Words to Break the Spell Thanks to Richard Summerbell for posting this video on YouTube. Historic Coming Out program, first LGBT radio show in Vancouver, Canada, on Cooperative Radio CFRO-FM Song from 1979. Photos: staff of the Coming Out Show circa 1979: 1st row: Bill Houghton, Greg Cutts; 2nd row: Linda Fraser, Jackie Goodwin, Richard ...

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As the Vancouver Pride Parade celebrates its 38th year, the LGBTQ rights movement continues to evolve, with many battles still to be fought  Forty-seven years ago, Martin Boyce had just come out and was living in New York City. It was a hot, hazy summer’s night and he was headed to the Stonewall Inn, a ...

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Halifax’s first generation of queer elders forged a rainbow path that LGBTQIA and Two-Spirited activists continue to march down today. It was spring of 1972 when Anne Fulton stumbled upon a poster that read It’s Time for Gay Liberation. That rallying cry appealed to the budding lesbian activist—Fulton was 20 then, maybe 21—and she went ...

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40 YEARS AGO: On February 12, Bill Holloway and Tom Field were in front of a Hudson Bay store in Toronto, posing for photos for an article on homophobia. The photos were to depict the two of them kissing, right there out in the open, on the streets, where anyone could see them. When a ...

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Why can’t Canada’s LGBTQ community tell its story correctly? In 1981, police stormed various bathhouses in Toronto. Locked doors were opened with crowbars and sledgehammers. Hundreds were rounded up, charges were laid, men were named publicly, and lives effectively ruined—this was when being identified as gay meant possible job loss and rejection by friends and ...

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . In August 1917, 15-year-old Arnold chatted up Thomas C outside of the Star Burlesque on Temperance Street, near the corner of Adelaide and Yonge, in downtown Toronto. Thomas was a single 26-year-old — a “sausage-casing expert,” hilariously enough. Arnold remarked ...

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Last week the city of Philadelphia issued an apology to Jackie Robinson. After breaking the colour barrier in major league baseball in 1947, Mr. Robinson endured racist taunts, particularly from Philadelphians. In one game the Phillies’ manager shouted at Mr. Robinson to “go back to the cotton fields.” Mr. Robinson played the 1946 season in ...

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