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

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.

“On Thursday, The Weekly Standard, a conservative news and opinion magazine, sent subscribers an email with the subject “Congress to mandate pro-homosexual education?” If the word “homosexual” doesn’t send off a red flag of right-wing homophobia, then every other word in the email will. Salon’s Justin Elliott, who first reported on the story, described it as…Read More

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

“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

When Johnny “Pops” Papalia, Godfather of the Hamilton Mafia, was shot on May 31, 1997, he left behind a power vacuum in organized crime in Ontario that would eventually become a revolution. As the head of the Hamilton Mafia, Johnny Pops had just one rule: his people could not deal with bikers. After his death…Read More

Parabolist: noun (1) one who speaks in parables. (2) a member of a splinter group of disaffected young poets in Mexico City c. 1975. (3) a practitioner of the art of concentrating multiple sources of energy into a single focus, illuminating or, if left unchecked, destroying everything in its path.