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Dance
On watch

story by Kamal Al-Solaylee / Like the Inside Out film fest and Pride Day, it seems there’s no stopping Dancers For Life from getting bigger and better.
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 Editorial
Fuzzy wuzzy cop faxes

story by Eleanor Brown, Managing Editor / Police and the media have an interesting game going.
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Feature
Taming the monster cop

story by Paul Gallant / The Toronto Police Service is such a ornery monster, does it really matter who’s running it?
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News
Businesses call the shots

story by Tom Yeung / Business owners in Vancouver’s gay neighbourhood want to push panhandlers right out.
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Analysis
Separate, but equal

story by Brenda Cossman / With every victory comes a new battle. At least, that’s what it seems like. Lesbian and gay spouses are now separate — but equal.
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Mixed Medium
Queen of Queen’s Park

story by Gigi Suhanic / When a baby is born, people embrace that child, not for what she is, but for what she will become. A similar blush of promise has cast itself over MPP George Smitherman.
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News
Expanding the dating pool

story by Abbe Edelson / An international dating service for gay and lesbian Jews based in Toronto has been shut down amid some nasty allegations.
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Priscilla's Northern Tour
No apology for ‘fag boy’ ad

story by Julia Garro / Queers in Sioux Lookout have been keeping a low profile.
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 Media Massage
Kids can read about women’s panties

story by Krishna Rau / The Hamilton Spectator is helping parents protect their children from nasty things like — reality.
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 Parenting
My daughter hides her face

story by Christina Starr / Paedophilia is conventionally understood as the sexual molestation of children.
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Film
Mr Clean

story by Greg Kearney / Harvey Fierstein is breathless with exertion when he calls.
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On screen
Who are we?

story by Cynthia Amsden / Distilled down to their essentials, this season’s films — many were faves at the recent Toronto International Film Festival — dwell on the same issue: identity.
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Review
How Swede it is

story by Cynthia Amsden / From the land where flinging your naked, deliberately overheated body into a bank of snow is not considered sexual perversion, comes the superb little film, Show Me Love — originally titled Fucking Amal, the name the teenagers call their Swedish hometown.
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 Remote Control
More butts please

story by Brent Ledger / For weeks he taunted me. The courtship was intense, his basket immense.
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Visual art
Space: The final frontier

story by Dara Gellman / Nina Levitt’s extraordinary work first came to public attention in Toronto in 1987 with the photographic series, Conspiracy Of Silence.
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