Xtra West - Issue 275, Mar 04, 2004

COVER STORY
Vancouver dynamo heads new sports body

story by Michael Harris / Thomas Dolan has a plan: he’s making room for us.
NAKED EYE
What NDP renewal?

story by Gareth Kirkby, Managing editor / The divide was just too neat, too tidy, too obvious. And too tragic.
EDUCATION
School board goes all the way

story by Robin Perelle / The Vancouver School Board (VSB) made history again last week—and queer trustee Jane Bouey couldn’t be prouder.
COMMENT
What about consent?

story by Robin Perelle / Sometimes, it’s the most innocuous details that really stick with a person.
QUEER HERO
Technology and the activist

story by Diane Claveau / “I certainly wasn’t going to be marrying anybody again. In 1975 I left my second husband and I said, then and many times thereafter, I will not get married again—not even for the revolution, I said.” Frances Wasserlein shakes her head.
FEDERAL ELECTION
Left eyes Vancouver-Centre

story by Jeremy Hainsworth / For the first time in years, the NDP sees Vancouver Centre riding as winnable.
QUEER COMMUNITY CENTRE
New home needed

story by Jeremy Hainsworth  / Having long served the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgenderd community from its humble offices above the northeast corner of Davie and Bute, The Centre is setting its sights on a future filled with more services and a larger space.
NEWS
In brief

story by Xtra West staff / NAMING DAVIE BIA OPPONENTS Xtra West can now report which business and property owners opposed the renewal of the Davie Village’s Business Improvement Association (BIA) in January.
LIVING OUT
Goodbye to little lies

story by Tony Correia / "I wand you to have dish, to weemember me by,” he said. Then he fell off the curb.
SLAP & TICKLE
Marks of approval

story by Elaine Miller / My friend, brimming with glee, bounced impatiently on my front step.
WHAT THE FUCK
No neutral space

story by Ann Travers & Bubba Jones Patton / It’s not that we always agree, but we do try, through discussion and compromise, to eventually speak with one voice.
VENUS RISING
Pleasures of parenthood

story by Michael Venus / Michael Venus: So how are you and what is the latest?
FILM FESTIVAL
Share your taste

story by Craig Barron / Michael Barrett, director of programming for Out On Screen, uses the language of a creator and a visionary.