- Capital Xtra!
Infobox Newspaper
name = Capital Xtra!
type = Every 3rd Wednesday
format =Tabloid
foundation = September 1993
owners =Pink Triangle Press
headquarters = 251 Bank Street
Suite 503Ottawa , ON
K2P 1X3
editor = Marcus McCann
publisher = Brandon Matheson| ISSN = 1195-6127
website = [http://xtra.ca/ www.xtra.ca]"Capital Xtra!" ("ISSN 1195-6127") is a newspaper published in
Ottawa ,Ontario ,Canada . It was launched in 1993. Unlike its biweekly sister publications "Xtra! " inToronto and "Xtra! West " inVancouver , "Capital Xtra!", which started as a monthly, is now published 17 times a year, with a publication schedule of every three weeks. The Ottawa edition has a current circulation of 20,000 copies which reach 36,000 readers. "Capital Xtra!" also publishes a gay tourism map, Out in Ottawa, every spring; the Ultimate Pride Guide in mid-July; and the Index gay business directory in December."Capital Xtra!" puts on a series of events every year for the Ottawa queer community: the LGX business & consumer expo each spring, the Transgress Festival as part of the Ottawa International Writer's Festival each October, and the "Capital Xtra!" Community Achievement Awards ceremony to acknowledge local volunteers and activists.
Brandon Matheson remains the publisher of "Capital Xtra!" fifteen years after founding it. Associate publisher and
managing editor Marcus McCann has been running the newspaper's operations since August 2008.External links
* [http://www.xtra.ca/ "Xtra!"]
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