Xtra - Issue 392, Nov 04, 1999

Dance
On watch

story by Kamal Al-Solaylee / Like the Inside Out film fest and Pride Day, it seems there’s no stopping Dancers For Life from getting bigger and better.
Editorial
Fuzzy wuzzy cop faxes

story by Eleanor Brown, Managing Editor / Police and the media have an interesting game going.
Feature
Taming the monster cop

story by Paul Gallant / The Toronto Police Service is such a ornery monster, does it really matter who’s running it?
News
Businesses call the shots

story by Tom Yeung / Business owners in Vancouver’s gay neighbourhood want to push panhandlers right out.
Analysis
Separate, but equal

story by Brenda Cossman / With every victory comes a new battle. At least, that’s what it seems like. Lesbian and gay spouses are now separate — but equal.
Mixed Medium
Queen of Queen’s Park

story by Gigi Suhanic / When a baby is born, people embrace that child, not for what she is, but for what she will become. A similar blush of promise has cast itself over MPP George Smitherman.
News
Expanding the dating pool

story by Abbe Edelson / An international dating service for gay and lesbian Jews based in Toronto has been shut down amid some nasty allegations.
Priscilla's Northern Tour
No apology for ‘fag boy’ ad

story by Julia Garro / Queers in Sioux Lookout have been keeping a low profile.
Media Massage
Kids can read about women’s panties

story by Krishna Rau / The Hamilton Spectator is helping parents protect their children from nasty things like — reality.
Parenting
My daughter hides her face

story by Christina Starr / Paedophilia is conventionally understood as the sexual molestation of children.
Film
Mr Clean

story by Greg Kearney / Harvey Fierstein is breathless with exertion when he calls.
On screen
Who are we?

story by Cynthia Amsden / Distilled down to their essentials, this season’s films — many were faves at the recent Toronto International Film Festival — dwell on the same issue: identity.
Review
How Swede it is

story by Cynthia Amsden / From the land where flinging your naked, deliberately overheated body into a bank of snow is not considered sexual perversion, comes the superb little film, Show Me Love — originally titled Fucking Amal, the name the teenagers call their Swedish hometown.
Remote Control
More butts please

story by Brent Ledger / For weeks he taunted me. The courtship was intense, his basket immense.
Visual art
Space: The final frontier

story by Dara Gellman / Nina Levitt’s extraordinary work first came to public attention in Toronto in 1987 with the photographic series, Conspiracy Of Silence.