The famous video blogger Roman Bashinsky, the creator of the YouTube channel “BASHINSKY TIME”, with more than 400 thousand subscribers, asked his viewers to repost the news about the blocking as much as possible. The second episode of Roma Bashintsev’s show “Kiss with a Stranger” YouTube imposed an age limit of 18+, without explaining its decision in any way, although the author believes that this was due to the fact that two men kiss in the show.

The Canadian government will issue a commemorative Canadian dollar coin in 2019 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the repeal of anti-gay laws. The one Canadian dollar coin will commemorate the repeal of laws in 1969 that criminalized same-sex sex between two adults. The significant event occurred two years after then-Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau (father of current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) amended the Criminal Code.