It’s been seven years since I moved away from my hometown. On the day I completed high school I traded the quaint security of island life for the allure of a gay life in the big city. After a stint in...

I’m having tea with Terry Haines, who shares a cozy East Vancouver bungalow with his partner Aaron. “Do you have a cat?” I ask him, intuitively assuming that one would leap up onto my lap from beneath...

In a cryptic culture of addiction, fear and oppression, few wonder how they got there. A few more wonder how to escape. But most die quietly, wreathed in a mind-controlling, memory-erasing blue mist i...

Art has come to life in an ironic twist of events for a lesbian artist in East Vancouver. While creating an exhibition of drawings about gentrification, Elaine Mari received news that her apartment an...

Darren Lemming’s teammates are in shock. The star player of the New York Empires has just turned the world of baseball on its ear with the sudden revelation that he’s gay. His announcement, delivered ...

“Don’t worry about putting your feet up on the coffee table,” says award-winning writer, composer and musical director Dorothy Dittrich. “It’s a sturdy piece. It used to be a desk but the previous own...

Sporting spiky blonde highlights and a bright World Cup track jacket, Mitchell Mack exudes the image of an energetic young Vancouverite, adapting to changing times while staying true to his spirituall...

“It’s not really background music,” says Ryan Slemko referring to his quartet’s new album, Vintage Red. “It’s something that has to be listened to.” Slemko is the vocalist for Fidgital, a local, indep...

“Sarah was a phenomenal athlete,” says Caryl Dolinko of her late friend Sarah Butterworth. “She touched an incredible amount of people, from her field hockey to soccer. She strived for excellence. She...