Queer News Digest Feb 3
Queer News Digest Feb 3
Queen City Pride Learns Communication is Key to Pride’s Success
Queen City Pride Learns Communication is Key to Pride’s Success By Michele Tyndall Regina, Saskatchewan is getting ready to celebrate thirty years of Pride. From a handful of terrified activists wearing masks who were denied a parade permit in 1989, to last year’s record of 80 organizations and hundreds of marchers, Pride in Regina has become more and more successful. It has not [...]
The World News Feb 3rd
PinkNews: LGBT organisations receive over £2 million in government funding PinkNews: Japanese city of a million legally recognises same-sex couples PinkNews: Myanmar celebrates Pride with first-ever boat parade CTV News: Hong Kong court denies male status to 3 transgender men on their ID cards
US and Canada News Feb 3rd
On January 29th the star of Fox's Empire Jussie Smollett was attacked in Chicago in what is being investigated as a hate crime. The attack was violent, laden with racist and homophobic slurs, and he had a liquid poured on him and a noose put around his neck. (CBS) reported that police could smell bleach on his clothes. Smollett and his manager were [...]
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