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Health and Wellness
Gay & bi men are going to Canada to get monkeypox vaccines
Supplies are short in the U.S., so some people are going abroad to get vaccinated.
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News (World)
Lawyers will now have to specify pronouns in courts in British Columbia
“I would do a better job for my client, if I’m not thinking about being misgendered,” said a non-binary attorney.
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News (USA)
Gay man beaten by mob who recognized him from grocery shopping with his boyfriend
The attackers allegedly beat him while calling him a “a fa***t, a pedophile,” but police aren’t planning on arresting them.
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News (World)
A Canadian court just gave a transgender teen a massive legal win
The teen’s father been trying to prevent him from transitioning. The court gave the teen a big win instead.
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LGBTQ Pride
Rainbow crosswalks were vandalized in 4 different cities recently
Rainbow crosswalks are part of Pride Month all over the world. They’re also targets for hate.
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News (World)
Parents scared protecting LGBTQ students from bullying will turn their kids gay
This group of concerned parents needs some schooling.
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News (World)
This friend of our enemy is our enemy: meet a trans woman men’s rights activist
Right-wing blogger Theryn Meyer claims it is only conservatives who can guarantee “you the freedom to be who you are.”
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Vancouver Catholic school district enacts transgender policy
VANCOUVER, B.C. — A Catholic school district has approved a policy to accommodate transgender children, believed to be the first of its kind by a Catholic school in North America. The Vancouver Archdiocese made the move following a human rights complaint by the family of an 11-year-old transgender girl.
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Canadian law school approved despite plan enforce ban on ‘gay intimacy’
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The B.C. government has approved the creation of a new law school at Trinity Western University in Langley B.C., despite concerns from gay rights advocates over its plans to enforce a policy prohibiting “gay intimacy” among staff and students.
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Life
‘Glee’ cast member Cory Monteith found dead in Vancouver hotel room
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Cory Monteith, the heartthrob actor who became an overnight star as a high school quarterback-turned-singer in the hit TV series “Glee” but had battled addiction since his teenage years, was found dead of undisclosed causes in a hotel room, Vancouver police said. He was 31.
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Canadian man receives apology for yearbook’s anti-gay slur — 42 years later
A Canadian man has finally received an apology for a gay slur published in his high school yearbook — 42 years ago. Robin Tomlin says he’s been haunted for years after his high school yearbook committee printed the word “fag” next to his picture in the 1970 yearbook.
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Tribunal: Christian inn owners discriminated against gay couple
VANCOUVER, B.C. — A British Columbia Human Rights tribunal has ordered the owners of a now-closed Bed and Breakfast to pay $4,500 in damages and expenses to a same-sex couple for refusing them accommodations because they are gay.
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Vancouver police arrest 4 in connection with alleged hate crimes
Vancouver police announced Thursday they have made four arrests in connection to two separate attacks on gay men recently, both incidents of which are being investigated as possible hate crimes.
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Attackers shout anti-gay slurs, assault Vancouver gay couple
Two Vancouver men say they were punched repeatedly by two assailants who shouted anti-gay slurs at them on the doorstep of their downtown condo building Saturday night. Peter Regier and his partner David Holtzman were returning home from a concert and found two men drinking outside their building, one of them urinating near the door, […]
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Life
First ever Pride Houses welcome LGBTQ athletes, visitors to Olympic games
It should come as no surprise that cities as gay friendly as Vancouver and Whistler would extend that hospitality to this year’s Olympic Games. The two communities are the first Olympic hosts to with Pride Houses to welcome gay and lesbian athletes and tourists and educate Olympic visitors about diversity and the LGBTQ community. Vancouver’s […]
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Life
Gay man seeking answers from Olympic organizers after enduring anti-gay assault
A gay Vancouver man wants to know what the Olympic organizing committee is going to do about the 20-minute verbal and physical homophobic onslaught he endured at the Feb 8 opening ceremonies rehearsal. Tyler Sheppard says a woman who incorrectly insisted he and his friends were sitting in her seats repeatedly called him and his […]