In a follow-up to July’s public forum, 11 community members gathered to discuss a vision for a new queer community centre Sep 29. After 90 minutes of discussion and debate, participants agreed on a shared vision to “enunciate a concept that will lead to the development of a...
 Vancouver will have its own Pride House for gay athletes and their allies during the 2010 Olympics. A similar facility is already in the works for Whistler, the main venue of the Winter Games.
“I have this attitude â€" I dare you to say no to me,†says potent leading lady Beth Ditto. Having just wrapped the Euro leg of Gossip’s tour Ditto is at home in Portland catching up on laundry and media interviews and readying her...
Fags and rap music have long enjoyed a passionate and storied love affair. Granted, when I say love affair I actually mean the sort of bloodied, violent mess that frequently occurs between gay men and the homophobes who secretly want to fuck them. Chris...
UPDATE OCT 8 5:12 pm - About 300 residents of London, Ont turned out for a “peace rally†in that city’s Victoria Park on Oct 7. They were rallying after two separate...
The anti-abortion movement is a powerhouse, organized by fundamentalist Christians with endless resources at its disposable. The movement remains unchecked — it systematically targets organizations in a crusade to deny women their reproductiv...
Ottawa may appear to be a sleepy town when it comes to marijuana activism, but that's just because the networks are loose and informal. However, Ottawa's pot activism will get a very public boost this week with medical marijuana event on Thursday.
Thirty years ago most of the lesbians with balls enough to fight for judicial custody of their children lost. Most gay men wouldn't even have conceived of becoming parents, let alone attempted to argue in court for their rights to custody of children they may have already fathered in straight relat...
The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care released a scathing report into the death of gay man and Church-Wellesley village resident Jim Hearst, who died of a heart attack on Jun 25 while paramedics waited idle a block awa...
A clear blue sky greeted the more than an estimated 150,000 people who took part in the US National Equality March in Washington on Oct 11. Participants carried a colorful array of signs that read, among other things, "Zsa Zsa Gabor h...
Over 200 shivering Winnipeggers held vigil outside a boarded-up bathhouse on Thanksgiving night to pay tribute to a lost friend. In pairs and small groups, men and women huddled together, hugged each other and quietly commemorated the life...
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