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A brand-new LGBTQ2S+ Canadian national monument is set to be unveiled in Ottawa this week. Officially named Thunderhead, the ...

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Athena Dion, you master strategist. On last week’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the first installment of this season’s Rate-a-Queen Talent Show, the mother of the House of Dion told us she had a ...