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Board of Directors Applications
We're recruiting board members! January 24, 2022 Would you like to see a world without discrimination? Are you passionate about 2SLGBTQ+ issues? Are you excited to make a difference at a national organization? The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity...
Public Letter on OUTtawa: A Safety Labs Project
CCGSD Announces Partnership on Kind Spaces' OUTtawa: A Safety Labs Project November 26, 2021 - (Ottawa, Ontario) Dear friends, The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) is happy to announce our partnership with KindSpace, alongside Planned...
Funding Announcement: Ottawa Community Foundation Community Grant to the CCGSD
CCGSD Recipient of ottawa community foundation 'community grant' to support ottawa gsa groups November 1, 2021 - (Ottawa, Ontario) - We’re excited to announce that the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity has received a $10,000 Community Grant from the...
CCGSD Statement on Transphobic Campaign Targeting Ottawa Schools
Advocacy in Ontario CCGSD Statement on Transphobic Campaign Targeting Ottawa Schools October 19th, 2021 Ottawa --- On October 18 and 19, 2021, activists, community members, and organizations in Ottawa mobilized online and in person against an anti-trans “activist”...
We Still Demand: Fifty Years Later – A Guest Blog Series with Dr. Patrizia Gentile (PART 1)
Instead of me talking about the 50th anniversary of the We Demand protest, I am doing something a little different with my executive director blog. I am passing the mic to a feminist queer historian– interview style! Consider this my amateur attempt at oral history…
CCGSD’s LGBTQ2 Action Plan Survey and Findings
CCGSD's LGBTQ2 Action Plan Survey Report & Findings In the Spring of 2021, the Government of Canada invited civil society organizations, including the CCGSD, to provide a written submission to help inform the LGBTQ2 Action Plan. Over a two-week period in...
CCGSD reaction to recent violent homophobic attack at hanlan’s Point Beach, Toronto, and that Ottawa Redblacks player was suspended for alleged involvement.
Advocacy in Ontario CCGSD reaction to recent violent homophobic attack at Hanlan’s Point Beach, Toronto, and that Ottawa Redblacks player was suspended for alleged involvement. June 10th, 2021 Content Warning: homophobia, violence, assault In response to the recent...
SPEARHEAD BREWING CO. Pride Month Press Release
SPEARHEAD BREWING CO. PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF THEIR NEWEST BEER, QUEEN OF WHEAT IN TIME FOR PRIDE MONTH A portion of the proceeds will go to the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity May 25, 2021 - (Kingston, Ontario) - Spearhead Brewing Co. is proud...
Amazon Prime – Watch To Give BAck Press Release
Amazon Prime Video selects the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) as the next recipient of the Watch to Give Back initiative. Starting June 1, Prime Video will donate 100 per cent of proceeds from the rental or purchase of select titles in Canada...
CCGSD Motion to Fly the Pride Flag at OCSB
Advocacy in Ontario CCGSD reaction to OCSB Board of Trustees 9-1 vote in favour of flying Pride flag at all OCSB institutions for the month of June. May 26, 2021 In response to yesterday’s announcement that the Ottawa Catholic District School Board (OCSB) has voted in...
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