Dr. Kristopher Wells
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Canada Research Chair for the Public Understanding of Sexual & Gender Minority Youth @MacEwanU . Editor @JLGBTYouth . Co-Founder @PrideTape . Treaty Six. He/Him
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Today, I was fortunate to be among local 2SLGBTQ+ community leaders who met with Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
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It’s very telling that the Prime Minister would make time to meet with our community, while Danielle Smith would rather have lunch with Tucker Carlson. /1
#abpoli
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@62Takes
I hope the rcmp arrested them for criminal harassment and the school banned them for life.
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Brian Burke says he will pay any players fine that uses
@PrideTape
. Now that’s allyship! Way to go
@Burkie2020
!
🏳️🌈🏒🏳️⚧️
#NHL
"I don't understand it. I still have to believe there's a chance the rule is rescinded."
@reporterchris
weighs in on the NHL's ban on Pride Tape.
#CJShow
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The original Pride flag, 1978 by Gilbert Baker. Gone too soon, but never forgotten. 🏳️🌈
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BREAKING NEWS:
St. Albert School Board has unanimously approved a new optional locally developed junior high course on 2SLGBTQIA+ perspectives.
This may well be the very first 2SLGBTQIA+ course developed and offered in Alberta's history. A truly ground-breaking moment! 🤩
#abed
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The
@EdmontonOilers
stand firmly beside the 2SLGBTQ+ community and will continue to make their Pride night bigger and better than ever. Here is their statement of support. 🏳️🌈🏒🏳️⚧️
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This is the most draconian legislation ever introduced in Canada. It is a full on attack against trans and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. It is not only immoral, it is illegal.
There is no evidence or research to support any of these recommendations. This is ideological warfare.
#abpoli
Gender identity can be a hard thing to talk about, especially when you are involved. But this conversation is extremely important and parental involvement is critical. Kids need to know we love and support them.
My message to all Albertans:
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I called 811 asking where you can get tested for monkeypox. Was told you had to visit an STI clinic to be tested.
Monkeypox is NOT an STI. This is incredibly stigmatizing and entirely inappropriate care.
What's going on
@CMOH_Alberta
?!
#abhealth
#abpoli
#ableg
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If you’re upset that
@JustinTrudeau
went to a gay bar and made international news, ask yourself why no other Prime Minister has ever been to a gay bar ...
This is a huge sign of cultural shift and a sea change in values. 1/4
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A message to all LGBTQ youth: You are not disordered. You are not evil. Your identity is not a lifestyle or choice.
You are normal and beautiful just as you are. You don’t need to change, it’s our society and church that need to change.
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Over the past year, there’s been over 140 Pride festivals, parades, picnics & events in communities across Canada, including large celebrations today in Calgary and Quebec City.
Andrew Scheer hasn’t been at any of them.
Actions speak the loudest.
Happy Pride, Canada! 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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Look who just updated their Twitter bio and included their pronouns! ✊🏻🏳️🌈
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Peak privilege. If anyone else did what Will Smith did, they would be in jail, not accepting an award.
Celebrity culture forgives all. This is the reality of the world we live in.
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BREAKING NEWS: Red Deer public school trustees vote against motion to recognize Pride Week in schools. Instead they want a “Diversity week” because all lives matter.
Have elected officials not learned anything about equity and intersectionality over the past year!?
#reddeer
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This should be in every classroom around the world.
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Talk of “parental rights” in education is a dog whistle for anti-LGBTQ ideologies.
If parents want to know information about their child, just ask your child. If they feel safe and supported, they will tell you. It’s that simple.
#cdnpoli
'Parents must be fully involved' in student's decision to change pronouns, Ontario education minister says
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LGBTQ2 people don't have "lifestyles", we have LIVES.
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The world is watching Canada’s leadership. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
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To all our trans friends & family members. We love you and stand behind you, unlike this government.
Now is the time for all allies of the trans and 2SLGBTQ+ to rise and stand together.
