What if you couldn’t go home for Christmas? Many local international students have to be resourceful at this time of the year—support for students with nowhere to go isn’t always available from their schools. Nova Scotia Community College international manager Zoran Kundali says his school doesn’t organize events for international students at Christmas. And as […]
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Treecycle and treeuse
Nova Scotia is home to 30,000 acres of sweet-smelling balsam firs and pines, some ready to be harvested for the holiday season. In 1996, Lunenburg was designated the world’s balsam fir capital because it produces more fir trees than anywhere else, and Nova Scotia trails just behind Quebec as the country’s biggest overall Christmas tree […]
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Joy, love and pieces
Catherine Sutherland Given the current economic calamity, the familiar sight of smashed bus shelter glass, like piles of chipped ice, strikes the passerby as sinister, something more than evidence of last night’s drunken stupidity: a population feeling the pressure expresses its anger in the streets. But, for the holidays, consider the beauty in the destruction. […]
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No means no
Q I am a 28-year-old woman who has been with my boyfriend for two years. I would call it a stable, fulfilling and kinky relationship. I consider myself GGG, and every time my boyfriend has brought up a kink or variation, I’ve been willing to try it. Some things became a permanent part in our […]
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Prop 8 hate
Dan Savage says the numbers are on the good guy’s side and they’re working against the uberbigots.
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It all makes you gay
Q: I have to say I’m disappointed. Proposition 8 passed in California, as did anti-gay-marriage amendments in Florida and Arizona. Decency and compassion suffered a horrible blow, and I was hoping to hear a few words from you about it—some inspiration before I took off from work to go and protest the Mormon church. Maybe […]
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Puppy love
Q: I’m a 32-year-old female engaged to a 34-year-old man. Some months ago, when we were both drunk, he “got up the nerve” to show me some bestiality porn and tell me how much the thought of me with a dog turns him on. He confessed that he was absolutely terrified that I would leave […]
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Savage Love
Q: My boyfriend recently moved in with me—the first straight guy I’ve ever shared an apartment with. I’m very clean and take great pride in my apartment. However, since he moved in, I’ve tried to be mindful of the fact that there will be certain things I’ll need to adjust to. Still, I think it’s […]
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Savage Love
Once again, Savage Love is given over to letters from readers who made the largest donations to the campaigns to preserve marriage equality in California (noonprop8.com), protect same-sex couples in Florida (sayno2.com) and defeat Stephen Harper in Canada (better luck next time). I neglected to ask readers to send dough to the campaign against an […]
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Dan Savage
Q: I’m a 23-year-old bi male mostly attracted to women. I have a fetish for cross-dressing, but only in private, as I live in a town—Tucson—that’s small enough that I might get recognized if I went out “dressed.” My problem is that I’m not having any luck finding a woman interested in having a long-term […]
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Savage Love
Q: I accidentally discovered that my son-in-law is into BDSM sex as a “dominant.” A few weeks ago, he was holding one of my dog’s leashes and tried to stop my dog (a 13-year-old, docile golden retriever) from running up to another dog by violently yanking on the leash. My 65-pound dog was violently spun […]
