Jun 2, 2011
Not Rex: Fair treatment for queer refugees, Alvaro Orozco and beyond
Yesterday, for perhaps one of the few times in his life, 25-year-old Alvaro Orozco uttered the words "I feel safe."
Shawn Syms
Shawn Syms has written about sexuality, culture and politics for more than 20 years.
Mar 31, 2011
Not Rex: Voting options for LGBT Canadians
This week on Not Rex, Shawn Syms asks, who would offer more to LGBT Canucks: a cacophonous cabal of kookily choreographed simian marauders, or another instance of the Harper government?
Dec 1, 2010
Not Rex: Criminalizing people with HIV doesn't protect public health
Sexually active people with HIV are not intrinsically devious and dangerous. No more so than all redheads are. Or any other definable group.
Aug 8, 2007
Surviving prison rape
Shawn Syms
T.J. Parsell was incarcerated in Michigan in 1978, but chose to write about the experience a quarter-century later, after witnessing a group of young store clerks laughing about a prison-rape scene s
Aug 9, 2007
Caged birds sing
Shawn Syms
The contributors write about how imprisonment has changed their lives in voices that ring with authenticity. Prisoners share some of the same dreams, strengths and imperfections as the rest of us. By
