Visible minorities
Multimundo: a new coalition for queer cultural communities
May 8, 2006, was an historic day for Québec’s queer cultural communities. For the very first time in North America and maybe even in the world, the LGBTQ community organizations that offer services to queers from cultural minorities held a meeting to create a new alliance: the Multimundo Coalition.
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Intolerance makes headlines again
Last week in Australia, interethnic intolerance reared its head as racially-motivated rioting broke out in a Sydney suburb. Hundreds of young Australians of European origin met on the beach in Cronulla to protest
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Discover with a Cover
Safe sex and HIV/AIDS campaigns are nothing new. At one time or another, one can find posters encouraging safe sexual practices strewn across newspapers and magazines in major cities throughout Canada. Rarely do these campaigns ever feature or specifically target people of colour. The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAP), in Toronto, hopes to change this common practice through a new campaign titled Discover with a Cover.
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Liberating Tradition, Celebrating Culture
Salaam Canada and Al-Fatiha Foundation USA hailed the success of the 1st Salaam Canada and 4th Al-Fatiha International Conference, held in Toronto from June 20 – 22, 2003. More than 150 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered Muslims and their allies from around the world gathered for the three-day conference, the first of its kind in Canada.
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The New (GLBT) Generation
Youth that aren’t ashamed, or afraid; youth that are self-assured, outspoken and totally open at far earlier ages; youth that are ready to stand up to the world and declare “I’m gay, and proud of it!” Read what our editor has to say about the new GLBT generation.
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Piecing Together My Racial Identity
Race and racial identification have always been confusing concepts for me. What is my ethnicity? What do I look like? What do other people think I am? These questions baffled me throughout my childhood, growing up in a white, upper-class, suburban neighborhood. My elementary school told me who I am. My teacher told me to [...]
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Made In Japan
“Sister boy,” said a classmate in my first grade class. I was stunned and speechless. I did not know how to respond to his comment because I did not understand what he meant. I had developed pneumonia and had not been able to attend the first few weeks of school. I was very small [...]
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Across the Last Gay Frontier
Family and religion can make it doubly hard for British Asians to come out, but now they are doing it with confidence and with pride Something new is happening among Asian gays in Britain. Gone are the days when the closet or social exclusion seemed like the only two options. Today, they are embracing a [...]
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Child of 10%
Born in 65
Child of ten percent
First orgasm in 75
Child of ten percent
Tiny hands discovered un-chartered territory
Child of ten percent
Grew up in suburbia of industrial country
Bluntly, My Life
Here lies a synopsis of excruciating memories turned into sarcastic folly.
I was an adopted little girl, dubbed the “Asian tomboy.” Because I was repeatedly mistaken for male I did not mind allowing sports to be an influtential part of my life. During the teenage acne phase I found comfort draping myself in oversized solid colored attire from Russell’s Athletic Wear.
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Équipe AlterHéros
Julie-Maude Beauchesne
François Paquette
Dee Gamme
Samuel A.
Marion Téjédor