But are not stating there’s a connection between Selim Esen and Andrew Kinsman

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‘We have to stand up against discrimination where we see it, even when it’s our closest ally,’ NDP LGBT critic Randall Garrison says

A year and a half past deadline but a step in the right direction, say trans activists

An LGBT advocacy group is asking Roy Thomson Hall to cancel the performance

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From being a homeless teen to an Old Catholic priest to founder of Arabian Knights LGBTQ, Kerolos Saleib knows the importance of self-love and community

Pledging $500 million of federal funding devoted to a national strategy

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RCMP won’t say what happened to Oliver Zamarripa or how he got to Lytton, BC

‘They are devils. They are for sale. They are not people,’ Ramzan Kadyrov said in an interview with Real Sports

‘I want someone to take responsibility for this,’ says city councillor

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The Ontario Human Rights Code includes an exemption that allows religious organizations to legally discriminate

HIV advocates say press release policy pushes HIV stigma and alienates queer people

For over a decade, the parade had been cordoned by police to protect revellers from harm. This year was different

The parents’ objections don’t ‘hold water morally or scientifically,’ says education advocate

Why Black Canadians are essential to the reclamation of Pride

Power

Toronto police set up special task force to investigate missing gay men

Trans tweets, transmission and Star Trek

Trudeau government must condemn Trump’s trans military ban: NDP

Vancouver police force finally passes new trans policies

Pro-Putin conductor Valery Gergiev scheduled to perform in Toronto this November

Blood donation, adoption troubles and Texas trolling

Meet the man behind Toronto’s dance party for LGBT Middle Easterners

NDP leadership hopeful Niki Ashton pledges to fight transphobia, gender-based violence through government action

Chechnya, social justice and the London underground

Still no arrest in death of queer teen who disappeared from Vancouver

Chechen leader says gay men should be taken to Canada ‘to purify our blood’

Toronto’s rainbow crosswalks won’t be fixed for another year

Malta, Mexican chanting and non-binary dating

An Ontario preschool rejected a child because their parents are gay — and it’s totally legal

Should Toronto police publish names of people charged with not disclosing their HIV status?

A victory for Pride in Budapest, but is it enough to curb Hungary’s slide towards heteronationalism?

Langley school board won’t let opposition derail its support for LGBT students

If you want cops in Pride, you’re missing the next queer revolution