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OCT 10–23, 2013 5 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook.com/dailyxtra Comment tweet @dailyxtra FREE the Trans March; Joshun Dulai, from 20,000 AUDITED CIRCULATION Totally Outright, a leadership program FEEDBACK HASTINGS VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS BUS BASHING for young gay men; and multidimen- E10 RUSSIAN sional artist Kim Villagante, who last Breath of fresh air KIDS E 2013 9, 26–OCT SEPT 10 The Top 30 Under 30 #524 year also worked as a facilitator for RAE SPOON I’d like to compliment you on the “One FILM E19 EDITORIAL As I listened to Matthew advocate Qmunity’s Routes to Roots program Locker Room at a Time” article [Xtra ROBIN PERELLE passionately for the various nomi- for immigrant youth and queer youth #524, Sept 26]. It was a welcome and nees, I began to realize how beautiful of colour and organized a conference well-written breath of fresh air, giving The idea was suggested a list he had compiled and how much for queer women of colour. hope that the most popular sport in @dailyxtra over coff ee this spring. each person on it contributes to our All people I had never heard of be- Canada is becoming more inclusive Little did Yogi Omar know that he community’s continued growth, fore. All people I’d like to get to know of diversity. facebook.com/dailyxtra Game face would later make the list of BC’s strength and evolution. better. Josh McKissock plays hockey at SFU, the first The words from the featured play- dailyxtra.com Canadian college team to partner with You Can Play E14 brightest young queer people. People like Cellouin Eguia, who Soon Matthew and I had profi les ers surely resonate with so many at More Little did I know the project would moved to BC when he was 16 years old strewn all around us, and a tentative youths who simply want equal accep- be so moving. hoping to enroll in a gay-friendly high order emerged. In this issue, you’ll tance in the sport. The photographs Yogi’s idea was simple: profi le the school, only to discover that if he want- meet the top seven. Online, you’ll fi nd accompanying the article are stunning young people in our community who ed a welcoming school environment, the other 23 members of our Top 30 and capture these fresh faces of a new A bathroom for both men and women are making a diff erence. he would have to help create it himself. Under 30, all equally deserving of our generation of hockey players. is not going to change anything. Peo- Its execution proved a little more Undeterred, Cellouin restarted and respect and appreciation. Please consider giving photogra- ple need to change. The same person challenging. First we had to fi nd the led Byrne Creek Secondary School’s On the Facebook event page that we phers equally visible credit for their who harasses transgender people in youth. gay-straight alliance, then began vol- created specifi cally for this project, professional contribution. This article the men’s bathroom will harass people For more than a month, freelance unteering with the Vancouver Queer you’ll fi nd hundreds of people who fol- would have much less impact without in the gender-neutral bathroom. reporter Matthew DiMera canvassed Film Festival and its educational arm, lowed the countdown and posted their the excellent photos, yet one has to I think spending money and teach- a wide cross section of our commu- Out in Schools. This year, he sat on congratulatory comments and ques- search hard to fi nd the photo credit. In ing kids at an early age what it means nity, looking for the Top 30 Under 30. the youth steering committee for its tions as we revealed each day’s profi le publishing, words and images work to- to be gay and transgender will benefi t Each nominee was asked to nominate Rise Against Homophobia video con- for 30 days. (Search for “Vancouver’s gether. Please give them equal respect. more. I was taught in elementary more people. test. His courage and contributions Top 30 Under 30” on Facebook.) CHRISTOPHER WEEKS school that drugs can kill you and The list began to grow. As the pro- moved me. What better way to celebrate our (EMAIL) I don’t take drugs. Parents taught me fi les took shape, it became harder and So did Jaedyn Starr’s. “I was sup- 20th anniversary of publishing Xtra to not make fun of people who are harder to rank them all. Matthew put posed to be a Jewish girl who would in Vancouver than by paying tribute Gender-neutral diff erent ... same thing. together a tentative order, trying to grow up to be a straight Jewish to our community’s next generation washrooms Thank you for wasting my tax dol- refl ect the nominees’ contributions woman,” Starr says. “I tried to be the of leaders? Glad to see a municipality vote on this lars, and I want to thank this news and their endorsement by their peers. person that’s called ‘normal,’ and I hope you’ll join me in thanking the issue and help address the needs of publication for being proud of some- One afternoon in July, we laid out it didn’t work.” Jaedyn, too, joined Top 30 Under 30 — and all the other the LGBTQ community [“Vancouver thing so useless. all the fi nished profi les on the couch the fi lm fest and now coordinates its queer youth out there who are leading Passes Gender-Neutral Washrooms in PLKTS (DAILYXTRA.COM) in the offi ce, then debated for hours League of Diversicorns, in addition to the way in all the ways that they do.