Tag: pride
6 flags celebrating diversity, choice damaged at area home: OPP
Six flags celebrating diversity and choice were damaged at an Albert Avenue North residence in Listowel on Friday, OPP reported Tuesday.
Will latest Pride flag burning in Norwich raise more allies or drive them out?
The destruction of another gay Pride flag in Norwich Township will only make residents more determined to make the town tolerant and inclusive, say LGBTQ+ allies.
‘We warned you’: Area business struck by anti-LGBTQ+ vandals, again
TILLSONBURG — Just two weeks after Pride flags were defaced and a homophobic message left outside a Tillsonburg business, vandals returned for a second time, its owner says.
Area mayor: We were told we couldn’t stop citizen’s anti-LGBTQ+ rant
Norwich Township sought legal advice before allowing a man charged with stealing Pride flags in the community to speak for nearly half an hour at a council meeting where he compared the Pride movement to Nazi Germany, the mayor says.
Education effort isn’t over for rural LGBTQ+ communities in fight against hate
More education among children and youth on diversity and inclusivity is needed to help combat hate, LGBTQ+ advocates say, following a rise in incidents involving theft and vandalism of Pride flags in rural Southwestern Ontario.