Xtra is an online magazine and community platform covering LGBTQ2S+ culture, politics and health. We aim to break boundaries, think outside of binaries and build bridges within our communities and beyond.

Arts

The challenge of Anders

Why we need a Kinsey scale for avatars

By Greg Armstrong-Morris

Culture

The Meat Street Beat – Hello

By Sean Horlor

Arts

Building queerness into the world of video gaming

Anna Anthropy’s alternative to Modern Warfare

By Jaime Woo

Ottawa

Protect your sex life to the death

‘Cheating’ is the world’s most feared parasite

By Daniel Allen Cox

Arts

Video games, popular culture and gay sex

Video game industry, especially in North America, is focused on straight males

By Jaime Woo

Culture

I’ve got the hanging around the queens too much and can’t get laid blues

By Sean Horlor

Toronto

Objects inspire selective memory

New gallery features well-established artists

By Kim Fullerton

Gaming

Is Nintendo disabling gay relationships in one of its games?

Gay marriage comes to Star Wars . . . for a price

Pink ties and galactic love

68,000 thank EA for standing up for gay sex

The sexless gay sex of Mass Effect 3

Commander Shepard steps out

The challenge of Anders

The Meat Street Beat – Hello

Building queerness into the world of video gaming

Protect your sex life to the death

Video games, popular culture and gay sex

I’ve got the hanging around the queens too much and can’t get laid blues

Objects inspire selective memory