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Category: 2015

All news stories published in 2015.

Nathaniel Christopher / December 18, 2015

Odyssey owner denies conflict of interest after email leak

Odyssey owner Bijan Ahmadian emailed the chairs of Vancouver’s LGBT advisory committee urging them to respond, the morning after The Province ran a front-page story on a private investigation into a q...
Nathaniel Christopher / December 11, 2015

Should Odyssey owner sit on city’s LGBT advisory committee?

Two queer artists want the owner of a gay nightclub to resign his seat on Vancouver’s LGBT advisory committee. Odyssey owner Bijan Ahmadian made headlines Nov 23, 2015, when he sent private investigat...
Nathaniel Christopher / December 3, 2015

How to improve gay men’s health care across BC

Gay men’s health advocates are working to turn a groundbreaking report into a province-wide health strategy for gay and bisexual men in BC. The report, released in July 2014 by BC’s health officer Per...
Nathaniel Christopher / December 1, 2015

Coming out of the PrEP closet

When Jody Jollimore began using pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) he quickly became acquainted with the stigma associated with the HIV-prevention strategy. “I remember coming out to a health care provid...
Nathaniel Christopher / November 25, 2015

Odyssey owner releases report, says coverage not his fault

The owner of a gay club in Vancouver says his concern about safety, not sex, prompted him to fund an investigation into a competing gay event hosted Oct 30 by Vancouver’s Art and Leisure Society (VAL)...
Nathaniel Christopher / November 25, 2015

What Toronto transit users really told the TTC about Squirt ads

Complaints from 16 commuters objecting to an image of shirtless gay men embracing prompted the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to pull ads for the gay hookup site Squirt from its subway cars in ...
Nathaniel Christopher / November 23, 2015

Four sites Qmunity could call home, maybe

It’s been nearly two years since the City of Vancouver gave Qmunity $7 million to build a new queer community centre in the West End. The money, part of a community amenity contribution from Jim Patti...
Nathaniel Christopher / November 20, 2015

Anti-TWU directors re-elected to BC law society by most votes

A Vancouver lawyer who opposes the accreditation of Trinity Western University’s (TWU) proposed law school says the results of the BC law society’s 2015 election affirm the profession’s commitment to ...
Nathaniel Christopher / November 17, 2015

Gay youth launch anti-shame campaigns for online dating

Ten years after its launch in Vancouver, graduates of a sexual health leadership program for young gay men are leading initiatives across Canada to help their peers speak to each other without shame. ...
Nathaniel Christopher / November 10, 2015

Gay lives shortened by anti-gay stigma, says researcher

Gay men, lesbians and bisexuals who live in anti-gay environments are more likely to die younger, says one researcher. Mark Hatzenbuehler, an assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia U...

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