As the Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) prepares for next year’s 30th annual Pride parade, at least one community member is questioning its numbering system. The VPS listed the 2007 Pride parade as...
On Sep 12, Statistics Canada released the findings from its 2006 census, the first to include data on same-sex married couples. The census found that only 7,460 or 16.5 percent of Canada’s 45,35...
The American South, more than a region, is a loaded cultural statement with an undeniable influence on the hearts and imaginations of people all over the world. When I mention my Southern heritage to ...
The Vancouver Queer Film Festival launched its 19th year to hearty applause at the Empire Granville 7 theatre, Aug 16. There was hardly an empty seat in the house as audience members gathered to watch...
With more than 380,000 onlookers and 140 parade entries, this year’s Pride march was Vancouver’s biggest to date. But it was the silence, not the reverberations of celebration, that made t...
Newlyweds April Ayres and Melody Griffiths plan to file a complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal over an Aug 1 incident at Saffron Indian Cuisine at 4300 Kingsway in Burnaby. Ayres claims that sh...
Activists in cities around the world took part in the first Global Gay Solidarity Day this weekend. Their goal: send a message to government and UN officials that queers everywhere deserve equality. I...
For Richard Proulx, spiritual experiences and orgasms go hand in hand. “When I look into the eyes of someone when they are having a religious experience and when I look at someone having an orga...
Mayfair Properties has stepped up its legal battle to drive Nanaimo’s only gay bar out of its current space, alleging all sorts of criminal and kinky behaviour. Mayfair, which owns the Best West...
Pride week in Seattle was just a bit wetter this year on account of two enterprising Vancouverites who brought a Vancouver tradition to Seattle’s harbour. Since 1991, James Steck and Randy Newbe...