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		<title>How campus activists got their university to drop an anti-trans research funder</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/mcmaster-university-anti-trans-funding-277419</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[McMaster recently cut ties with the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine in a win for students and faculty]]></description>
		
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		<title>Changing health landscape poses a questionable future for HIV organizations</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/aids-committee-of-toronto-closure-hiv-276849</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the closure of the AIDS Committee of Toronto, public health experts are wondering if this is the beginning of the end for HIV service organizations in Canada]]></description>
		
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		<title>This Canadian think tank is claiming ‘victory’ over anti-trans legislation</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/macdonald-laurier-institute-think-tank-policy-trans-275781</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Macdonald-Laurier Institute routinely publishes material targeting trans rights]]></description>
		
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		<title>Where Canada’s political parties really stand on queer and trans issues</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/where-canadas-political-parties-really-stand-on-queer-and-trans-issues-272725</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Xtra put Canada’s major political parties under the microscope on everything from DEI rollbacks to trans athletes’ participation in sports]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why queer nightlife is faltering in Canada’s biggest cities</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/queer-nightlife-toronto-montreal-271918</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Noise police, rising commercial rents and restrictive city bylaws have stifled nightlife in Toronto and Montreal]]></description>
		
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		<title>10 community leaders on the threat of a Conservative government</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/community-leaders-threat-conservative-government-270505</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anti-trans legislation, rising hate crimes and hateful political rhetoric are some of the most pressing issues impacting queer and trans Canadians]]></description>
		
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		<title>New book an ode to the Songbird Supreme and her queer fan base</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/culture/books/why-mariah-carey-matters-257804</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Why Mariah Carey Matters” is an ode to the Songbird Supreme and the queers who love her]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anti-trans policies at Conservative convention met with apathy and outrage</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/anti-trans-policies-conservative-party-convention-256644</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“People are going to die,” says a former Conservative candidate, while party leaders refuse to take a stand on LGBTQ2S+ rights]]></description>
		
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		<title>Canadian government in talks to create LGBTQ2S+ endowment fund</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/canada-advocates-lgbtq2s-endowment-fund-250229</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 14:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Advocates are lobbying the federal government for a substantial financial investment]]></description>
		
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		<title>Indigenous trans woman seeks changes over ‘unnecessarily degrading’ prison policy </title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/trans-prison-complaint-gender-marker-249099</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“It violates my privacy and dignity.” Fallon Aubee says the government of Canada is exposing her personal information without consent]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beyond Stonewall: new project documents more than 600 forgotten LGBTQ2S+ protests</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/600-lgbtq2s-protests-uncovered-research-247571</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[U.S. researchers uncover hundreds of queer and trans protests from 1965 to 1973]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anti-LGBTQ+ violence in Europe and Central Asia hits decade-high</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/anti-lgbtq-violence-europe-decade-high-246280</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Advocates say anti-LGBTQ+ violence in Europe and Central Asia is “not going away” after a report found that 2022 was the most violent year for queer and trans people in the region&#160;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Brazil recorded 242 violent LGBTQ+ deaths in 2022</title>
		<link>https://xtramagazine.com/power/brazil-lgbtq-homicides-2022-244785</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denio Lourenco]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2023 19:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[During Bolsonaro’s final year as president of Brazil, researchers say a queer person was killed every 34 hours in the South American country]]></description>
		
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