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  EDMONTON -- A decision by the Red Deer Public School Board to celebrate Diversity Week instead of Pride Week is being met with fierce criticism by LGBTQ advocates. Trustee Dianne Macaulay presented the idea to hold a division-wide pride week during Wednesdays board meeting but only two of six trustees supported it. "Frankly I was surprised. We are a board that is very proud of GSAs and our LGBTQ community and I really thought it would have passed," Macaulay told CTV News Edmonton Friday....

Student Senate focused on the topic of sexual assault prevention and senators provided resources to show their support for survivors.

Dana is a resident artist mentor at New Urban Arts, a community art studio for Providence high school students. As an artist and community organizer, Heng uses art as a tool to engage the local community. In 2017 and 2018, she organized the Queer/Trans Zinefest, a Pride Week event at AS220 that showcased Providence-based artists in the queer community who might not have access to other art spaces. She was also commissioned to make murals for City Walk, an Urban Trail project that installed p...

A Busy February Underway I know it’s Q106.5 Egg Ride Week, and that’s kind of our focus. We get in up to our elbows in raising as much money for Pine Tree Camp as we possibly can. So thank you for your patience and for your donations. Obviously, this year is different then years gone by, because we were told over a month ago that due to Coronavirus protocol, we wouldn’t be able to hold the Q106.5 Egg Ride. Certainly the problem isn’t out in the woods on a snowmobile. The issue is that t...

Misti couldn’t ask for more from her daughter. “To see people — even when it was that kid from a two-parent household, they couldn’t come up with any excuses of a broken household or the father was absent or any other bologna excuses for why my kid was gay — there was none of that,” Misti said. "There was no way they could point to that and she was still treated like dog doo. So I cant even imagine what its like for kids, that one, dont have a safe place at home and dont have tho...

Buffalo Pride Week 2021 will be virtual only due to COVID-19 Evergreen Health and last updated 2021-01-27 14:39:43-05 BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The 2021 Buffalo Pride Week will be virtual only due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This years Buffalo Pride Week will not include in-person events like the annual pride parade, or the pride festival at Canalside. Organizers say the goal for this years event is to work with Western New Yorks community and community partners to create a series of events tha...

The commitment by Niccolo Polli, CEO of HSBC Luxembourg since 2018, to create an inclusive environment for LGBT+ colleagues in the workplace has earned him an award as one of 50 ally executives around the world.  Supported by Yahoo Finance, the Outstanding LGBT+ Role Model Lists “showcase LGBT+ business leaders and allies who are breaking down barriers and creating more inclusive workplaces across the world.” They also feature an LGBT+ Executives and an LGBT+ Future Leaders category. Polli...

Leigh F. Capule, Migrations Manager I GSC Philippines, HSBC. Photo: HSBC Leigh is a pioneer member of the HSBC (HSBA.L) Pride + Ally Network in GSC Philippines. Under Leigh’s leadership a number of significant initiatives and company policy changes were made, including the establishment of both gender neutral and gender preference restrooms, the inclusion of same sex and domestic partners in their insurance coverage and inclusion of treatment of HIV/AIDS in HMO coverage. Leigh took the lead i...

No plans in Ottawa for conversion therapy bylaw, mayor says after Kingston moves toward ban Craig Lord © THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang A man walks under Moving Surfaces, a giant steel and light sculpture at Ottawas Lansdowne Park, as it is lit up in the colours of the rainbow, during Pride Week on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. Ottawa’s mayor and city staff tell Global News there are no plans to put forward a bylaw to regulate conversion therapy after Kingston became the first c...

Big read: Non-stop events could make this Whanganuis biggest summer yet 15 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 7 minutes to read Hamish McDouall says there has always been "festival after festival after festival" in Whanganui. Photo / Bevan Conley Hamish McDouall says there has always been "festival after festival after festival" in Whanganui. Photo / Bevan Conley Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron Whanganui is in the middle of a summer event seas...