Xtra - Issue 407, Jun 01, 2000

Views
Sexless ecstasy

story by Cory Boyd / It’s Saturday night during the final days of Industry. Superstar DJ David Morales is on his way, so it’s packed.
Editorial
Cops’ secret sports deal?

story by David Walberg, Editor-in-chief / There’s no easy way to write this — police are willfully ignoring rampant lawbreaking by a specific community.
Media
Het reporter helped build pride in Simcoe

story by Elaine Smith / I have often called Haldimand-Norfolk “the land time forgot.”
News
Coppers win

story by Eleanor Brown / There will be no more naked parties at The Barn following police threats.
News
Balancing the books for Pride

story by Ab Velasco / Homos won’t be paying for the surly cops at this year’s Pride parade.
News
Collecting the info

story by Bonnie Van Toen / Tax forms and the census will soon collect information about same-sex spouses.
News
Couples can't get bank loans

story by Elisa Kukla / Enter most banks and you are likely to see shiny posters of smiling het couples buying a home, conventional nuclear families sending their daughter off to college or young newly-weds speeding off with a car loan.
Views
Wake-up call, girl!

story by Zoe Whittall / After Christina Strang and Monica Forrester presented their latest project at last week’s Women And HIV/AIDS Conference, they found themselves surrounded by people from AIDS service organizations, eager to find out how to improve their hiring practices.
Books
‘Never enough’

story by David Roche / Novelist Edmund White is arguably more famous for his non-fiction: a prize-winning biography of Genet which even the French liked, the popular essays on travelling in America States Of Desire, and text for the always-in-print The Joy Of Gay Sex from 1977.
Music
Pop goes the country

story by Kamal Al-Solaylee / In 1983 a young gay musician called David Ramsden moved to Toronto from small town Ontario to seek fame and fortune.
TV
Audiences are smart

story by Brent Ledger / For a guy who wrote one of the most intense gay dramas of the past decade, Russell T Davies is one sunny individual.