Shawn Syms asks who would offer more: a cacophonous cabal of kookily choreographed marauders, or the Harper government?
lesbian and gay
Remember queer youth when casting your school trustee votes
In the wake of the recent wave of queer teen suicides due to homophobic bullying, it would be a mistake for Ontario voters to trivialize the Oct. 25 province-wide municipal election of our school trustees. School trustees are also elected in four other provinces across Canada over the next few weeks. If education is a great equalizer in our society, many schools are still not doing enough to provide equal access of education for our LGBTQ students.
Too often, we tend to merely pay attention to LGBTQ students when one of them commits suicide. Last month, we witnessed a string of queer-related teen suicides across the U.S., with one of the victims being an eighth-grader who killed himself in Texas because he was "bullied to death" for being gay, according to his family.
Lesbian teen accepts settlement after being denied prom date
July 20, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ACLU RELEASE
ABERDEEN, MS - Itawamba County School District officials agreed to have a judgment entered against them in the case of a recent high school graduate who sued her school for canceling the prom rather than let her attend with her girlfriend. The agreement ends a precedent-setting lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who suffered humiliation and harassment after parents, students and school officials executed a cruel plan to put on a "decoy" prom for her while the rest of her classmates were at a private prom 30 miles away.
The Femme Monologues: Documenting queer/femme/feminist history
The Femme Monologues
(Xtra!,
2011;
)
Ellie Gordon-Moershel interviews Marusya Bociurkiw and Terri Roberton about collaborating on their new graphic memoir series, The Femme Monologues. Written by Bociurkiw with graphics by Roberton, the series appears monthly in Xtra! Toronto and in Capital Xtra! (Ottawa).
Introduction to LGBTQ health for service providers
Apr 12 2011 - 9:00am
Apr 12 2011 - 12:00pm
Location
East Mississauga Community Health Centre
2555 Dixie Road, Unit 7
Mississauga L4Y4C4Canada
Phone:
905 602 4082 x 2 OR x 4
43° 36' 30.87" N, 79° 34' 57.0108" W
See map: Google Maps
Cost: $15
Refreshments provided. Accessible space.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people have many of the same health concerns as anyone else, but cultural differences and the impact of homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia mean that these health needs may be experienced quite differently. LGBTQ people also do not have the same access to health care that many others take for granted, as they often face barriers when attempting to access health care.
This session is aimed for Service Providers: Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Social Workers and Frontline Staff.
Contact name:
Ashley L.
Contact email:
Sasha: 50-year-old virgin fears sexual intimacy
Dear Sasha,
I'm a 50-year-old (male) virgin. I have identified since my early 30s as gay, but even as a gay male, I've never been in a serious intimate relationship, because I've never sufficiently worked through my fears about being sexually intimate with a woman. While I assume all (or almost all) gay men have no sexual interest in women, I do have the interest to explore, but have been too scared to do so all my life.
Not Rex: LGBT youth and the politics of 'it gets better'
When your conception of queer community includes both those most comfortable and those most marginalized, what does it mean to tell queer youth "it gets better"? That's a conversation worth having, says Shawn Syms (@shawnsyms) as Not Rex this week.
Ivan E. Coyote takes on labels and stereotypes
Missed Her
(Arsenal Pulp Press,
2010;
$18.95)
What happens when a woman with "dykey clothes" confronts a man with a bushy beard about the lesbian book he's reading? Is life easier for a butch or a lipstick lesbian? Is it better to be queer in Whitehorse, where you're subjected to direct questions, or in Vancouver, where PC politeness masks embarrassed confusion? Missed Her, a collection by Vancouver writer and performer Ivan E. Coyote of her Xtra! West columns, conveys these lifestyle collisions with thoughtful humour.
5th Annual Toronto Queer West Arts Festival
Aug 7 2010 - 11:00pm
Aug 15 2010 - 11:00pm
Location
Toronto, ON
Canada
Phone:
416-879-7954
43° 36' 38.3436" N, 79° 29' 35.754" W
See map: Google Maps
Toronto's 5th Annual Queer West Arts Festival This year arrives for NINE DAYS in August on the THEME of QUEERING BOUNDRIES with arts shows, dance, music, spoken word, drama, laughs, film, community fair, books, and, of course, cabaret! The LARGEST of three dedicated queer arts festivals in ALL OF Canada.
August 2010 will mark the 5th annual QUEER WEST ARTS & CULTURE FESTIVAL - To mark this historic event, Toronto's "West End" will be (re)claimed, (re)presented and (re)named as "queer" over the course of 9 days (Saturday August 7 to Sunday August 15, 2010).
Contact name:
Michel F. Paré
Contact email:
