Current Issue

Spring into a new season with us as we start a fresh year of PinkPlayMags—our theme for 2025: Queer Around the World in 365 Days, with a focus for this issue on Africa. Queer life and love is not a Western import. It is indigenous. We hope that within these pages, we can bring seedling offerings of awareness to the ever-growing garden of global queer liberation.

For our first feature by Menaka Skrypnyk, we spotlight Cameroonian-born activist Bandy Kiki, a fearless voice for LGBTQ+ rights. In our second feature, Mapping Queerness Across African Borders, Rolyn Chambers explores queer African life and how borders—both physical and ideological—shape, challenge, and strengthen the community. Our third feature travels back over 4,000 years to spotlight Nyankh-Khnum and Khnum-hotep, ancient Egyptian officials whose shared tomb and intimate depictions have sparked powerful conversations.

Looking for Africa trip-spiration? In our Travel section by Bryen Dunn, he details how South Africa is more than worthy of consideration. Burlesque diva and sex worker rights activist, Sasha Van Bon Bon, is Sean Bean Beaton’s Hot Artist for the spring. Learn more about the charitable mental health organization OUTLoud North Bay in Community Cornerstone by Sherry Sylvain. To honour and celebrate an African author, we decided to go with this Fiction book recommendation: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta.

Will the planets orbit in your favour this season? Check out our Spring Horoscopes inside! Take a peek at our Spring Events in the City event listings by our Events Editor, Sherry Sylvain, to check out if fun if what you’re after. From the Heart by our Art Director Mychol Scully brings us a call to action for LGBTQ+ rights in Africa. And finally, our Home & Garden Supplement can be found online, and it’s chock-full of useful tidbits!

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