Tag: Canada
Canada’s LGBTQ youth at greater risk of suicide than straight youth
Today Egale Canada Human Rights Trust (ECHRT) launched the Report on Outcomes and Recommendations from the first national Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Two Spirit, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ) Youth Suicide Prevention Summit.
10-year-old transgender girl wages battle to change identification rules
A 10-year-old Comox girl has started a campaign to stop what she sees as bullying every time she crosses the border to visit her grandmother, Cathie Dickens.
Olympic speed skater Anastasia Bucsis ‘so proud to be gay’
Canadian Olympic hopeful Anastasia Bucsis describes herself as “vanilla” and “boring.”
Carry the rainbow flag at Sochi
Let’s all help to make Sochi the gay Games a reader of Canadian thestar.com writes.
Vodka Boycott: Calgary, Edmonton Bars Dump Booze To Protest Anti-Gay Laws
Several Edmonton and Calgary gay bars are the latest to join the worldwide boycott of Russian vodka, in a move to protest that country’s recent adoption of laws targeting the LGBTQ community.
Prince Harry Saves Soldier from Gay Hate Attack
In 2008, while stationed in Canada, trooper James Wharton, an openly gay military man, was threatened with a severe “battering” by six men from a rival regiment. Fearing for his life, he went to his commander, Prince Harry, and unburdened himself to him.