Xtra - Issue 499, Dec 11, 2003

BUREAUCRACY
Law against the DJ

story by Chaos McKenzie / It would seem a logical solution: I love boys and I love to dance, so where should I head on a lax Saturday evening?
EDITORIAL
Fucking fucked up

story by David Walberg / Giorgio seems lucid and alert as we chat in his room at a local bathhouse.
SAFE SEX
Lube is not a take-home gift

story by Shaun Proulx / Sex parties are de rigeur lately and even the AIDS Committee Of Toronto is getting in on the action.
BROADCASTING
Citizen Craig

story by Paul Gallant / The man who ticked off the US cable industry with his Internet broadcasts of network programming a couple of years ago is now getting ready to do battle with Canadian TV distributors.
THE SEX TRADE
Bathhouses beyond sex

story by Paul Henderson / Long-time bathhouse pioneer, activist and co-owner of Spa Excess Peter Bochove chuckles at any suggestion that the bathhouse scene is on the wane.
POLITICS
Equal, equal, equal, equal

story by Ian Mackenzie / Oh, the difference a hyphen makes.
MEMOIR
Carole & Dusty between albums

story by Carole Pope / In 2000 I wrote anautobiography entitled Anti Diva.
DANCE REVIEW
Fragmentation of character

story by David Bateman / At the beginning of choreographer Gerry Trentham’s Autobiography: Chapters One Through Five, a male dancer walks onstage in a bikini, steps into a bathtub, kneels and turns torso to audience.
CD REVIEWS
Do you hear what I hear?

story by John Webster / For me the gift of music — if the giver knows your taste — is the best gift.
DVD REVIEWS
Follow every rainbow

story by Lisa Lambert / Machines scare me. Especially new ones. Musicals please me.
PROUD LIFE
Tom Kneebone

story by Dinah Christie / I met Tom Kneebone just in the nick of time.