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Jane Schoenbrun’s “Public Access Afterworld” expands on the surreal dissociation that defines the auteur’s cinematic universe. xtramagazine.com/culture/book...

How a coven of magical teen misfits sparked my ’90s coming out story. xtramagazine.com/culture/the-...

Philanthropist and tastemaker Salah Bachir was concerned about his legacy. After his passing, his community is continuing what he started. xtramagazine.com/culture/sala...

Scientifically explaining the most transgender monster of all time. xtramagazine.com/culture/tv-f...

Being trans in the U.K. means constantly being aware of the chance encounters that could, temporarily or permanently, ruin your life. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

The "Saw" series was the centrepiece of a homoerotic middle-school friendship in my life. As I got older, I turned to it for much-needed release. xtramagazine.com/culture/saw-...

Jack Smith’s 1963 film “Flaming Creatures” was deemed legally obscene by the U.S. Supreme Court. xtramagazine.com/video/flamin...

Kansans are organizing to support the trans community. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

It’s a fool’s errand to draw any kinds of conclusions about queer people from government data collected under the Trump administration. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Claude Cahun’s gender-bending self portraits were ahead of their time—and nearly erased from art history. xtramagazine.com/video/claude...

My family showed love through action, but my friends helped me learn to say it out loud. xtramagazine.com/love-sex/lea...

Marlon James's new novel, “The Disappearers,” has gained buzz beyond belief. It's worthy of the hype. xtramagazine.com/culture/marl...

Former tennis player Renee Richards broke barriers for trans athletes in 1977. Then she changed her tune. xtramagazine.com/video/renee-...

If I’ve learned anything from my past attempts at dating—when my asexuality was still neatly tucked away in the closet—it’s that relationship scripts centred around sexual attraction do not work for me. xtramagazine.com/love-sex/ase...

“The Rocky Horror experience taught me to be ashamed of nothing, to indulge my curiosities and to say ‘fuck you’ to any forces that try to tame me.” xtramagazine.com/culture/rock...

Troye Sivan is often lustful on "She’s the Best," but the album’s most impactful moments come from his meditations on isolation rather than his expressions of more carnal desires. xtramagazine.com/culture/troy...

Samantha Josephs tells Xtra about how erotica informed her fiction, the allure of alternative medicine and the upcoming movie adaptation of Carrying. xtramagazine.com/culture/sama...

A decline in queer teenagers telling the U.S. government about their sexualities wouldn’t exactly come as a surprise, writes @jamesfactora.bsky.social. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

“If I’m going to stay here, I’m going to fight.”

Here are some of our favourite queer horror films to enjoy this season. xtramagazine.com/video/queer-...

In 1970, Sir Ian McKellen and James Laurenson made history with a kiss in a filmed production of “Edward II.” xtramagazine.com/video/first-...

A group of Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later. xtramagazine.com/video/canada...

In the wake of a bill that restricts access to bathrooms and invalidates state IDs, Kansans are organizing to support their trans friends.

The superstar author’s new novel, “The Disappearers,” has gained buzz beyond belief. He’s earned it xtramagazine.com/culture/marl...

The iconic philanthropist and tastemaker was concerned about his legacy. After his passing, his community is continuing what he started xtramagazine.com/culture/sala...

From social media platforms to payment processors, new restrictions are making it harder for webcomic artists to exist. xtramagazine.com/culture/onli...

Key figures from censorship fights in the 20th century reflect on what we can learn from them today. xtramagazine.com/culture/quee...

As I returned to “Rocky Horror” every Halloween through most of my adolescence, I began to wonder what exactly it was about this strange movie that spoke to people—especially queer people—across generations. xtramagazine.com/culture/rock...

“Comics Against Censorship” brings original visual takes on experiences of censorship of LGBTQ2S+ lives and stories. xtramagazine.com/culture/comi...

“Pride Puppy” was written to highlight the joy of Pride. It became a political flashpoint. xtramagazine.com/culture/prid...

The Alberta government mandated that school libraries remove titles with “inappropriate” content. xtramagazine.com/video/edmont...

I feared I was destined to perpetually be rejected and hurt by the people I trusted most—until I met my friends. xtramagazine.com/love-sex/rej...

From 1916 to 1940, “Urania” imagined a world beyond gender—and documented feminist movements around the globe. xtramagazine.com/video/urania...

“The Slumber Party Massacre” is a testament to how queer brilliance and proper fun don’t have to be mutually exclusive. xtramagazine.com/culture/slum...

Trans Albertans reflect on what makes their home province special, even in the wake of Premier Danielle Smith’s legislative attacks and book restrictions. xtramagazine.com/culture/tran...

By chronicling Troye Sivan’s fruitless search for a long-term partner and subsequent loneliness, “She’s the Best” achieves what great pop music is supposed to: it reflects culture back to us. xtramagazine.com/culture/troy...

Samantha Josephs, author of “Carrying,” talks writing erotica, trans pregnancy—and her novel’s upcoming movie adaptation. xtramagazine.com/culture/sama...

"As an affirming librarian, my work is not indoctrination. It is celebration." xtramagazine.com/culture/scho...

Radclyffe Hall’s “The Well of Loneliness” was the target of obscenity laws in 1928. xtramagazine.com/video/the-we...

Gladys Bentley was a beloved and successful gender outlaw, but the world would ultimately fail her. xtramagazine.com/video/gladys...

One question looped its way through my mind ad nauseam: How come every time I pursue people, I end up getting hurt? xtramagazine.com/love-sex/rej...

"Before this album came out, most of the people in my life accepted that Swift was the great songwriter of our time; even if they didn’t like her music or her persona, it felt undeniable that she was one of the most important artists of our generation." xtramagazine.com/culture/tayl...

Photos of beloved organizer Alison Laing show how trans visibility has persisted for decades. xtramagazine.com/video/trans-...

“Salah Bachir lived in the space between worlds. Between being a left-leaning philanthropist and a corporate entrepreneur, a Canadian icon and a Lebanese son, down-to-earth and starstruck, the centre of the party and the first to leave.” xtramagazine.com/culture/sala...

If we can’t even accept friction in our private aesthetic experiences, what does it say about the limits of our empathy and the failures of our body politic? xtramagazine.com/culture/marl...

"I believe the fact that my book is a comic is absolutely one of the reasons it has been so heavily challenged." xtramagazine.com/culture/maia...

Despite his feelings of isolation, Troye Sivan remains a hopeful romantic who believes the love he’s after is real and out there waiting for him. xtramagazine.com/culture/troy...

Getting the Canadian government’s attention means being strategic in our demands. xtramagazine.com/power/activi...