Finding my place with Fun Home

I had been looking for someone like me for years

Canada’s hidden HIV epidemic

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?

By Laurie Edmiston

Culture

What do we want? Queer spaces for women

How do we get them? Here are some inspiring tips

By Natalie Wee

Trans

Why silencing trans art endangers trans lives

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

By Katie Sly

Culture

Long live the radical brown queerness of Freddie Mercury

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

By Eternity Martis

Health

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

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

By Rob Salerno

People Like Me

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

Discovering myself with the Thundercats

By Andrew Wheeler

Love & Sex

Getting ghosted: a queer love story

Who they gonna call? Not you!

By Matthew Cassano

People Like Me

Walking the queer tightrope with Janelle Monáe

Being queer doesn’t mean any one specific thing

By Mary Ann Thomas

Analysis

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

Keeping outdated laws in the Code still have negative implications for queer people

By Rob Salerno

Canada

What it’s like being a gender non-conforming model of colour

The future of fashion is beyond constructs of gender

By Sebastian Yue

Hard Labour

I had sex with a client in a Chinese restaurant

‘I wasn’t sure I was in the right place’

By Devon Delacroix

Opinion

Why Toronto progressives still can’t win

What does a progressive Toronto look like? The left doesn’t know either

By Rob Salerno

Love Like Mine

I came out as trans while in a heterosexual relationship

‘He said he was not attracted to men — even the man who used to be his girlfriend’

By Jonathan U

People Like Me

Celebrating being Black and gay with The Wire

I began to see the possibility of loving and being loved by women who look like me

By Tobi Abdul

Analysis

The four ways that LGBT communities are responding to Pride Toronto welcoming back police

Is it time to move towards a small-p pride?

By Andrea Zanin

People Like Me

Escaping suburbia with The Kids in The Hall

Buddy Cole was the fearless queer impresario I longed to be

By EC Marcon

Culture

Four short films to look out for at ImagineNATIVE 2018

Here are some of the films you don’t want to miss in this year’s film and media arts festival

By Xtra Staff