Xtra!, an LGBTQ focused magazine expanded in 1993 by launching its sister editions, Xtra! West, based in Vancouver, and Capital Xtra!, based in Ottawa. Although The Body Politic was often criticized for talking about taboo topics such as queer sex and relations, queer media continued to grow. The Body Politic focused on issues related to Gay and Lesbian sex, Queer culture, and other issues relating to the LGBT community at the time. It was one of the first significant gay publications in Canada, and played a large role in amplifying the Gay Liberation Movement and creating a space for queer issues and voices to be heard. The Body Politic was a queer, activism-based Canadian monthly magazine that published from 1971 to 1987. It was one of Canada's first significant gay publications, and played a prominent role in the development of the LGBT community in Canada. The Body Politic was a Canadian monthly magazine, which was published from 1971 to 1987. There is a UK ‘support’ team operating at a hotel in Port Sudan, but they don’t seem to know anything.The Body Politic (Issue 1, November–December 1971, Toronto)

“And there is no clear messaging on further evacuations from Port Sudan, so we cannot risk travelling the 15 hours through gunfire. She added, “However, we could not re-enter the war zone to Wadi Seidna,” the air base where evacuation flights were initially departing from.

“They have now ‘kindly’ included doctors on the evacuation list,” Mohamed said of the government’s 30 April extension of evacuation rights to Sudanese doctors working in the UK on biometric residence permits (BRPs).

Speaking from Madani, where she and her family fled from Khartoum after gunfire broke out in the capital on 24 April, Einas Mohamed said that the UK government’s response to the plight of NHS doctors trapped in Sudan had been “patronising” and “fudged.” A Sudan born hospital doctor at North Middlesex University Hospital, who is stranded in her warring home nation after being denied access to UK government evacuation flights, has told The BMJ that she is “shocked” by the discrimination faced by NHS doctors who “put their lives in danger saving British lives during the pandemic.”

The Body Politic by Howard Tayler