The regulation of mobility for LGBT individuals has viewed marriage equality as a homonational discourse of progressive gay and lesbian politics championed on the erasure of homophobia to end systemic discrimination. When Canada legalized same-sex marriage almost a decade ago, lesbian and gay rights have gradually become a political issue and an identifier of Canadian national identity. As a way to set precedence in support for queers world-wide, Canadian politicians collectively denounced the Russian anti-gay law enacted in 2013 just before the Winter Olympics in Sochi. In this paper, I will analyze through the theoretical framework of homonationalism to argue Canada’s rising national position on homophobia on the global scale, although skewed
