'I. M[a]ckenzie' in OBA Collectie

Nine homosexual couples, seven of whom have been denied marriage licenses by the city of Toronto, are asking a Canadian court to uphold a 2002 ruling that says prohibiting same-sex marriage is discriminatory.

Toronto researcher Ray Blanchard theorizes that the more older brothers a boy has, the more likely he is to be gay; called the "fraternal birth order effect," the research takes its place among a host of study attempting to link homosexuality with biology.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has declared that banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and ordered Toronto's City Hall to immediately issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples requesting them; a court of appeals in British Columbia has made a sim...

Profile of the conference "Liberating Tradition, Celebrating Culture" for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and transsexual Muslims held in Canada in June, which expected some 200 participants and was sponsored by Salaam, Toronto's queer Muslim grou...

Surveys in Toronto indicating that 15% of the men who have sex with men are HIV-positive, that 12% of MSM recruited in bars and saunas have unprotected anal sex, and that the use of alcohol and drugs may contribute to unsafe sexual practices have led a...

While the Canadian Forces no longer discriminates against gay men and lesbians in the armed services, in part because of a law suit brought by Michelle Douglas in 1992 for wrongful dismissal, there is still homophobia and a sort of "locker-room heterose...

Options for gay men to become fathers (co-parenting, surrogacy, adoption) are discussed, as is a new course in Toronto (Daddies and Papas 2B)) for gay men who are considering having children.

Amerika, 1779. De familie Fraser is weer herenigd met de familie MacKenzie en hun kinderen maar de Onafhankelijkheidoorlog woedt en komt steeds dichter bij Fraser's Ridge, de nederzetting van Jamie Fraser.