Tag: LGBQT Rights

B.C. Liberal MLA defended rally organized by radical conservative group that opposes LGBTQ rights

Published December 20, 2017 News

A prominent speaker at the controversial rally called LGBTQ safety "a hogwash narrative"

World Pride: watch how far Toronto has come in 33 years

Published June 27, 2014

With World Pride Toronto 2014 culminating on Sunday with a massive parade after a week-long celebration, it’s easy to forget that we got here after a long, courageous fight for equality. Guys like Rob Ford remind everybody that homophobia is far from dead, but civic leaders like him are more the exception than the rule these days. Here’s a […]

Conservative Senator thinks out loud about transgender rights and sexual assaults. His facts were all wrong.

Published June 12, 2014

This is what they consider “sober second thought”? Apparently Conservative Senator Don Plett of Manitoba didn’t bother to spend a few minutes googling key words to make sure he got his facts straight before attacking a transgendered rights bill in the Senate during a recent debate. Bill C-279, a private member’s bill sponsored by NDP […]

Dear Rob Ford: This is what mayors who aren’t homophobic look like

Published March 17, 2014

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York is skipping the city’s traditional St Paddy’s day parade. The issue? March participants aren’t allowed to carry gay pride signs. The move by de Blasio, the first NYC mayor in decades to skip the parade, comes a day after Boston’s new mayor, Marty […]

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