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Welcoming the New Queer Ontario Steering Committee

November 8th, 2012 Comments off

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Hi Everyone,
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I would like to thank all that attended and participated in Queer Ontario’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Sunday, November 4, 2012.
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This is to announce our new Steering Committee roster as elected at the AGM (election results in parentheses, positions are staggered):
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Queer Ontario Steering Committee
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Chairperson:
Nick Mulé
Vice Chairperson:
Davina Hader (Newly Elected)
Secretary:
Martin Otarola
Treasurer:
Richard Hudler (Re-Elected)
Member At Large:
Alana Boltwood (Newly Elected)
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We have a very promising team of individuals to assist Queer Ontario in continuing our important work.  Congratulations to Richard Hudler on his re-election as Treasurer, who has our trust and confidence in overseeing the QO finances and advising us on budgetary matters; Davina Hader who was an important and effective liaison to QO on trans issues and carried out extensive cinematography work on the Queer Liberation Theory Project and was a Member At Large, now moves into the role of Vice Chairperson where she will carry on with these duties and more; and Alana Boltwood whose far reaching work on multiple issues as Chairperson of the Research and Education Committee and her ongoing assistance with the QO Think Tank positions her well as our newly elected Member At Large.
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A special thanks is extended to Casey Oraa who chose not to stand in the role of Vice Chairperson.  In this position Casey contributed immensely to QO doing extensive behind the scenes work at every level.  Of course he is best known for raising the profile of issues such as GSAs, queer youth and the education system, with his skilled handling of these difficult issues in the media and his ongoing coalition work with community activists and organizations.  Although he will be greatly missed on the QO Steering Committee, we look forward to continuing to work with him within QO in general.
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In order to align our governance with our fiscal year, Queer Ontario’s next AGM will be in May 2013 at which time the positions of Chairperson, Secretary and Members At Large (1 position within Toronto and 2 outside) will open up for elections.
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Thanks everyone and we look forward to another exciting year made even more so by the promise and talent of our newly elected Queer Ontario Steering Committee members.
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Cheers,
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Nick Mulé

Chairperson,
Queer Ontario
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Queer Ontario Steering Committee members elected

November 6th, 2011 Comments off

Queer Ontario’s first Annual General Meeting and Elections were held Saturday, November 5, 2011 at the 519 Community Centre in Toronto.

Elected to the steering committee were Chair Nick Mule, Vice-Chair Casey Oraa, Secretary Martin Otarola and Treasurer Richard Hudler, as well as At-Large Members Lisa Duke and Davina Hader. They join fellow steering committee members Alana Boltwood (Chair, Research and Education), Dwayne Shaw (Chair, Events) and David Demchuk (Chair, Governance and Media).

AGM Reports

The following reports are now available in the Documents section of the website, under Queer Ontario 2011 AGM, as well as via the links below:

Nick Mule – Chair’s report

Richard Hudler – Treasurer’s report

A.J. Lowik – Queer Liberation Theory Project report

Participation from Outside Toronto

To encourage participation from outside Toronto, Queer Ontario used Cover It Live to live-blog the event, streamed an audio webcast via UStream and created the hashtag #QO2011 for participation on Twitter. The archive of the Cover It Live live-blog is now available, as is the audio recording of the meeting (part one, part two – apologies for the ads).

Queer Ontario Thanks You For Our Success at Stonewall TO

June 27th, 2011 Comments off
Queer Ontario (QO) would like to express our thanks to all those who contributed to making our involvement in Stonewall TO yesterday such a huge success.
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We participated in the Stonewall TO march with our political messages along with other politically minded groups and individuals sending a powerful message to the City of Toronto, Pride Toronto and any funders of official Pride events, that the essence of pride is not based on funding from corporations or government bodies or the political will (or lack thereof) of particular politicians, but rather by our own grassroots desire for equity and liberation.  It was both exhilarating and reaffirming to take over the streets from Queen’s Park to the 519 and assert our presence on our terms.  Thanks are extended to the QO volunteers who prepared the signs for this march.
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Once at the 519 QO in collaboration with Blackness YES! hosted a highly successful Community Kitchen that fed between 300-400 people.  This really contributed to a strong sense of community to be able to feed our own with nutritious food on a pay-as-you-can basis.  Thanks are extended to all volunteers who contributed to this initiative, from pre-planning, shopping, food prep, set up, serving, take down to clean up.  Special thanks are extended to lead volunteers Alana and Davina of QO and Craig and Marcus of Blackness YES! This turned out to be an enormous success only made possible by the contribution of numerous committed volunteers.
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We are now officially into Pride Week and as such, stay tuned for upcoming notices of how you can get involved in participating with Queer Ontario in the Trans March, Dyke March, Pride Parade and staffing the QO table at the Pride Community Fair.
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Happy Pride Everyone!
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Nick Mulé
Chairperson,
Queer Ontario