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posted Saturday, February 5, 2022
Chicago makes for a perfect winter weekend visit. I always stay in the Lakeview East neighborhood just south of the gayborhood formerly known as Boystown (newly re-christened as “Northalsted” to promote inclusion). You will find most of the bars and gay businesses on Halsted Street itself although like with many cities, gentrification has taken its […]
posted Tuesday, February 1, 2022
We’re in the depths of winter with those days that we reach zero making it feel like spring. So, we bundle up and endure to get some fresh air during the day. However, as night descends we slid into our comfy clothes and relax with a new book, or watch one of the many new […]
posted Monday, January 31, 2022
For those looking to give their liver a break or just prefer a non-alcoholic cocktail, try one of these new alcohol-free alternatives. I’ve tried them, and they are very similar in taste and texture to the real thing, yet without the hangover! Try them on their own, with your favourite mix, or go wild with […]
posted Sunday, January 30, 2022
Alphabet of Hope is an anthology of stories written by members of the LGBTQ+ community from around the world. Hope is a precious commodity for teenagers trying to understand their identity, and these authors share their own accounts of trying to understand who they are, and how the world is going to treat them once […]
posted Saturday, January 29, 2022
Hi Pigeon. As the trucker convoy rolls across Canada, whether it be one hundred or fifty thousand trucks as no one seems to truly know, it raises the question if people really understand our political structure in Canada. First off, the concern for me, is that MPs and their staff are receiving death threats from […]
posted Friday, January 28, 2022
Toronto production company Hawkeye Pictures and Ottawa’s Big Jump Entertainment are developing Brian Francis’s novel Fruit as an animated series. The novel was the runner-up for CBC’s Canada Reads in 2009. Set in 1984, Fruit follows the awkward misadventures of fat-and-fabulous 13-year-old Peter Paddington as he navigates life as a total outsider. Bullied everywhere, Peter […]
posted Tuesday, January 25, 2022
STILL MORE STUBBORN STARS follows the story of Roger, a hapless but enthusiastic Come-from-Away who, arriving in Prince Edward Island with his family as a child, struggles to figure out the ‘Island’ way of life.Roger eventually rises to power, founding the sprawling Acadian Culture Centre in rural western PEI. Here he becomes an impresario of Acadian kitsch and a catalyst of […]
posted Saturday, January 22, 2022
There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. After his best selling, Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002, he’s back with a follow up, A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020). If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly […]
posted Friday, January 21, 2022
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the feeling took root—that desire to look, to move closer, to touch. Whenever it started growing, it definitely bloomed the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. Suddenly everything seemed possible.But America in 1954 is not a […]
posted Monday, January 17, 2022
It’s not easy “choosing not to choose,” especially for a nonbinary teen in 2007. Corey was born intersex, but their father and stepmother didn’t make a big deal about it. Then Corey’s dad dies suddenly. Now Corey’s disapproving mother wants Corey to “pick a side”. Corey’s old enough to say no to medical intervention—but not […]
