LGBTQ Youth

• LGBTQ2 community hub opens in Saint John called Adoringly Shire

  Alice McKim and partner Marike Hachemer created the space with a vision that’s part social club, part student resource centre for the LGBTQ2 community.

  Features

  May 2, 2022
  
• Student-led walkout across Alberta Friday opposing government’s GSA rules

  A student-led initiative saw young people across Alberta walk out of schools Friday morning, showing opposition to the new UCP government's stance on gay-straight alliances.

  Education

  May 2, 2019
  
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• 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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• ‘Climate of secrecy:’ Schools, parents dispute Alberta gay-straight alliance law

  In the first court challenge against Alberta's gay-straight alliance rules, lawyers on both sides argued children will be harmed if the judge's decision doesn't go their way.

  Education

  Jun 20, 2018
• Camp fYrefly notifies former participants, volunteers of data breach

  Upwards of 700 former participants, volunteers and youth leaders of Camp fYrefly may have had their personal information compromised, according to the University of Alberta.

  Crime

  Apr 19, 2018
• Jason Kenney: Accusations that party wants to out LGBT kids are ‘ridiculous’

  United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney says his caucus is willing to meet in the middle on a provincial bill that would make it illegal for teachers to tell parents if their child has joined a gay-straight alliance.

  Politics

  Nov 12, 2017
• ‘We support you’: Tegan and Sara back gay youth and Alberta GSA bill

  Every day, the debate is heating up over proposed legislation the Alberta NDP says aims to prevent teachers from outing gay children to their parents. Now, a superstar pop duo made up of openly gay, 37-year-old twin sisters who were born and raised in Calgary, is offering Rachel Notley's government some serious social media support for Bill 24.

  Entertainment

  Nov 9, 2017
• Transgender Edmonton teen calls on all shelters to adopt LGBTQ guidelines

  An Edmonton teen who left home when he was 16 believes LGBTQ shelter guidelines announced by the province should be mandatory.

  Sep 14, 2017
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• Gay high school students raped, attacked far more often

  Gay, lesbian and bisexual high school students are far more likely than their classmates to be raped or assaulted in a dating situation, according to the first U.S. survey of its kind.

  Health

  Aug 12, 2016