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Abigail Shrier’s anti-trans book creates a rift between two Halifax community hubs.

Article content Last week, Halifax Pride boycotted Halifax Public Library over a refusal to pull a book from its shelves. The book — Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier — is considered by many to be transphobic and rife with misinformation. The boycott is part of a disturbing pattern of Canadian pride festivals penalizing library systems for defending freedom of expression. In 2019, Meghan Murphy, a writer frequently accused of transphobia, wa...

Halifax Public Library's decision to keep a controversial book on its shelves, containing what advocates call transphobic misinformation and hate speech, has led to local backlash and a break with Halifax Pride.

  Organizers of the Halifax Pride Festival announced Wednesday its annual celebration will be delayed until August this year. In a news release, festival organizers say the 11-day event will be rescheduled to August 12-22 "due to the changing nature of the pandemic and public health protocols in recent weeks." The festival plans to return to its usual mid-July schedule in 2022. "The Halifax Pride Festival has a significant positive impact on the social and cultural well-being of our 2SLGBT...

Posted: Dec 29, 2020 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: December 29, 2020 Jacqueline Gahagan is a health promotion professor. Shes also the driving force behind the Nova Scotia LGBT Seniors Archive project at Dalhousie University.(Elizabeth Chiu/CBC) Researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax are creating an archive of materials relating to the LGBT community in Nova Scotia dating back to the mid-1900s. Jacqueline Gahagan, lead researcher on the project, said living in Halifax where theres a naval...