[NEWS] Seven queer links, from parades as resistance to apps to out schoolchildren

[rfmcdonald]

• NOW Toronto shares photos of the Pride Toronto parade.


• blogTO notes that, in a recent ranking, Toronto is one of the best cities in which to not be straight in the world.


• Bloomberg notes the importance of gay pride parades, as self-assertion and resistance, in the age of Trump.


• Kevin Ritchie's cover article for NOW Toronto looks at the successes and innovations of drag in the era of RuPaul's Drag Race.


• VICE looks at the extent to which gay life has been transformed by the culture of the app.


• If all it took for Germany to move towards same-sex marriage was to introduce Merkel to a nice couple ... well done. The Los Angeles Times reports.


• Laurel Gregory of Global News looks at research into children who have been out throughout their school years. I can scarcely imagine.