Capital Xtra - Issue 126, Feb 12, 2004

GAY GAMES
Athletes face tough choice

story by Leon Mar / Queer athletes around the world are going to have to make a hard choice in 2006.
SPORTS
Time Out wants to pass the torch

story by Rob Thomas / Pink Triangle Services may be getting into the sports business.
CITY BUDGET
Community services are threatened

story by Julie Weisberg / Ottawa queers could be hit hard by the city’s current budget-slashing exercise.
PARTNER ASSAULT
The double stigma of sexual diversity and assault

story by Sylvia Pollard / An Ottawa organization is taking steps to try to reduce the increase in domestic violence in the lesbian community.
PARTNER ABUSE
New program takes aim at domestic violence

story by Rob Thomas / A new program is being established to help gay men who abuse their partners.
HEALTH
Crystal meth widows

story by Calvin Fleming / When I read The New York Times article, “The Beast in the Bathhouse,” by Andrew Jacobs, I couldn’t help but remember waiting for Martin outside of the Midtowne Spa in the middle of the night.
QUERIES
Can human rights become truly universal and inclusive?

story by Blaine Marchand / The winds rattled the windowpanes as I settled down to watch the late news.
SAPPHIC TRAFFIC
Lesbians skating on the Rideau Canal

story by Suki Lee / It was a sunny Sunday in February.
SEXUAL HEALTH
HIV and the era of cocktail treatments

story by Dr Paul MacPherson / HIV entered a new era in 1996.
MODERN DANCE
Thriving on open-mindedness

story by James Moran / Compagnie kafig, a French-based dance company of broad European acclaim, will bring Ottawa a spicy mix of street hip hop and stylized choreography in the North American premiere of Corps est Graphique.
WOMEN'S VOICES
Girls’ night out

story by Rob Thomas / This year, Ottawa will be will be missing one of its most valued musical summer traditions.
James Moran
Salvation and redemption in a writing circle

story by THEATRE / Michel Marc Bouchard owes the inspiration for his latest play to meeting his mother’s writing circle.
NOVEL THOUGHTS
The arrival of Bill Brown

story by James Moran / On a first read, one might think that Bill Brown is simply writing about everyday lives.