Xtra - Issue 506, Mar 18, 2004

IN PRINT
Spirited smuggling

story by Rachel Giese / Six pages was all it took to make Nalo Hopkinson a writer.
EDITORIAL
Ignorance is hardly bliss

story by Brenda Cossman / Gwen Araujo was a 17-year-old male-to-female (MTF) transsexual living in Newark, Califonia.
SPLIT DECISIONS
The passion of the same-sex

story by Tanya Gulliver / When Lionel Ketola and Steve Loweth decided to get married last fall it wasn’t a simple matter.
SEXPLORATION
Tainted love

story by Jennifer Polo / Sometimes you just need to get away from it all.
CENSORSHIP
Artists beware

story by Julia Garro / Last week Canadian artists called for a rethink of censorship legislation currently on its way to becoming law.
PERSONALITY
Dunk the faggot

story by Ian Mackenzie / Mark Elliot’s voice is deep and gravely with no sign of the gay lilt.
THREE YEARS LATER
Remembering David Buller

story by Karyn Sandlos / On the afternoon of Jan 18, 2001, David Buller was stabbed repeatedly in his office in the University Of Toronto’s Visual Studies department at 1 Spadina Cres.
FIRST PERSON
Scared silent

story by Frantz Brent-Harris / Last month a Jamaican teen was beaten unconscious by his fellow students after his own father stirred them up by claiming his son is gay.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Electroshock & unwarranted arrests

story by Tyrone Newhook / Some have been whipped, beaten and bound.
SLASH FICTION
Good for the goose

story by Julia Garro / “For whatever reason, what is good for the gander leaves the goose cold: few women report being aroused by the sight of men kissing each other.”
FILM FLAM
Acting out

story by Nicholas Davies / There is something fundamentally terrifying about reviewing Keith Cole’s work; you end up getting yourself caught between a (hard) cock and a hard place.
THEATRE REVIEW
The long & winded road

story by Seraphim / Kevin Sheard’s new play, Always An Actress, could easily be included in the Unique Lives And Experiences women’s lecture series — except Sheard is a man and is willing to devote nearly three hours to convince us of that fact.
IN PRINT
The queen is dead

story by Jennifer O’Connor / “Drag queens? that’s so over now,” John Waters once said.
BOOK REVIEW
Mission personal

story by Jennifer O’Connor / In 1993, Michelle Tea ran away from her working-class home in Chelsea, Massachusetts and moved to San Francisco’s Mission District.
CD REVIEWS
Fabulous Muscles ain’t

story by John Webster / I must be getting old. Recently I tried listening to favourite albums of my teen years.