North Carolina conducted a statewide study yesterday to resolve the question once and for all: Are most North Carolinians narrow-minded bigots? The answer, of course, was yes.
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Slap Upside The Head: Nova Scotia Refuses To Pay Medical Bill For Trans Man
The province of Nova Scotia has refused to pay for a trans man’s hysterectomy, leaving him with a surprise $3,400 bill. After experiencing some abdominal pain, Jessiah MacDonald was told that his uterus had several abnormal polyps and was recommended by a gynecologist that it be removed for preventative measures.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Gender Reassignment Surgery For Troops Up In The Air
The Canadian military has hinted that it will stop funding gender reassignment surgery in its health care package as a cost-saving measure. Yeah, because that’s the spending problem we’ve got in the military; not, say, some other $25-billion spending plans currently under consideration.
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Thanks for visiting this site over the past six years, but the time has come to vacate this little corner of the internet. If there’s anything here you want to save for posterity’s sake, or quote in the future, copy it now because it’ll probably be gone by the weekend.
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Raymond May 17
Slap reader Jen writes in with a really great fundraiser idea in memory of Raymond Taavel: “I’m a displaced Haligonian in Toronto, and am organizing what I am hoping will end up being a Canada-wide initiative. I’m also an avid crossfitter, so I’ve planned a tribute workout for raymond, on
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Controversial Ex-Gay Study Retracted
Here’s another win for science! A controversial study conducted in 2001 that claimed a small minority of gay people were able to change their sexual orientation from gay to straight has been retracted by its author, admitting that the study simply did not survive the peer review process and that
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: GLBT Summer Camp Expands
Camp Fyrefly—a Canadian summer camp for GLBT youth—has announced that it is expanding this summer, admitting 50% more campers than last year. That’s pretty impressive. In fact, at this rate, the camp will exceed the population of Canada in just 33 years—and the population of Earth just 13 years later. World
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Morning News Interrupted By Gay Porn
Television viewers in Hamilton, Ontario last week found their breakfast interrupted (enhanced?) by nearly three minutes of “eye-popping hardcore gay pornography.” The mihap, which happened around 9:30 a.m. Friday during the CHCH morning news show, is reportedly the result of severed cable lines outside of the station’s control that had
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Day of Silence
Today is the Day of Silence, and to note the occasion, let me say the following:
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Anti-Gay Lobby Group Calls Canada “Doomed”
Family Research Institute, an anti-gay lobby group based in the United States, has warned Americans that advancements in equal rights for GLBT citizens has “doomed” Canada forever. Funny… I don’t feel particularly doomed today. I mean, once you get used to all the walking corpses wailing through rivers of fire along
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Mike and Ike Head To Splitsville
Mike and Ike, some kind of sentient candy entities with human names, have apparently split up according to marketing material from the Just Born candy company. I didn’t even know they were gay. Well, you know what they say: There’s plenty of Swedish Fish in the package. Personally, I’m just
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Halifax Gay Activist Murdered
Tremendously sad news out of Halifax today as Raymond Taavel, a well-known activist for the gay community, was killed by an assailant while trying to break up a fight outside the city’s gay bar. A candlelight vigil is being organized by the Halifax community to honour his memory. My thoughts
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: The Real Wildrose Candidates
Danielle Smith, the leader of Alberta’s Wildrose Party, says she’s in support of same-sex marriage (an odd thing to say, since that’s already the law and provincial politicians don’t have the legal authority to change it), but she clearly isn’t speaking for her candidates. Allan Hunsperger, who is currently running
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Anti-Gay Groups Target Canadian Game Developer
BioWare, an Edmonton-based game development company, is being targeted by anti-gay groups over the option to make your character gay in their latest video game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. “In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists,” said Tony Perkins, head
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Alberta Party Pushes For Anti-Gay “Conscience Rights”
The Wildrose Party, a socially-conservative provincial party hoping to wrestle power away from Alberta’s current conservative government, is defending its election platform against some pretty serious criticism this month. The policy is pretty far to the right of the political spectrum, even by Alberta’s standards. One contentious point
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Trans Pride Media Style Guide
Trans Pride Canada has released a pretty thorough style guide that should assist media writers when writing about trans issues in Canada. As someone who has been on the receiving end of offended readers’ wrath for confusing terms like “gender” and “sex,” please accept my Ultra Thanks 3000™, Trans Pride
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Principal Disqualifies Student for Supporting Same-Sex Marriage
An assistant principal at Fullerton Union High School in California interrupted and disqualified a student competing for the title of Mr. Fullerton (A silly contest the school has going on, apparently) because the student said he hopes that same-sex marriage will be legal in California so that he can get
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Trans Beauty Contestant Un-Booted
Jenna Talackova, the trans beauty contestant that was booted from the Miss Universe Canada pageant for being born a male, has been allowed to re-enter the contest as long as she meets the Canadian legal definition of a woman, which I believe she does. This is a pretty big, visible
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: United States May Relax Customs Restrictions For Same-Sex Couples
The United States’ Department of Homeland Security has proposed finally lifting restrictions requiring same-sex couples to fill out separate customs declarations. Currently, heterosexual families are allowed to fill out one customs declaration per household, while same-sex couples are treated as if they were strangers that happen to be on the
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Anti-Gay Protest In Ontario
A crowd of about 200 appeared in Queen’s Park, Ontario yesterday, protesting provincial legislation that will help eliminate anti-gay bullying in schools. This rally also marked the unveiling of some brand new terminology to be used by the anti-gay lobby, as a spokesperson began referring to Gay-Straight Alliances as “homosexual
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