On June 14 Qmunity held its annual general meeting, with 13 voting members in attendance — the same figure as last year. The meeting, held at the Junction Pub on Davie St, included the election of off...

Ryan Clayton confirmed today that he will not be running for the Vancouver School Board, citing personal health reasons. “It’s mostly private, but, yeah, it’s health related,” the 24-year-old says. “I...

Vancouver’s Out Under the Rainbow Society (OUR Spaces), which aims to build a multipurpose queer community centre, acclaimed five board members at its second annual general meeting on May 29. The new ...

HIV activists say that it’s time British Columbia drafted better guidelines to assist prosecutors when laying criminal charges in HIV-related cases. “The bottom line is we want everyone to have an enj...

Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert will introduce a bill in the legislature on May 26 to add protection for transgender people to BC’s Human Rights Code. “Justice has to be seen and protec...

The BC Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that Lorna Pardy’s complaints against Guy Earle and the owners of Zesty’s were justified and awarded her $22,500 plus interest in damages. Lorna Pardy filed a hu...

Martin Inthamoussú knows it’s not easy to find size 10 high heels. “When I went to buy those shoes it was at a very chic place in Montevideo,” he recalls. “[The storekeeper] said, ‘We don’t have your ...

“Standing up was not a choice,” John Kozachenko asserts. “It was about survival. Survival at its basic. That’s the only choice you have. It’s either this or death.” Twenty-five years after the Vancouv...

Edmonton, Alberta’s largest school district, has become the first in the province to vote in favour of creating an explicit, stand-alone anti-homophobia policy. The Edmonton Public School B...

Outgames and Gay Games organizers are talking about eventually replacing their two separate games with one event to be produced jointly by the Federation of Gay Games and the Gay and Lesbian Internati...