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		<title>Nearly half of all queer characters on TV will disappear next year</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cody Corrall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[An uptick in series endings and cancellations is bad news for queer and trans representation]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Flaming Creatures’ and the censorship of queer art</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cody Corrall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jack Smith’s 1963 film “Flaming Creatures” was deemed legally obscene by the U.S. Supreme Court]]></description>
		
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		<title>Casa Susanna was a trans safe haven in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Its legacy lives on</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/video/casa-susanna-trans-history-277604</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cody Corrall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the mid-20th century, Casa Susanna was a refuge for trans women and crossdressers]]></description>
		
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		<title>5 queer horror films to watch this Halloween</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/video/queer-horror-films-halloween-277483</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xtra Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Xtra staff members recommend their favourite queer horror films that deliver plenty of scares]]></description>
		
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		<title>Grace Byron’s ‘Herculine’ shows what a trans cult might actually look like</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/books/grace-byron-herculine-277045</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nour Abi-Nakhoul]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Byron flips right-wing stereotypes about trans people with her frightening and funny debut novel]]></description>
		
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		<title>How BookTok inspired this real-life romance bookstore</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/booktok-romance-bookstore-inspired-276706</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauren Kalinowski]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Edmonton’s Book Boudoir is building queer-inclusive community one page at a time]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why is there an AI-generated image in a queer photography exhibit?</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/video/ai-generated-image-getty-museum-276688</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cody Corrall, Mel Woods]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The “Queer Lens” exhibition features “Christian en el ‘Amor de Calle,’” the Getty Museum’s first AI-generated image]]></description>
		
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		<title>Disabled queer organizers refuse to leave anyone behind</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/disabled-queer-event-organizers-276532</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Julia Peterson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From low-sensory spaces to masked events, expanding the menu of options can help make queer spaces accessible to everyone]]></description>
		
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		<title>In the face of uncertainty, U.S. queer creatives are building alternatives</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/in-the-face-of-uncertainty-u-s-queer-creatives-are-building-alternatives-274145</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Feisthauer Fournet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Federal cuts are forcing LGBTQ2S+ artists and organizations to scramble for survival]]></description>
		
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		<title>Countess Luann on cabaret superstardom, Kenya Moore and life after ‘The Real Housewives’</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/countess-luann-on-cabaret-superstardom-kenya-moore-and-life-after-the-real-housewives-272628</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin O&#039;Keeffe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Elegance is learned, my friends,” and the Countess’s class is in session]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Anora’ is winning Best Picture at the Oscars. We can all relax</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/tv-film/anora-oscars-best-picture-271442</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[KC Hoard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OPINION: The Oscars should go down easy this year, but the gayest categories promise excitement]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dying with dignity is a right, not a privilege, in Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/the-room-next-door-almodovar-review-270576</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christos Tsirbas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[REVIEW: In his first English feature, the storied director delivers a poignant mediation on end-of-life]]></description>
		
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		<title>Black queer artists share how they’re ‘holding on to joy’ in 2025</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/black-queer-joy-artists-2025-270376</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Syrus Marcus Ware]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Joy is in a life lived while you’re alive,” says dancer and choreographer Ravyn Wngz]]></description>
		
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		<title>A well-known Chinese folk tale gets a queer reimagining in ‘Sister Snake’</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/sister-snake-amanda-lee-koe-269959</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H Felix Chau Bradley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Amanda Lee Koe’s novel is a clever mash-up of queer pulp, magical realism, time travel and body horror, with a charged serpentine sisterhood at its centre]]></description>
		
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		<title>12 queer and trans books we missed this year</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/queer-and-trans-books-2024-269817</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Xtra Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From tales of dramatic family secrets to sweet graphic novels, these titles are worth curling up with]]></description>
		
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		<title>“Ripcord,” turns the midlife crisis story trope on its head</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/nate-lippens-ripcord-review-269325</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[H Felix Chau Bradley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his latest novel, Nate Lippens explores what it means to be an aging queer artist]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Still Life’ captures the messiness of writing trans autofiction</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/still-life-katherine-packert-burke-review-268116</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Zhou]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Katherine Packert Burke’s novel explores how little one can really understand about one’s own life while in the middle of living it]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Cuckoo’ grapples with society’s need to procreate</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/cuckoo-hunter-schafer-review-267602</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thea McLachlan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[REVIEW: The Hunter Schafer film is a thrilling examination of the horrors of compulsory heterosexuality and reproduction]]></description>
		
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