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Honouring Our Gay Soldiers Twu Law School Bid FREE 20,000 AUDITED CIRCULATION VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS HONOURING OUR GAY NOV 6–19, 2014 6–19, NOV SOLDIERS E8 #553 TWU LAW SCHOOL BID REJECTED E10 JORDAN TANNAHILL’S LATE COMPANY E 17 GREGOR’S @dailyxtra VISION Mayor Robertson and Vision Vancouver facebook.com/dailyxtra facebook.com/dailyxtra have granted the gay community unprecedented access to city hall E dailyxtra.com dailyxtra.com 12 More at at More 2 NOV 6–19, 2014 XTRA! VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS XTRA VANCOUVER’S Published by Pink Triangle Press GAY & LESBIAN NEWS PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSANNE JOHNSON Brandon Matheson #553 NOV 6–19, 2014 Counselling Service Roundup EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR Robin Perelle STAFF REPORTER Natasha Barsotti “Committed to enhancing the lives COPY EDITOR Lesley Fraser EVENT LISTINGS [email protected] and relationships of LGBTQ individuals” GREG WONG GREG CONTRIBUTE OR INQUIRE about Xtra’s editorial content: [email protected] EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE [email protected] | (604) 319-2345 Grace Cameron, Nathaniel Christopher, Tom WWW.ROSANNEJOHNSON.COM Coleman, Tyler Dorchester, Evan Eisenstadt, Jeremy Hainsworth, Shimon Karmel, Pussy Liquor, Raziel Reid, Mark Robins, Tallulah ART & PRODUCTION CREATIVE DIRECTOR Lucinda Wallace NO GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Darryl Mabey, TOP or BOTTOM? EST. 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Editorial BC Law Society rejects [email protected], 800-268-XTRA Sharing my Vision Trinity Western law school PINK TRIANGLE PRESS By Robin Perelle E4 Directors uphold referendum Founded 1971 E refusing accreditation E10 DIRECTORS Jim Bartley, Gerald Hannon, Feedback 4 Glenn Kauth, Didier Pomerleau, Ken Popert, Xcetera E5 Guest column Gillian Rodgerson Why I’m voting HONORARY DIRECTOR Colin Brownlee PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Ken Popert Green this election CEO, DIGITAL MEDIA David Walberg Upfront By Pussy Liquor E11 CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Andrew Chang Cover story Summit calls for Poll position greater health literacy Are Vision Vancouver’s queer- Gay men’s health needs friendly accomplishments are poorly understood E7 merely cosmetic? E12 In memory of gay soldiers North Van mayoral candidate Councillor Tim Stevenson THE BEST OF challenged on 2009 email GAY & LESBIAN will lay LGBT wreath VANCOUVER E Kerry Morris says he regrets 2015 2014–MAY NOV on Remembrance Day 8 E Bang-up homophobic language 15 breakfasts Real Estate E16 Winter Public hotspots Burger Education ondailyxtra.com joints Project E Funding cut strands Out in the City trans people without What’s On E18 assessment in BC GWEN JANE Blitz & Shitz E Edmonton police Satanic sacrifi ces GIESBRECHT seeking suspect in BOUEY and Barbie dolls connection with gay By Raziel Reid E19 man’s murder Standing up for our kids E E Metelkova: Slovenia’s Xtra Living 20 NCOUVER’S VA IAN Vote on November 15th, because public ’S GAY & LESB INSIDECANADA AN creative, inclusive, Xposed GAY & LESBI NEWS S The Haunting By Tallulah E20 NEW defi ant hub NEXT 2014-10-31 6:53 PM education is too important to be ignored E 25 years after fall of The Brotherhood ISSUE! By Tyler Dorchester E21 Berlin Wall, more work http://publiceducationproject.ca #votepubliced needed COVER PHOTO BY SHIMON KARMEL MORE AT DAILYXTRA.COM XTRA! NOV 6–19, 2014 3 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook.com/dailyxtra Comment tweet @dailyxtra Sharing my Vision FEEDBACK Jim Deva fought well EDITORIAL been in power for two terms, and it’s our Thanks for the article and this concise I suspect that the causes of suicide ROBIN PERELLE duty to question policy when problems timeline [“‘We’re Not Going to Live in such as aff ordability continue to pose Shame:’ The Legacy of Jim Deva,” Xtra in middle age are existential in It should come as no sur- staggering challenges to our city and #551, Oct 9]. I attended a fundraiser prise that I’m voting for many of our lives. But it would be a grave for the Little Sister’s court battle in nature and ones that we share with Vision Vancouver