Literature | Xtra Magazine

Henry Rollins can’t hear you over the sound of all the fucks he doesn’t give

By Jeremy Feist

Culture

Christmas stories

Arts

The perversion of Christmas

Videofag to mount David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries

By Chris Dupuis

Arts

Cloaks and crucifixes

New book documents David Wojnarowicz’s howling rage and brazen heroism

By Alistair Newton

Culture

The Blitz book club: Dry

Culture

David Rakoff, 1964-2012

Canadian-born gay writer was known for his humorous autobiographical essays

Arts

Local fare on menu at Halifax theatre festival

Queer Acts boasts entirely local lineup

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Culture

Rupert Everett brings Oscar Wilde to the silver screen

Europe

The Fry Chronicles, an autobiography by Stephen Fry

By Sanita

Moonwalking with Einstein and Cocktales at the Writer’s Festival

By Sanita

You really can make a dick joke about anything

By Jeremy Feist

Power

Back streets and boarding houses

Gay sex part of everyday life in Ottawa’s working-class neighbourhoods

By Steven Maynard

Culture

S Bear Bergman’s latest project: children’s books!

By Simon Thibault

‘They’ is me

Call us what we wish to be called

By Ivan E Coyote

Not enough gay friends

For Tony, Sean and Greg, and especially for Kenn, on World AIDS Day

By Valdine Ciwko

Arts

Venerable vintage

Burlesque themes and locally inspired eats

By Samantha Everts

Arts

Allen Ginsberg’s muse

Eric Drooker on his collaboration with the famous artist

By Matthew Hays

Arts

THEATRE: Portrait of an artist as an older man

New play about Tennessee Williams explores intergenerational gay relationships

By Jonathan Valelly

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