Special Issue
What’s to Come
You might have been shocked by our cover.
You might have also asked yourself, is this how The Link actually sees queer identity?
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A Trans Man’s Rant
What Not to Ask
Oliver Leon is The Link’s trans columnist, and he’s really tired of getting the same questions asked over and over again
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Greek Life
McGill’s Gay Fraternity a Canadian First
Let’s face it: the frat boy/sorority girl stereotype was born in the movies.
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Rub-a-Dub-Dub We Studs in a Tub
Bathhouses Still Steamy in 2012
Tall, athletic, handsome, an easy fit for the ‘jock’ label when it comes to gay subcategories, 21-year-old Concordia student “Connor” visits Sauna Oasis in the gay village every couple of weeks with his boyfriend, also a university student.
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Rapping for the Queer Collective
Rough Diamond Collective Embraces Queer Hip-Hop
Hip-hop is not entirely accustomed to seeing Queer artists amongst its ranks—or so you might think. Having a strong, Queer hip-hop community in Montreal may be surprising, but Queer artists have actually been incredibly present in the Montreal hip-hop scene since the 1980s.
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An Odd Man-Crush
“I like dudes, but I’m not gay like that, y’know?”
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To Grindr / Not to Grindr
A Back-and-Forth About a Homo-App
People have long dreamt of having a better, more technological means of picking up than awkwardly approaching someone in a bar.
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Kinky Cover Art
For Elise Dawson, flipping through a skin-mag with her mom over her shoulder was the start of a very comfortable sexual lifestyle, which has now transitioned to producing porn.
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Perverse Pleasures
Queer Sex, Kink & Love
Fetish, kink, freak—whatever you call it, and whatever you feel about it—is actually everywhere. Permeating our physical bodies, punctuating our pleasures and playing a real part in the power dynamics all around us, kinkiness remains
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Fear of Flying
Flight-Ban Discriminates Against Trans Fliers
A regulatory change quietly made to the Aeronautics Act by Transport Canada last July could disallow transsexual and transgender people from boarding flights leaving Canada.
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How Policy Denies Identity
Empowerment comes from the strangest places sometimes. Nothing makes me feel more empowered than watching society’s intellectual elite get weak at the knees when they realize that I’m a transexual. All of a sudden, my features shift from handsome ruggedness and good-boy looks into the alien look of a strange transexual child.