Join us for our annual celebration of our local 2SLGBTQIA+ community with the Calgary Pride Parade & Festival, proudly presented by TD Canada Trust. Come out, come out, whoever you are, September 2nd and 3rd, and join Calgary Pride as we transform …
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By Cory Allen
Working in such a hyper-masculine career field, for an agency where the Sheriff could fire you for any reason, added to the anxiety and fear of revealing who I was.
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By Stephen Warren
The six characters and the actors who play them are humanized to some extent, but there’s too little time to get to know them. Still, if Framing Agnes weren’t so good, I would not be left wanting more.
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By Garrett Glaser
I never brought up the subject of an on-air disclosure to NBC, so station executives had nothing to prohibit. I always figured it was inappropriate for any reporter to make themself a part of the story they were covering; that’s how I…
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By Olive Klug
I love being non-binary and I love my community, but there are times when the explicit exclusion of non-binary and trans people from “women’s spaces” feels painful and outdated.
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By Martha K. Davis
This year, the 40th anniversary of the appearance of DTWOF, another incarnation of Bechdel’s work is available on Audible: a ten-episode podcast series based on early episodes of the comic strip.
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By Melissa Giberson
But my journey to figuring out who I was, looking back from the other side of the threshold I unintentionally breached, officially began with that imposing question. I might as well have asked, “Who am I?” as if in some amnesic stat…
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By Lee Wind
If the people in power can prevent people from feeling empathy for each other, they can keep everyone divided and consolidate their hold on power. By making stories of Queer lives and loves illegal, unspeakable to children, they aim to push…
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By Cassandra Langer
Danish filmmaker Magnus Gertten’s documentary Nelly & Nadine tells the incredible story of two women who fell in love in Ravensbrück on Christmas Eve, 1944.
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Financial freedom and wealth-building are no longer elusive concepts with the release of the highly anticipated book, Everyday Investing: A Practical Guide to Personal Financial Growth by LGBTQ author, Joey Amato. This comprehensive guide offers reader…
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By Rachel Noah Matlow
Although he was technically forgetting who I am, there’s also something affirming about his honest assessment of my gender. It’s as if he’s been studying me each time with fresh eyes and taking me in anew.
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By Daniel Kipchumba
The onslaught of political attacks on the LGBTQ community in Kenya is taking a new turn, after a group of traditionalists climbed Mount Kenya, removed the LGBTQ flag, set it on fire at the foot of the Mountain, and threw the ashes t…
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Large majorities of U.S. adults oppose denying medical care, employment, and business services to LGBTQ people based on religious beliefs, according to a new report from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and NORC at the University of Chicago…
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More youth of color experience hunger than their white peers
A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds 20% of LGBT high school students—an estimated 371,000 youth—experienced hunger last month because there was not enough food …
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On the heels of a hugely successful promo and event sponsorship tour this spring across the U.S. and Europe, Dominic Ford of JustFor.fans (JFF) reports an 18% surge in fan subscriptions – as well as a 15% jump in creator signups – since April 1st.
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A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds that 81% of transgender adults in the U.S. have thought about suicide, 42% of transgender adults have attempted it, and 56% have engaged in non-suicidal self-injury over their lifetime…
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In 1992 Disney’s Aladdin captured the imagination of an entire generation. The 2019 Live Action film introduced a new generation of families. Since 2011 Aladdin has been a stage musical, which finally explodes from the lamp in Calgary until July 23rd a…
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By Les K. Wright
One evening, a guy asked me if I wanted to go to the Central Arms. He explained it was a gay bar, and “with your good looks you’ll be popular.”
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By Gregory Walters
While the attraction to live in gay neighborhoods—West Hollywood, the Castro, Boystown, Chelsea—is less than it used to be, LGBTQ people still gravitate to urban areas and states where we can live more and fight less.
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By John Burbidge
While Of An Age doesn’t quite compare to Holding The Man and other Australian LGBTQ+ movies, it does have moments that draw you in and help you remember, “I’ve been there” or “I wish I‘d been there.”
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