Capital Xtra - Issue 125, Jan 15, 2004

COVER STORY
My sweet Valentine

story by Rob Thomas / For Sue McGarvie, Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to move love, romance and sex back to the top of every couple’s list.
PROUD LIVES
Wayne Cave 1960 - 2003

story by Leon Mar / Businessman, musician, partner and friend — Wayne Cave wore all of these hats during a life that ended on Mon, Jan 5, after a short battle with cancer.
SPORTS
Lack of interest

story by Rob Thomas / Ottawa athletes hoping to take part in the 2006 Gay Games may be in trouble.
UPDATE
Produce Depot removes anti-gay link from website

story by Rob Thomas / Produce Depot has responded to a grassroots boycott by removing a link to a homophobic American organization from its website.
REPORT CARD
The long road ahead

story by Rob Thomas / It has been a tumultuous year for our communities.
COMMUNITY
Flying the rainbow flag

story by Rob Thomas / Rainbow flags could soon be flying over community health and resource centres across the city.
QUERIES
The allure of the penis

story by Blaine Marchand / I am beginning to get a complex.
SAPPHIC TRAFFIC
Two degrees of separation

story by Suki Lee / Recently, my mother asked after my ex-girlfriend, while my current partner, my brother, my father and I were savouring a meal together.
UNISEXY
The art of the deal

story by Karen Rodgers / A little while ago, a friend asked me to write a column about lesbian etiquette.
SEXUAL HEALTH
Safer sex. Why all the confusion?

story by Dr Paul MacPherson / Safe sex, safer sex, risk reduction, how did something so natural get so complicated?
BOOKS
Between the covers

story by Richard Labonte / Seven years after Stonewall, in a “sunny, sensual, try-anything era,” drug use was one of the joys of gay sex, and the response to being raped was “lay back, relax, try to enjoy.”
PROFILE
John Barton

story by James Moran / Ottawa is losing one of its leading literary lights.
NOVEL THOUGHTS
Quickies 3

story by James Moran / Quickies 3 is the newest of the series on gay male desire, an anthology that demonstrates that not all authors can craft good stories in 1,000 words, the parameter for short-short fiction.