Xtra caught up with Ryan Kesler and Henrik Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks to talk about homophobia in sports and the "You Can Play" Campaign

London, England played host to WorldPride 2012. Despite some bumps in the road that led to a scaled-back event, the party was fabulous. Here is a look at the highlights.

The latest Heritage Minute is also the first LGBT one. It recounts the story of gay activist Jim Egan and his battle for equality. Xtra is a Canadian channel for LGBT culture and news. For more lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender news: https://www.dailyxtra.com/

Politicians in 20 states have attempted to advance over 50 pieces of legislation attacking transgender people. These policies are a real danger to transgender people and hurt the most vulnerable, including America’s transgender children.

The 1993 AIDS musical Zero Patience, however, breaks the mold completely, in the best possible way. If you don’t often feel seen by the movies you watch (at least, not in a good way) but from the moment I pressed play on John Greyson’s offbeat masterpiece I described it as “one of the most Henry mov

On the opening night of Lady Gaga’s ‘Joanne World Tour’ in Vancouver, she picked up a rainbow flag that someone had thrown near her stage and held it aloft. Said Gaga, as she draped it on her piano bench: “Needless to say, I have a lot to say about this issue. But the most important thing that I hav

In this anthology, sixty-four award-winning authors and illustrators such as Michael Cunningham, Amy Bloom, Jacqueline Woodson, Terrence McNally, Gregory Maguire, Daivd Levithan, and Armistead Maupin, make imaginative journeys into their pasts, telling their younger selves what they would have liked...

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, announced its endorsement of Joe Biden for President. HRC’s Board of Directors, comprised of 26 community leaders from across the nation, unanimously and enthusiasti

On Friday, February 14, actress Ellen Page speaks about the brave decision to live openly and authentically as a lesbian during the Human Rights Campaign Fund Conference: Time to Thrive.

The FDNY has released its first ever “It Gets Better” video, in support of the It Gets Better Project. The Project's mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth around the world that life gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to