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INDIE MUSIC
The new suv
story by Lisa Foad /
The wave of queer girl electronica that’s been swelling with the likes of Peaches, Tracy And The Plastics and beloved Montrealers Lesbians On Ecstasy since lo-fi pioneers Le Tigre emerged in 1999, is being met with a sudden resurgence of loudmouth Sapphic rock.
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EDITORIAL
Silence is scarier
story by Julia Garro /
Language is a funny thing. How many times have I said something that I didn’t mean literally to express something that I did mean?
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LOCAL NEWS
Those offensive men in bed
story by Mark Brodsky /
A Toronto imaging company has refused to print artist AA Bronson’s latest work, saying it offends several employees who work at the company and borders on pornography.
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NATIONAL NEWS
Crotch-grab & release
story by Paul Gallant /
On Sep 5, a young plainclothes RCMP officer on a two-month training program with the Hamilton Police Service, walked through Show World, a peep show in the city’s downtown.
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LOCAL NEWS
Single dad wins half-price court case
story by Joyce Thian /
The courts have sided — for the time being at least — with the queer single daddies and mommies out there.
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RELATIONSHIPS
I birth it, you raise it
story by Regan McClure /
One enduring truth about gay sexis that we don’t mingle sexual satisfaction with reproduction in that haphazard, senseless way that straight people do.
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RELATIONSHIPS
Swearing to honour & obey
story by Nancy Irwin /
Signing a wedding contract is still somewhat of a novelty for Ontario queers, but there’s another flavour of contractual relationship — one that is both highly personal and completely unregulated by the government — that’s been going on for decades.
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HISTORY
Ye olde cocksucker
story by Zoë Bake-Paterson /
Considered by some to be the gay founder of Toronto, Alexander Wood is remembered more for his notoriety than for his contributions to early civic life.
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ART & VIDEO REVIEW
Humiliation
story by Jon Davies /
Steve Reinke is one of the most important Canadian video artists and certainly the most brazenly intellectual, so his first commercial gallery show in Canada counts as a major event.
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FILM REVIEW
Potty mouth
story by Jon Davies /
John Waters pioneered transgressive queer cinema, leaving rabid fans with immensely high expectations for his career.
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FILM REVIEW
Behind the curtain
story by Lisa Lambert /
Al Pacino spat on me. It was glorious. It was back in 1982-ish and I was attending a performance of David Mamet’s American Buffalo at The Circle In The Square off-Broadway.
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CD REVIEWS
Family listening
story by John Webster /
Vancouver’s Torquil Campbell (vocalist with Stars) and New York-based Chris Dumont (part-time Central Park carousel operator) call themselves Memphis.
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