Xtra - Issue 502, Jan 22, 2004

GALLERY GOING
Eye candy

story by Jennifer O’Connor / Allyson Mitchell removes the plastic wrapping from one of her fun-fur portraits to reveal a woman with dirty blonde pigtails and an ample butt strolling by a pool at sunset.
EDITORIAL
Really real women

story by Brenda Cossman / The Vancouver Rape Relief Centre has been fighting since 1995 to make sure that Kimberly Nixon and others like her can never be volunteer counsellors.
NATIONAL PROJECT
Doctoring the results

story by Ian Mackenzie / “The bottom line is that we don’t get good service from the healthcare system,” says Gens Hellquist, executive director of the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition.
WHO ART IN HEAVEN
Who’s your daddy?

story by Jeremy Parkes / I’m all for queer marriage, but you’ll never catch me at the altar.
GAY PSYCHIATRIST
Arrest in Durost murder

story by Paul Gallant / Though the main-stream media linked the murder of a Toronto psychiatrist to his patronizing of a gay strip bar, police tracked down their prime suspect at a strip mall.
WINTER SEX
Baby, it’s cold outside

story by Julia Garro / There may be a thick layer of snow on the ground outside, but that’s no reason to put a chill on your sex life.
PLAYING LEZZIE
Gotta love straight girls

story by Julia Gonsalves / She is a straightgirl. I meet her at a party populated mostly by straight people.
ART REVIEW
Transcendental kiss

story by Andrew Harwood / If sex, fetish and spirituality are healing balms for the living then AA Bronson has mastered the cure in The Quick And The Dead.
FILM REVIEW
Far from love

story by Samantha Sarra / The latest exploration of serial killer Aileen Wuornos comes to us in the form of a hard-hitting dramatic feature entitled Monster from US director Patty Jenkins.
CD REVIEWS
Hey Melissa

story by John Webster / The screaming banshee with the rainbow ’fro is gone.
TV TIME
Carrying a flaming torch

story by Lisa Lambert / I don’t care that it’s freezing outside.