Today, they are coming after the 2SLGBTQ+ community, tomorrow they come for you.
#abpoli
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We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Travis Dermott. It was his courage that helped to break the ban on
@PrideTape
.
Change doesn’t happen without the support of allies! Thank Travis! ❤️✊🏳️🌈
#StickUpForPrideTape
#NHL
With the imminent announcement that the NHL has rescinded its ridiculous ban on Pride Tape, players who now wish to use the tape are free to use it in practices and games while those that choose not to use it are free not to use it. The way it should have been all along.
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"Straight Pride" is a far-right political tactic designed to publicly ridicule, shame, and demean 2SLGBTQ+ communities; and no one is falling for it.
Bravo to the Estevan city council for standing up against hate.
#cdnpoli
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Never forget it was
#lesbianactivity
that came to the bedside of so many gay men dying of AIDS when their own families and government ignored and shunned them.
What
#leabianactivity
makes you proud?
#cdnpoli
#LGBTQ
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An amazing young person. She should be invited to speak to the Alberta Legislature.
R/T if you agree.
#ableg
#abpoli
Heading north again. Now follows a few days of well needed rest while enjoying the spectacular nature of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Then on to Alberta, Canada!
#slowtravel
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The Prime Minister is 100% right.
The far right is trying to divide and pit minority communities against each other with lies and disinformation.
We must stand united in the belief that diversity is Canada’s greatest strength.
#cdnpoli
I have never heard a more coherent, clear-eyed, unequivocal, honest, or compelling speech by PM Trudeau than this. This is what all of us should expect from every Canadian politician and public servant. It gets better and better the longer he speaks.
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This is allyship in action! 🏳️🌈🏒🏳️⚧️
Travis Dermott is the first player to challenge the NHL’s
@PrideTape
ban!
#StickUpForPrideTape
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Once an ally, always an ally. Doesn’t matter the team. It’s the power of the message. Thank you Travis! 🏳️🌈🏒🏳️⚧️
#StickUpForPrideTape
#NHL
Things we love to see:
Travis Dermott always keeps a little bit of pride tape on his sticks to continuously show his support for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community
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If we made laws according to polls we’d still have racial segregation and same-sex marriage would never have been legalized.
What we need is more education and empathy, not blind ideology.
#abpoli
#ableg
#cdnpoli
Majority of Albertans support parental consent and/or notification for minor to get abortion: Survey
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Today, we release a new document, which compiles and highlights 60+ statements from medical, health, legal, educational, and other professionals that have spoken out against Premier Danielle Smith's anti-trans and anti-2SLGBTQ+ policy proposals.
#abpoli
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It’s easy. You either believe LGBTQ people can be “cured” or you love & accept them for who they are.
There is no debate about conversion therapy. LGBTQ people are not sick, broken, disordered or evil.
Standing in the way of a ban, is nothing more than deep seated homophobia.
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This far-right movement is organized and well funded. They are coming for your schools and the consequences will be dire for anyone who is not White, Cisgender, or heterosexual.
They use the language of “parental rights” to sew division and promote discrimination.
#cdnpoli
There's an active movement among the anti-LGBT far right to take over school boards. People need to pay more attention to those elections and watch out for the hateful and dangerous.
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They threw rocks at kids!
This is the impact when we see hate emboldened and marching on our streets.
Every leader in Canada should be denouncing all the hate targeting 2SLGBTQ+ communities.
Your silence is consent and leads to violence.
#cdnpoli
Regional police are investigating after a Pride flag was burned and trampled, and rocks were thrown at 2SLGBTQ+ students at a Kitchener high school.
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Calling this a “debate” when a small minority from the far-right is attacking 2SLGBTQ+ communities is irresponsible and disingenuous.
Since when are human rights up for debate?
#ableg
#abed
#abpoli
The debate over Pride Month activities in Alberta's public schools continues to divide many parents.
