How an Arab-American writer turned a cross-country road trip into a ‘leave us the fuck alone’ memoir

Queer femme Randa Jarrar writes through her PTSD pain to clear space for a badass queer future

Inside Isabel Sandoval’s radical trans female gaze

The writer, director and star of “Lingua Franca” discusses her sensual and frank film about an undocumented trans Filipina

By Tre’vell Anderson

Immigration & Refugees

‘Canada’s Drag Race’ showcases how refugees’ lives are made over, onscreen and off

One of the latest episode’s guests, Rebal, talks about moving to Canada from Syria, being queer and ending up in drag

By KC Hoard

Your Communities in Action

COVID-19: Your communities in action, Mar. 25

A running diary of LGBTQ2 folk coping and caring for each other. Today: The 519 community centre in Toronto and North Carolina’s Campus Pride

By Gordon Bowness, Jon Higgins

Canada

All the ways Canada is still screwing over LGBTQ2S+ people

Just a tiny reminder this Canada Day 2019 that we are still fighting for our rights

By Arvin Joaquin, Erica Lenti, Eternity Martis

Immigration & Refugees

What can you do to help LGBT refugees?

Write your MP, get a newcomer a library card or just be a friend — there are many ways to pitch in

By Riley Sparks

Feature

Augustas Dennie was deported from Canada. Now he lives in a dangerous exile

Dennie’s claim was rejected because he couldn’t prove he was gay. Now he’s back in St Vincent and the Grenadines fearing for his life

By Arshy Mann

Power

Canada wants to deport this lesbian, even though she may be jailed or worse if sent home

A year after her last reprieve, Angela is once again facing deportation to a country where being gay is illegal

By Derek Brown

Power

Gay Honduran asylum seeker given four-week reprieve from deportation

Josué Martín Elvir Zamora’s refugee claim was rejected by the Immigration and Refugee Board because it didn’t believe that he’s gay

By Arshy Mann

Power

This gay Honduran man only has hours to convince the Canadian government to not deport him

‘If I go back home, it’s suicide,’ says Josué Martín Elvir Zamora

By Arshy Mann

Power

Meet the Russian activists smuggling queer men out of Chechnya

The purge may have slowed but arrests continue, says Igor Kochetkov

By Arshy Mann

Power

Refugee support group pulls out of Vancouver Pride parade over police and border guard concerns

Pride Society co-chairs say they support Rainbow Refugee’s decision

By Derek Brown

Power

The silent war for Indonesia’s LGBT community

Two refugees look back at their exodus from Jakarta to Vancouver

By Niko Bell

Power

Canadian LGBT refugee groups ask federal government for permanent funding

What will happen to queer refugees if Canada’s pilot project loses funding?

By Dylan C Robertson

Power

‘How many months can we stay alive?’: Meet the Iranian-Indian couple abandoned by Canada

Alireza and Kiran are struggling to survive in Turkey after Canada halted their resettlement to prioritize Syrian refugees

By Dylan C Robertson

Opinion

Why it may be time for me to kill Mike Miksche (Part 1)

I chose to use a pseudonym for “Hole and Corner” because I worried about my Lebanese-Muslim family reading about my sex life. Maybe I was wrong

By Mike Miksche

Power

Canada’s immigration department acknowledges drop in LGBT refugees from Iran

A senior official says referrals from queer Iranians decreased to prioritize Syrian refugees

By Dylan C Robertson

Opinion

If the Liberal government abandons hundreds of LGBT refugees, does anyone care?

Canada broke a promise to hundreds of LGBT Iranians, who are now stranded in Turkey. Now what?

By Arshy Mann