I am reminded of December 6, 1989 at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique. I am reminded of February 5, 1981 – Toronto’s bath house raids, the catalyst for my coming out. I am reminded of stolen innocence as a child at the hands of a strang…
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My journey with AIDS...and more!: Keeping Kenn Zeller’s name alive
I listened politely a couple of weeks ago as the woman told a roomful how she had been influenced so positively by a school librarian years before. “I was going through a rough time – abuse and all kinds of shit at home,” she said. “Then he was murdered in
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Ignorance VS Hatefulness: How to talk about explain gay-bashing in Sochi
I’m kind of tired of people describing some racists, misogynists and homophobes as “ignorance”. ’Ignorance’ means that they just don’t know better, they are missing information and they just need […]
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