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The Clinique l’Actuel’s new street-level walk-in clinic on Sainte-Catherine Street in the Village, L’Actuel sur rue, opened its doors to the public last week and already, people have been lining up to get tested. On top of making it a whole lot easier to get tested, L’Actuel sur Rue hopes to help vulnerable people get access to health care that is better adapted to their needs.

Whether you’re breezing in from out of town and want to stay close to the action, or looking to unwind without leaving the city, the combo of Hotel Felix and Apsara massage is just what the doctor ordered.

Yoga at an after-hours? Purists beware, instructor Line Trepanier has something totally unconventional and invigorating in store for yoga-lovers in Montréal. Tonight’s session will be led exceptionally by Stéphanie Bédard of Flot Yoga @ Stereo, 6:30pm.

Some new statistics, released in Montreal and New Brunswick, are showing an increase in new sexually transmitted infections for gay men. The Montreal Clinic L’Actuel has signaled that more and more young gay men are contracting HIV, while in New Brunswick, the public health department is worried about a radical increase in syphilis infections, notably amongst young gay men.

Dr. Barry Adam has devoted his life to studying gay male sexual health, and the impact and understanding of HIV on our lives. He will close this year’s Concordia HIV/AIDS Lecture Series on Thursday, March 15, with the timely topic of “Neoliberalism, Masculinity, and HIV Risk” – Dr. Adams spoke with 2Bmag about his recent research and successfully avoided talking about THAT POSTER.

You might know by his pseudonym, Nikko Brave. This young porn actor from Mexico who studied literature at Concordia has been in Quebec since 1994. Ambitious and open-minded, he dreamed of helping his community, without exactly knowing how. It was after he heard a shocking story about barebacking that he got the idea for the Play Safe project

The last time I had spoken to yoga instructor David Flewelling, it was at an underwear party at the loft in the Village. He exuded his usual self-assured and challenging mode of being, with a small tribe of obedient boys downward-dogging at Kai Design‘s space on St-Timothée. As the one-man show behind both Mudraforce – [...]

Tucked cutely on the second floor of a busy commercial stretch of rue St-Denis, this prosaically named spa offers a beautifully simple list of treatments: the floating Epsom salts bath, and massage. Boísin Murphy found myself immediately charmed one brisk November morning when he arrived, a little late and uncaffeinated, to the white and turquoise country-style relaxation haven with its whispering female staff…

In the summer of 1981, doctors sounded the alarm as certain homosexual men were dying of an unknown disease that would soon become a global epidemic. Jean-Pierre Routy was a young medical intern in the south of France at the time, and saw some of the very first AIDS patients that few other doctors wanted to treat. Ever since then, he has been active in the struggle to fight the disease. He is sometimes disappointed, but always optimistic. 2B caught up with him to discuss his new book, a sort of encyclopaedia of the disease, which is as practical as it is moving.

Millions of Canadian men have embraced the benefits of staying active in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but at the core of men’s health sits a topic that even for gay men – a community that has a stereotyped propensity for being more in touch with their man junk – is still an uncomfortable one to talk about.