Story Date: November 8, 2014
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For those who never had the chance to fall in love. For those who watched a lover die on the battlefield. For those who were silenced in their grief. Vancouver Councillor Tim Stevenson says that this Remembrance Day, when he lays a wreath in memory of gay…
Story Date: December 19, 2013
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Four months after Canada’s immigration minister said the country would favour Russian LGBT asylum seekers, the government has taken no concrete steps to facilitate refugee claims.
Story Date: December 13, 2013
Summary: The story of Russian gays being discriminated against, verbally and physically abused, and even persecuted, didn't begin last June. Then president Vladimir Putin only made the life of Russian gay people more miserable by introducing an anti-gay law.
Story Date: November 29, 2013
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Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) granted Montenegro’s highest-profile gay activist asylum Nov 22, after agreeing that Zdravko Cimbaljevic’s government failed to protect him from death threats and attacks..
Story Date: August 16, 2013
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Artem Mitrofanov came to the U.S. with scars of growing up gay in Russia. Some were literal, such as the one on his wrist from the day he says a skinhead slashed him with a broken bottle. Others were internal, including pains in his kidney, which he says a…
Story Date: August 15, 2013
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Our neighbors to the north have recently announced they will offer refuge to gay Russians suffering under the yolk of Putin's anti-gay regime.
Story Date: August 14, 2013
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Andrey Samstov could hardly believe his eyes on Aug. 4 when he saw, for the first time in his life, hundreds of thousands of people openly and joyously celebrating the diversity of the LGBTQ community in Vancouver’s West End..
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Story Date: August 13, 2013
Summary: Andrew Samstov, the client of Vancouver lawyer Robert Hughes, was arrested after he unfurled a rainbow flag in a pride parade in Moscow in 2011. (CTV)
Story Date: August 13, 2013
Summary:It looks like Canada is garnering a reputation of being a gay-friendly country.
Story Date: August 13, 2013
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Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says Canada's refugee board will likely favour gay asylum-seekers wishing to escape persecution in Russia.
Story Date: August 12, 2013
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New Westminster’s current lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered seniors grew up in a time when it was much harder to be open about their sexuality.
Story Date: August 12, 2013
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VANCOUVER – Russia’s hostile attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people has prompted two men to flee the country and seek refuge in Vancouver.
Story Date: August 12, 2013
Summary: Canada’s refugee board is likely to look favourably on claims of persecution by gay asylum-seekers from Russia, the Immigration Minister says.
Story Date: August 11, 2013
Summary: A gay refugee claimant living in Vancouver says he fled to Canada from his native Russia to escape being persecuted for his sexual orientation.
Story Date: August 9, 2013
Summary: As the western world gangs up on Russia ahead of the Sochi Olympics to draw attention to new anti-gay laws Canada’s foreign minister has publicly decried as “hateful,” those inclined to flee the increasingly repressive regime may be looking here for safe refu…
Story Date: December 6, 2011
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Imagine if your family published a newspaper story saying you were evil and that the story made some neighbours feel obligated to smash your skull with rocks. There are thousands of stories like this in Africa. This one is horrific but has a happy ending.
Story Date: March 17, 2005
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Keith Johnson has simply had enough. "Now that the United States has become a theocracy quickly headed toward all-out fascism, the time has come to leave," says Johnson, a 50-year-old business consultant from Port Charlotte, Florida.
Story Date: March 8, 2001
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Activists say the old flaws remain in the federal government's new same-sex spousal immigration bill.
