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TRAVEL – Revisiting Montreal as a gay couple during Pride

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My fiancé and I had each been to Montreal many years before we got together, and we both had fond memories of it, so we were excited to go back again as a couple. Our trip was planned around Fierté Montréal which takes place each August, but like most cities had either been on a hiatus or very toned down over the past couple of years. Luckily, the city was as amazing as we remembered, and the Pride activities made it extra fun.

We stayed at the Humanity Hotel which is Quebec’s first Marriott Autograph Collection Hotel and is located in downtown Montreal for easy access to areas like Old Montreal to the Gay Village. It’s a new building (having just opened last summer) with a rooftop pool and bar, a 2-floor fitness centre, a spa…

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UK Pride: Then and Now, a Cop’s Perspective

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By Geoff Cadman

That Gay Pride day on July 1st 1972 was filled with hope and determination and much has been achieved since. I do not like the huge cracks appearing in those first laid foundations. Below is my story from that sunny day in London, in the Summer of ‘72.

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Boston’s “Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide” — Still Going Strong After Three Decades

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By John R Killacky

“It is our intellectual journal.… If you want to deal with scholarly intelligent arguments, there’s really no place else we can publish,” writer/activist Larry Kramer was quoted as saying in that same New York Times article from 1998.

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Demi Lovato’s Pronoun Change and the Freedom to Explore Our Identities

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By Kollyn Conrad

Identity is very fluid, and Lovato shows us that it’s okay to change and evolve.

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Canada’s first Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan to continue building a more inclusive future

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No matter who you are or who you love, you should have every opportunity to succeed in Canada. The Government of Canada has taken historic action in recent years to build a better, more inclusive future for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and additional sexually and gender diverse people (2SLGBTQI+), and we know there is more to be done.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, joined by the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, Marci Ien, today launched Canada’s first Federal 2SLGBTQI+ Action Plan… Building our future, with pride, a whole-of-government approach to achieve a future where everyone in Canada is truly free to be who they are and love who they love.
The Action Plan will:
Prioritize and sustain 2SLGBTQI+ community action by supporting 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations in advocating for and serving the communities they represent;
Continue to advance and strengthen 2SLGBTQI+ rights at home and abroad including by building on the criminalization of conversion therapy and launching consultations on additional criminal law reforms, as well as continuing to invest in projects abroad through Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy;
Support Indigenous 2SLGBTQI+ resilience and resurgence including by continuing to fund Indigenous 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations, placing the "2S" to represent Two-Spirit people at the front of the 2SLGBTQI+ acronym, and creating…

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