Mr. Gay Canada is not just a title – especially not to Christepher Wee, this year’s winner of the competition. To him, it’s what a person does with that...

DJ Del Stamp is originally from St John’s, Newfoundland, but he’s become a prominent figure in the Vancouver nightclub scene. He has built up a solid following...

Nick Bertossi, a DJ hailing from Vancouver, has had an exciting ride over the past year – and it’s promising to continue into the next one. He’s had releases...

Out rocker Aris (pronounced like Paris but without the P) grew up in Brooklyn, the product of a belly-dancing mother and a Greek immigrant father.  Music...

The 2014 BeefDip was more than just the bear necessities in every sense. This Leather and Bear party in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (produced by Toronto’s...

Jonathan Groff is remembering a scene he shot for the upcoming HBO adaptation of The Normal Heart. It’s his only part with Julia Roberts, and he doesn’t...

"I love nightlife and being a part of it," proclaims the dance floor’s newest diva, Cherie Lily.  Born and raised outside of Chicago, she...

There are singers, there are songwriters – and then there’s Patty Griffin. Not only has the celebrated songstress been praised for her versatility, Griffin’s...

"I’m not crying on Sundays," Mary Lambert assures herself on the song that got her to the Grammys. But this Sunday was different. This Sunday...

Lee Daniels’ The Butler When The Butler – excuse me, Lee Daniels’ The Butler – was released last year, it seemed Oscar bound. It had social issues. It...

Against Me!, Transgender Dysphoria Blues The remarkable thing about Transgender Dysphoria Blues – besides, of course, it being an emancipating declaration...

Jennifer Holliday, The Song Is You Jennifer Holliday is not going. And even though it’s been 23 years since the Grammy winner – the original Effie in...

Beyoncé, Beyoncé It’s a new year, but we’re not done gushing over Beyoncé and that juggernaut of an album she surprise-dropped to a web blitz of industry-shattering...

Euphemia "Effie" Gray was the teenage bride of the Victorian art critic John Ruskin, yet she refused to consummate that unhappy union. Instead...

[Mon Mar 3, 2014] This is the rather gritty story of a hip very young gay couple in Chicago's 'Boystown' coming to terms with how tough one's first love can be. **** Kurt...

[Mon Mar 3, 2014] UK's Channel 4 are to broadcast a Dispatches that investigates hate in English football. There is a problem with the under-reporting of hate  incidents...

[Sun Mar 2, 2014] I was thinking about all this nonsense from Russia with the laws that, in part, make sure that people are banned from ‘promoting’ gay lifestyles to juveniles...

[Sun Mar 2, 2014] Shakespeare adaptations regularly appear on the film scene, but "Guys Reading Poems" transforms sometimes familiar, sometimes unfamiliar poetry...

[Sat Mar 1, 2014] A radical re-think is underway in the area of HIV, its prevention and its treatment.While we are seeing what feels like an ever increasing reduction in...

[Sat Mar 1, 2014] I’ve watched in total bewilderment as the recent situation in Arizona unfolded.  In the past few weeks, we’ve some draconian measures come into force...

[Wed Feb 26, 2014] Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni today signed an archaic anti-gay bill into law. The bill, which once even included the death penalty, calls for gay Ugandans...