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This mayor just came out as gay at age 58. He says he should have done it sooner.
The mayor of Ottawa has been marching in Pride for years as an ally. Now he’s coming out.
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Serial killer pleads guilty to murdering 8 gay men in Toronto
Bruce McArthur, the Gay Village Killer, will be sentenced to life in prison.
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Jackie Chan’s estranged lesbian daughter recently married her girlfriend
The couple is using their wedding to push for marriage equality and the healing power of love on abused LGBTQ people.
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Some students wanted to do a gay play. So the school district cut theater funding.
The school board said part of the problem is that the play uses the word “faggot.”
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Michael Sam makes Canadian Football League debut
And that makes him the first openly gay player to ever appear in a Canadian Football League game.
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Toronto mayor demands rainbow flag be removed from city hall
TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford wants a rainbow flag flying at City Hall protesting Russia’s law restricting gay rights activities to be removed.
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Tim Hortons blames website censorship on vendor after boycott threatened
TORONTO — Tim Hortons, the Ontario-based coffee and doughnut house with more than 3,500 locations in Canada and the U.S., said Friday it has lifted a block of a popular Canadian LGBT news website from its in-store Wi-fi under pressure from gay rights advocates who vowed to launch a boycott of the chain.
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Transgender students get protection in Toronto schools while MP introduces anti-trans ‘bathroom bill’
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada — The Toronto District School Board announced Thursday that it has introduced a new set of guidelines to ensure transgender equality for students and staff in the district’s 600 schools.
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Ontario’s legislative assembly approves anti-bullying bill
TORONTO, Ontario — The Accepting Schools Act, an anti-bullying measure also known as Bill 13, passed through the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on Tuesday by a vote of 65-36.
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‘Church vs. State’ showdown sparked by dispute over gay-straight alliances
TORONTO — A dispute over the use of the term “gay-straight alliance” in Ontario schools has prompted the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto on Monday to accuse Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s administration of making “religious freedom . . . a second-class right.”