Brantford Pride Month is an annual event that runs in June. The main event is Pride in the Park held the third Saturday in June.

The Brantford Pride Committee is a grassroots group, working to mobilize around issues affecting the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Brantford, while holding space to celebrate and honour the 2SLGBTQ+ community!

Queer Sphere is a committee under the Diversity & Equity Office that promotes the awareness, acceptance and social advocacy for Queer members on campus with the aim for students to meet and socialize with their peers, as well as to impact the university in a positive way. Regular events and meetings include discussions, games night, movie night and guest speakers.

(Currently in-person)
On the first and third Friday,  a diverse and dynamic group of youth meet at Kind for an evening of low-pressure hanging out. Care, support, and harm reduction are key practices at Café Q which is run by Taryn and other support facilitators. Join other youth for game nights, art making, snacks or just to chill and check in with friends.

Caledon Pride is a grassroots 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride Month planning group dedicated to creating an inclusive community for all in Caledon, Ontario. We work with local organizations to bring meaningful programming to the community during Pride Month, and to promote 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy year-round.

If you’d like to help plan pride month in Caledon, or want to hear more about Caledon Pride events, please contact us through our email!

To create safe, confidential, and inclusive spaces and services in York Region where people can access dignified support and meaningfully engage in self-determined pathways to well-being. We envision an informed, healthy, stigma-free and compassionate community. We offer specialized and combined programs for:

People living with HIV/AIDS (newly diagnosed to long-term survivors)
People affected by or at risk of HIV and Hep C
People who use drugs
People who identify as 2SLGBTQ+
People supporting vulnerable and marginalized community members

Rainbow Space includes virtual drop-in space on discord for 2SLGBTQ+ youth. Connect with us at 647-381-9199 or 416-938-4458; rainbowspace@cayrcc.org

THIS RESOURCE IS NOT 2SLGBTQ+ SPECIFIC

ConnexOntario provides treatment service information, including contact information and wait times, for people experiencing problems with gambling, drugs, alcohol, and/or mental health. Our System Navigators will answer your call, text (CONNEX to 247247), and email or web chat 24/7 (www.connexontario.ca) from anywhere in Ontario. We offer support, provide education, and our 24/7/365 service is free and confidential.

ConnexOntario is reachable by phone at 1-866-531-2600
or by Chat at https://www.connexontario.ca/Chat

THIS RESOURCE IS NOT 2SLGBTQ SPECIFIC

Embrave – Agency to End Violence is an anti-violence organization providing shelter, counselling and advocacy supports for women, Two-Spirit, gender queer, trans and non-binary folks and their children experiencing any form of violence in the Region of Peel and beyond. We provide supports and services to survivors with or without children.

We understand that survivors’ experiences of violence are compounded by intersecting forms of racism and oppression. Embrave is a low barrier organization that is committed to ending gender-based violence by acknowledging and addressing the multitude of barriers facing folks who have experienced violence and by providing crisis intervention and a range of supports and services.

Embrave’s definition of gender-based violence includes intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, cyber violence; physical, emotional and financial violence; stalking; structural and systemic violence, such as racism, colonialism, classism, transphobia, homophobia, sanism, islamophobia, nationalism and ableism.

Our programs include:

• 24-Hour Emergency Shelters
• 24-Hour Crisis Support Lines
• Community Support and Outreach Program supports survivors living in the community who have or are experiencing violence
• Central Intake Line provides coordinated access to Transitional Housing Supports in Peel Region
• Sexual Violence Counselling Support Program
• Public Education Program
• Lead Agency for the Peel Committee Against Women Abuse (PCAWA)

NOT A 2SLGBTQ+ SPECIFIC RESOURCE

Family Transition Place is a multi-service agency providing a range of services: Support / Information Line, Emergency Shelter, Second Stage and Third Stage Housing, Support Within Housing, Counselling (gender based violence, sexual abuse and addictions), Transitional Support (Housing & Legal), Rural Response, Community Outreach, Youth Education.

Creating 2SLGBTQ+ Events for our queer community and allies in the Grey-Bruce Simcoe Region

Managing the only comprehensive calendar for all local queer events (including local PFLAG meetings, etc). Downloadable Google Calendar Available.
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1?cid=ZmVtbWVzLmZldGVzLmFsc0BnbWFpbC5jb20

Website’s “Local Supports” page has supports for 2SLGBTQ+ Community categorized by:
-local supports
-mental wellness and crisis supports
-physical health supports for specialized 2SLGBTQ+ issues

We are the foster care agency for LGBTQ2S youth in Ontario, and the only one in Canada. We are Queer-owned and operated, and we believe in supporting the youth of our community. We have LGBTQ2S-positive foster homes in Windsor, and London. We connect our youth and their foster families to our network of LGBTQ2S positive and specialist supports and services, and we help you build strong and lasting connections in LGBTQ2S communities.

You have several options to access Five/Fourteen’s enhanced supports for LGBTQ2 youth:

If you want to talk with us about being placed in one of our homes (in Windsor/London only) or accessing our enhanced services in your current foster home, you can talk with your CAS worker, or fill-in the self referral form on our website, and we can reach out to your CAS. After you submit the self referral form, you can expect to hear from us within two business days. If you don’t, feel free to contact Lou at 844 514 0514 x105 or by email at lou@fostering.ca.

If your foster parents are LGBTQ2-positive but need or want help to better support you, ask them to contact us and become a Five/Fourteen foster home.

If you feel your foster home is not LGBTQ2-supportive, you can tell your CAS worker you want a placement with Five/Fourteen. This is for ANY youth in Ontario. If you feel your CAS is not supportive of your sexual orientation and/or gender identity, you can contact us directly through our self-referral form.