Honouring and celebrating 2SLGBTQIA+ people: Week 4

photo of UBC pride parada in 2019 — UBC Pride event in 2019. Photo credit: Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing

June 28, 2021

Edited: June 29, 2022

June is Pride Month in Canada and each week we have been sharing content to honour and celebrate 2SLGBTQIA+ people and draw attention to the issues this community continues to face. In this last post, we ask you to:

Get Educated

Stories of Two Spirit identities within the Indigenous population: Two Spirit - Queer California Untold Stories
Stories about LGBTQ2S+ scientists from a variety of different fields in this Podcast - LGBTQ+ Stem Cast.
Stories – Watch Sex, Sin & 69 – an 80-minute historical, retrospective film about the 1969 legislation to ‘decriminalize’ homosexuality.
Stories – Read the stories of 2SLGBTQIA+ nurses and allies within the nursing field. 2SLGBTQIA+ nurses form one of the largest minorities within the profession, and yet they are hardly recognized as a subgroup.

Get Engaged

Join Positive Space Campaign, which is a campus-wide initiative intended to raise awareness and visibility of 2SLGBTQIA+ students, staff, faculty, alumni and allies at UBC.
Support the UBC Gears and Queers student club, which is comprised of 2SLGBTQIA+ engineers and allies. They are dedicated to creating an open, accepting space for queer engineering students at UBC.
Support EngiQueers, which is a national organization that celebrates, promotes, and advocates for diversity and inclusivity in engineering.
The LOUD Business Creates opportunities for professionals and entrepreneurs within Vancouver’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community to network, learn and grow — both professionally and personally.
The Health Initiative for Men is a nonprofit society that aims to strengthen the health and well-being in communities of self-identified GBQ men and gender-diverse people in BC. They offer health-based programming and services to meet the sexual, mental, physical and social health needs of GBQ men and gender diverse people.