gay stuff

“There just hasn’t been the same volume of material created for queer women as there has been for men.”

An imaginary map of Gayside, Newfoundland, from the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. The name of the town was changed to “Baytona” in 1985.

Glad Day Bookshop, Canada’s oldest gay bookstore, now makes just eight sales a day. Owner John Scythes wants to make one more: he recently announced that the store is for sale.

With better production values, a more fluid plot, and several more believable characters, the American adaptation of “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” should be a definite improvement on the Swedish one. But it isn’t. With everything else aside, the main difference between the two is this: in the Swedish film, Lisbeth Salander is angry,…Read More

The Lavender Scare is the first feature-length documentary to discuss the U.S. government’s policies against gay and lesbian civil servants during the Cold War.

“Sexual orientation and “gender conformity” in women are genetic traits, according to a study released by researchers from Queen Mary, University of London. Researchers Dr. Andrea Burri and Dr. Qazi Rahman based their study on the idea that there are consistent differences in the psychological characteristics of female children and male children, and on prior research…Read More

“Social conservatives long to raise their children in a country where they don’t have to hear about homosexuality every time they turn on the news. [...] And guess what? In countries like Canada — where the fight over gay rights is essentially over, where there is gay marriage, open military service and employment protections —…Read More