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1 week ago | 
xtramagazine.com | KC Hoard
The first time I listened to Sufjan Stevens, I was fumbling around in a car with my first boyfriend. It was the winter of 2017 and we were 19, living with our respective parents in Ottawa and he wasn’t out to his family, so the only places we could hook up were in parking lots. We would sprawl and tangle across the back seat of his mom’s old station wagon.
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1 month ago | 
xtramagazine.com | KC Hoard
Reality television is a cultural phenomenon, and though queer and trans folks are the faces of modern franchises like RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Traitors, we’ve been embedded in the medium since its start. This week, Xtra launched a podcast titled Get Queer, tracing the LGBTQ2S+ community’s roller-coaster history with reality television.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
cbc.ca | KC Hoard
A chess board is seen during the 2023 French chess championship. (AFP via Getty Images)Emerging Queer Voices is a monthly LGBTQ arts and culture column that features different up-and-coming LGBTQ writers. You can read more about the series and find all published editions here. When I was a kid, my mom was addicted to enrolling me in extracurricular activities. I played baseball and soccer, and I took lessons for tap dancing, piano, vocals and acting.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
xtramagazine.com | KC Hoard
Being the homosexual I am, I spend my year chasing the Oscars. In the spring, I track what Sundance releases have been acquired by big studios; in the summer, I study what’s popping at the Cannes Film Festival, which generally launches the most lauded and visible global films; in the fall, I spend a week and a half at the Toronto International Film Festival catching anything with awards buzz and in the winter, I analyze the Oscar precursors.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | KC Hoard
I’ve always loved horror. My therapist would say it’s because I suppressed a lot of my emotions as a kid and can achieve catharsis only by consuming extreme and graphic material. My bisexual friends would say it’s because I’m a Scorpio. Either way, I’ve seen so many horror films that I’ve grown desensitized. Just the scariest stuff gets a rise out of me. Over the past decade, there’s been a lot of scary stuff.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | KC Hoard
In March, Oprah Winfrey released a prime-time special titled “Shame, Blame, and the Weight Loss Revolution” on ABC to unpack why she and an estimated millions of others are using drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy to get thin. “In my lifetime, I never dreamed that we would be talking about medicines that are providing hope for people like me who have struggled for years with being overweight or with obesity,” she said at the top of the special.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
yesmagazine.org | KC Hoard
Tucked in a hidden corner on Toronto’s south shore lies Cherry Beach. It’s known for its seclusion. To lay on its hot sands or test its warm waters, you have to escape down a long, bottlenecked street. Travelling there is a clarifying experience. At the outset, you’re trapped in the concrete labyrinth of the city, where construction sounds fill your ears and carbon fills your nose, becoming a part of you. Then the skyscrapers melt away and the horizon becomes visible.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | KC Hoard
Tucked in a hidden corner on Toronto’s south shore lies Cherry Beach. It’s known for its seclusion. To lay on its hot sands or test its warm waters, you have to escape down a long, bottlenecked street. Travelling there is a clarifying experience. At the outset, you’re trapped in the concrete labyrinth of the city, where construction sounds fill your ears and carbon fills your nose, becoming a part of you. Then the skyscrapers melt away and the horizon becomes visible.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | KC Hoard |Francesca Fionda |Kierstin Williams |Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
“The power of fire is so intense and humbling.”Three weeks ago, I wrote to you about how northwest B.C. reporter Matt Simmons dropped working on a pretty incredible feature story to cover the premature wildfires that erupted in various parts of British Columbia. That piece, about a Gitanyow-led effort to use fire to heal the land, was published on our site a few days ago — the first in our brand-new series, In The Line of Fire.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | KC Hoard |Moira Donovan
Tucked in a hidden corner on Toronto’s south shore lies Cherry Beach. It’s known for its seclusion. To lay on its hot sands or test its warm waters, you have to escape down a long, bottlenecked street. Travelling there is a clarifying experience. At the outset, you’re trapped in the concrete labyrinth of the city, where construction sounds fill your ears and carbon fills your nose, becoming a part of you. Then the skyscrapers melt away and the horizon becomes visible.
