Nearly a decade ago, I started a Gay-Straight Alliance. I went back to high school to find out why they still matter

Queer pets, Straight men’s cuddling clubs, and Cardi B. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, March 29

Queer community doesn’t lack for discourse around sexual abuse. Yet for all of our talk, not much seems to have significantly changed—there are still victims, and there are still abusers.

The cuts, imposed by Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives, could spell the end of crucial LGBTQ2 resource centres

Ron and Lloyd Cameron-Lewis built a relationship the government wouldn’t recognize — until now

How to get through the season with chosen family and friendly strangers (and maybe even a little weed)

My sexual orientation is more than just who shares my bed

Stories from friends, family and lovers of the departed—people who continue to remember and fight to never forget

I had been looking for someone like me for years

Most HIV-positive people can’t transmit the virus, so why are there still more than 2,000 new infections in this country every year?

How do we get them? Here are some inspiring tips

This unspecified threat that cis people express in relation to trans art is resulting in that trans art being censored

Despite its coyness, the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody can’t erase the legacy of the Queen frontman who taught the world to rock

Sperm donors must refrain from having sex with men for six months prior

Discovering myself with the Thundercats

Who they gonna call? Not you!

Being queer doesn’t mean any one specific thing

Keeping outdated laws in the Code still have negative implications for queer people

Canada

Inside GSAs, where kids learn to ‘talk gay’

Xtra Weekly: Jason Kenney’s attack on LGBTQ2 students

Melting the ice around #MeToo stories in the queer community

How Ontario tuition cuts are threatening queer lifelines on campus

How the Canadian government legally recognized this gay couple’s 50 years together

Four LGBTQ2 people on surviving the holidays

I’m married to a man — and queerer than ever

A friend, an uncle, a lover: Three people reflect on loved ones lost to AIDS

Finding my place with Fun Home

Canada’s hidden HIV epidemic

What do we want? Queer spaces for women

Why silencing trans art endangers trans lives

Long live the radical brown queerness of Freddie Mercury

New draft of Assisted Human Reproduction Act continues anti-gay discrimination

He clawed his way to my gay heart — a cartoon tiger

Getting ghosted: a queer love story

Walking the queer tightrope with Janelle Monáe

Laws that affect LGBT people in Canada may soon be struck down. Other sections of the Criminal Code are still anti-queer