Xtra - Issue 508, Apr 15, 2004

SONGS WRITTEN IN BLOOD
Pan America

story by John Webster / “Being on tour, it’s like having a dual personality,” says Rufus Wainwright.
EDITORIAL
Maple Leafs disco

story by Julia Garro / Yesterday, a public forum was held to discuss the future of Maple Leaf Gardens.
LIVING
No partner, no problem

story by Jeremy Parkes / It’s the bane of a single queer’s existence.
PRACTICALITIES
The gay divorcee

story by James Dubro / With the reality of legally sanctioned gay marriage now in Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec, it is very unromantic but essential to focus on the fallout of marriage — namely divorce.
SATIRICAL EVIDENCE
Stranger than fiction

story by Julia Garro / A London-area group opposing a plan aimed at making schools safer for queer students has issued an apology for including a satirical piece in their materials.
NEW TECH
One less prick

story by Karli Fisher / A new HIV test now available in the States could let you check your HIV-status over your lunch break.
SWEET TALK
Tongue-tied lovers

story by Annie Benz / Sex rum women sex rum women sex rum women.
NOMINATION REVOKED
Lost in trans-lation

story by Kyle Scanlon / On Feb 2, the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation announced the book The Man Who Would Be Queen was a finalist in the transgender category for the 16th Annual Lambda Literary Awards coming up in June.
HIDE YOUR LEGS
Fashion-numbed by warm weather

story by Jane Ford / The following is to be sung with fervour and all the emotion that falling off a bunk on your tour bus when it crashes on a slippery highway, through no fault of the driver leaving you with a metal rod in your back can muster:
FILM REVIEWS
Moving obsessions

story by Nicholas Davies / This year, there’s so much going on of interest to queer folk at the Images festival, a showcase of independent film, video, new media, performance and installation, that there’s barely room to mention it all.
FILM REVIEWS
Wrestling truth

story by Michele Clarke / Wrestling gender, wrestling girls and wrestling with addiction are just three subjects grappled with at this year’s Hot Docs festival running Fri, Apr 23 to May 2.
BOOKS
Fairies fall down dead

story by Jim Bartley / Meet Manny Masters, closety high school teacher and aging student of drama at New York University.
CD REVIEWS
A black coal miner’s daughter

story by John Webster / Alabama’s Candi Staton is a revelation.