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VENUS RISING
Doo’s and don’ts
story by Michael Venus /
Dickey Doo is one of Vancouver’s most treasured DeeJays and has been so for more than a decade. Over the past few years, he has also become a noted actor, producer and sex symbol, proving there is no limit to creative outlets.
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NAKED EYE
Thanks neighbours
story by Robin Perelle, staff reporter /
It’s 9:45 pm, the very tail end of Pride weekend 2004. And I am proud of my neighbours. There’s about a dozen of us clustered in my back alley, just west of Denman St.
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BACK TO YOUR YOUTH
Youthquest splinters
story by Jeremy Hainsworth /
BC’s queer youth services organization, Youthquest, is facing revolts from its affiliates while the new executive director tries to steer what he calls a “sinking ship” into calmer waters.
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BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL REPORT
A patchwork of bigotry
story by Robin Perelle /
Earl Waugh is worried about his queer students. They’ll probably be relatively safe as long as they stay in the closet all year, he muses, but that’s a pretty high price to pay for protection. Not to mention an almost impossible task.
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QUEER HEROES AND ALLIES
Experience your dreams
story by Diane Claveau /
Imagine going to a summer camp with queer counsellors—a camp where it’s okay to be who you are, where diversity is celebrated and where individuality is “cool.”
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NEWS
In brief
story by Xtra West staff /
As Davie Villagers prepare to swap ideas on the future of their neighbourhood at Sep 11’s Davie Day street fair (and its vision sessions), city hall is thinking about updating the area’s plan to meet its citizens’ needs. The current West End plan is more than 15 years old and doesn’t mention the Village’s gay community at all.
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THE GLUE THAT BINDS
My crank won’t turn
story by Phillip Banks /
Is sex the glue that binds us as a community? Is it the foundation that everything else is built upon? What if you remove that foundation, does everything else come tumbling down?
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LOOSE END
My name is Sam
story by Ivan E Coyete /
I was smoking a cigarette with the performance poet outside of the theatre. She smokes like a movie star, making sweeping semicircles with her forearms and revealing glamorous cheekbones every inhale. When she exhales, a perfectly lipsticked stream of silver escapes her mouth between bits of story.
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CAMPUS CHRONICLES
His cello’s magic
story by Michael Harris /
At the green onset of his third year on campus, Will heard a cello through the stained glass window of the music building, and stopped to listen. Students clattered off to early morning classes, gossiping noisily and making eyes. The world, tired, wrenching, was beginning again. Again without him joining in, or seeming to care at all.
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FRINGE FEST
Reversing the spotlight
story by Michael Harris /
Over a crackly line from Montreal, gay choreographer Massimo Agostinelli explains the vital difference between clowning and bouffon: “The audience laughs at the clown. But the bouffon does gags where he’s actually laughing at the audience. They come onto stage and confront society.”
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OUT ON SCREEN WRAP-UP
Three weddings, a protest and Randy White
story by CE Gatchalian /
Who would have thought that Conservative MP Randy White would have given the campaign for equal marriage such a boost?
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