kicking the Sky

A beautiful and terrifying new novel from Toronto author Anthony De Sa

By Serafin LaRiviere