There may be “admissibility issues†with the evidence gathered so far in the alleged gaybashing at the Fountainhead Pub, the head of Vancouver’s diversity policing section revealed at an anti-violence community forum May 2. Insp John deHaas of the Vancouver Police Dep...
Gay MLA Spencer Herbert easily defeated his opponents May 12 to win BC’s gayest new riding, Vancouver-West End, beating lesbian Liberal Laura McDiarmid by 3,927 votes. Drina Read, the Green Party’s lesbian candidate in the riding, placed third with 1,442 votes.
Sandra Laframboise resigned as vice president of the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) May 13, making her the seventh director to resign since the society’s November AGM. She says her resignation was spurred in part by two alleged inciden...
Toronto’s queer literary arts festival Writing Outside the Margins is being scaled back dramatically this year. A casualty of the ongoing financial crisis, the street festival â€" produced by Xtra in partnership with the Church-Wellesley Village Business Improvement Area (CWVBIA) â€" ...
It may seem odd that the much-acclaimed South African novel Disgrace by Nobel and Booker prize-winner JM Coetzee should be made into an Australian film but there is something surprisingly synergistic about the mix. Both countries have a messy and inchoate relationship with their racial pasts and a ...
You wake up with a feeling of dread in the pit of your stomach. The condom broke, you regret agreeing to unprotected sex or you’ve heard from the rumour mill that a bareback sex partner is HIV-positive. Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is a drug therapy that can prevent HIV from establishing i...
"For some people, love validates sex, or a relationship validates sex, but there's still this idea that we need something to validate it." Charlie Glickman is a San Francisco-based sex educator. After working ...
Cornwall-area residents will not be celebrating Pride this September. At an executive committee meeting held on April 2, the board of Pride/Fierté Cornwall cancelled the five-year-old festivities. "It pretty much bo...
It might be a manly giggle, but it's still a giggle. On the phone from his apartment in Toronto, Micah Barnes is done discussing his current tour, concluded the obligatory reminiscing of his years touring with The Nylons. He moves on to the...
"It was the personal initiative of Mr Trudeau," says Marc Lalonde of the bill that decriminalized gay sex in Canada 40 years ago this summer. Lalonde worked with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau for years, first as his principal secretary then in key cabinet positions. H...
Moscow's Slavic Gay Pride protest last Saturday was a huge success, even though the police harshly suppressed it. Timed to coincide with the Eurovision song contest that was also being hosted in Moscow the same day, the protest itself was not so important. It was a means to an end — to ch...
Filmmaker Yair Hochler was in Toronto this week where his steamy film Antarctica was screening at the Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival. Hochler, who is also the artistic director of the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Fes...
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