From eliminating cars to bringing back queer organizations, advocates are fighting to protect the gaybourhood’s identity
Denio Lourenco
Denio Lourenco is a Toronto-based investigative journalist who covers a wide range of social and political issues. He has written extensively about how policies, laws and institutions affect LGBTQ2S+ people for national publications, including NBC News, The Globe and Mail, VICE and more.
Denio holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in political science and gender studies from the University of Toronto.
He speaks English and Portuguese.
‘Unusable’: The enshittification of Grindr
How pop-up ads, paywalled features and boardroom decisions degraded the quality of one of the world’s most popular dating apps
How campus activists got their university to drop an anti-trans research funder
McMaster recently cut ties with the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine in a win for students and faculty
Changing health landscape poses a questionable future for HIV organizations
With the closure of the AIDS Committee of Toronto, public health experts are wondering if this is the beginning of the end for HIV service organizations in Canada
This Canadian think tank is claiming ‘victory’ over anti-trans legislation
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute routinely publishes material targeting trans rights
Where Canada’s political parties really stand on queer and trans issues
Xtra put Canada’s major political parties under the microscope on everything from DEI rollbacks to trans athletes’ participation in sports
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