Special Issue

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  Special Issue

  Rub-a-Dub-Dub We Studs in a Tub

  Julian Ward – Published February 14, 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

  Alex Mcgill – Published February 14, 2012

  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

  Andrew Schartmann – Published February 14, 2012

  “I like dudes, but I’m not gay like that, y’know?”

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  To Grindr / Not to Grindr

  Julian WardJordan Arseneault – Published February 14, 2012

  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

  Colin Harris – Published February 14, 2012

  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

  Laura Beeston – Published February 14, 2012

  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

  Oliver Leon – Published February 14, 2012

  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

  Ben Boudreau – Published February 14, 2012

  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.

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  What’s to Come

  Julian Ward & Laura Beeston – Published February 14, 2012

  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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  Preventing Prevention

  Corey Pool – Published February 8, 2012

  A small group of activists gathered outside the Montreal Superior Court Feb. 7 to protest the criminalization of non-disclosure of an HIV-positive status.