Power

Closures of Priape and Le Drugstore double whammy for Montreal’s gay village

Two of city’s best-known gay businesses shuttered in the same week

By Richard Burnett

Travel

Former Toronto councillor Kyle Rae receives LGBT tourism award

Travel Gay Canada honours Rae for promoting city as LGBT destination since 1981

By Xtra Editor

Arts

Sister act

Strange Sisters cabaret returns to Buddies after five-year hiatus

By Johnnie Walker

Travel

Countdown to T14: Telluride Gay Ski Week

Ski the majestic San Juan Mountains in Colorado

By Xtra Editor

Toronto Diary

Student to lose his virginity for performance art

By Jeremy Feist

Power

Australia: High Court to begin hearing expedited challenge to ACT gay marriage law

Prime minister advises gay couples to ‘hold on’ until law’s validity has been tested

By Natasha Barsotti

Culture

Into the woods

A new indie video game with a Canadian gay connection

By Michael Lyons

Actress talks about graphic sex filmed over many days

Blue Is the Warmest Colour’s Léa Seydoux opens up about working with the film’s controversial director

By Nicolas Kazamia

Arts

We love Lucy!

I Love Lucy – Live on Stage is brassy, glamorous and wonderfully nostalgic

By Johnnie Walker

Power

Australia: After ACT, New South Wales to debate gay marriage

Multiparty working group has developed new bill

By Natasha Barsotti

Culture

The Cream of Comedy

Out comedian Brandon Ash Mohammed is nominated for the Tim Sims Award

By Ryan Kerr

Culture

The true colours of Cyndi Lauper

The gay icon is back in Canada with her She’s So Unusual tour

By Richard Burnett

Opinion

A very homo Halloween

Bringing darkness, fear and dread back to All Hallow’s Eve

By Ryan G Hinds

Toronto Diary

Anti-gay advocate blames Russian anti-gay violence on public displays of affection

By Jeremy Feist

Power

UN criticized for human rights book launch in Trinidad and Tobago

Gay rights advocate Maurice Tomlinson says gays are ‘prohibited class’ in island’s immigration policy

By Natasha Barsotti

An interview with the star of Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Adèle Exarchopoulos chats with Xtra about her scorching performance

By Nicolas Kazamia

Power

Scottish police want ‘items of a sexual nature’ removed from saunas

Faced with criticism, authorities deny they want condoms banned

By Natasha Barsotti

State of grace

Mohammed to Maya documents the intimacies of one woman’s transition

By Julie Cruikshank