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VENUS RISING
Happy happy joy joy
story by Michael Venus /
Scott Bolton is a bright and bold talent that is shakin’ things up in a big and very gay way. He has put all his efforts into making Vancouver a cooler place and is helping to make mainstream music a little gayer! Listen as this cutie-pie gives the goods about his upcoming album, release party and felching!
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NAKED EYE
Go our own way
story by Gareth Kirkby, Managing Editor /
They call it the culture wars. And our friends’ side is losing. The other side: The United States, a republic that considers itself the greatest nation in history; a country whose citizens believe their own hype about being the land of the free, the envy of the world, the refuge for downtrodden masses from elsewhere. Where many seem convinced everyone everywhere wants to be a US citizen.
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QUEER YOUTH
New Youthquest board holding firm
story by Robin Perelle /
One month after a coup rocked BC’s largest youth-support organization, Youthquest is still reeling from the aftershocks—not to mention the on-going conflicts still simmering just beneath the surface.
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GAYBASHING
Gay man charged, bashers not
story by Robin Perelle /
A gay man charged for throwing a fire extinguisher into a limousine to keep his alleged bashers on the scene won’t have to go to trial after all.
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GAY RIGHTS
State returns to nation’s bedrooms
story by Robin Perelle /
The Martin minority government’s first foray into the legislative process has artists and civil libertarians across the country raising red flags of alarm.
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GOLIATH'S RAID
Bathhouse patron furious
story by Robin Perelle /
The Alberta Crown has stayed its last found-in charge from the Goliath’s raid, saying it’s no longer in the public interest to pursue the case. (The case against owners and managers of the bathhouse is a different matter, though; its charges are still going strong.)
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QUEER GEOGRAPHY
Reviving Nelson Park
story by Jeremy Hainsworth /
Today, it’s an almost barren plot of land whose two main features are a meandering path used primarily as a shortcut and the Lord Roberts Annex K-3 elementary school. The site is punctuated with the occasional tree and bench—a magnet for drug dealers and vendors of possibly stolen goods and the crime that comes in their wake. Frequent piles of doggie do cover the ground in the off-leash site.
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REMEMBERANCE DAY
Our battles, our own battlefield
story by Michael Harris /
“I mix with the homos,” said a US draft-dodger to Vancouver Sun reporter Bernard Wolfe in 1967. The young man explained, “When I’m called down to the induction centre, when they give me the forms to fill out, I’m going to look for the box marked ‘homosexual’ and I’m going to put a big fat check in that box.”
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QUEER HERO
Standing alone
story by Diane Claveau /
Tami Starlight says “divine intervention by my creator” is the reason she survived life on the streets at Main and Hastings to become an activist on the national front. But frustration with the lack of activism in the local trans community has led her to re-focus her networking on activists across the country.
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NEWS
In brief
story by Xtra West staff /
WEBSTER TRAIL NOV 15 The two men facing manslaughter charges in the 2001 beating death of Aaron Webster will be tried together before a judge alone.
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SLAP & TICKLE
Hell-bent in leather
story by Elaine Miller /
One thing about me, and my leather-community brothers and sisters: we’re all at least a little kinky. Some of us are really damn kinky. The main point is that we’re enjoying our kinkiness, and have the freedom to act as we wish with that kinkiness, because our play is between consenting adults.
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MEDIA GAZE
Media silent on Polak’s past
story by Ian Reid /
Looking out from my “we can get legally married” bubble last week, I noticed that there’s still a war going on, down there on the other side of the border. And that war is still about us: men and women who aren’t particularly interested in messing around with the opposite sex.
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SIREN
Tools of the revolution
story by Morgan Brayton /
In the words of the buxom Jessica Rabbit, “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” As a big-racked girl myself, I know how she feels. See, the good lord, in her infinite wisdom, blessed me with 36 double Ds—in Grade 6.
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WOMEN IN JAZZ
His legacy lives on
story by Cecilia Greyson /
A long night of driving on the East Coast after a busy tour might intimidate some musicians, but Jessica Lurie of The Tiptons saxophone quartet, takes it in stride. “It wasn’t too bad,” she laughs, on the phone from her home in Brooklyn. “It hasn’t set into black ice conditions just yet.”
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