Pride Month 2021

This month, The Today Centre team compiled and shared resources with each other to strengthen our knowledge about LGBTQ2S+ history, identities and supports. Even though Pride Month 2021 is coming to an end, educating ourselves about the LGBTQ2S+ community and history should be an ongoing priority for everyone. That’s why we are sharing the resources our team gathered and discussed this June with you!

Please see the links below for resources and information on topics ranging from sexuality and gender, Edmonton’s LGBTQ2S+ history, local resources and supports, and Pride Month history.

Sexuality and Gender

• Ask a Therapist: Let’s talk about “Coming out” → (VIDEO)

• Ask a Therapist: What is Compulsory Heterosexuality → (VIDEO)

• Do You Know The Difference Between Sex and Gender? → (VIDEO)

• Gender and Sexuality Galaxies → (PDF)

• What are Gender Pronouns? Ze, Zir, They/Them → (VIDEO)

• What Does Two-Spirit Mean? → (video)

Queer History

• Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ timeline → (Website)

• The Former Slave Who Became The World’s First Drag Queen → (Website)

• The Fruit Machine → (Website)

• Progress Pride Flag → (Website)

• Ru Paul’s Drag Race Cast Explain the History of Drag Culture → (Video)

• "Stonewall Forever" → (video)

Queer Current Events

• Birth Record Sex Amendment → (Website)

• Conversion Therapy in Canada → (Website)

• Fruit Loop’s Augmented Reality Pride Tour → (Website)

• How anti-black racism manifests within the queer community → (Video)

• Is Canada’s Bill To Criminalize Conversion Therapy Doing Enough? → (Website)

• Rainbow Crosswalks in Edmonton → (website)

• Sex markers on AB documentation → (Website)

Edmonton Resources/Support

• CHEW Project → (Website)

• Edmonton Men’s Health Collective → (Website)

• Edmonton Two-Spirit Society → (Website)

• EMCN LGBTQ+ Newcomers Group → (website)

• HIV Edmonton → (website)

• The Institute for Sexual Minority Study and Services → (Website)

• The Landing → (Website)

• Pride Centre of Edmonton → (Website)

• The QUILTBAG → (Website)

• Rarica Now → (Website)

• Shades of Colour Community YEG → (Website)

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