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FILM
Impossible love
story by Rachel Giese /
So just how exactly did a straight, Chilean guy end up writing and directing a Native lesbian love story set in a women’s prison?
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EDITORIAL
Perhaps you’re a terrorist
story by Brenda Cossman, Pink Triangle Press Board Member /
So what does the anti-terrorism legislation have to do with the gay and lesbian community? On first glance, maybe nothing. We aren’t the folks waging a holy war against all things American.
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SAME-SEX FEAR
’Phobes have their say
story by John Sinopoli /
Yep, the rightwingers were in top form all through the five days in the Divisional Court of the Ontario Superior Court Of Justice, as they did their best to thwart the 10 couples fighting for the right to marry.
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YOUTH & PROSTITUTION
Sex trade bill forgets queers
story by John Sinopoli /
A bill that allows suspected underage sex trade workers to be arrested without a warrant might be trouble for queer street kids.
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BILL 86
Rescuing kids
story by Dianne L Martin /
Last December, Jim Flaherty, Ontario’s attorney-general of the day, introduced a bill asserting “that prostitution involving children and youth [should] be defined as commercialized child sexual abuse” and “that children and youth involved in prostitution [should] be treated as victims of sexual abuse.”
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MACHO MAN
The world of gay truckers
story by Harry Rudolfs /
Truckers don’t talk too much about gay stuff — but that doesn’t stop Tim Anderson. He’s unabashed about his sexuality and his love of trucks and rodeos, and he declares it on his website, too.
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REFUGEE STATUS
Granados returns
story by Mark Brodsky /
William Granados is back in Canada, and this time he’s here for good. He arrived in Toronto the end of October, this time with a minister’s permit, which allows him to stay in the country indefinitely.
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ADVENTURE
The naked & the discreet
story by Andrew Kelm /
As I walked up the path to breakfast, I passed a naked man with a cell phone talking with all the enthusiasm of someone who has just seen God.
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NESTING INSTINCT
Home Depot changed my life
story by Greg Kearney /
Creative homemaking can be a sweet, self-effacing attempt at permanence, much like being frozen cryogenetically or having a miracle baby at age 96.
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VISUAL ARTS
Manpower
story by Sophie Hackett /
No matter who are, you’ve probably had at least one job you hated, the kind of job you dreaded waking up for and couldn’t wait to end.
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THEATRE REVIEW
Brothers’ keeper
story by Gordon Bowness /
Michel Marc Bouchard’s Down Dangerous Passes Road is a psychological thriller about the strengths and failings of words, how they hide as much as they reveal.
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PUNK REVIEW
Electrified strap on
story by Barnes /
“For the ladies and the fags yeah/ we’re the band with the roller skate jams!” sing Le Tigre on the opening cut of their second full length CD, Feminist Sweepstakes.
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ALLIANCE PARTY
The new Mr Right
story by Tanya Gulliver /
Stephen Harper — destructive force or all round great guy? The newly elected leader of the Alliance Party garners varied reactions from fellow politicians.
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