Growing up gay in Abbotsford with a Baptist minister for a father, Matthew David waited a long time to come out. The 27-year-old singer, who came out to his family earlier this year after deciding to release an autobiographical album, admits he was afraid he’d lose everything if...
To a haunting a cappella rendition of One More Day, friends and family quietly bore Catherine White Holman’s coffin past the flickering candles of hundreds of mourners silently lining Victoria Ave and into the WISE Hall Dec 9, for a standing-room-only memorial to a woman whose warmth and gene...
Nineteen community members unanimously approved a proposal to register a society to facilitate the envisioning, funding, building and maintaining of a multi-purpose queer community centre in Vancouver on Dec 8. The new society’s name is Vancouver Out Under the Rainbow (OUR) Space...
Sara Quin is struggling to remember the last time she and twin sister, Tegan, played in Toronto. “I feel like the last show was a summer thing,†she says. “It’s been a long time.†Sara is perched on a massive sofa on ...
http://www.xtra.ca/blog/national/post/2009/12/08/2450000-reward-in-Skinner-murder-case.aspx Christopher Skinner’s fiancé, Ryan Cooke, speaks with reporters on Dec 7 at the corner of Adelaide and Victoria Sts. Skinner, a 27-yea...
A friend who recently moved from the cheerless wetlands of the west coast to the relatively unpopulated, oil-drenched terrain just east of the Rockies told me that her 15-year-old daughter was attending a performing arts high school â€" quite ...
One spotlight shone down on the fire dancer â€" her arms circling in wide gestures creating giant sparkles against the dark backdrop of the early evening sky. As the fire dancer continued to light up the evening, guests arrived and made their way into a room that had been transformed into a the...
It all started innocently in an editorial meeting while chatting about potential articles. There were three of us â€" Marcus sitting behind his desk, Luna writing ideas on the white board and myself. I was in my usual position, slouching on a chai...
In the wake of the detention of three films bound for the Inside Out film festival in Ottawa, Liberal public safety critic Mark Holla...
Xtra.ca reporter Ryan Carter attended a meeting in protest of Uganda's anti-gay bill at The 519 Community Centre in Toronto. George Ssemukuutu (pictured at right) is chair of Toronto's Pride Uganda group. He moderated the Dec 18 event, whi...
To get my first pap test, I had to pretend I was sleeping with men. Several years ago, I was leaving the country and wanted to make sure I was up to date with routine health care. My GP said that it wasn't within "the guidelines" to give paps...
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