In its ongoing attempt to expand the conversation about gay health beyond HIV, the ninth annual BC Gay Men’s Health Summit focused on the directions gay lives take overall, and how they’re shaped by w...

HIV activists at Vancouver’s ninth annual Gay Men’s Health Summit challenged Canadian Blood Services’ (CBS) ongoing — albeit shortened — ban on gay men giving blood, Nov 7. Health Canada’s new blood d...

Gay educators in BC are concerned that the Ministry of Education’s curriculum overhaul contains few specifics on the inclusion of mandatory queer content. The ministry has so far posted curriculum dra...

More than 30 Canadian organizations, citizens, experts and businesses — including Xtra’s publisher, Pink Triangle Press (PTP) — have joined the Protect Our Privacy Coalition to safeguard the privacy o...

The executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) says queer Canadians should be particularly concerned about government surveillance programs because of their long history of spyin...

Researchers in the US are expanding an HIV testing program focused on testing gay men in couples, after finding that up to two-thirds of new HIV infections come from couples. The program, called Testi...

Gay and bisexual men in British Columbia will soon have greater access to a more accurate form of HIV testing that can detect the virus as soon as a week after exposure. A BC Centre for Disease Contro...

Yukon’s publicly funded Catholic school system’s new draft policy on “same-sex attraction” makes queer students second-class citizens, says one homophobia and education researcher. But the Yukon Depar...

Six months before the United Church of Canada decided to ordain gay ministers in 1988, Tim Stevenson thought the contentious initiative was doomed to fail. “We got up onstage, the report was given, an...

The Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) has reached an out-of-court settlement in a lawsuit it filed against WE Vancouver (formerly known as the Westender). “The dispute between the Vancouver Pride Soc...