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TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS TORONTO’S ABRAMIAN ASSOCIATES GAY & LESBIAN NEWS BARRISTERS SOLICITORS Roundup #761 DEC 26, 2013–JAN 8, 2014 Successfully practicing law for over 15 years family law r marriage contracts r co-habitation agreements r separation agreements r divorce r property division r custody r access r spousal/child support r wills/estates t civil litigation TECH ")(żɠƘŹŰŵƙɠŹűŸƐűűŸŰɠƀɠ2żɠƘŹŰŵƙɠŹűŸƐűűŸŴɠ &2(,ƞ,'#(&1ź)'ɠƀɠűųűɠ,#!".ɠ.,.Żɠ#"')(ɠ#&&Żɠ ŴɠŴų The pixel is Ŕ political A growing number of developers are pushing for greater diversity in video games E14 135 GEORGE ST, #903 American author Anna Anthropy is the creator of Dys4ia, a video game that draws on her experiences with hormone replacement therapy. 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DEC 26, 2013–JAN 8, 2014 5 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook/dailyxtra.com Comment tweet @dailyxtra FEEDBACK Everyone deserves a safe place Fighting Trinity Western to sleep, and everyone deserves to LGBT youth shelter be respected as they identify. GUEST EDITORIAL gay and trans communities to oppose Well done, sir. After so many years of MARCUS MCCANN the decision and to rally. working with homelessness, and as a [RE:LGBT YOUTH SHELTER] That’s why a group of people — myself formerly homeless youth myself, one of It was not that long ago — just 20 years included — are crowd-funding a legal the most heartbreaking issues is when child can service up to 2,000 men a — that Janine Fuller and her friends challenge to the accreditation of Trinity a trans person fl eeing violence is made FREE 36,000 AUDITED CIRCULATION piled into an old van and drove out of Western Law. Prominent lawyers like to feel unsafe in the shelters [“Toronto year, wife-burning “accidents” that TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS Vancouver, embarking on a multi-city Clayton Ruby and Angela Chaisson have Moves Closer to Creating a Homeless allow for a new wife and dowry, et ce- tera. Everyone has to look at the caste road trip. They were raising money for expressed interest in the case. I suspect Shelter for LGBT Youth,” Xtra #760, 2013 12–25, DEC a court challenge to oppose the seizure lawyers who care about this issue will Dec 12]. We need anti-homophobia and #760 system, which, while outlawed, still ex- 519 ists and permeates all of Indian society. at the Canadian border of books and put in a lot of free or deeply discounted anti-transphobia training, and we need SPORTS CENTRE E PAULA KEY magazines destined for Little Sister’s time. But there are fi xed costs that can- to keep that as a top priority and value 10 HOLIDAY TORONTO, ON Book and Art Emporium. not be waived, including disbursements for all of our public services. Everyone GIF T GUIDE E 22 Little Sister’s held benefi t readings and fi ling fees. deserves a safe place to sleep, and ev- DAILY XTRA @dailyxtra TRAVEL E 36 It’s great to see South Asian LGBT and screenings from Toronto to San Taking legal action is not my first eryone deserves to be respected as they Newsmaker of the year people try to do something about this Francisco. In one delightfully irrever- preference. My fi rst choice is for the identify. Kudos to you, Mr Abramovich. facebook.com/dailyxtra Vladimir Putin’s anti-gay laws have ensured the horrifi c ruling. Let’s see Canadian gay Sochi Olympics will be about ent fundraiser, Cleis Press released an BC government and the law societies LIA GRIMANIS dailyxtra.com much more than sports E16 Olympic medal holders follow their anthology excerpting material that had to refuse accreditation, as they ought TORONTO, ON at More lead against Russia — and don’t stop been seized at the border. They called to. For more than a year, people who there: the African-Caribbean LGBT it Forbidden Passages. care about this issue — law students 519 rec centre I hope the student in the story goes to community of Canada has lots of op- A decade before that, Torontonians especially — have been protesting and a supportive adult to look into a com- I am baffl ed about where the demand portunity to do the same in regards to struck the Right to Privacy Committee, writing letters to push decision-makers plaint to the Ontario Human Rights for this is coming from [“The 519 Pro- their dangerous situation from their which helped defray the legal costs of into doing the right thing.