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Lady Gaga sends anti-bullying message to Toronto high school students
Students at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, a specialized public arts and academic high school in Toronto, broke into cheering and wild applause on Friday when the student council president debuted a personal video from Lady Gaga aimed at encouraging an end to bullying.
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Canadian Member of Parliament: No reason for politicians to remain closeted
The suicide of 15-year-old Jamie Hubley last month — the Ottawa teenager who had suffered from being bullied — has renewed a fierce and politically charged debate in Canadian society: Do public figures, as role models for youth, have a responsibility to out themselves?
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Pair of inseparable ‘gay’ penguins to be separated and paired with females
Zoo keepers in Toronto are planning to separate a pair of inseparable, and — according to some zoo staffers — “gay” male penguins so that they can be paired with females for breeding.
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Canadian LGBTQ advocacy group calls for full review on issue of youth suicide
TORONTO — Egale Canada — the Canadian national LGBT human rights organization — has written to the Chief Coroner for the province of Ontario, Dr. Andrew McCallum, requesting a full coroner’s review on the issue of LGBTQ youth suicide.
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Known male prostitute arrested in murder of U.S. Airways flight attendant
MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials announced they have arrested a known male prostitute for the robbery and brutal murder of a gay flight attendant on Saturday during a layover stop in Mexico City.
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Suspect in custody for murder of gay flight attendant in Mexico City hotel
MEXICO CITY — A Phoenix-based gay flight attendant for U.S. Airways was found dead in a Mexico City hotel room early Saturday morning in what local police are referring to as a homicide.
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University Dean calls for teaching acceptance of LGBTQ students in Canadian schools
REGINA, Saskatchewan, Canada — Teaching acceptance of LGBTQ students needs to be part of the school curriculum in Canada because the majority of bullying in schools is centered in homophobic attitudes, says James McNinch, Dean of Education at the University of Regina.
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Canadian Parliament calls for acceptance, tolerance in wake of gay teen’s suicide
In a speech before the House Of Commons on Thursday, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, told the gathered Members of Parliament and ministers that there is no place in the nation’s schools for the bullying that drove an openly a gay Ottawa teen take his own life.
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Another gay teen suicide: It’s not bullying — it’s school mugging
I am so fed up with writing the same story — over and over and over again. This madness has to stop, and the first way we decrease these tragedies is to stop minimizing the torment and harassment by reducing it to mere bullying.
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Quebec pledges $7 million to fight anti-gay bullying, discrimination
MONTREAL, Quebec — The Quebec government has announced it will allocate $7 million dollars for programs to fight discrimination and bullying against its gay and lesbian citizens.