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. The publication is a continuation of the company's former print titles ''Xtra!'', '' Xtra Ottawa'', and '' Xtra Vancouver'', which were all discontinued in 2015.David Rider
"Gay newspaper Xtra to stop printing, go digital only"
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'', January 14, 2015.

History

''Xtra'' was founded in Toronto on February 19, 1984 (with a March cover date) by Pink Triangle Press, a not-for-profit organization. It was introduced as a four-page tabloid, as a way to broaden PTP's Toronto readership.Jamie Bradburn
"Historicist: I Sing The Body Politic"
'' Torontoist'', February 14, 2015. Pink Triangle Press had previously published '' The Body Politic'', which was discontinued in 1987. From 1990 to 2000, ''Xtra'' published a quarterly literary supplement, '' The Church-Wellesley Review'', for work by LGBTQ2 fiction and poetry writers. The company also launched a telephone dating personals service, Cruiseline, which later evolved into the contemporary web-based Squirt.org. In 1993, ''Xtra'' expanded, adding '' Xtra! West'' in

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and '' Capital Xtra!'' in

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. The three ''Xtra'' papers also produced an annual ''Ultimate Pride Guide'' and an annual lesbian and gay business directory called ''Index''. ''Xtra'' and ''Xtra! West'' were published biweekly, while ''Capital Xtra!'' was initially published as a monthly, with its publication frequency later expanding to every three weeks. The Vancouver and Ottawa publications were renamed ''Xtra Vancouver'' and ''Xtra Ottawa'' in the late 2000s, while the Toronto edition retained the name ''Xtra''. In 2010, due to the changing business climate for print publications, PTP closed the Ottawa offices, with the Ottawa edition of the publication published out of the Toronto office thereafter.Don Butler, "Gay voice of Ottawa shutting city office; Capital Xtra to cover community issues from Toronto base". ''

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'', January 29, 2010. The final print issues of ''Xtra Vancouver'' and ''Xtra Ottawa'' appeared on February 12, 2015, while the Toronto edition's final print issue was published on the newspaper's 31st anniversary, February 19, 2015. The publications continued online as a digital publication, initially under the name ''Daily Xtra'' before reverting to the ''Xtra Magazine'' name.

Contributors

Past contributors to the publications have included Lily Alexandre, Sandra Alland, Richard Burnett, Brenda Cossman, James Dubro, Gerald Hannon, Matthew Hays, Greg Kearney, Todd Klinck, Greg Kramer, R. W. Gray, Raziel Reid, Irshad Manji, Alex Munter, Rachel Giese, Brian Francis, Peter Knegt, and Jeffrey Round.

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