Hard Labour

My client asked me to wear a balaclava during sex

I look more like a bike courier trying to stay warm and less of a sex worker

By Devon Delacroix

Video

What I didn’t learn in Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum

Teachers and LGBT former students share what they learned about sex ed in Ontario under the old curriculum

By Xtra Video

Culture

Pride kicks off in Ottawa

Organizers say this year’s celebration is bigger than ever

By Maggie Parkhill

Health

What does ‘undetectable’ really mean?

Things you need to know about the HIV breakthrough

By Niko Bell

Identity

What it’s like navigating relationships as an asexual Filipino Mormon

At the intersections, I’ve been told I have to choose one identity

By Community-Based Research Centre, Lowell V Acorda

Why you should celebrate Pride by supporting queer literature

Programming at this year’s Montréal Pride festival places an emphasis on supporting queer literature

Created for Fierté Montréal Pride

Power

I was a metaphor until I wasn’t

Being Asian, queer and a woman meant there were a myriad of ways I could vanish, and I saw it each time I watched a movie

By Natalie Wee

Opinion

A year after the trans-rights bill, fear and loathing run rampant

Hundreds applaud fear-mongering and bigotry at anti-trans panel

By Arshy Mann

Love & Sex

I met her the year they told me my love wasn’t real

In Grade 12 I wish I knew that it was nothing new to like girls

By Allyson Aritcheta

HIV/AIDS

Five things to understand about Saskatchewan’s immune-resistant HIV crisis

Mutated strains of HIV are making people sicker. Here’s what we can do about it

By Niko Bell

Analysis

Chick-fil-A is coming to Canada. Why should LGBTQ2 people care?

A rundown of the fast food chain’s anti-LGBTQ2 past

By Nathan Sing

Opinion

This anti–sex ed talking point is a homophobic conspiracy theory

Social conservatives honestly believe LGBT people are grooming children for sex

By Arshy Mann

Analysis

Are Doug Ford’s proposed changes to sex education unconstitutional?

Canadian Civil Liberties Association is considering a legal challenge if Ontario reverts to the old curriculum

By Arshy Mann

Opinion

The unbreakable circle of HIV stigma

‘I did a human thing: I caught a virus. Nothing worse than that’

By Community-Based Research Centre, Rob Gair

Sex education

I’m a young gay man. Here’s how sex-ed class failed to represent students like me

Sex ed taught me little about LGBT relationships, so I went searching on my own

By Nathan Sing

Power

Doug Ford government scraps sex-ed curriculum for September

Students will be taught the old sex education curriculum that dates back to the ’90s

By Arshy Mann

Opinion

The global far right is riding a homophobic wave

From Russia to Poland to Brazil: how the far right weaponizes homophobia

By Arshy Mann

Hard Labour

I role-played as a cult leader for a sex-work client

He wants to be dominated, but something’s off — and it’s not just my costume

By Devon Delacroix