Cloudburst screens at Inside Out
2012-05-22 22:00:00
The film Cloudburst is set to bring some star-power to the Toronto Inside Out LGBT Film Festival with star Olympia Dukakis set to be in town for the May 25 screening.   The film, about an elderly lesbian couple who drive to Canada to tie the knot, also stars B...

Talackova breaks top 12 in Miss Universe Canada
2012-05-19 22:00:00
Jenna Talakova, the BC woman who made headlines earlier this spring as the first openly transgender contestant in the Miss Universe Canada pageant, finished in the top 12 in the competition on May 19 in Toronto. Xtra reporter Lucas Silveira asked some of those in attendance abo...

Donna Summer
2012-05-16 22:00:00
May 17 UPDATE: TMZ is reporting Donna Summer died of cancer this morning in Florida at age 63. In the article below from 2008, Xtra writer Richard Burnett chatted with Donna Summer.  Donna Summer remembers the day she discovered Love to Lo...

Under the spell of the femme top
2012-05-16 22:00:00
A powerful sorceress keeps the young man she loves captive on an enchanted island. The man’s fiancée dons a male disguise and comes ashore looking for him. The Sorceress’s sister falls hard for said man and...

Meet quadruple-threat pornstar Marcus Mojo
2012-05-16 22:00:00
Marcus Mojo may very well be one of the hardest working men in gay porn. No, that’s not just a lame pun; I literally mean the guy can do anything and is more than happy to do it for his fans. While certain performers do a handful of scenes, then immediately think they’re king shit, Mojo...

Une sourire sincere: portrait of a Montreal artist
2012-05-16 22:00:00
Although she hails from Montreal, a city with a more rambunctious reputation, artist Ariane Moffatt is looking forward to playing Toronto for her first headlining show.   Moffatt, who has plenty of material conveying her...

Un sourire sincere: portrait of a Montreal artist
2012-05-16 22:00:00
Although she hails from Montreal, a city with a more rambunctious reputation, artist Ariane Moffatt is looking forward to playing Toronto for her first headlining show.   Moffatt, who has plenty of material conveying her...

Ontario Catholic boards will never allow GSAs: trustee
2012-05-15 22:00:00
The Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association (OCSTA) president has told Xtra that Catholic boards will ignore new anti-bullying legislation and continue to ban gay-straight alliances (GSA) even if the province passes a law compelling them otherwise. During the final d...

Stockholm makes North American debut
2012-05-15 22:00:00
Stockholm is making its North American debut at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre Extra Space. The play was written by Britain’s Bryony Lavery for Frantic Assembly, a company that emphasizes the physicality of theatre.    The process was an eye-o...

Sporting for Raymond Taavel
2012-05-14 22:00:00
One month after Raymond Taavel’s violent murder in Halifax, displaced East-Coaster Jennifer Crawford will honour him through sport.   She’s created a Crossfit ...

Jenna Talackova in this weekend's Miss Universe Canada pageant
2012-05-14 22:00:00
Trans history will be made this weekend in Toronto at the the May 19 crowning of Miss Universe Canada.    Among the contestants is Jenna Talackova, who fo...

Hundreds rally to support Ontario GSAs and Bill 13
2012-05-13 22:00:00
More than 200 students and supporters rallied at Queen's Park on May 12 in support of school-sanctioned gay-straight alliances (GSAs) in Ontario Catholic schools.

Ontario anti-bullying bills too ambiguous on issue of gay support groups: activists
2012-05-13 22:00:00
UPDATE - May 15: Education Minister Laurel Broten said in Question Period May 15 that she 'expects' Catholic schools to comply with anti-bullying legislation, but she offered no guarantees or assurances that they will.  The statement was made following ...

Ontario anti-bullying bills too ambiguous on gay support groups: activists
2012-05-13 22:00:00
UPDATE - May 15: Education Minister Laurel Broten said in Question Period May 15 that she 'expects' Catholic schools to comply with anti-bullying legislation, but she offered no guarantees or assurances that they will.  The statement was made following ...

Ontario trans rights bill gets all-party support
2012-05-10 22:00:00
Ontario NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo stood beaming in the Ontario Legislature on May 10.   'Today we have seen the 'progressive' in Progressive Conservatives. We have seen the true 'liberal' values in the Liberal Party,” she said.    DiNovo&rs...

Rural Ontario seminar for straight professionals
2012-05-10 22:00:00
An upcoming seminar in Sault Ste Marie, ON, seeks to educate straight, small-town professionals on how to meet the needs of local queer people.   The Welcome Friend Association is calling on doctors, nurses, social workers, legal workers, teachers, private sector wor...

TRAVEL: Thailand
2012-05-09 22:00:00
Among the most exciting travel destinations are those where the culture and people seem completely different than they do at home. That is true of Thailand. The memes that define modern Western gay culture — the vocabulary of identity; the symbolism; the architecture and function of soci...

Ontario PC MPP throws support behind GSAs
2012-05-08 22:00:00
The sponsor of Bill 14, the Progressive Conservative anti-bullying bill, says she has “no issue” with students forming gay-straight alliances (GSAs). In saying this, PC MPP Lisa MacLeod has contradicted statements made by other members of her caucus. “I ...

Will Canada get gender neutral passports?
2012-05-08 22:00:00
Ottawa seems ready to go Swedish.   Passport Canada is mulling over changes that would allow Canadians to make their passports gender neutral, according

Maurice Sendak
2012-05-08 22:00:00
Gay American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak died from complications following a stroke on the morning of May 8 in his Danbury, Connecticut home. He was 83.   Sendak publicly came out at age 80