Homosexuality

• Oklahoma mom says daughter, 8, expelled for confessing crush on a girl

  The girl allegedly confessed her feelings for another girl at a Christian school in Owasso, Okla.

  Trending

  Jan 28, 2021
  
• No single gene makes people gay, but genetics play a role: study

  Many gene variants each have a tiny effect on sexual behaviour, but the scientists didn't identify a particular gene that makes people gay.

  Health

  Aug 29, 2019
  
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• Police stop unauthorized gay rights march in Havana, Cuba

  Gay-rights activists and groups of friends called for a march over Facebook and WhatsApp after the main government-run gay rights organization, the Center for Sex Education, cancelled a Saturday march.

  World

  May 11, 2019
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• UCP candidate in central Alberta under fire over homophobic, anti-abortion comments

  There are calls for Mark Smith, the UCP candidate Drayton Valley-Devon, to be fired after he gave a sermon in 2013 suggesting media portrayals of LGBTQ love as "good love" is troublesome.

  Politics

  Apr 2, 2019
• Banning conversion therapy: Alberta creates working group to make recommendations

  Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says the practice is both damaging and hateful and she looks forward to acting on the group's recommendations.

  Politics

  Feb 8, 2019
• Australia’s same-sex penguin couple become parents

  Magic and Sphen made headlines around the world this month when aquarium staff gave them the egg.

  Oct 26, 2018
• Same-sex penguin couple incubate egg at Sydney aquarium

  Two male penguins at a zoo in Sydney are now fostering an egg given them by aquarium staff who suspected they were more than friends.

  World

  Oct 15, 2018
• LGBTQ youth three times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers: study

  Transgender youth were at highest risk, nearly six times as likely to attempt suicide as heterosexual peers, researchers reported.

  Health

  Oct 8, 2018
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• Sex and civil freedoms: How India’s top judge spent his last days changing the country

  Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has retired from the Supreme Court after advancing rights for women, gays and minorities in a deeply conservative country.

  World

  Oct 1, 2018
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• Curtains open for ‘Prom Queen: The Musical’

  The musical is based on the true story of a gay Oshawa student who fought to bring his boyfriend to his high school prom in 2002. The show opens Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m.

  Canada

  Sep 19, 2018