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WORLD AIDS DAY
Behind the tutu
story by Michael Harris /
If the walls of stone Orchard could only talk.
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NAKED EYE
Talking the language
story by Gareth Kirkby, Managing Editor /
Did you know you’re considered high risk by health authorities?
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SPECIAL REPORT
Anxiety mounts in Webster trial
story by Robin Perelle /
Six days into the biggest gaybashing trial in recent Vancouver history, the Crown’s case against its two accused killers may be withering under the defence’s onslaught.
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DAVID VILLAGE
Close, but no cigar
story by Gareth Kirkby /
Vancouver city council rebuffed a staff recommendation Nov 18 that critics say would have closed the Odyssey and sent other Davie Village gay bars back to the dark ages.
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VANCOUVER PRIDE SOCIETY
Pride Parade route may change
story by Gareth Kirkby /
Pride 2005 could see a new route in place for the Pride Parade, the celebration’s main attraction, participants at a community meeting heard Nov 20.
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QUEER HERO
Workplace politics
story by Diane Claveau /
Steve Houston’s union activism exploded in high school when the then-16-year-old, class president inspired a wildcat strike and shut the place down for the right to wear blue jeans.
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NEWS
In brief
story by Xtra West staff /
The Surrey School Board is back in the news again, as two lesbian moms seek $5,000 in damages to their dignity, and a new board policy, following a June 2004 public meeting that they say got out of hand and exposed them to “homophobic, hate-filled rhetoric.”
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QUEER SPACE
Lament for an icon
story by Billeh Nickerson /
There are three absolutes in the lives of Vancouver queers: death, taxes and the knowledge that the closure of yet another gay space is just around the corner.
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THE GLUE THAT BINDS
A man of faith
story by Phillip Banks /
I am not a religious man. Not in any traditional sense anyway. But I’ve always been attracted to religious communities for reasons I’m only now beginning to understand with any clarity.
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LOOSE END
Good fences
story by Ivan E Coyote /
I’m going to go against my better judgement and tell a little story about my neighbours. When I first moved to Vancouver from the Yukon some 17 years ago, I was really just a small-town kid, who grew up in a house on Hemlock St that my dad was pouring the foundations on when my mom went in labour with me.
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CAMPUS CHRONICLES
Crying all morning
story by Michael Harris /
The call from Will’s mother interrupted (as per tradition) a particularly effective blowjob.
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(RE)DEFINING OURSELVES
What is kweer?
story by Zoë Bake-Paterson /
Drew Thompson thinks it’s time to redefine queer, and he is not alone. Thompson is one of three Emily Carr students curating Kweer, an upcoming art show that aims to question what “queer” really is.
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WHAT'S REMEMBERED
The forgotten generation
story by CE Gatchalian /
In the literary world there’s this well-known theory: that although young prodigies are not uncommon in the fields of poetry and short fiction, it takes a person of a certain age to write a good novel.
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