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EDITORIAL
Erection-killing cops
story by Paul Gallant, Managing editor /
Hamilton officials were so worried that patrons of the Warehouse Spa And Bath were eating unlicensed chocolate bars, taking cold showers, cruising by candlelight and breathing secondhand smoke, police arrested these very patrons. With benevolence like that, who needs perasecution?
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WAREHOUSE RAID
Charged for bathhouse sex
story by Tanya Gulliver /
Police who laid charges against two patrons of Hamilton’s Warehouse Spa And Bath during a nine-person investigation of the bathhouse on Aug 3 have admitted they initiated the raid after reading comments on a gay cruising website — even though Deputy Chief Tom Marlor had earlier told a public meeting, “To be quite honest I did not know this was a bathhouse.”
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WAREHOUSE RAID
Hamilton’s biting back
story by Sky Gilbert /
Recently I moved to Hamilton. Hamilton is a highly underrated burg, with its mountain and secluded, overgrown bay. It’s prettier than Toronto. It also has less pollution, more stately heritage buildings and, best of all, a closely knit and diverse queer activist community.
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THINKING INSIDE THE BOX
Alabama slammer
story by Nadia Bello /
In a move that sent an unpleasant shudder through vibrator aficionados everywhere, a US court recently ruled that the right to sexual privacy isn’t protected by their constitution.
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ON STAGE
Poetic permafrost
story by Seraphim /
A man is discovered, frozen, at the edge of a glacier. A gay teen falls in love, an alienated couple struggles to find each other and a repressed archaeologist yearns for liberation. Then the thaw begins.
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EDITORIAL
Men lie about sex?!
story by David Walberg /
Two weeks ago, Toronto police arrested a 28-year-old man at the small downtown clothing store where he was working.
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MERGER
Close, but no cigar
story by Zoë Bake-Paterson /
It was a landmark moment for the Toronto AIDS community, and a narrow defeat.
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LEGAL MATTERS
Indecent to whom, Mr Policeman?
story by Zoë Bake-Paterson /
Caught with your pants down in the bushes?
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QUEER HISTORY
Homophiles to Homohops
story by Jennifer O’Connor /
Fresh-faced frosh and long-time homophiles alike are invited to breeze by Robarts Library on U of T’s downtown campus to take in Proud Past: U Of T’s Queer History, an exhibit marking the 35th anniversary of the campus queer group.
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GOING GREEK
In search of inclusive exclusivity
story by Zoë Bake-Paterson /
It’s great to be gay and good to be Greek, but being openly gay in a Greek fraternity?
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FAMILY
Don’t kill the grandparents
story by J Wallace /
When I transitioned, my mother told me that she would never call me “he.”
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PRIDE & POLITICS
‘A language no one else is speaking’
story by Glenn Kauth /
Rauda Morcos is a true radical. She’s a Palestinian lesbian activist who next year plans to protest the Pride parade in Jerusalem.
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STUDIO TOUR
Intimacy shrouded
story by Daryl Vocat /
Have you ever looked over and found a naked man you barely know sleeping in your bed?
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OPERA
Dystopic present
story by Martin Roebuck /
When George W Bush recently accepted the Republican nomination for reelection many viewers were troubled by his convention speech.
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LIVE MUSIC
Tegan And Sara
story by Lisa Foad /
“I feel like you wouldn’t like me if you met me/ Don’t you worry there’s still time,” warns Tegan Quin, the labret-sporting half of the queer twin sister duo Tegan And Sara, on the opening track of their Sep 14 release, So Jealous.
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CD REVIEWS
Pixie dust & heroin
story by John Webster /
Oh, the unbearable lightness of being Björk.
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