Results for: be the change
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Boobs on Your Tube: Canada Out-Gays Itself Again With “Burden of Truth”
Plus updates on Younger, Ackley Bridge, Killjoys, and Corrie!
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New Canadian LGBTQI Immigration Guidelines May Actually Make Sense, Help People
The Canadian Government’s new guidelines on processing LGBTQI refugees includes more inclusive language and highlights concerns about stereotypes.
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Canada Moves Forward to Ban Transgender Discrimination
Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau backs an important bill that would ban trans discrimination, immigration and LGBT activists are on a hunger strike to protest the detention of trans women, a UK court rejects an Indian lesbian couple’s request to stay in the country, LGBT activists in Lebanon stage a rare protest and more news.
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9+ Queer Canadian Poets to Break Your Heart and Put It Back Together Again
Queer Canadian poets tend to be experimental, to push against boundaries. They tell it like it is, challenge our ways of thinking, and actively organize for change. Their words are hilarious, heartbreaking, and wise. Here are some queer Canadian poets — mostly female-identified — whose words have changed my world for the better.
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Love & Canada: Whatever Happens, This Wedding Is Happening
“This week has involved a lot of needing to let go of all the things I can’t have total control over and I’m not good at that and I don’t like it but also maybe that’s okay.”
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Love & Canada: How Is This Wedding In A Week?!?
“Fuck flowers. Fuck everything. We’re ordering about a hundred LED twinkling lights and I’m gonna stick gold washi tape on ’em and sprinkle them everywhere and call it a night.”
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Love & Canada: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action
“I am still crying an amount that for me is significantly higher than average, what’s up with that?”
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Love & Canada: No Admittance Except On Wedding Business
“There’re only 135 hours or so until I get to Los Angeles and I can feel every single one.”
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Love & Canada: Life Finds A Way (To Get In The Way)
“I spent a few minutes wondering whether that means we should be married faster, i.e., the day after whenever I get there, and then I looked at the calendar and realized the timeline is as tight as it can be (and maybe too tight as it is) and I took a really deep breath and anyway it’s probably going to be fine. But it was one of those moments where it felt a little more like leaving Canada is giving something up.”
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Love & Canada: Immigration Station
“I’ve never had a move that felt so little like being jolted from one space to another and so much like something clicking into place.”
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He Said/We Said Goes to Canada!
In this edition of He Said/ We Said, dapperQ features the masculine gender queer style of some amazing queers in Toronto!
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Loretta Saunders Found Dead; Epidemic of Violence Against Canada’s Indigenous Women Continues
Loretta Saunders, Inuk woman writing on missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada, found dead in New Brunswick.
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Canada’s Supreme Court Makes Landmark Ruling In Favor Of Sex Workers’ Rights
In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court found the nation’s anti-prostitution laws infringed on the constitutional rights of sex workers.
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Team Pick: Happy Anniversary To Canada’s First Gay Couple To Get Legally Married!
Kristen’s Team Pick. Two Canucks got married on June 10th and a decade later they’re still together in the world they changed for the better.
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Sunday Top Ten: Significant Experiences In Canada
I’m flying to Canada today so this seemed like a good opportunity to think about all the other times I’ve been to other parts of Canada!
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Read A F*cking Book: Canary
Canary, a debut collection of queerish short stories from Nancy Jo Cullen, is all about the everyday. And the weird.
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A Few Anti-Gay Apples Ruin the Bunch in Manitoba, Help Make the Case for Bill 18
In Winnipeg it proves difficult for restauranteurs and citizens to thrive when homophobia is the only thing being dished out. But hopefully Bill 18 can change that.
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Straddler On The Street: Emily
Emily lives in Canada and went to A-Camp 3.0, and she shared her feelings about being biracial, getting into roller derby, and having a cat named Barbra Streisand. Also it’s Canada Day so you basically need to shower her with love and maple leaves.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: How Being A (Very) Mixed-Race Canadian Prairie Weirdo Complicates “POC” For Me
This is my unique perspective on being a half-black, half-white human who sometimes feels uncomfortable using the term Person of Colour to refer to myself.
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Queer Girl City Guide: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax is a historic city with the Celtic charm expected of Nova Scotia, overflowing with arts, culture, music and bars, so many bars. As it’s the biggest city in the Maritimes region of Canada, lots of queers from across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI make the pilgrimage to our seaside city.