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        Advocate NL 10/27/26
     
 Edgar Ramirez 
          
          Oct 27, 2026
          
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Hello and Happy Tuesday, folks!
Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox with a story from Montreal, courtesy of The Advocate's Jack Walker.
In Canada, Walker joined a network of activists, historians and hobbyists for the world’s first fully in-person conference of LGBTQ+ Wikipedia users, dubbed Queering Wiki 2026. More than 150 people representing at least 30 countries attended the conference, according to Wikimedia LGBT+, the user group behind the event.
Faced with LGBTQ+ censorship and erasure around the world, Walker writes about people like Lane Rasberry, a professor who is part of a growing community using Wikipedia to preserve and expand access to LGBTQ+ history online.
“The only community that's going to stand up and defend LGBT people is the collective global community of other LGBT people,” Rasberry told Walker. “We're in this together, and we have to document our challenges.”
Don't miss his full story, including plans for a future meetup, here.
  
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