Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson heads to Sochi to fight homophobia

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While Ottawa is recommending Canadians travelling to Sochi for the Winter Olympics to register with foreign affairs before they go, a Vancouver councillor says he’s not nervous about what he might encounter.


“I have friends who say ‘you’re so brave,’” said Tim Stevenson as he departed to Sochi from Vancouver International Airport this morning. “I don’t feel like a brave person, I just feel like this has to be done.”


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I would pretend to be gay to get prime seats, hotels and see the games. No one asked.