Gordon Bowness Contributor since Jun 30, 1999

Gordon Bowness is the executive editor of Xtra. He has been a contributor since 1992.

Arts & Entertainment

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

Gordon Bowness Sep 03, 2020
Tynomi Banks
Canada’s Drag Race

After the sashay: Tynomi Banks leaves the competition with her head up high

Gordon Bowness Jul 24, 2020
Author Rachel Matlow, whose new memoir Dead Mom Walking is the book on grieving we all need right now.
Heath V Salazar, Dainty Smith and Yolanda Bonnell join Buddies' 'Queer, Far, Wherever You Are' performance series providing succor in these times of coronavirus
Conversion therapy survivor and activist Matt Ashcroft.
Conversion therapy

Surviving conversion therapy

Gordon Bowness Mar 23, 2020
Trans performance artist Cassils performing "Up To and Including Their Limits" at the Gardiner Museum.
Arts

Cassils transforms the way we see

Gordon Bowness Mar 16, 2020
Queer and trans literary canon
Francheska Dynamites, Sapphoria, Chiquita Mare, Rose Butch and Mx Wolverine—just a sample of the performers profiled on "Canada's a Drag."
A shrugging image fitting for the questions surrounding what's next for Pride Toronto now that Olivia Nuamah is out.
A collage of lgbt protest images from the 1970s, positioned in front of a contemporary photo of Canada's Parliament Buildings
LGBT rights

Writing hate and LGBTQ2 resistance into the national story

Gordon Bowness Jan 24, 2020
Pop Culture

Pedro Almodóvar gets personal with ‘Pain and Glory’

Gordon Bowness Oct 03, 2019