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Pride: The Fight for Liberation

July 12, 2026July 12, 2026 Ames Allen, R O'Brien

Pride’s rallying cry is struggling to be heard amid overlapping crises. Rising militarism, affordable housing shortages, and economic precarity dominate the attention of working-class queer people who are increasingly struggling to survive. Amid news of another bombardment, another pipeline, another data centre, corporations covertly cancel Pride initiatives and legislators quietly erode hard-won queer rights. The […]

Build a Fighting Pride

July 29, 2025 R O'Brien

With 2SLGBTQAI+ people under attack in the US, and several provincial governments introducing anti-trans legislation, many queer people were terrified of what a Poilievre prime minister might do. Many surely breathed a sigh of relief when Carney’s Liberals won. But this is just a temporary reprieve. We — queer people — cannot rely on the […]