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First Person / Society

How Northern Landscapes Helped Shape My Queer Identity

June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 - by Lori Fox

In the boreal, locked between the tundra, the coastal rainforests, and the prairies, I learned to relate to my body beyond my gender

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Health / March 2020

How Universal Health Care Fails Queer Communities

February 10, 2020March 27, 2020 - by Brianna Sharpe

A lack of data from LGBTQ Canadians creates holes in our medical system

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Television

The Undeniable Queerness of Superhero Stories

January 17, 2020January 20, 2020 - by Anna Peppard

The genre is built on themes of transformation, disguise, and duality—a reality that LGBTQ folks live every day

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Education

Why Are We Still Paying for Catholic Schools?

January 6, 2020December 22, 2020 - by Michael Coren

Maintaining separate education systems is costly, unfair, and culturally divisive

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Society

Why I Hate Babies

October 2, 2019October 17, 2019 - by Kai Cheng Thom

Honestly, I don’t really hate them. But they are stealing all of my friends and, with them, my hopes for the future

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Arts & Culture

When Pop Culture Pretends to Be Gay

May 6, 2019August 26, 2019 - by Stéphanie Verge

Why same-sex attraction on TV panders to straight audiences

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Justice

Why Bruce McArthur’s Murder Trial Could Stigmatize Gay Men

February 9, 2018August 8, 2019 - by Paul Gallant

For Toronto’s LGBTQ community, justice requires more than just arresting an alleged serial killer

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Comics

An Illustrated History of the Toronto Pride Parade

June 21, 2017May 21, 2020 - by Frankie Noone

From Operation Soap to present-day transphobia, the knot of power has always been tough to untie

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Society

The Legal Case for Gender-Neutral Pronouns

December 22, 2016April 7, 2020 - by Lauren Heuser

Will bill C-16 compel free-speech advocates to use words they disagree with?

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Society

How Gay Rights Killed Gay Liberation

December 2, 2016November 19, 2019 - by Paul Gallant

Equality for the LGBTQ community has come at the expense of sexual independence

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