Xtra newspaper boxes targeted

Fourteen gay newspaper boxes in Vancouver were found vandalized over the holiday.

Vacouver couple forced to pay fine after harrassing gay neighbors

(Vancouver) Patricia and Alexander Harrison have been ordered by a British Columbia supreme court justice to pay $15,000 (approximately $13,000 U.S.) for harassing and tormenting a gay couple who lives next door to them.

Rod Boggs and Bill Hart, who have lived in the four unit condo since 2006, said …

Canadian politician says he’s ‘more tolerant’ since writing anti-gay email

(Vancouver, British Columbia) A British Columbia Liberal candidate who wrote an email more than a decade ago in which he said he did not support homosexuality says a lot has changed since then and he’s now much more tolerant.

Marc Dalton, an elementary school teacher and the Liberal candidate in the …

Store changes display, but defends gay magazine as ‘free expression’

VANCOUVER and TORONTO — Clothing retailer American Apparel, facing questions over the placement of a magazine deemed pornographic in a West Vancouver store, is citing a “free-expression” argument to defend its policies on selling BUTT, a gay-lifestyle quarterly.

The controversy began this week when a West Vancouver woman, taking her 13-year-old daughter shopping at the store, came across a display that featured an accessible copy of BUTT that contained, as she put it, “a full, double-page spread of two men engaged fully in a sex act.”

She complained to the store manager and the operators of the mall.

In its first comment on the controversy that has led West Vancouver’s bylaw office to fine the store in the city’s Park Royal mall, spokesman Ryan Holiday said the company supports its gay customers “and anyone who enjoys the magazine.”

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