Special Issue

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  Special Issue

  President Pastor Really a Robot

  Wulia Wabbit – Published April 1, 2013

  Critics of Concordia President Alan Pastor had long claimed the mild-mannered president was too good to be true. Turns out, he was just too calm to be human.

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  VIDEO: The First Queer Issue

  Pierre Chauvin – Published March 6, 2013

  The Link ‘s first Queer Issue in 1982 ignited a storm of controversy, and has become a yearly tradition ever since. We interviewed Karen Herland, who wrote for the issue, about the atmosphere at the time and what she thinks about the situation today.

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  The Gender & Sexuality Issue

  Elysha del Giusto-Enos & Alex Manley – Published March 5, 2013

  Human beings seem to like dualities. Life is easier to navigate that way. But binaries don’t always slip so neatly onto human affairs, however much we’d like them to. In this special issue, we look at man/woman and gay/straight.

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  A Safe Space in the Church Basement

  Geoffrey Vendeville – Published March 5, 2013

  Since she was eight or nine years old, Jessica Malz felt she was unlike any other girl she knew. While her friends chased boys around the schoolyard at recess, she remembers usually running after the girls.

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  Out Of Missouri

  Andrew Cutforth – Published March 5, 2013

  Somewhere in the heart of America, a little east of Dorothy’s house, you’ll find a place where the rivers run.

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  Are Virgins Better People?

  Megan Dolski – Published March 5, 2013

  Jessica Valenti doesn’t believe that a woman’s moral compass is located in between her legs.

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  Out in the Locker Room

  Eric White – Published March 5, 2013

  Although there are gay politicians, entertainers and writers, there are few gay athletes—especially male ones.

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  Watch Your Language

  Alex Manley – Published March 5, 2013

  In February, Sarah Nicole Prickett, ex-Globe and Mail columnist and freelance journalist, kicked off a minor controversy with the publication of her online article for Vice, officially titled “Where Are All the Women?”

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  A New Sexual Standard

  Elysha del Giusto-Enos – Published March 5, 2013

  There are so many iconic representations of love, sex and desire embedded in our social consciousness, it’s hard not to get a picture of what it is well before we even start our own relationships.

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  I Seem Like an Average Straight Guy

  An Anonymous Special to The Link – Published March 5, 2013

  I came out just a few weeks before coming to Montreal.