Xtra - Issue 513, Jun 24, 2004

TIME TO DANCE
Spinning free

story by Chaos McKenzie  / Called the hardest working DJ in Canada, Michael Babb, aka Deko-ze, had 33 gigs in May and is looking to surpass that number in June.
EDITORIAL
‘Unnatural’ progress

story by Julia Garro, Associate Editor / I don’t generally consider myself to be a drama queen, but I have to admit that I’m freaking out a little over the possibility that the no-longer-progressive Conservatives will be forming the government after Monday’s federal election.
YOUR MONEY
A hotdog here, a hotdog there

story by Darren Cooney / Pride Week has rolled into town, drawing swarms of partygoing queers, a miniature economic boom and complaints about who should be benefitting.
COPING
Have Pride, will travel — far away

story by Jeremy Parkes / If you’re feeling a little more anxious than usual lately, don’t pop the meds just yet.
PARADE MARSHAL
Gorgeous George

story by Brent Ledger / Ah, the reach and influence of George Hislop.
BALL GAME
Homo field advantage

story by John Mitchell / There is a marketing strategy that I remember from my distant career in advertising, the concept of “perceived change.”
ELECTION 2004
Harper & the end of gay rights

story by Brenda Cossman / Stephen Harper is on the verge of winning the election, which should send chills up and down the spines of all gay folks across the country.
ELECTION 2004
Call your folks back home

story by Paul Gallant / Facing a possible Conservative government — obsessed as it will be with putting queers, women and other minorities in their tightly fitted places — homo voters know that every riding and every vote is crucial in the Mon, Jun 28 election.
SEXUAL FREEDOM
Pussy Palace complaint goes public

story by Julia Garro / Last week the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) called for a public hearing to determine what really happened on Sep 14, 2000, the night that five male police officers raided a Toronto women’s bathhouse event.
EDUCATION
Home life, school life

story by Anand Mahadevan / The gayby-boom is underway. Queer families of every configuration and colour are blossoming, producing a generation of children who take it for granted that they have two moms, two dads or sometimes both.
BAD MEMORY
Reagan’s hateful legacy

story by Tim McCaskell / Ronald Reagan finally kicked the bucket at 93, putting the US into a mourning frenzy.
FILM REVIEW
Hustler right

story by Jon Davies / John Palmer’s new feature Sugar ended up being something quite unexpected — it’s not a rehashing of well-worn themes of sex and drugs.
FILM REVIEW
Let’s do it

story by Lisa Lambert / Don’t let the first half-hour of De-Lovely scare you away. Kevin Kline, in what looks like an Albert Finney mask, is a dying Cole Porter.
THEATRE REVIEW
Mal Joey

story by Martin Roebuck / When it first opened on Broadway in 1940, Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey was criticized mainly for the morals of its title character.
THEATRE REVIEW
Transatlantic sophistication

story by Martin Roebuck / From the moment that the curtain goes up on a stylish re-creation of an art deco bar in New York circa 1933, Stratford Festival theatregoers can relax in comfort.