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Evil Exists, But It Will Not Always Triumph!

Donald D'Haene | Posted 04.17.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Miracles, Gay-Siblings, Incest, Spirit, Good Friday, Sisters, Boston Marathon Bombing, Surviving Rape, Memoir, Social Services, Gay, Book Clubs, Maya Angelou, Sexual Abuse, Evil, Boston Marathon, Family Secret, Donald D'Haene, Father's Touch, Canada Living News
Donald D'Haene

I knew several things. That I would finally meet my sister. And finally, confirmation of what I had known for two decades: my sister was also sexually abused by our father. Knowing something to be true and finally staring truth in the face is overwhelming. I would never feel the same as I did before that Wednesday morning.

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Winnipeg Singer Pro-Human Rights, Anti-Gay Pride?

HuffPost Canada Music | Jason MacNeil | Posted 04.05.2013 | Canada Music
Read More: Action Changes Everything, Manitoba Human Rights Commission, Gay, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Winnipeg, Pride Winnipeg, Flo Oramasionwu, Flo, Canada Music News

A R&B singer from Winnipeg has drawn criticism for performing at a human rights conference for youth after refusing to play at Pride Day event in 2012...

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Love Actually: The CBC and the Catholic Church

Kolby Solinsky | Posted 05.12.2013 | Canada
Read More: Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Rape, Roman Catholic Church, Black Smoke, Gay, Canada, Pope Benedict XVI, Kolby Solinsky, White Cover Magazine, Pope Benedict, Religion, Gay Rights, Child Rape, Catholic Church, Cbc, Peter Mansbridge, My Poynter, Sex Abuse, The National, News, Video, Canada News
Kolby Solinsky

------------------------------------------------------------ I believe in discovery and technology and innovation and science. My profession -- wh...

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Militant Toronto Lesbian Activist/Writer Challenges Ontario's First Gay Woman Premier

Mitch Wolfe | Posted 04.17.2013 | Canada
Read More: Muslim Community, Gay, Lesbian, Cancellation of Gas Plants, Toronto, Susan Cole, Kathleen Wynne, Ontario's First Gay Woman Premier. Air Ornge Scandal, Ontario Liberals, Canada News
Mitch Wolfe

Susan Cole, the self-acclaimed militant and proud lesbian writer for the Toronto weekly NOW magazine, is one of my favorite Toronto columnists. I enjo...

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Alberta Must End Funding of War on Gays

Kathleen Smith | Posted 03.15.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Pride, Catholic School Board, Gay, Alberta Wildrose, Lgbtq, Pope Benedict XVI, Alberta Premier Alison Redford, Alberta, Canada Alberta News
Kathleen Smith

There is no arguing that the Roman Catholic Pope is the very portrait of homophobia, and although some would argue that he has a legal right to spread his message of hatred, the question must be asked in Alberta why our government is so willing to fund a school board that supports this hatred, this outright advocation for gay genocide.

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Jodie Foster's Closet is None of Your Damn Business

Kathleen Smith | Posted 03.16.2013 | Canada Alberta
Read More: Gay, Hollywood, Lgbtq, Hfpa, Jodie Foster, Golden Globes, Jodie Foster Speech, Jodie Foster Gloden Globes, Gay Voices, Jodie Foster Speech Golden Globes, Video, Canada Alberta News
Kathleen Smith

To those who expected Foster to announce publicly that she is gay, the speech was likely a disappointment. Certainly celebrity news opportunists like Harvey Levin and Perez Hilton were deleting hastily written posts for their websites when Foster said little more than "I'm single" as her big announcement. The subsequent outcry from some in the LGBTQ was perhaps far more surprising than Foster's refusal to publicly come out.

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What I Learned at the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Natalie Karneef | Posted 02.20.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Transsexual, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gay, Transgender, Gender, Transgender Male, Rocky Horror Picture Show Dress Up, Transgender Female, Canada Living News
Natalie Karneef

After a four-hour trek through downtown to find coloured fishnet stockings, a garter, and plastic water pistols in an outfit that reveals more skin than I do at the doctor's office, we are on our way to the Late Night Double Feature Picture Show. I begin to get very nervous when remember that I am not wearing pants.

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Coming Out Changed My Life

Cory Ashworth | Posted 01.30.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Coming Out, Dan Savage, Gay, It Gets Better, Relationships, Vancouver, Canada British Columbia News
Cory Ashworth

At 15, being called Fagboy on the football field happened. Ironically enough, it was a straight kid with immaculate gaydar who gave me that name in high school. I was thankful that the moniker never lasted more than that year, but those words 'Fagboy' have stuck with me ever since. It would take a few handfuls of girlfriends, over two decades of denial and seven full years of hiding on the other side of the planet -- in China -- before I learned to let go of my fear, my shame and the idea that being gay was wrong.

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What is the True Measure of a Man?

Donald D'Haene | Posted 01.02.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Trial, Hate Crimes, Conviction, Strength, Role Models, Barbra Streisand, Higher Power, Gay, Forgiveness, Prejudice, Sexual Abuse, Barbra Streisand Funny Girl, Homosexuality, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Faith, Sidney Poitier, Canada Living News
Donald D'Haene

One of my childhoods was happy. The B&W movies projected on our small TV screen, more often than not, contradicted the drama I was living in my own home movie reels. But there were exceptions. In fact, the images of our television's B&W movies were very real to me. Sidney Poitier was one of those images, and thankfully, he made repeat appearances.

