CBRC Launches “Our Bodies, Our Health” Survey to Amplify 2S/LGBTQIA+ Voices on Sexual and Reproductive Health Across Canada

posted Friday, June 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Sex & Sexuality

The Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC), in partnership with community-based research groups across the country, is launching Our Bodies, Our Health—a groundbreaking Canada-wide survey to better understand the sexual and reproductive health needs of 2S/LGBTQIA+ people across Canada. The survey will be available to complete online and in-person, and will travel to Pride events and community […]

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Canada’s First Rainbow Registered Residential Rental Building, Story of Midtown Toronto, Now Open

posted Saturday, June 7, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Community, Real Estate

Hazelview Properties has announced the opening of Canada’s first Rainbow Registered residential rental building. The Rainbow Registered accreditation is given to businesses and organizations that meet stringent standards to ensure that 2SLGBTQI+ customers feel welcome. While numerous businesses across the country hold the accreditation, the Story of Midtown Toronto rental property at 73/75 Broadway Ave is the first residential […]

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City of Toronto launches the Access Plan for Two-Spirit, Trans and Non-Binary Youth

posted Friday, October 18, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Community, Sex & Sexuality

The City of Toronto presented its first coordinated initiative to improve health and social outcomes for gender-diverse youth in Toronto to the Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Advisory Committee. The Access Plan for Two-Spirit, Trans and Non-Binary Youth aims to reduce barriers to City services and programs for gender-diverse youth aged 12 to […]

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Canada’s first-ever 2SLGBTQI+ Entrepreneurship Program gets Federal Funding

posted Thursday, October 10, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Community

2SLGBTQI+ entrepreneurs are a core part of Canada’s economy, with over 100,000 2SLGBTQI+-owned and -operated businesses in Canada employing over 435,000 Canadians and generating over $22 billion in economic activity. Yet, these entrepreneurs continue to face systemic barriers in starting and growing their businesses. To address these challenges and build a more inclusive economy, the federal government created […]

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Experience “Gallery of Memories” at Nuit Blanche 2024, showcasing stories of LGBTQ+ individuals with, or at risk of developing dementia

posted Thursday, October 3, 2024

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Community, Sex & Sexuality

Pride Toronto, in partnership with Egale Canada, is proud to present “Gallery of Memories” at Nuit Blanche 2024. This moving exhibition showcases the stories of 10 diverse 2SLGBTQI+ individuals with, or at risk of developing, dementia. Through poignant photographs, personal memories, and powerful audio stories, visitors will explore the resilience, activism, and love that have […]

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Walking In These Shoes – documentary examines the tragic circumstances around the death of an HIV+ individual who was denied health services

posted Monday, May 22, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism

Walking In These Shoes has been a work of love for and by the Poz BIPOC community who reside on the Dish with One Spoon Territory, Turtle Island/Toronto, Canada. The documentary is a celebration and tribute to the legacy of the late activist Derek Yee, affectionately called by those who loved him as DYee, who […]

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Call to Action: Join the Proclamation of Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day on March 20. 2023

posted Saturday, March 18, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism

The Two-Spirit Program at CBRC are calling upon our relations, government officials, policy makers, and hereditary leaders across Turtle Island in the proclamation and celebration of Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQIA+ Celebration and Awareness Day – taking place this year on Monday, March 20, 2023 – in alignment with the spring equinox. This Day was advocated by members […]

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The Arquives celebrates 50 years of queer history in 2023, and they want to have your input

posted Tuesday, February 21, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Featured, Politics

The ArQuives works to preserve and make accessible Canadian LGBTQ2+ histories, and is one of the largest independent LGBTQ2+ archives in the world and the only archive in Canada with a mandate to collect at a national level. Founded out of The Body Politic newspaper collection in 1973, its mandate is to safeguard the LGBTQ2+ history […]

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Free Home Self-Test HIV Kits Available Across Canada

posted Sunday, February 12, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle

Community Based Research Centre (CBRC) promotes the health of people of diverse sexualities and genders through research and intervention development. After years of advocacy by gay, bisexual, trans, Two-Spirit, and queer people (GBT2Q) for increased testing options, Canada’s first HIV self-test was approved on November 2, 2020! Approximately 14% of people in Canada living with HIV are […]

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Have your Toronto Pride photos be part of a special Exhibition and Publication

posted Friday, November 11, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Featured, Politics

Have you ever attended Toronto Pride? This is a public OPEN CALL for your photos from the 1970s to now!  Through The Magenta Foundation‘s Leadership Lab pilot program and using the LGBTQ2+ ArQuives — the only LGBTQ2+ archive in Canada with a national scope — the organizations are producing a comprehensive research project, exhibition, and catalogue focused […]

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