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THREAD: This has been an unprecedented Olympics for LGBTQ visibility and inclusion, which many have called the "Rainbow Olympics" with more than 180 LGBTQ athletes participating, including for the first-time ever openly trans and non-binary athletes.
Why is this so important? /1
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People are leaving the province to get a monkeypox vaccine. Why can't you get vaccinated in Alberta?
Is it because monkeypox is more prevalent within the gay and bisexual male community? Is homophobia informing government policy?
#abhealth
#abpoli
#AbLeg
@CMOH_Alberta
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The
#NHL
ban on
@PrideTape
has been reversed because of the outpouring of worldwide support for its message of inclusion. You did it! 🏳️🌈🏒🏳️⚧️
#StickUpForPrideTape
There is word the NHL, NHLPA and NHL Player Inclusion Coalition have agreed that players will have the option to represent social causes with stick tape throughout the season. This includes games and practices
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“We cannot stand on moral high ground calling out leaders for offensive things they did, years ago, if we’re not also willing to stand up against the racist and discriminatory behavior that’s right in front of our faces in 2019.”
Thank you Mayor
@nenshi
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You might be able to ban rainbow crosswalks and pride flags, but you can’t ban rainbow Easter eggs!
Bravo to the
@TownOfWestlock
!
#westlock
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When the
@edmontonjournal
no longer belongs to Edmontonians, we can no longer support it.
I’m cancelling my 20+ year subscription.
I feel very sad and distressed for the many excellent and unbiased journalists still working for the Journal. 1/2
#yeg
#Postmedia
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There is nothing in the NHL rule book that prevents a player from using Pride Tape. You can’t fine players for a rule that does not exist.
Banning Pride Tape also impacts a player’s freedom of expression, which is a protected right.
The NHL ban is immoral & illegal.
#NHL
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More doctors coming out loudly and fiercely against Bill 207.
We do not want discrimination enabled in our health care system. It is an affront to Canadian values and the ethic of do no harm.
#ableg
#abpoli
#abhealtb
Alberta Section of Neurology has spoken out against Bill 207. Doctors are standing up and standing together.
#Bill207
#abpoli
#WMTY
@FionaMattatall
@MedEdintheMtns
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Next time I see any political leader in a gay bar, I’m not complaining, I’m buying them a drink and saying thank you. 🏳️🌈 4/4
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For all the doggos we’ve lost and loved in 2022. ❤️🐶
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Calgary now has passed some of the strongest & most comprehensive conversion therapy prohibition legislation not only in Canada, but in the World!
Congratulations to all who stood up to protect human rights & protect vulnerable individuals from this harmful and abusive practice.
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BREAKING: The
@liberal_party
platform makes 4 key commitments to the LGBTQ2 community:
1. Increased funding for LGBTQ2 community groups
2. Investing in LGBTQ2 mental health supports and education
3. National ban on conversion therapy
4. Ending discriminatory blood ban
#elxn43
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Need
@PrideTape
? Thanks to
@scotiabank
you can pick up a free roll at selected locations across Canada!
🏳️🌈🏒🏳️⚧️
This is not a passing moment but a powerful movement. More allies are stepping forward!
#StickUpForPrideTape
#PrideTapeForAll
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Trudeau did the right thing, yet Scheer keeps Michael Cooper and ugly racist views in the party.
Tell me whose showing ethical leadership?
#cdnpoli
The anti-Semitic comments by one of Justin Trudeau’s hand-picked candidates are absolutely repugnant. He needs to fire this candidate right now and explain to Canadians why he appointed someone which such racist and hateful views. My statement:
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Egale and
@skippingstoneca
come together to jointly condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the policy measures announced by Premier Smith this afternoon.
Egale and Skipping Stone will bring legal action to protect our communities.
Read more:
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A class act and an inspiration even in defeat.
“To every girl and to every young woman watching tonight, I believe in you and never stop believing in yourself. I hope that we have shown you in your life anything is possible.” -
@RachelNotley
#ableg
#abpoli
#abvote
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This applies to Alberta’s upcoming election.
