Love & Sex

High school crush? It’s a Long Story

Toronto developers deliver an exceptional LGBT-positive mobile game

By Michael Lyons

Power

Former Chow staffer seeks NDP nomination in Trinity-Spadina

Joe Cressy chats about LGBT rights (and that time he smuggled dildos into Ghana)

By Rob Salerno

Opinion

Xposed Toronto

This week, Anna and Becca visit Boylesque, Dinner and a Drag Race

By Anna Pournikova

Opinion

Letters, letters, letters

A selection of reader letters from the early days of Xtra Toronto

By Xtra Editor

Toronto Diary

Gay HIV-awareness billboard censored in Japan

By Jeremy Feist

Culture

Filmmaker Jack Lemmon dead at 70

Lemmon one of three filmmakers responsible for documentary Track Two

By Xtra Editor

Love & Sex

Parenting 101: Must-watch videos

By Michael Lyons

Culture

Catholic teachers’ union to march in Toronto Pride parade

Union wants to show solidarity with ‘most marginalized group in Catholic community’

By Dylan C Robertson

Arts

Gettin’ Yigi with it

How a sex-obsessed artist discovered the origins of the glory hole, and other queer folklore

By Ryan Kerr

Power

Fred Phelps, 1929–2014

One of America’s most notorious homophobes is dead. A look back at a conversation with the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church

By Matthew Hays

Culture

Rugged but well-dressed gentlemen drinking

DW Alexander cocktail lounge features stellar cocktails

By Nick Green

Opinion

The Church- Wellesley Review

For a decade, we published poetry, fiction, drama and memoirs

By Jeffrey Round

Toronto Diary

Unsealed document details Rob Ford crack tape

By Jeremy Feist

Arts

Elegies

Thom Allison stars in Acting Up Stage’s remount of Elegies: A Song Cycle

By Jeremy Willard

Power

AIDS Committee of Toronto cuts staff to control deficits

Executive director says flat-lined government and fundraising revenue to blame

By Rob Salerno

Arts

Magnussen, the queer Viking

This art exhibit toys with the definition of masculinity by camping up football

By Jeremy Willard

Culture

WorldPride goes country

Major country music acts added to Toronto lineup

By Andrew Jacome

Opinion

The coolest job

The Xtra experiment worked — the ‘bar rag’ generated both income and interest

By Sonny Mills