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The Victoria-based Lesbian Action Group is appealing a Human Rights Commission ruling that it could not legally exclude transgender women from public gatherings. A tribunal previously found excluding ...

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Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

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Rowan Ashley Smith has often been described as "a multi-hyphenate about town." He loves work that connects him to his cultures as a gay, Jewish, multiracial trans man. Before breaking into journalism, ...