Nick Mulé, founder Queer Ontario, helms the desk at the 519 Open House
On May 19, 2010 Queer Ontario held an “Open House within an Open House” during the 519 Church Street Community Centre’s “Open House” to celebrate the completion of their renovations. Rather than holding our regular monthly meeting, we set up a reception area in one of the meeting rooms proudly displaying our new table skirt (banner to come) and distributing postcards describing our group. Additionally, we sold buttons, had sign-up sheets and offered chocolates to the curious.
A number of buttons were sold, some new people signed up to be members and all praised us for taking on this work and wished us well.
Thanks are extended to all Queer Ontario activists who volunteered their time to set up and staff the table at this “Open House within an Open House.”
We will be hosting an “Open House within an Open House” in place of having our regular monthly meeting, during the 519’s Open House to celebrate the completion of their renovations. Also, Queer Ontario was approached by the Rainbow Health Network (RHN) to share the space with us. Thus, during this period of time, we’ll have a welcoming table with literature about ourselves on it and sign up sheets to promote our group and encourage people to join. Given that this will be taking place during our regular monthly meeting time, we hope that many of you would be willing to come out to this event to talk up Queer Ontario and encourage others to get involved.
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Thanks to all those that came out to Buddies to help us launch the group! .
If you missed it, check out this archive of tweets, pics and posts from the CLGRO Farewell – Queer Ontario Launch. .
Also take a look at the CLGRO slide show, featuring clippings and photos from the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives. .
We’ve also posted the speech Queer Ontario’s Nick Mulé delivered at the launch.
Finally, here’s the video from our Speakers Corner!
The Pressing Issues Survey
We are still receiving feedback through our Pressing Issues Survey, to get a sense of the issues facing LGBTQ* Ontarians today. A link to the survey can be found here.
The Queer Ontario Think Tank
We are also accepting written and other multimedia works for our ideas space -- the Queer Ontario Think Tank. To read more about it, or to learn how to submit a work, follow the link here.
Queer Ontario is a not-for-profit organization operating on funds provided to us by our generous and capable supporters. Your donation will be channeled directly into our projects and operations, which will help us continue our educational and reformist work.
Unfortunately, because our mandate is deeply political, we cannot acquire charitable status and, as such, will be unable to issue you with a charitable tax receipt. We encourage your support in light of this systemic shortfall.
You can use our one-time donation option as many times as you would like:
Or, you can become a sustaining donor by contributing to Queer Ontario on a monthly basis.
We appreciate your ongoing generosity and support -- The Queer Ontario Steering Committee.