Pride in Morgane On BC election day, Morgane Oger could make history as an openly transgender candidate running for public office in Canada.  Oger is seeking the nomination for the BC NDP in the riding of Vancouver False Creek.  She will likely be acclaimed and then will need to win a seat in the spring ...

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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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NDP MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert has tried to have B.C. Human Rights Code amended for several years The provincial government plans to table legislation that will explicitly protect gender identity and expression in the B.C. Human Rights Code, Attorney General Suzanne Anton announced Wednesday in Vancouver. “In British Columbia we have a human rights code ...

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B.C. to expand human-rights law to protect transgender people by next week. Attorney General Suzanne Anton made the announcement with Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert this afternoon. MLA Spencer Herbert has been in the front line of the fight to get legislation introduced protecting transgender people from discrimination.. Herbert has introduced this in the ...

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The room was packed beyond Fire Marshall Regulations. 60 people waited in the West End Community Centre for the special Town Hall meeting to begin, as an overflow of many more people stood outside listening. Global and CBC cameras were set up. You could feel the room was on edge, irritable. Dating back to 1980, ...

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