Dear Readers: Your humble reporter was just reading an article about the United States called: “Ten things that are wrong with the United States!” It had stuff in there about how money and lobbyists control government, how the war on terror is eroding civil liberties, how big banks screw everyone but are too big to [...]

Today was monumental in more than the usual ways…Canada celebrated its tenth anniversary of legalized same sex marriage, something that represents so much more to me. Legitimizing gay marriage not only promotes family, it acknowledges the diverse nat…

A ‘Fairy’s Daughter’ living in 1970s small-town Ontario

On Monday, NBA player Jason Collins announced he’s gay. Carolyn Moos, a former WNBA player who dated him for 8 years, tells CNN’s Piers Morgan the announcement is “a lot to…

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The reaction to NBA veteran Jason Collins coming out as the first openly gay athlete in major North American team sports has been predictable on a couple of levels. Almost universally, Collins is being praised for his courage, and rightly so. The…

The reaction to NBA veteran Jason Collins coming out as the first openly gay athlete in major North American team sports has been predictable on a couple of levels. Almost universally, Collins is being praised for his courage, and rightly so. The…

In Canada it is legal for a 17 year-old and a 19 year-old to have sex, as long as they’re not gay.

This weekend at their policy convention the New Democratic Party have a chance to change that, or at least their party has an opportunity to dedicate themselves to right a wrong; to repeal section 159 of the criminal code that makes anal sex a crime if one or both partners are under the age of 18 years old.

Considering vaginal intercourse is legal for all youths who are within two years of each other (ex. 12 & 14) is legal for 14 year year-olds with partners who are up to 18 year sold, it is blatantly discriminatory for s.159 to at the same time criminalize anal intercourse for those very same ages. It should be easily admitted that being a gay youth is difficult enough without having . . . → Read More: The Scott Ross: Gay Sex is Illegal in Canada

When Tillett Wright began her photographic project, Self Evident Truths, back in 2010 she didn’t expect the groundswell of requests for photographs that she ended up receiving. She originally wanted to shoot 4-5,000 people, but the response has led her to increase her goal to 10,000 people.

“I basically decided to photograph anyone in this country that isn’t 100% straight, which, if you don’t know, is a limitless number of people,” jokes Wright in her TEDx talk posted above.

To date she has photographed around 2,000 people. “This is the civil rights fight of our generation,” says Wright.

What students are talking about today (March 5th)

… in 2013. The Boy Scouts of America has decided to delay a decision on lifting its archaic ban on gay members and volunteers in order to more comprehensively review their policies. Suuuurrrrrrrrre. Some, including former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, have argued the change could destroy scouting. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention [...]