Queer Legends Pod

I hear you.

To be fair, I do understand that there is time and a cost associated with physically locating the records, digitizing them and so on...but the fees could be more reasonable.

Accessing history should be easier & less expensive.

To be clear, that's CBC's price. Not Library and Archives.

Before I'm even allowed to use the audio I must provide detailed context about HOW I will use it...even before I've heard the audio or know if it's relevant to my series.

Then I'd have to get back to Archives with permission. Sigh.

Awwwww....Muffin.

Masquerade in NYC? If yes, hope you enjoyed it. We saw it and it was fabulous.

If not, details please. Lovely mask!

"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams at us the loudest."

-Mon Mothma (Andor)

The pettiness of Florida’s homophobia faces backlash in the streets…literally.

Landfill search for Indigenous women cost $18M, one-tenth of original estimate: Kinew The successfully completed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for two victims of a convicted serial killer cost $18 million — less than one-tenth of the original worst-case estimate, Premier Wab Kinew revealed Wednesday.

The successfully completed search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for two victims of a convicted serial killer cost $18 million — less than one-tenth of the original worst-case estimate, Premier Wab Kinew revealed Wednesday.

I recently used AI to translate a documentary into French. Thankfully, I’m fluent. The AI completely made up entire sections of new, historical events, which never happened.

Spotted in Montreal.

mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Two HIV vaccine trials show proof of concept for pathway to broadly neutralizing antibodies Learn more about North American and African clinical trials led by Scripps Research, IAVI and collaborators that show early immune activation using mRNA vaccine technology—marking progress toward an e...

www.iavi.org/press-releas...

Using mRNA, scientists overcome a key challenge to HIV vaccines Scientists used a mRNA-based vaccine to reliably trigger antibodies that block HIV infection in people and monkeys

www.statnews.com/2025/07/30/m...

This is also another attack on the global Queer community & developing nations.

mRNA technology & research offers the best shot at creating a vaccine or cure for HIV.

Republicans hate LGBTQ people & folks living with HIV SO MUCH that they'd rather see them suffer, than cure global pandemics.

This is also another attack on the global Queer community and people living with HIV.

mRNA technology and research currently offers the best shot at creating a vaccine or cure for HIV.

Arms Embargo Now! Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...

Damning.

A new report is exposing hundreds of Canadian arms shipments to Israel.

I’ll be covering this today. The press conference should be starting any minute now.

armsembargonow.ca/report/

And they must be warm and chewy, fresh from the oven.

The Albertans Counting on America to Help Break Apart Canada Fed up with finding a constitutional path to separation, the leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project are looking for other means

There's a group of Albertans who are counting on America's help to break apart Canada.

We travelled to a town outside Red Deer to find out just how organized they are…

pressprogress.ca/the-albertan...

🚨‼️Stay away from the USA ‼️🚨
"Chavarria, who .. has held U.S. citizenship since 2018, was reentering the U.S. using the expedited Global Entry process .. Despite having used the pre-approved Global Entry process many times before, CPB agents .. subjected him to five hours of questioning"

It will never not blow my mind how many dudes out there will bend over backwards to defend hockey players doing abjectly heinous shit simply because they know how to put pucks in nets

ACLU Condemns Trump Executive Order Targeting Disabled and Unhoused People | American Civil Liberties Union WASHINGTON – President Trump signed an executive order today directing states to criminalize unhoused people and institutionalize people with mental...

This is how full-on Nazism starts. Arresting nonviolent citizens whose circumstances displease the fascist aesthetic of the Dear Leader and permanently caging them—no cause or process—so the streets are clear for the Leader’s motorcade as he’s driven past.

This thread kinda makes CBC's reporting look like it was written in crayon by comparison.

Follow CAHN, they're amazing.

Ask yourselves this question daily and the answer becomes very apparent!!

Confronting the Rainbow Panic The erasure of LGBTQ+ stories from the National Park Service and other government websites has a long history.

Earlier this year, @wendylrouse.bsky.social was one of the first to sound the alarm about federal censorship of historical work. Today at #AHAPerspectives, she writes about what happened with her own article on the NPS website and the longer history of LGBTQ+ erasure. 🗃️

Wisconsin Supreme Court clears the way for a conversion therapy ban to be made permanent The Wisconsin Supreme Court has cleared the way for the state to permanently enact a ban on conversion therapy.

GOOD NEWS: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has cleared the way for the state to permanently implement its existing ban on so-called “conversion therapy.”

We will continue to fight for LGBTQ+ youth’s ability to live as their true selves and to THRIVE while doing so. apnews.com/article/wisc...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

Pride is and always will be Political.

To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.

Alright everyone, one last push.

If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US

Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.

It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)

trvr.org/survey2025

Great news out of Alberta, for a change.

I suspect this will go all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The question is whether Premier Smith will use the Notwithstanding Clause of the Constitution to take away rights of Trans Canadians.

globalnews.ca/news/1126530...

Yes, this is bad for porn.

But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such:

This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or