Proud Lives

Sex worker, artist, activist and icon Carol Leigh dies at 71

The beloved activist coined the term “sex work”

By Tara-Michelle Ziniuk

Queer View Mirror

30 years and a pandemic later, Gregg Araki’s ‘The Living End’ remains poignant

The director’s radical HIV film premiered at Sundance three decades ago

By Kaiya Shunyata

History

Trans singer Jackie Shane spotlighted in latest Heritage Minute

The famous Historica Canada series features an icon in trans history

By Silas Le Blanc

Books

What Queen Anne and Marie Antoinette had in common (rhymes with thespian dove)

EXCERPT: Kirsty Loehr’s playful new book, “A Short History of Queer Women,” introduces us to women across history who weren’t just friends

By Kirsty Loehr

Activism

The Pussy Palace was more than the raid

Over 20 years ago, police raided the Pussy Palace, but this is just a piece of the queer women’s bathhouse’s story

By Sid Drmay

Queer View Mirror

How the ¡Cuéntamelo! anthology inspired me to collect queer Latine stories

Julián Delgado Lopera’s oral history collection gave me the confidence to engage in community storytelling

By Alexi Chacon

Asia

Singapore legalizes gay sex in a major win for Southeast Asia’s LGBTQ+ community

The island nation will repeal its colonial-era law, but marriage equality will still be banned

By Nico Lang

TV & Film

‘Nelly & Nadine’ unearths a love story lost to time

REVIEW: Magnus Gertten’s documentary is a tender look at hidden love

By Michelle Krasovitski

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Billy Porter’s directorial debut, queer history and your new favourite song of the moment

Plus more of what’s up and on starting Aug. 5

By S. Bear Bergman

Activism

Remembering trans icon Mama Gloria, the ‘Emily Post of Halsted Street’

In this previously unreleased 2014 interview, Gloria Allen reflects on her life and legacy

By Nico Lang

Books

One of the world’s first gay rights activists was racist and sexist. The author of a new book explores how much should it bug us

Laurie Marhoefer’s book on Magnus Hirschfeld looks at the famed German sexologist’s darker side and his relationship with a younger Asian man

By Isaac Würmann

History

A new Stonewall visitor centre will honour the legacy of LGBTQ2S+ activism

This will be the first visitor centre in the U.S. park system to highlight queer and trans history

By Jackie Richardson

History

The first person reported dead from AIDS in Canada was an anonymous gay man from Windsor who died in 1982

Teacher and local historian Walter Cassidy became obsessed with the person behind this frightening statistic. So he set out to find him

By Walter Cassidy

History

As HIV/AIDS ravaged Montreal in the ’90s, gay men were getting murdered—and trying to fight back

Season 3 of CBC’s “The Village” takes on the Montreal murders in the midst of the AIDS crisis

By Mel Woods

Books

What can we learn from all of history’s ‘bad gays’?

Ben Miller, co-author of the new book “Bad Gays,” takes a look at “evil and complicated” people over the course of centuries

By Isaac Würmann

London Calling

Queer Britain opens the U.K.’s first LGBTQ+ museum

“There’s just as great a diversity of sexuality and gender identities and experiences in the past as there is today”

By Gordon Bowness

Queer Culture Catch-Up

Stonewall history, a Two-Spirit powwow and your new favourite Black trans TikToker

Plus more of what’s on and happening starting May 26

By S. Bear Bergman

Travel

These 10 must-see LGBTQ2S+ monuments celebrate our achievements and commemorate our struggles

From San Francisco and Santiago to Dublin and Berlin, these sites reflect our history, both good and bad, with creativity and heart

By Morgan Lightle