My first brush with a kind of violent, public strain of homophobia that has defined my summer was on a sweltering June day in ...

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barbara findlay dedicated her life to making Canada a freer, more equal place, where 2SLGBTQI+ people could live with dignity ...

On Aug. 25, 2026, music superstar and queer icon Dolly Parton died at the age of 80. While Xtra never got to interview the ...

From organizing a “Trans Joy Rally” to handing out supportive signs at games, fans aren't letting anti-trans discourse define ...

Though most of us never got to meet her, in her music and her presence, Dolly Parton made us all feel like part of her chosen ...

Blonde” and “channel ORANGE” both came out during pivotal moments in my queer awakening. A decade later, how can I listen to ...

But the Trump administration’s attack on data collection puts demographic information like this at risk in the years to come ...

A brand-new LGBTQ2S+ Canadian national monument is set to be unveiled in Ottawa this week. Officially named Thunderhead, the ...

In the summer of 2022, a coach reached out to Casey Rothschild, a five-time competitor on American Ninja Warrior, and founder of Queer Ninjas Unite. One of their young athletes, a non-binary ...

Daniel Reale-Chin is a Toronto-based writer, journalist and gym- and party-goer whose work has appeared in The Globe and Mail ...

Athena Dion, you master strategist. On last week’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the first installment of this season’s Rate-a-Queen Talent Show, the mother of the House of Dion told us she had a ...