ADDED ON: 05/15/2023
A Halifax artist who is queer and disabled is working to make markets and pop-up stores more inclusive and accessible for people like her. Kayti Baur is the founder of Different Folks, a…
ADDED ON: 05/09/2023
If public libraries have become the battleground for LGBTQ rights, Patricia Ginn of Strathroy, Ont., is on the front line. At 70, Ginn, who regularly sports a black leather vest, says she…
ADDED ON: 04/12/2023
An LGBTQ rights organization wants Canada to ban Fox News from TV programming over anti-trans comments. In an open letter to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), Egale Canada is calling…
ADDED ON: 04/03/2023
Vancouver police say they are investigating two violent confrontations at a rally in the city marking International Transgender Day of Visibility. Investigators have released images of two people, as well as video from Grandview Park…
ADDED ON: 03/26/2023
Frederick Lea Hardy died fighting for Canada near Vimy Ridge in the First World War. Shortly before being killed in action, the teenager spent time in prison doing hard labour as a…
ADDED ON: 03/26/2023
Growing up in Edmonton, Daylen Mitansky didn't feel like the hockey rink was a place that would welcome him. "Don't say gay was a huge thing," he said. "Jocks were never [openly]…
ADDED ON: 03/21/2023
A number of restaurants, clubs and bars in the Prairies have benefited from the entertainment and pop-culture appeal of drag performers in recent years. But while some protesters have set their targets…
ADDED ON: 02/21/2023
An intense interaction between allies and members of the LGBTQ community and a religious group got heated and loud according to attendees. The tensions and volume escalated on the afternoon of Feb.…
ADDED ON: 02/10/2023
Dr. Charles Silverstein accomplished a lot in his life. As a psychologist, he used his clinical practice to help LGBTQ patients embrace their identities at a time when conversion therapy was the norm.…
ADDED ON: 02/05/2023
Over the past year, a new front for hate has opened up across Canada and the United States, with drag performances and gender-affirming care providers becoming targets of harassment and threats. But…
ADDED ON: 12/13/2022
On a warmer-than-average Dec. 12, 2002, Keith Purdy started his shift like any other. He was the bartender at Texas Lounge in Calgary's Beltline neighbourhood — a bar that adjoins Goliath's, Calgary's…
ADDED ON: 12/05/2022
Saskatchewan resident Dwayne Belcourt is accusing the Saskatchewan Health Authority of discrimination because he says his late husband’s tissues were disqualified due to his same-sex relationship. On Aug. 30, Belcourt’s husband Merril Donkin died from stage…
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