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On National Coming Out Day, I'm Proud to Be Gay

Donald D'Haene | Posted 12.11.2012 | Canada
Read More: Homosexuality, Religion, Coming Out of the Closet, National Coming Out Day, Coming Out Stories, Sexual Orientation, Coming Out, Gay, Religion-and-Sexuality, Sexuality, Canada News
Donald D'Haene

Because today is National Coming Out Day, I was reminded of my own journey. Almost two decades ago, I came out of that supposed "closet" publicly and purposefully for when I finally figured out I was gay, I wanted to shout it to the world. I eventually found the label "gay" something to be proud of. The gay label is just one small part of the big picture. But take it away and I wouldn't be me.

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Blink and You'd Have Missed Escobar's Suspension

Kolby Solinsky | Posted 11.21.2012 | Canada
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Kolby Solinsky

Yunel Escobar has served his three-game suspension for writing a gay slur on his eye black last Saturday, and will return to the Toronto Blue Jays lineup tonight. Wait, didn't that happen, like, yesterday? We've barely had time to breathe, and now Escobar is returning?

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I am (a Gay) Canadian

Donald D'Haene | Posted 10.11.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: Homosexuality, Queer, Lifestyle, I Am Canadian, Pride Parade, Stereotype, Gay Issues, Being Gay Canada, Canada Gay, Canada Being Gay, Gay Canada, Canada Living News
Donald D'Haene

My name is Donald. I am a gay Canadian. But I can talk about subjects that aren't "gay" and for the most part I do. Don't assume all homosexuals are alike or like the same things. And just because you know a homosexual or two doesn't mean you "know" us or me.

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My Relationship with an HIV-Positive Man Taught Me About True Love

Donald D'Haene | Posted 10.05.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Relationships, Remembrance, Aids, Safe Sex, Hiv, Gay, Life, Death, Memories, Safer Sex, Hiv Positive, AIDS Quilt, Canada Living News
Donald D'Haene

What relationship comes with a lifetime guarantee? So back in 1990, I was a man on a mission. I answered an ad from someone HIV-positive in Toronto looking for a serious relationship. Even today, people still have a reaction when you tell them you've dated an HIV-positive person. My friends were supportive of this relationship but my mother for years worried about my contacting HIV. Robert passed away a decade ago. Our relationship opened up a space in my heart that wasn't there before. Risking that initial date with fear taught me existence without love is as a lifeless as a corpse.

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Watching the Watchdog: Maclean's Misses the Mark

Tim Knight | Posted 08.25.2012 | Canada
Read More: Supreme Court, Sexual Orientation, Offend, Section 13, Justin Trudeau, Couples, The Future Belongs to Islam, Canadian Islamic Congress, Barbara Amiel, Race, Charlie Gillis, 2012, Canadian Human Rights Act, Capital Diary, Andrew Coyne., The Economist, Hatred, Maclean?S June 25, Paul Wells, Screw Your, Parliament, Contempt, Gay, Heterosexual, Michael Cobb, Black Mountain Poetry, Newsmagazine, Religion, Censors, Muslims, Martin Patriquin, Canadian Human Rights Commission, Einstein on the Beach, Time Newsweek, Luminato, Brian Bethune, Sheepdogs, Watching the Watchdog, Bob Rae, Mark Steyn, Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled, Canada News
Tim Knight

You'd have thought Maclean's would have blazoned the death of Section 13 all over its front cover. With a massive headline along the lines of "SCREW YOU, CENSORS!!!" Or "WE WON!!!" Instead, the cover featured a generic picture of an innocuous youngish woman and an innocuous youngish man grinning maniacally and the silly headline: "The majority of us are singles. So why do we still live in a couples world?"

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Obama's "Evolution" on Gay Marriage Won't Cost Him Votes

Peter Worthington | Posted 07.18.2012 | Canada
Read More: Presidential Race, Homosexual, Same Sex Marriage, Gop, Newsweek Cover, Obama, Lesbians, Gay, Worthington, Romney, Gay Marriage, Gay President, Nomination, Canada News
Peter Worthington

Obama doesn't acknowledge that he's flip-flopped on the "marriage" aspect; he says he's "evolved" to that belief, encouraged by his wife and daughters. By supporting gay marriages, Obama may have lost the Evangelical vote -- assuming he ever had it, which is doubtful. But in any case, same-sex marriages are more a case of national curiosity than national importance.

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The Life and Times of Jamie Hubley

Anne Lagace Dowson | Posted 12.27.2011 | Canada
Read More: Lgbt, Allan Hubley, Gay Rights, Ottawa, Bullying, Jamie Hubley Suicide, Gay, Jamie Hubley, Canada News
Anne Lagace Dowson

Some of the kids who say things like "that is so gay" probably don't mean it and don't really understand what they are saying. But words are weapons. They have power and meaning. They wound.

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That's So Gay

Ben Johnson | Posted 11.20.2011 | Canada
Read More: Lgbt, Language, Gay, Equality, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, LGBT Rights, Insult, Homophobia, Canada News
Ben Johnson

The word 'gay' gets thrown around so much, there is perhaps a valid argument that most people aren't even fully cognizant that it's homophobic anymore.

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