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queer noize is a ‘For Us, By Us’ podcast that is made by the LGBTQIA2S+ Collective at CiTR for the LGBTQIA2S+ community. You can subscribe…

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DEVOURS: Jeff Cancade

I met with Jeff Cancade, AKA Devours, in Our Town Cafe, a small and sweet restaurant on Broadway. The music in the background and Cancade’s…

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COMMERCIAL DRAG

“it was always a place we could always be a little more vulnerable with our drag, and with the way we presented ourselves.”

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Jen Currin

“In this debut collection of fiction penned by Vancouver author Jen Currin, the reader is taken through a rapid-fire series of lives coming together and unraveling, relationships budding and breaking, self awareness developing, and the hard realities met along the way.”

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MAN UP

“things are so dire for spaces, and yet there’s just this pulsating, thriving community of gender performance.”

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BATHHOUSE TO THE FUTURE

“Before money and amenities, any sort of warm night in the woods could play home to Vancouver’s earliest bathhouse experiences. I have even heard some epic stories from decades ago of spontaneous orgies behind the Vancouver Aquatic Centre on Beach Avenue.”

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COCONUTZ & BANANAS

“I just decided to create what I would hope to be a utopia where […] you can come and celebrate your body, because your body is uniquely you. It’s part of your experience, it’s part of what makes you the beautiful you that you are.”