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For many gay men, the gym is a prime spot for cruising. But while the gym may lend itself perfectly to prolonged eye contact between sweaty strangers, it isn’t always the easiest place to strike up a conversation. Personal trainer Sylvain Burguet has come up with a unique way to make working out a more social affair – the Gladiator Boot Camp.

If you’re into the sexier aspects of group yoga, but have been told that getting down to your skivvies is inappropriate, the 2X Underwear Yoga Party could be just the thing for you. This Saturday, Nov 12, 4-6pm, with drinks and music after. Yogay!

As it turns out, anal sex is not (necessarily) the norm. A new study conducted by George Mason University, Indian University, and Online Buddies Inc. (the parent company of Manhunt) reveals some very interesting new information about men who have sex with men (MSM). The online study questioned just under 25 000 gay and bisexual men aged 18-87 on their last sexual encounter. This is the first study to focus on male to male sex at the event level.

“Met up with you again in the shower and this time we gave each other a tug until it got too crowded.” Scroll through the craigslist m4m missed connections in any major Canadian city and you are likely to find a few ads like the one above: posts dedicated to the discreet gym hook-up. Matthew Harris surveys the soap-droppers and exhibitionists, and takes the pulse of the shower sex scene…

If you had even a quick moment to look around the village this summer amidst all the distractions of the Divers/Cité and Fierté Montréal Pride celebrations, you might have been convinced from the barrage of Viagra advertising that Montréal’s gay community was under siege from an epidemic of unprecedented male impotency. Jeromie Williams investigates the “viagrafication” of the gay community…

A new initiative was implemented this summer to help prevent the transmission of STIs in some of Montréal’s saunas. The Chartre OK, a voluntary set of guidelines that sauna owners were invited to adhere to, had to undergo a few adjustments after its first few months of operation, but its organisers remain very optimistic about the project.

Ongoing stigma and social inequality can increase stress and reduce well-being for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people, even in the absence of major traumatic events such as hate violence, abuse, and discrimination, according to a new study co-authored by Dr. Ilan H. Meyer, Williams Sr. Scholar at the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute.

Contessa Alura opened the Alternative Lifestyles Community Centre on a whip and promise, and has kinksters on their knees, and in her heart. The ALCC will be at Montréal Fetish Weekend Sept. 3rd for demos at the Hôtel des Gouverneurs. The ALCC offers a space where BDSM practitioners and the kink-curious can feel they’re OK, check the shame at the door, and learn about the community. Photos by Argaive.com

If you’ve ever taken a dance class, as a teen or an adult, and been scared away by the teacher or because you weren’t getting it, then Scream Dance Academy’s Lynsey Billing has the class for you.

In their light-filled studio above Saloon on Ste-Catherine Est, Lemon Cree’s owner and star instructor Theresa Ducharme teaches a kind of modified aerobics with touches of Pilates, focusing on core strength and full-body fitness.