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COVER
Why we love Vancouver
story by Michael Harris /
Like all good travel stories, this one is a little embarrassing. It’s not my story though; it’s Claude’s.
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NAKED EYE
Save St Paul’s
story by Robin Perelle, Acting Editor /
I heard the crack before I felt the impact. It was my fault, really. I took my eye off the ball for a second and some over-zealous first baseman tried to make a play at the plate.
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COMMUNITY POLICING
Sincere—but under-trained?
story by Robin Perelle /
Const Chris smith looks me earnestly in the eye. “You’re the reason why [I sought this position],” he tells me. “The people in the community are the reason why.
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COMMENT
‘We’re all heterosexual’
story by Stephen Hui /
On the morning of May 1, I enter Vancouver’s Broadway Church, home to a Pentecostal congregation better known for its annual Christmas show than its views on sexual orientation.
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QUEER HERITAGE
Is the Duff in danger?
story by Jeremy Hainsworth /
The Duff lives— for now.
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CENSORSHIP
Big win for Glad Day
story by Darren Cooney /
Once again, queers have helped to reshape laws in Ontario, this time by challenging the constitutionality of government censors.
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QUEER HERO
Northern pathfinder
story by Diane Claveau /
With one foot still in the closet, 18-year-old Charles Wilson left his Wet’suwt’en reserve 30 minutes east of Smithers, BC, for his first gay youth conference a year ago.
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BRIEFS
In brief
story by Xtra West staff /
People living with HIV and AIDS in BC will be falling down dead in the streets May 14 as they try to embarrass the federal government into living up to its promise to double AIDS-related spending.
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BLUSH
The love bug
story by Miss Cookie /
I’ve lost a few things to sex: an elbow-length glove, a hat, underwear, a button off my pants, a coat-check ticket, my wallet, my virginity, my continence, and, I’m sorry to say, my clean bill of health.
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LOOSE END
Sometimes life gets in the way
story by Ivan E Coyote /
Spare Change Corner of Pender and Abbott, just before midnight.
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CAMPUS CHRONICLES
Hungry for knowledge
story by Michael Harris /
Everything Will really learned, he learned by lusting after older men.
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DANCE DUO
Holy body runs wild
story by CE Gatchalian /
The words sexy, sexual and erotic are words that critics and audiences often use to describe the work of The Holy Body Tattoo, one of Vancouver’s most daring and acclaimed dance companies—and specifically the dancing of its co-artistic directors, Noam Gagnon and Dana Gingras.
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