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...

“It’s a huge breakthrough for Burnaby in terms of education,” James Sanyshyn says of the school board’s unanimous vote to implement an anti-homophobia policy Feb 22. In 2009 Sa...

A lesbian business owner says she is concerned for her safety after a man allegedly targeted her with homophobic slurs and threatened to kill her. Tracy Myerson, who owns jett grrl bike studio at 247 ...

Jan 19, 4:15pm Saskatchewan’s Justice Minister, Don Morgan told the province’s marriage commissioners they must conduct same-sex marriages or resign, or be fired. “Conducting marriages for couples of ...

One in 40 gay men in Vancouver are HIV-positive but don’t know it, says a new report scheduled for release on Nov 26. The ManCount report also confirms earlier estimates that one in five gay men...