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Gender fluid emojis, gay beer, and the Met Gala. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, May 10

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Tony Awards, lesbian representation, and religious parents. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, May 3

There’s a vast queer history that goes beyond Stonewall and marriage equality. Schools aren’t teaching that, so young people on the internet are doing it instead

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What you need to know about the walkout

Men skinny-dipping, Lizzo, and The L Word. Here’s your Xtra Weekly, April 26

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Canada is finally taking period poverty seriously

Who can donate sperm in Canada? Not gay men

Who in the world isn’t mad about LGBTQ2-inclusive education?

UCP dissolves group tasked with banning conversion therapy in Alberta

Trump just released an LGBTQ2 shirt for Pride month. Here are eight others to wear instead

US government considers a gay couple’s child as born ‘out of wedlock’

A new bill will make it illegal to advertise conversion therapy to kids in Canada

Why social conservatives keep talking about ‘parental rights’

How is conversion therapy still happening in Canada?

I’m a non-binary parent. There still isn’t space for me

What you need to know about Canada’s blood donation ban on men who have sex with men

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Alberta students to protest UCP’s stance on GSAs

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Hockey’s homophobia problem