Pride Canada

• ‘Intertwined’: Disability and queerness intersect to form community

  Being both disabled and queer means being at an intersection of two communities — two groups that share a lot of the same history but don't always agree on everything.

  Features

  Jun 29, 2022
  
• Vandalized Pride signs investigated as ‘hate-motivated’ crime: Halton police

  Police are investigating a string of vandalism where homophobic slurs were written on signs and on homes in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area displaying the Pride flag.

  Canada

  Jun 22, 2022
  
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• Corporates should do more than just ‘rainbow washing’ during Pride: LGBTQ+ advocates

  Marketing campaigns from corporates are known as "rainbow washing," which means temporary public displays of support for the LGBTQ+ community but not backed up by action.

  Canada

  Jun 19, 2022
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• Asexuality is not a ‘symptom’: Asexual Canadians fight to dispel harmful misconceptions

  People on the asexual spectrum have long face dehumanization and harmful assumptions that their sexuality is a consequence of medical problems and disability.

  Features

  Jun 18, 2022
• Inside Pride: Navigating a sexualized society as an asexual person

  Asexual – or “Ace” – is a term used to describe someone who does not experience sexual attraction towards people of any gender.

  Features

  Jun 15, 2022
• Inside Pride: Two-spirited Indigenous girls inspire others to be themselves

  Three Indigenous families from Beardy's & Okemasis Cree Nation speak out on what it's like to raise their children who self-identify as girls.

  Canada

  Jun 11, 2022
• Being Two-Spirit and trans in Canada: How colonization shaped the way we view gender diversity

  Two-Spiritedness, a relatively new term to describe an historic concept in Indigenous communities, acknowledges the fluidity and spectrum of gender identity and expression.

  Canada

  Jun 8, 2022
• Labelling a lesbian: How stereotypes harm and help the community

  In the lesbian community — and most other communities in existence, whether they’re race-based, orientation-based or really, anything-based — stereotypes are plentiful.

  Canada

  Jun 4, 2022