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Pretty standard flash-mobbing right up to 3:30.(Tipped by Dan Savage)

This all feels familiar from down here, doesn’t it?

The below promotional clip from Pride Toronto and Tourism Toronto has some complaining that it reinforces gay stereotypes. In the video, instructor Brody wears skintight shorts to show off his glistening oil-rubbed skin, promoting a gym lifestyle centred on the fact that all gay men and women want is “the best chest.” Amid “sparkle crunches,” a “disco break,” a requisite …

Pride Toronto hasn’t even begun accepting applications to march in this year’s parade, but already last year’s controversy is back in the news. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is pulling out of Toronto’s annual Pride Parade in what the activist group called a “challenge” to mayor Rob Ford, who had threatened to cut the city’s funding to the parade because of …

An Ontario internet provider is the first in Canada to impose greatly lowered usage caps on its customers. This move comes in response to the exploding popularity of heavy-bandwidth sites like Netflix. Customers who exceed their contracted usage will page steep fees. Starting on March 1, Ontario TekSavvy members who subscribed to the 5Mbps plan have a new usage cap …

Same-sex marriage became legal across Canada in July 2005. But that road to national equality began in ten years ago today in Toronto, when Joe Varnell and Kevin Bourassa were married in the Metropolitan Community Church, a ceremony that was later ruled legal when it was performed. Starting in 2003, with Ontario leading the way, province after province legalized same-sex …

Dan Savage tips us to this bit of scumbaggery out of Toronto. The commissary at Highfield Road Gospel Hall must have been fresh out of mind-your-own-business last night, because nine of God’s hand-picked mouthpieces allegedly found themselves outside of the home of a Leslieville gay couple, praying for the men’s unsolicited salvation. Residents of the Dundas and Greenwood area stepped …

(Via – Gothamist and EyeWeekly, tipped by JMG reader Dwerk)

After more than a month of controversy, protests, and threats of a boycott, Pride Toronto has reversed their ban on Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. But all of Pride Toronto’s event participants will now be required to sign an agreement to abide by the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance. “This is a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, which has faced censorship and …

Copyranter reacts: “Wow, pretty racy copy from a conservative government agency. But why not? Shitfaced is shitfaced. Sales tax is sales tax. Gay Pride Week in Toronto—like everywhere—begins June 25th. So the LCBO, via ad agency GLP, placed this ad in Toronto’s annual pride guide. The guppies reference, and the closing spritzer line are pretty stupid. But otherwise, especially when …

Windsor police have arrested one man and are seeking another (LEFT) in the brutal beating and robbery of a 26 year-old gay man. Stephen Lambert, 45, of no fixed address, is in custody facing a spate of charges in connection with the attack on Chris Rabideau, 26, who suffered a concussion, a broken nose, a blackened right eye, bloody lips …

Last September we were all appalled by the brutal anti-gay attack on Jake Raynard, who underwent extensive facial reconstruction surgery after being attacked by a group of brick-wielding thugs outside a bar in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Raynard himself was charged with assault for kicking one of his assailants and last week he plead guilty. But wait a minute — how …

After weeks of controversy, Pride Toronto has decided to ban Queers Against Israeli Apartheid from all its events. QAII, whom some claim is an anti-Semitic organization, opposes the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli government. They had marched in the parade for the last several years. Some city leaders had threatened to pull funding for Pride Toronto if the group …

Pride Toronto, already in a pitched battle with the city over the inclusion of an anti-Israel group, has lost its federal funding for this year’s event. The announcement came Friday when Industry Minister Tony Clement released the government’s list of events that will receive federal funding under the Marquee Tourism Events Program, a temporary two-year stimulus measure to support tourism …

The above ad for Toronto’s Muddy York rugby club can currently be seen around the city’s gay village. (Tipped by JMG reader Trevor in Toronto)

Thunder Bay, Ontario gay-bashing victim Jake Raynard speaks through multiple broken facial bones to talk about the value of the lives of LGBT people. There will be a rally against gay-bashing tonight at 6PM in Thunder Bay’s Waverly Park.

“This story isn’t just mine. I’m sure there’s many other people out there who have encountered a lot of the same problems that I have in my life, and have encountered hate-related crimes and a lot of discrimination based on that. I would urge them to come forward and make their stories known and have it so we can start …

Residents of Thunder Bay, Ontario are rallying around gay-bashing victim Jake Raynard, who was brutally beaten by a gang of men with bricks as he stood outside a gay bar this weekend. A group has formed on Facebook offering support and communicating the messages of support for the injured man, who underwent reconstructive surgury on the weekend following the attack …

A gay man in the U.S. border town of Thunder Bay, Ontario faces facial reconstruction surgery after being viciously gay-bashed by six to eight cowards with bricks. John “Jake” Raynard suffered 15 fractures to his cheekbone, a broken eye socket, a broken jaw and a broken upper palate when six to eight men surrounded him near a North Cumberland Street …