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Anti-gay baseball manager booted for game diatribe
Montreal Gazette, Posted: 8/8/2010, 12:39 PM
QUICK LOOK: The manager of an Edmonton semi-pro baseball team has resigned in the wake of a homophobic tirade directed at an openly gay umpire. Brent Bowers is out as manager of... (MORE)
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Justin Bieber joins Lady Gaga as Phelps clan targets
Politics Daily, Posted: 7/30/2010, 9:52 AM
QUICK LOOK: Watch out, Justin Bieber, you're a target. The 16-year-old Canadian pop star, who teenagers either undyingly love or massively loathe, has been singled out for protest... (MORE)
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Police criticized for outing gay HIV infection suspect
CANOE, Posted: 7/24/2010, 11:14 AM
QUICK LOOK: Ottawa police endangered the queer community by identifying a man they allege knowingly infected other men with HIV, gay advocates said Friday. "This case should have... (MORE)

HIV cocktail meds shown to reduce new infections
Los Angeles Times, Posted: 7/18/2010, 4:22 PM
QUICK LOOK: In the absence of a vaccine against the AIDS virus, the most effective treatment method is aggressive treatment of HIV infections with cocktails of antiretroviral drugs,... (MORE)

More than 1 million join Toronto Gay Pride celebration
CBC News, Posted: 7/6/2010, 4:26 PM
QUICK LOOK: Toronto's Pride parade danced, sang and jumped through the city's downtown on Sunday. Controversies dogged the organizers this year, but in the end it was a loud, joyous,... (MORE)
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Two brothers arrested in June Vancouver gay bashing
CTV.ca, Posted: 7/2/2010, 11:10 AM
QUICK LOOK: Two brothers have been arrested in connection with an attack on a gay couple in downtown Vancouver on June 12. Vancouver police Const. Jana McGuinness announced the arrests... (MORE)

Hate crimes targeting gay men on the rise in Canada
Toronto Star, Posted: 6/16/2010, 9:23 PM
QUICK LOOK: Police services are reporting a big jump in hate crimes, and they say gay men are being targeted more often and in the most violent incidents. But Statistics Canada says... (MORE)

German court: Canadian gay marriage is 'partnership'
Associated Press (AP), Posted: 6/16/2010, 6:21 AM
QUICK LOOK: Germany introduced "registered partnerships" for same-sex couples in 2001 but stopped short of granting them the full rights and privileges afforded to married couples... (MORE)

Thugs beat, punch Vancouver gay couple in bashing
The Province (British Columbia), Posted: 6/14/2010, 6:37 PM
QUICK LOOK: Two middle-aged Vancouver men who live near GM Place were victims of an apparent gay-bashing Saturday. Two thugs viciously assaulted David Holtzman and his partner, Peter... (MORE)

Winnipeg Gay Pride parade draws record 10K people
CBC News, Posted: 6/7/2010, 7:10 PM
QUICK LOOK: About 10,000 people flooded Winnipeg's downtown Sunday to take part in what organizers are calling the largest Pride parade in the city's history. Former Winnipeg mayor... (MORE)
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Researchers urge end to ban on gay blood donations
National Post (Canada), Posted: 5/26/2010, 6:36 AM
QUICK LOOK: The policy banning gay men from donating blood in Canada is outdated and discriminatory, according to a pair of prominent AIDS researchers who argue that changing it... (MORE)
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Director of play about gay bashings becomes victim
Windsor Star (Ont.), Posted: 5/22/2010, 2:43 PM
QUICK LOOK: An outgoing gay rights activist is recovering from a vicious mugging that police describe as having “overtones of a hate crime.” Chris Rabideau, 26, suffered a concussion,... (MORE)

Canadian court hears official who won't marry gays
Winnipeg Free Press, Posted: 5/14/2010, 10:48 AM
QUICK LOOK: Saskatchewan's highest court has been told that making marriage commissioners perform same-sex ceremonies against their religious beliefs forces them to "park their rights... (MORE)

Attack on Vancouver gay man was hate crime: court
Globe & Mail (Canada), Posted: 5/4/2010, 7:35 AM
QUICK LOOK: Gay hatred was flowing through a young B.C. man the night he and a group of friends swarmed two men holding hands in downtown Vancouver, shouting homophobic obscenities... (MORE)

Vancouver Catholic school pushes out lesbian teacher
CBC News, Posted: 4/29/2010, 11:23 AM
QUICK LOOK: A teacher at a Catholic high school for girls in Vancouver was told to work from home after parents complained about having a lesbian teach their kids, a gay rights group... (MORE)
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iPhone app Grindr blamed for assault on male teen
Vancouverite, Posted: 4/28/2010, 5:10 PM
QUICK LOOK: Police are blaming geo-tagging Iphone app Grindr available on Apple Itunes for a sexual assault on a 15-year-old boy. Bren Tynan, 54, from Vancouver was charged with... (MORE)
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Ontario premier called out for flip flop on gay sex ed
Montreal Gazette, Posted: 4/26/2010, 6:16 PM
QUICK LOOK: A gay rights group has criticized Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's decision to shelve a retooling of the province's sexual education curriculum. Egale Canada's executive... (MORE)
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Is Canada ready for a gay supreme court justice?
CBC News, Posted: 4/19/2010, 10:17 AM
QUICK LOOK: The Wall Street Journal recently posed a similar question in its Law Blog. A poll taken by Vanity Fair and CBS News was cited in the online piece indicating that 40 per... (MORE)

Lies behind scrapping of Canadian HIV vaccine plant?
National Post (Canada), Posted: 4/14/2010, 10:27 PM
QUICK LOOK: NDP health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis yesterday accused officials from the Public Health Agency of Canada of lying about the reasons Canada cancelled plans to build a... (MORE)

Comedian wants B.C. tribunal reversal on lesbian rant
Canadian Press (CP), Posted: 4/4/2010, 12:05 PM
QUICK LOOK: The lawyer for an Ontario comedian is going back to court to quash a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing into the funnyman's anti-lesbian rants, and to hold the tribunal... (MORE)
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Toronto religious group withdraws anti-gay bus ads
Torontoist, Posted: 4/2/2010, 4:00 PM
QUICK LOOK: A large, electric-blue banner featuring an oddly tattooed youth and the question: “Does God care if I'm gay?” has been voluntarily removed by the Christian group behind... (MORE)
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Magician turned demystifier James Randi comes out
Firedoglake, Posted: 3/22/2010, 12:30 PM
QUICK LOOK: James Randi, a.k.a The Amazing Randi, the stage magician turned investigator and demystifier of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims, the man who debunked Uri Geller’s... (MORE)
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Is advertising in America still afraid of gay images?
Ad Rants, Posted: 3/15/2010, 3:41 PM
QUICK LOOK: *VIDEO after jump*: It seems Americans really are a bunch of hypocrites. It's OK to be gay in movies and on TV. In fact, it's OK to have a gay character on almost every... (MORE)
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Facebook censors trans man's post-op shirtless pic
Xtra (Canada), Posted: 3/8/2010, 3:17 PM
QUICK LOOK: Facebook has once again censored a post-op photo of Dominic Scaia's bare chest — the same photo that got him banned from Facebook in December, for which he later received... (MORE)
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Canadian pol defends excising gay rights from guide
CBC News, Posted: 3/6/2010, 6:50 PM
QUICK LOOK: In response to accusations from opposition parties that he censored passages on gay rights in a citizenship study guide released last fall, Immigration Minister Jason... (MORE)
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