''Xtra Magazine'' (formerly ''DailyXtra'' and ''Xtra!'') is an
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-focused digital publication and former print newspaper published by
Pink Triangle Press
Pink Triangle Press is a Canadian organization which specializes in LGBT media including publishing, online interactive media, and television. PTP's main asset is the LGBT news website ''Daily Xtra'', a continuation of the company's former print t ...
in
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
,
Ontario
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,
Canada
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. The publication is a continuation of the company's former print titles ''Xtra!'', ''
Xtra Ottawa
''Xtra Ottawa'' (formerly ''Capital Xtra'') was a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was launched in 1993. Unlike its biweekly sister publications ''Xtra'' in Toronto and ''Xtra Vanc ...
Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...
'', January 14, 2015.
History
''Xtra'' was founded in Toronto on February 19, 1984 (with a March cover date) by Pink Triangle Press, a not-for-profit organization. It was introduced as a four-page tabloid, as a way to broaden PTP's Toronto readership. Pink Triangle Press had previously published ''
The Body Politic
''The Body Politic'' was a Canadian monthly magazine, which was published from 1971 to 1987.
''. From 1990 to 2000, ''Xtra'' published a quarterly literary supplement, ''
'', for work by LGBTQ2 fiction and poetry writers.
In 1993, ''Xtra'' expanded, adding ''
Xtra! West
''Xtra Vancouver'' (), formerly ''Xtra! West'', was a gay bi-weekly newspaper, published by Pink Triangle Press in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Printed on newsprint in tabloid format from its establishment in 1993, Pink Triangle Press ...
'' in
Vancouver
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ...
and ''
Capital Xtra!
''Xtra Ottawa'' (formerly ''Capital Xtra'') was a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was launched in 1993. Unlike its biweekly sister publications ''Xtra'' in Toronto and '' Xtra Van ...
'' in
Ottawa
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. The three ''Xtra'' papers also produced an annual ''Ultimate Pride Guide'' and an annual lesbian and gay business directory called ''Index''. ''Xtra'' and ''Xtra! West'' were published biweekly, while ''Capital Xtra!'' was initially published as a monthly with its publication frequency later expanding to every three weeks.
The Vancouver and Ottawa publications were renamed ''Xtra Vancouver'' and ''Xtra Ottawa'' in the late 2000s, while the Toronto edition retained the name ''Xtra''.
The final print issues of ''Xtra Vancouver'' and ''Xtra Ottawa'' appeared on February 12, 2015, while the Toronto edition's final print issue was published on the newspaper's 31st anniversary, February 19, 2015."Gay publisher Xtra to embrace digital, close print" ''Xtra'', January 14, 2015. The publications continued online as a digital publication, initially under the name ''Daily Xtra'' before reverting to the ''Xtra'' name.
Contributors
Past contributors to the publications have included
Sandra Alland
Sandra Alland is a Glasgow-based Scottish-Canadian writer, interdisciplinary artist, small press publisher, performer, filmmaker, and curator. Alland's work focuses on social justice, language, humour, and experimental forms.
Life and work
Sandra ...
,
Richard Burnett
Richard Burnett, also known as Bugs Burnett, is a Canadian writer, editor, journalist, and columnist. He is known as an often controversial fixture of the Montreal media, with his writing sometimes attracting attention internationally. His colu ...
,
Brenda Cossman Brenda Cossman (born 1960) is a professor of law at the University of Toronto. She was the director at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies from 2009 to 2018. In 2012, Cossman was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Ed ...
,
James Dubro
James "Jim" Dubro (born July 12, 1946) is a crime writer of many books, articles and investigative television shows.
Early life
Born in 1946 in Boston, Dubro earned an undergraduate degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from Boston University. He received hi ...
,
Gerald Hannon
Gerald Hannon (July 10, 1944 – May 9, 2022) was a Canadian journalist whose work appeared in major Canadian magazines and newspapers.Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon, eds., ''Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History''. Routledge, 2 ...
,
Matthew Hays
Matthew Hays is a Canadians, Canadian film critic, writer, film festival programmer and academic. He won a Lambda Literary Award for his 2007 book ''The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers''.
Hays teaches film studies, j ...
,
Greg Kearney
Greg Kearney is a Canadian writer. He was a humour columnist for '' Xtra!'' from 1999 to 2005, and published his debut short story collection ''Mommy Daddy Baby'' in 2004.
Born in Kenora, Ontario,Todd Klinck
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;Australia:
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* Todd Valley, California, also known as Todd, an unincorporated community
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* Todd, North Carolina, an unincorporated ...
,
Greg Kramer
Greg Kramer (11 March 1961 – 8 April 2013)Richard Burnett"Remembering Greg Kramer". ''Xtra!'', 10 April 2013. was a British-Canadian author, actor, director, and magician. Born and raised in Hertfordshire, England, he emigrated to Canada in 19 ...
Raziel Reid
Raziel Reid is a Canadian writer, whose debut young adult novel '' When Everything Feels Like the Movies'' won the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.
,
Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji (born 1968) is a Ugandan-born Canadian educator. She is the author of ''The Trouble with Islam Today'' (2004) and ''Allah, Liberty and Love'' (2011), both of which have been banned in several Muslim countries. She also produced a P ...
Rachel Giese
Rachel Giese is a Canadian journalist, who won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2019 for her book ''Boys: What It Means to Become a Man''. Currently the editorial director of LGBT news website ''Daily Xtra'', her work has also a ...
Peter Knegt
Peter Knegt is a Canadian writer, producer, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of four Canadian Screen Awards and his CBC Arts column Queeries received the 2019 Digital Publishing Award for best digital column in Canada.
Knegt began his career as ...
, and
Jeffrey Round
Jeffrey Round is a Canadian writer, director, playwright, publisher, and songwriter, who has encouraged the development of LGBT literature, particularly in Canada. His published work includes literary fiction, plays, poetry and mystery novels.
.
Other ventures
Pink Triangle Press also operates
squirt.org
Squirt.org, launched by Pink Triangle Press in 1999, is a Canadian website which describes itself as a place "where men meet other men for sex, cruising, hookups, dating, fun and friendship". The website, based in Toronto, is available worldwid ...
, an online guide to cruising. The Press sold Cruiseline in March 2011.
See also
*
List of newspapers in Canada
This list of newspapers in Canada is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada. Daily newspapers
Local weeklies
Alberta
* Airdrie – ''Airdrie Echo''
* Bashaw – '' Bashaw Star''
* Bassano – ''Bassano Times''
* Beaumont – ...