Cruiseline is operated by Pink Triangle Press a not-for-profit organization born out of and committed to the struggle of lesbians and gay men for sexual liberation and human fulfillment. Click here to check out our mission statement.

The Press's audiotext operation runs the Cruiseline personal connection and voice mail phone systems offering services in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, London, Ottawa and Halifax. It also publishes Xtra in Toronto, Xtra West in Vancouver, and Capital Xtra in Ottawa.

Where We Come From:

The Body Politic
Pink Triangle Press began – in fact if not in name – in October 1971, when a small group of people in Toronto got together to publish a gay paper. They set themselves up as a collective, volunteers sharing work and operating without a formal hierarchy. The paper they produced was The Body Politic, a journal of gay liberation news and opinion.

The Body Politic was entirely volunteer-run until 1973, when some collective members began being paid as staff. But volunteers, hundreds of them over the years, remained The Body Politic's true human base. The collective also remained the paper's governing body.

TBP began as a local paper, but soon reached far beyond Toronto. It went monthly in 1976. By the early '80s only a third of its 9,000 copies were sold in Toronto. Another third went to other parts of the country, and TBP was soon known as Canada's national gay newsmagazine.

The rest of the readership was all over the world. TBP gained an international reputation as a leading source of radical gay review and analysis, attracting writers from across Canada, the US, Britain and Australia.