on Nov 15. error to take for granted the new level which passages were read from a num- our single straight counterparts: Since the party’s election six years of access and support we’ve received in ber of books once deemed obscene or ago, Mayor Gregor Robertson and his the last six years under Vision. subject to seizure. The titles ranged isolation and meaninglessness. caucus have welcomed the gay com- Let’s not forget that — despite may- from Lolita to American Psycho. The munity and given us not only unprece- oral candidate Kirk LaPointe’s baffl ing venue was packed and brought home RE: STUDY FINDS MORE GAY MEN DIE OF SUICIDE THAN HIV dented access to city hall, but numerous claim to the contrary — the previously the point that the interpretation of opportunities to shape policy direction. dominant Non-Partisan Association prurient interest should not exist by this study [“Helping LGBT Seniors Take the West End community plan. (NPA) was generally unresponsive to within the hands of a few. Nothing TWU GRAD COMPLAINS Make End-of-Life Preparations,” dai- Unanimously supported by Vision our community’s needs and ignored our good ever comes from the granting of E7 VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS CITY HELPS lyxtra.com, Oct 22]. It was a good, use- councillors last November, it contains requests for an advisory committee to big power to small minds. CLUB 8X6 E8 ful discussion of what the participants so much recognition of the gay com- help communicate those needs. CAELAN PRAIRIE 2014 5, 23–NOV OCT FAIRIES saw as the needs of seniors and the kind munity’s presence and its historical and To be fair, I know very little about DAILYXTRA.COM #552 E 20 of information needed to reach that cultural connection to the Davie Village LaPointe. He, too, says he would be goal. However, at no point was there a that it’s almost embarrassing. inclusive and celebrate diversity. He, Report on gay No strings discussion of “end of life” in terms of Just six lines into its contextual too, says he would champion dedicated men and suicide attached Lippy Willow takes assisted suicide. introduction, the plan acknowledges community space and Davie Village im- a stroll through 14 More die from suicide, but I still think @dailyxtra East Van I don’t know what the statistics the Davie Village as “traditionally a provements. But he also maintains that that HIV is the larger health problem are for Canada, but a recent study in hub for the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, some of Vision’s queer accomplishments facebook.com/dailyxtra for the gay community in particular the USA indicated that more than 75 transgender and queer (LGBTQ) com- “happened under NPA recognition,” [“Study Finds More Gay Men Now Die dailyxtra.com FREE 20,000 AUDITED percent of LGBT folks interviewed CIRCULATION munity.” References to the Village as a which doesn’t match my recollection of at More of Suicide than HIV,” dailyxtra.com, said they had no problem with the gay hub and promises to enhance and the municipal progress I’ve studied and Sept 17]. HIV robs its victims of a life question of assisted suicide. I think in strengthen its “unique community covered for the last 13 years. without pills, doctors, testing, et cetera. learned to have more compassion for Canada members of the LGBT com- identity” and “vitality” are sprinkled It’s not that I think any one party I can only imagine that for those who ourselves and each other. munity need to have an opportunity to liberally throughout the plan, includ- should dominate without dissent and are HIV-positive, it must always men- RYAN discuss this issue. I am grateful for the ing its policy sections. The contrast healthy opposition. I don’t need a Vision DAILYXTRA.COM tally lurk in the background, stealing opportunity to participate in the focus between the new plan and its predeces- sweep, but I would certainly celebrate some of life’s joy. On the other hand, I The study claims that gay and bi men group but challenge the organizers to sor — which never even mentioned the a signifi cant win. That’s why I’m voting can’t catch suicide from a sexual part- are “four times more likely” to com- include assisted suicide as part of the word gay — is remarkable.
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