The national 2SLGBTQI+ monument in Ottawa — inspired by a dramatic thundercloud — has broken ground and is set to open in 2025… Construction is now underway for a national monument in downtown Ottawa recognizing the discrimination faced by 2SLGBTQI+ people across the country. Called Thunderhead, this monument was first announced back in spring 2022 and is being built to recognize historic discrimination faced by generations of 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada, including the colonial roots of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia and the cruelty of the Canadian government during the LGBT Pur ..read more

The author sits down with IN to talk about her just released queer novella, a brilliant page-turner… Ukrainian born; Toronto author A.D. Sui has just released her debut novella The Dragonfly Gambit to rave reviews. The queer, disable science fiction writer brings the experience of navigating the world with a disability to life through her characters in the brilliant page-turner. The phrase “burn it all down” is a recurring one in popular literature, but it is one that Sui is able to approach with a fresh perspective. In The Dragonfly Gambit, a military pilot plans her revenge ag ..read more

If you’re getting ready for Eurovision 2024 on May 11, make sure your playlist has these LGBTQ+ artists from the past decade on it… By Stephan Petar At Eurovision 2024, eight LGBTQ+ artists will be competing for the glass microphone trophy and the chance to bring the world’s largest music event to their home country. LGBTQ+ singers have been at Eurovision since its early days, though not openly out. In fact, Iceland’s Paul Oscar was the first openly gay competitor at the contest when he competed in 1997. In the past decade, four LGBTQ+ artists have won the glass microphone trophy including rei ..read more

The Canada’s Drag Race alum and most recent All Stars winner talks to IN about her current tour, which characters she’s most excited to play on stage, and what city she’s most excited to perform in when she brings her tour across Canada… By Bianca Guzzo We first met Jimbo when she brought her larger-than-life drag to the very first season of Canada’s Drag Race in 2020. She came in fourth place but proved to be a fan favourite. She made a guest appearance in the show’s second and third seasons before competing on RuPaul’s Drag Race: UK vs. the World ..read more

Perfume notes that bridge the gender divide…  By Adriana Ermter Imagine a world where scent doesn’t exist…where one lets other people, and their body odour, live and let live. Kind of puts a whole new perspective on public transit, waiting in line at the grocery store and steamy humid nights at the local pub, doesn’t it? Thankfully, our bathrooms are a hygiene haven, loaded with soap, deodorant and, perhaps most importantly, a smattering of our favourite fragrances. Yet, how many of these little bottles containing scented elixirs bear the descriptor ‘men’ or ‘women’? More importantly, how ..read more

The final three lip sync for their lives one last time and a new queen ascends to the throne… Well, we’ve finally made it to the end. This season has been one of the most exciting seasons to watch, and we met so many new queens that will be dazzling stages and our phone screens for years. Our top three have made it through sewing challenges, acting challenges, Snatch Game, the makeover challenge, and crash courses in marketing to make it here. At the end of this week’s episode Plane Jane, Nymhpia Wind, or Sapphira Cristal will be named America’s Next Drag Superstar. We’ll also get to see all o ..read more

After six years, the award-winning comedian is back on the road for her My Life On The PTSD-List tour, which includes stops across Canada… By Christopher Turner It’s safe to say that Kathy Griffin has had a pretty rough few years. In 2017, she famously became public enemy #1 when she posed with a plastic Donald Trump mask with ketchup on it, something that led to the US government investigating her as a terrorist for conspiracy to assassinate the president, which left her on the no-fly list and unable to work. CNN very publicly fired her from her regular New Year’s Eve gig with Ander ..read more

Written by Matthew Lopez, the messy play about an absence and how to fill it, has completely captured the imagination of gay audiences… By Paul Gallant It doesn’t sound like something with great commercial prospects: a bum-numbing two-part play about gay men, their romantic and sexual relationships, their place in American society (mostly New York society), the AIDS crisis, the anguish of ancestral lineage and what villainy looks like. Yet soon after Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes premiered in San Francisco in 1991, it became an eight-hour ph ..read more

Reunited, and it feels so good. All of the eliminated queens return to the main stage to lip sync for their chance to win a cash prize of $50,000… Last week we said goodbye to Q after a writing and marketing challenge that saw the top four authoring their very own memoirs and promoting it on a podcast. Q’s elimination ahead of the finale means that this season there would be a top three heading to the last episode. Our final three queens for season 16 are officially Sapphira Cristál, Plane Jane, and Nymphia Wind, but this week they’ll get to take a well-deserved break ahead of the finale. This ..read more

Take your love of travel and combine it with a wellness goal – these five types of personal improvement getaways will have you coming home a better you… By Karen Kwan One of the biggest trends in travel is the shift towards bettering your personal well-being, both mental and physical, while on your vacation. Travel experts trace the popularity of this type of travel to the pandemic; our health became a first concern in the past few years and we continue to make self-care habits and longevity a non-negotiable. This is in contrast to pre-pandemic times, when caring for your health often got ..read more