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Nathaniel Christopher / 8 October 2009

Working group envisions new community centre

In a follow-up to July’s public forum, 11 community members gathered to discuss a vision for a new queer community centre Sep 29. After 90 minutes of discussion and debate, participants agreed on a sh...
Nathaniel Christopher / 24 September 2009

‘Hit and miss education’: teacher

Grade six and seven teachers are required to teach their students about HIV/AIDS but a lack of support from the Ministry of Education means many are not getting the lesson, according to Vancouver Elem...
Nathaniel Christopher / 27 August 2009

‘Please Mr Obama, lift this ban now’: Rooney

An Aug 16 rally in support of lifting all travel restrictions on HIV positive visitors to the United States took place at the Peace Arch at the Canada-US border. Canadian Martin Rooney, who was denied...
Nathaniel Christopher / 21 May 2009

Pride sees 7th Pride director resign in six months

Sandra Laframboise resigned as vice president of the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) May 13, making her the seventh director to resign since the society’s November AGM. She says her resignation was spur...
Nathaniel Christopher / 7 May 2009

Nanaimo to get new gay bar

Nanaimo’s gay community will have a new bar of its own in time for summer. Former Odyssey co-owner Bill Belland, who owns the Modern Café in downtown Nanaimo, plans to convert the upper level of his p...
Nathaniel Christopher / 22 May 2008

Campbell River walks away from homophobia

You don’t have leave your hometown if you’re gay. This was the resounding message at the second annual Walk Away From Homophobia in Campbell River May 15. Hundreds of people of all ages an...
Nathaniel Christopher / 27 March 2008

Rally held to protest US HIV ban

About two dozen people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery Mar 16 to protest the US ban on HIV-positive travellers, and to support a bill now making its way through the US Senate to repeal the ban. ...
Nathaniel Christopher / 13 March 2008

Coming out as gay and Christian

Growing up in the American South, Curt Allison never imagined it was possible to be both openly gay and a good Christian. His Pentecostal community taught him that homosexuality was a sin, incongruent...
Nathaniel Christopher / 13 March 2008

Nanaimo gay bar seized

British Columbia’s last small town gay bar is no more. On Feb 25 the staff at 70 Below in Nanaimo came to work to find the doors boarded up, and the locks changed. This comes in the midst of a l...
Nathaniel Christopher / 14 February 2008

WinterPride impresses international crowd

About 2,500 gays and lesbians from around the world converged on Whistler for a week of skiing, camaraderie and fun at the 16th annual gay ski week, Feb 3-10. Bill Sheldon, one of many international a...

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