When thinking outside the box just isn't enough
I’d like to challenge this assumption that fact checkers are a force for good, if only for a moment. Because after scratching beneath the surface, it doesn’t appear that “fact checkers” are any more reliable than the “facts” they’re checking…
I’m terrified to open my computer. Whenever I do, my anxiety rises. I become edgy, frustrated, and sad. All hope for a bright future dissipates as I scroll my news feed for the umpteenth time. The root cause of this despair? America…
Seeing as how it’s New Queer’s Day (at least in Montreal), I think it’s only appropriate to take stock (an unexhaustive one, at that) of what happened in the world of LGBT Canadians this past year. (Yes, I’m compiling this because I’m too tired after a week of Pride festivities to write my own original article.)
A Montreal bar owner made quite an impression this week when he announced the creation of a coalition of business owners to combat homelessness in the downtown. In an article on the CBC about the coalition, Peter Sergakis, owner of Station des Sports and Sky Bar among others, was made to appear as though he was “waging war on homeless people” and that he was only out for his own interests…
The message is clear that gay athletes should watch out: if they want to play their best game, they’d be best not to give Janssen, or any other goons, extra homo-fodder with which to torment them. But is the professional hockey world still as bigoted as Janssen makes it seem?
A modern-day witch hunt is underway in Canada. The hunted: not terrorists, but fetishists. The RCMP is investigating the conduct of one of its officers who posted pictures of himself on a fetish website. The most shocking aspect of the story is not the photos, though, but the fact that people are outraged by them
Is there really anything so wrong with the Pride-cookie, as my previous article would make it seem? No, there isn’t. The difference is in whether queer rights are being used to sell a controversial product or whether the motive is to affirm the existence of a marginalized group, as it is with Kraft…
A queer group that labels itself with a contentious term—apartheid—that then can’t explain to the general public why queer people have anything to do with it, is destined to fail. And this is unfortunate, because they do have important ideas—criticizing ‘pinkwashing’ being the most important
Of all the feelings I thought I’d have at a memorial to gay Holocaust victims, shame was the furthest from my mind. Yet it’s exactly what I felt
I never expected to say this, but for the first time during Stephen Harper’s reign, I’m happy he has a majority. You see, last week, while we were all focused on Harper’s undemocratic budget bill, the Conservatives were busy strengthening our democracy. Conservatives voted unanimously to repeal section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act with no help from the opposition, save one Liberal…
As the gayest week of summer slowly sashays our way, organizers of Montreal’s pride festivities may have more to worry about than how many thousands of condoms to order. Fierté Montreal is the target of a new Facebook campaign, “No Pride Under Law 78”, organized by queers upset about the organization’s close ties to the […]
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know a whole lot about comics. I’ve seen the movies and read some of the more popular titles (Archie and Watchmen included), but that’s the extent of my comic knowledge. So when the cover for Marvel’s latest “Astonishing X-Men” issue, featuring a same-sex couple kissing at […]
Canada’s most irritating mayor, Rob Ford, spoke to Toronto’s queer community for the first time ever when he read a proclamation against homophobia and transphobia last week. Who knew that the straight-laced Ford was an ardent supporter of queer rights? But seriously, the mayor’s proclamation may have won praise from some, but his words rang hollow in the ears of this queer…
Cheers from queers and their allies were heard around the world last week when American President Barack Obama publicly declared his support (albeit limited) for same-sex marriage. In the media circus that followed, one man, Tony Perkins, led the charge against Obama’s “evolved” views. (Perhaps because he himself does not believe in evolution.) Perkins is president of the Family Research Council, an ordained hate group in the US…
