The Okanagan Pride Centre — the only gay community centre between Vancouver and Calgary — will close on July 31 after the property’s owner chose not to renew the lease and changes to liquor licence en...

After record attendance in 2012, the Okanagan Pride Society hopes this year’s festival will establish Kelowna as a destination for gay wine connoisseurs and their friends. The Pride festival, now in i...

A former member of one of Vancouver’s first gay civil rights groups says the Vancouver Pride Society’s (VPS) numbering system dishonours nearly a decade of gay activism. Under the events section of it...

United Church Moderator Gary Paterson and his spouse, Vancouver city councillor Tim Stevenson, have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for their respective achievements in churc...

The BC Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the BC Human Rights Tribunal which found that Lorna Pardy’s complaint against comedian Guy Earle and the owners of Zesty’s restaurant was justified. Pardy...

Education advocates are calling on the incoming minister of education to ensure that all BC students, regardless of location, sexual orientation or gender identity, receive comprehensive sex education...

Nearly three months after the adoption of their school district’s anti-homophobia policy, gay-straight alliance (GSA) members and teacher-sponsors at Thomas Haney Secondary in Maple Ridge are calling ...

Vancouver City Council approved a rezoning application for the Wall Financial Corporation May 15 that will provide a new home for Positive Living BC and AIDS Vancouver as well as 81 units of social ho...

BC’s Bulkley Valley and Fraser-Cascades school districts have joined 20 others in the province in explicitly addressing homophobia in their policies. On April 23 the Fraser-Cascades district, which is...