Know who you are voting for and what their record is on human rights, woman’s rights, and LGBTQ2 equality.
Your vote speaks volumes about the kind of province we want to build and whose lives matter.
#abed
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THREAD 🧵
We knew that after the legalization of same-sex marriage, they would come after our schools.
If you want to control the future of society, you start by censoring what students learn in schools. The children of today will become our leaders of tomorrow.
#cdnpoli
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Completely false and hysterical lies. This candidate needs to be removed. Would you allow her to make these outrageous claims against any other community?
Lies like this do real harm to children, parents and the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
#ableg
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The is what a feminist government looks and sounds like. No apologies or equivocations.
#cdnpoli
Well done Minister Freeland for seeing through the insidious line of questioning from a Conservative MP and standing up for a woman’s right to control her body, whether in Canada or abroad!
#CdnPoli
@cafreeland
@LevittMichael
@MPCelina
@mclaudebibeau
@telfordk
@MaryamMonsef
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Not going to lie. Kinda jealous of Calgary’s new amazing library. 📚
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Alberta had 25 residential schools. The most in Canada. How many children never came home and are still buried in unmarked graves?
We need all residential school sites to be examined and the truth to be uncovered.
We should be the leaders in truth and reconciliation.
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18 years ago Canada became the 4th nation in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🏳️⚧️
Despite many protests, the sky hasn’t fallen & the gates of hell haven’t opened. 1/2
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Here’s your amazing donor from Ontario. Let’s show them some love. ❤️🏳️🌈
#Westlock
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
Our firm will be covering the cost to ship all of
@BorderlandPride
’s remaining “
#Pride
Lives Here” campaign signs to
#Westlock
, Alberta. We went through this hateful small-town bullsh*t here in 2020. We will do what we can to support other small places in need. 🏳️🌈
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“We’ve had hundreds of message from young people all over the world but nothing more powerful than the young person who wrote to us and said, ‘Pride Tape saved my life. I was going to end my life until I saw there were allies & people who supported me.’”
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Don’t be so disingenuous. The Prime Minister took the time (well over an hour) to meet with 2SLGBTQ+ community, but you won’t even extend us the same courtesy and we live in the same city.
Politics of division don’t look good on you or Alberta. Be better.
#abpoli
#cdnpoli
Today, Prime Minister
@JustinTrudeau
spoke with Alberta media during which he managed to call Albertans fools, claimed the carbon tax was saving Alberta families thousands of dollars, and condemned anyone supportive of parental involvement in their child’s education.
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This is exactly why Pride matters. Hate unchecked becomes emboldened.
#abpoli
An anti-trans response, apparently from Valbella Gourmet Foods, to a sponsorship request is prompting some Alberta businesses to sever ties with the deli and butcher in Canmore.
Warning : This story contains transphobic remarks.
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If you think this is special, just wait until the
@EdmontonOilers
get home for their own Pride night game on Jan 18!
🏳️🌈🏒🏳️⚧️
@PrideTape
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During the weekend, these flyers were distributed in Calgary.
This is not only a violation of human decency, but also possibly to the health and elections act...
On May 25, tell
#YYC
City Council to say no to hate and pass the conversion therapy prohibition bylaw.
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This is the public statement that should be circulating widely. Over 450+ Muslims stand as allies with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and “are committed to upholding equity and collective human rights that benefit us all.”
#cdnpoli
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A Premier who stands up and supports 2SLGBTQ+ youth, while conservative premiers in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick attack them.
#cdnpoli
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I’m proud of a Prime Minister who understands the importance of diversity and human rights and who quite frankly sees LGBTQ people simply as people worthy of inclusion and respect. 2/4
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“We don’t need no UCP
We don’t need no parental control
No dark money in the backroom
Hey! Jason! Leave our kids alone!”
#KenneysPlaylist
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