Health

Pre-Pride primpin’

Some technical suggestions for facial rejuvenation

Arts

Big ’n’ thick

Chicago rapper Big Dipper throws double-sized WorldPride party at the Gladstone

By Andrew Jacome

Culture

Cawthra Park opens in time for WorldPride

Park was renamed after former mayor Barbara Hall June 10

By HG Watson

Arts

Generation next

The future of Buddies looks bright, thanks to some shining new talent

By Ryan Kerr

Toronto Diary

Rob Ford returns to office, just in time to miss WorldPride

By Jeremy Feist

Arts

NXNE playlist

The 2014 NXNE festival boasts one of the best lineups in years

By Kevin Ritchie

Video

Ugandan activist criticizes Canada’s denial of visitor visas

Five visas granted to WorldPride attendees, four still waiting for approval

By HG Watson

Culture

Join the pop cult

Two queer English artists display their pop culture works

By Michael Lyons

Power

Who’s Queer Now: Xtra to host town hall on identity

Online and live forum will discuss the terms we use and why they matter

By Robin Perelle

Toronto Diary

Video shows woman arrested, beaten at Pittsburgh Pride

By Jeremy Feist

Sex

Squirting through the ages

Squirt.org throws a party to celebrate 15 years of helping guys hook up online

By Jeremy Willard

Culture

Jordan Tannahill named Buddies’ Queer Emerging Artist

Buddies in Bad Times honours Videofag co-owner with inaugural award

By Chris Dupuis

Power

Queer Nation embraced ‘queer’ in 1990

Radical, confrontational group realized gay people needed to protect themselves

By Erin Flegg

Travel

A guide to Toronto for the WorldPride visitor

A smorgasbord of neighbourhoods to explore, with unexpected eccentric and bohemian corners

By Aefa Mulholland

Toronto Diary

Michael Sam signs $2.56 million contract with St Louis Rams

By Jeremy Feist

Love & Sex

Bear-on-bear action

Two bears in captivity seen engaging in same-sex fellatio

By Michael Lyons

Opinion

The singing blade

The opera-singing, sword-fighting Julie d’Aubigny seduced both men and women

By Jeremy Willard

Power

Does springtime mean gaybashing time?

Village is still a safe place to live and work, local businessman says

By HG Watson