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January 23rd, 2011 Comments off

Bent – An Evening of Queer Expressions

Nick Mulé, the Founder of Queer Ontario, will be participating in this month’s Bent – An Evening of Queer Expressions, which will be held at O’Grady’s (518 Church St.) on Tuesday, January 25, 2011. The event runs from 7 to 9pm and is centred around the theme of “Community,” where Nick, David Wooton (Church Wellesley BIA), Matt Mills (Xtra), and Chris Veldhoven (Queer Parenting) will be discussing topics that are of importance and concern to LGBT individuals. These include health and wellness, accommodations, aging, entertainment, networking, employment, and many more.

For further details, please visit http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173525652682635 or http://www.blogto.com/events/34971

Queer Ontario on ProudFM

Members of Queer Ontario will also be on ProudFM (103.9 FM) the morning of Tuesday, January 25, 2011 to talk about the recent banning and subsequent un-banning of Gay Straight Alliances in the Halton Catholic District School Board. The chat will take place around 7:30 AM so make sure to tune in over your radio or online at the link below.

http://www.proudfm.com

 

Queer Ontario

January 30th, 2010 Comments off

Arts & Culture – To urge continued and strengthened support for the arts and culture sectors, with particular emphasis on the development of queer culture, and its appreciation rather than it being targeted for censorship or prosecution.

Inclusion of ‘Gender Identity’ in the Ontario Human Rights Code – In Ontario, trans people have no explicit legislative human rights protections. Queer Ontario supports the Ontario Trans Human Rights Campaign in calling for the inclusion of ‘gender identity’ in the Ontario Human Rights Code as recognized prohibited grounds against discrimination and harassment.

Poverty/Employment Issues – Address issues of poverty in all its forms and continued workplace discrimination and harassment based on gender identity and sexual orientation with government, human rights commissions, labour boards, labour unions, etc.