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Please sign up now! Spread the word to your friends as we are trying to get as many youth out as possible! Free Food! Transportation may be available.
Thanks,
Stephanie Vail
Program Director
Rainbow Youth Niagara
905-380-4576 (can text as well)
www.niagarapride.ca
Calling for a new era of DIY transgender self-representation, Haworth’s
feature debut is a comic, heartbreaking, and uplifting autobiography that breaks
away from the marginalized depictions of transsexuals that populate mainstream
media. The film celebrates creative activism, self-advocacy and empowerment.
She's a Boy I Knew begins in 2000 with Steven Haworth's decision to come out
to his family about his life-long female gender identity. The resulting auto-ethnography
is not only an exploration into the filmmaker's process of transition from biological
male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but also an emotionally charged account
of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her two sisters, mother,
father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen's transition. As her transition
progresses, Gwen is forced to reckon with the end of her marriage and the loss
of her status as son and brother. But in doing so, she also discovers that while
the nature of personal relationships may change, the love and support present
within those relationships can remain just as powerful and sometimes even more
so.
dir: Gwen Haworth
rated: n/a 2007
<film running time 70 min>
for more info: www.artflick.com
Everyone welcome - allies welcome.
Open discussion follows.
Date and Time:
Thursday February 11th, 2010
6pm-8pm
FREE
at The Centre for Women and Trans People at U of T
563 Spadina Ave.
North Borden Building rm. 100
womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca
womens.centre@utoronto.ca
416-978-8201
wheelchair accessible
El Conveto Rico has been a GLBT friendly environment for 15 years.
416-588-7800
For more info go to xpressions.org
or Email Roxanne
Ministry of the Attorney General
11th Floor
720 Bay Street
Toronto, Ontario M5G 2K1
Dear Minister Bentley,
I am writing you today to ask you to amend the Human Rights Code to add gender identity and gender expression to the grounds in which equal treatment is provided.
It was noted in 1992 by Justice John Sopinka “that human rights legislation is, often the final refuge of the disadvantaged and the disenfranchised […] the last protection of the most vulnerable members of society”. According to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, “There are, arguably, few groups in our society today who are as disadvantaged and disenfranchised as transgenderists and transsexuals. Fear and hatred of transgenderists and transsexuals combined with hostility toward their very existence are fundamental human rights issues”
We in the Green Party believe that other grounds under the Code as it stands to not fully protect the human rights of transgendered persons in this province. My discussions with members of this community have reiterated the remarks of the Commission seventeen years ago, that transgendered people suffer from many barriers to full and equal participation within society, including within housing, employment and health care. This is an issue about personal health, safety and well-being.
I hope that this government will quickly move to end discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression as a step in providing full rights to all Ontarians.
Sincerely,
Stefan Premdas
Candidate, Toronto-Centre
Green Party of Ontario
• Are you wanting to explore GENDER and what it means in your life?
• Do you want to take part in free writing, dancing and acting workshops
with artists in our community?
• Would you like to be apart of a play written and performed by you?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions consider joining Gender Play.
The Gender Play collective is a group of Trans and Queer youth who are playing
with the idea of gender identity. We are entering into our exploring and writing
phase where we will be crafting a collectively written play out of the stories
of our own experience of gender.
At this point we are opening up the group to accept new members.
If you are Transsexual, Transgender, Two-spirit, Intersex, Lesbian, Bisexual,
Queer, Pansexual, Gay or questioning and under the age of 26 you are welcome
to attend this group.
We meet on Monday nights from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Central Toronto Youth Services.
Food and TTC tokens will be provided
No previous theater/ dance/ writing experience is necessary
If you are looking for more information or would like to join, please contact
Cori Shiff at (416) 924-2100 #245
Time to use computers, internet, printing, photocopying, fax, make local phone
calls, resource books & videos, and job search help. Mondays 1:30 - 4:30pm
: 100 Lombard St. #102 Toronto, ON
Are you looking for training or resources?
The ReachOUT
Newcomer Network provides multilingual settlement services throughout
Toronto to newcomer (government sponsored refugees and permanent residents)
youth (13-24 years old) who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer
(LGBTQ).
We are delighted to offer info sessions, tailored workshops and consultation
to service providers on topics such as:
• How to create more accessible services for LGBTQ newcomer youth
• The services and programs we offer and when to refer clients
• Anti-homophobia and anti-transphobia
Our integrated settlement services for newcomer youth include:
• Drop-in groups and workshops that help LGBTQ youth make connections
and tackle the challenges of adjusting to life in Canada
• Help accessing LGBTQ positive health services and community resources
• Assistance applying for government programs and services
• Supportive counselling
All services are free of charge!
Services are available in Cebuano, English, French, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish,
Tagalog, Tamil, and Urdu. An interpreter can be provided for youth who speak
other languages.
Service providers or LGBTQ youth who are interested in our services can call
Vijay, our Program Assistant, to find out more or to make an appointment with
a settlement worker:
Vijay Saravanamuthu
Program Assistant
Griffin Centre
24 Silverview Drive
North York, ON M2M 2B3
416.222.1153 ext 181
vsaravanamuthu@griffin-centre.org
www.griffin-centre.org
program funded by:
ReachOUT is a creative, inclusive & accessible program for lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersex, queer and questioning
youth in north Toronto. This includes drop-in groups, community outreach, counselling,
consultation, art & skills exchange. We offer a safe space for all youth
that reflects the diversity of our queer and trans communities.
Griffin Centre is a non-profit charitable mental health agency providing flexible
and accessible services to youth, adults and their families. Our mission is
to promote positive change for vulnerable youth and adults with mental health
challenges and/or developmental disabilities and their families. We are dedicated
to delivering innovative services and developing creative partnerships that
enhance lives and communities.
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord
with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."
--Sigmund Freud
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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being
unacceptable." --Paul Tillich
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"As I understand it, transvestites are the ones that grow down from the
ceiling and transsexuals are the ones that grow up." --Pamela Yager