For some, showing their colours isn’t a choice

We have made significant progress in terms of equality over the past three decades, but it would be wrong to think that all LGBTQ+ people feel safe as they go about their lives.

Here in Canada, we hoped to disprove the statistics. However, from 2015 to 2019, the number of hate crimes against LGBTQ+ people based on sexual or gender orientation has increased by 86 per cent, writes Laurent Breault. Screenshot courtesy of Fondation Émergence

Opinion

BY LAURENT BREAULT

May 19, 2021

In recent years, nearly everywhere in the world, a little-known phenomenon has been deeply affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, and two-spirit people, as well as other sexual- and gender-diverse individuals: a serious resurgence in physical and mental abuse committed against LGB...

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