Xtra Magazine

Xtra Magazine is produced by Pink Triangle Press, a prominent LGBT media organization in Canada that was established in 1971 to promote sexual liberation. Initially, Pink Triangle Press started as a small collective in Toronto that published Body Politic, a significant journal covering LGBT news and ideas. In 1984, Xtra was launched to carry on the legacy of Body Politic while also embracing a more commercial approach. During the 1990s, Xtra expanded its reach to Vancouver and Ottawa. In 2015, the magazine transitioned to a fully online format. A key aspect of Pink Triangle Press since the beginning is its commitment to community-focused journalism, which continues to thrive through Xtra today.

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Where does the new pope stand on queer and trans issues?

6 days ago | xtramagazine.com | Katelyn Burns

Social media was abuzz on Thursday as the Vatican conclave chose American Robert Prevost as the new Pope of the Catholic Church. This marks the first time in history that a U.S.-born member of the clergy will serve in the role, something that many American Catholics, myself included, never thought we’d see in this lifetime.
How ‘Survivor’ and ‘Real Housewives’ got queer

1 week 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.
Thirty years ago, ‘When Night Is Falling’ kick-started the golden age of lesbian cinema

1 week ago | xtramagazine.com | Ingrid Randoja

This is a story about a lesbian film, a movie critic and a city that no longer exists. Thirty years ago, on May 5, 1995, director Patricia Rozema’s lesbian romance When Night Is Falling arrived in cinemas. I was working as a movie reviewer at NOW Magazine, which was one of Toronto’s popular arts weeklies at the time. I was also, at the age of 31, a baby dyke, having come out a few years earlier.
Aaron Gunn, Andrew Lawton among controversial MPs headed to Ottawa

2 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Mel Woods

Canada has a new slate of 343 new members of Parliament after this week’s federal election, which results in Mark Carney’s Liberal Party winning the most seats to form a minority government. But when it comes to LGBTQ2S+ rights, there are some big question marks headed to Ottawa that we might want to keep an eye out for, including controversial right-wing media personalities, incumbent MPs who voted against the conversion therapy ban and U.S. vice-president JD Vance’s bestie.
Mark Carney’s Liberals projected to win Canadian federal election

2 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Mel Woods

Mark Carney will continue as Canada’s prime minister. The Liberal Party leader, who stepped into the prime ministership less than two months ago following the resignation of Justin Trudeau, will stay in government after his party won the most seats in Monday night’s Canadian federal election. Final counts are still rolling in, but Carney is set to head to parliament with a pile of MPs in tow, with major networks projecting his Liberals to form government.
The U.K. Labour Party has no backbone to stand up for trans people

2 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Katelyn Burns

In the wake of the U.K. Supreme Court ruling from two weeks ago that trans women aren’t considered women under the law, the country’s leaders are still dealing with the fallout. Over the last two weekends, there were mass protests against the ruling in major cities across the country, but nevertheless, government officials seemed unfazed in pushing forward with further anti-trans actions.
‘Parade’ invites us to embrace queer history to tackle the present

3 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Tobin Ng

In an early scene in Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance, dozens of people clad in leather jackets, blazers and bell bottoms march toward the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. Some carry rain-battered signs with slogans like “We will not hide our love away,” while others link arms and huddle under umbrellas. The camera is situated in the midst of the crowd, and as viewers, it feels as though we’re brushing shoulders with the protestors as they pass by.
Conservative platform pledges ban on trans women in women’s prisons

3 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Mel Woods

The Conservative Party of Canada released their full costed platform today for the 2025 election, and it includes a ban on trans women from federal women’s prisons in Canada.
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 17, Episode 16 power ranking: It do take Nurve

3 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

Welcome to RuPaul’s Drag Race Power Rankings! Every week, we’ve debriefed the newest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 17 to determine which queens were riding high, and which needed she-mergency care. But now, with our winner crowned, it’s time to take one final look back at our final four queens’ journeys to the endgame. Though she didn’t ultimately snatch the crown, Lexi did the next-best thing in this finale: she won the crowd back.
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 17 finale recap: America’s Next Drag Superstar XVII is …

3 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Kevin O'Keeffe

The conventional wisdom goes that RuPaul’s Drag Race finales are bad. This is mostly rooted in memories of the mid-Logo era, when the show shifted to big-theatre final episodes but had minimal content to fill time. Seasons 7 and 8 introduced one-queen original songs, which helped fill the time, but it wasn’t really until the show moved to VH1 and introduced the Lip Sync for the Crown that finales got more interesting.