April 12, 1975: Today in LGBTQ+ history…
In April 1975, when Montreal’s Gay Village was still downtown, the Aquarius bathhouse on Crescent Street was firebombed. The perpetrators were never found or arrested.
Three customers died that night, and two of them—found by the second-floor fire exit—were buried in Paupers’ Field in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery in anonymous graves, because their bodies were never identified or claimed by their families.
George Santos is out of federal prison after fraud convictions. His release reignites talk on his fabricated résumé and the clash between his gay identity and politics.
After two years of speculation, the Emmy nominated film has finally been greenlit, though details are still sparse
The Pink Marine, the queer Marine memoir behind Netflix’s Boots, follows a closeted recruit finding belonging; what the show changes, who stars, and where to read.
September/October 2025
Inside this issue: An intimate conversation with Sarah McLachlan on the legacy of Lilith, allyship, and what comes next; In celebration of disco’s 55th year we sat down with seven legendary divas who survived, shone, and soundtracked our liberation; Finnish goalkeeper Sofia Manner finds safe haven in Canada; Inside the groundbreaking work of the Community-Based Research Centre; The legacy of Noah’s Arc; Pinning over hot (and, sadly, dead) Victorian men; Ziyad Saadi’s debut novel is definitely not an instruction manual for coming out; A look at queer-owned Little Ghosts Book, Canada’s first horror bookstore; and more.
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