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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Activist groups reportedly gave Alberta list of LGBTQ2S+ books to investigate

1 week ago | xtramagazine.com | Mel Woods

A right-wing group with ties to the Freedom Convoy is now taking responsibility for the Alberta government’s attack on LGBTQ2S+ books in school libraries.
Sufjan Stevens’s best album broke me—and brought me peace | Xtra Magazine

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.
Deborah Vance is the power dyke we deserve

1 week ago | xtramagazine.com | Angela Mullins

I was in my formative years when Designing Women was a hit TV show. The powerful women who filled that set portrayed characters who could have been my southern aunties. I was reared by Appalachian women with deep roots in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. In 1986 America, scenes set in Atlanta, Georgia, weren’t too much of a stretch in my reality. Jean Smart as Sugarbaker & Associates office manager Charlene Frazier was especially poignant in my young mind.
Alberta to create standards for ‘age-appropriate’ school library books

1 week ago | xtramagazine.com | Mel Woods

Danielle Smith’s Alberta government is taking aim at what books are allowed on the shelves of school libraries in the province. Today, Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides announced a public feedback process around what he called “extremely graphic and age-inappropriate content” in K-12 school library books.
Hooking up with chronic pain

2 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Gabrielle Drolet

When I was living in Toronto and newly single, one of the first people I went on a date with was a physiotherapy student named Olivia. She had curly brown hair that always fell perfectly, like a doll’s. We met at a bar in the Gay Village with shitty cocktails and good sandwiches. Olivia was one of the few women I’d matched with on the apps. I could lie and say that this was because of scarcity—pretend that, in all of Toronto, there simply weren’t enough queer women to go around.
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ changes the game for Season 10—and it’s working | Xtra Magazine

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

Suffice it to say there were some initial hesitations in the fandom about the RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 10 “Tournament of All Stars” format. Even with an understanding of all the reasons why such a format needed to be instituted to keep All Stars alive, there were still concerns that the “bracketed” season would be too confusing to follow—and worse, that it would deprive us of enough time with the various queens cast.
Rechie Valdez named Women and Gender Equality and Youth minister

3 weeks ago | xtramagazine.com | Mel Woods

Rechie Valdez is Canada’s new Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth (WAGE). But what role will she play in LGBTQ2S+ rights across Canada in the months and years to come? Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his new cabinet this week, lining up the roster of 28 major ministers and 10 more minor secretaries of state. And unlike Carney’s previous cabinet ahead of the federal election, it once again includes a designated minister focused on Women and Gender Equality.
Where does the new pope stand on queer and trans issues?

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

1 month 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.