Making it Better

TD has produced a video to celebrate the relationships that help LGBTQ youth, and together, they strive to make it better.

PRYDE CLUB MEETING

Our first meeting of the year will be on Tuesday, September 13th. Room 161 - 3:10 pm
Be there, or be square.

Another Year

Welcome back to another year at OT. Welcome to your first year to all the grade 9s.

Come and explore this blog, we will have our first meeting of the year soon enough, ALL are welcome.

BUTTONFEST

The Pryde Club proudly presents... Buttonfest 2011

This is your opportunity to have your beautiful creation come to life. Come out and have some buttons made. See someone else with an awesome button. Trade!!! Buttonfest 2011 is an event to appreciate all things buttons.

Running at OT from May 24th-27th Periods 3 and 4 in the atrium. Buttons will cost $0.50/each or 3/$1. Proceeds from the event will be donated to HOPE, the Halton Organization for Pride and Education.

If you would like design templates for your creations click here for either a PSD photoshop file or pdf template.

It Gets Better

Halton Inside and Out conference

April 1st is the Halton Inside and Out conference. Despite it being April Fool's Day the title for this year is "Its no Joke"

The main speaker is Waawaate Fobister

Waawaate Fobister is Anishnaabe from Grassy Narrows, he's an actor and play write whose debut work, Agokwe won 6 Dora Awards in 2009. He's about to start rehearsals for a much anticipated remount. Waawaate Identifies as two spirit and as gay as well as a storyteller. He is the first university graduate in his family, and an amazingly accomplished 25 year old.

For more about Waawaate, check out the following:

He gave a TED talk about telling personal stories - you can see it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg0pLrCZjRo

Xtra! (as well as the Globe and Mail, Now and Metro) wrote about Agokwe, you can read the article here: http://www.xtra.ca/public/Toronto/On_stage_Agokwe-5547.aspx

Some of the workshops this year are:

• Art as Activist with fabric artist and queer mum Shira Spector

• Hear Me! Spoken Word Poetry with queer poet Tanya Neumeyer

• People First: Trans Identities with Rosalyn Forrester

• Healthy Relationships and Sexual Violence with SAVIS

• Roaming About the Middle: Things other than Gay and Straight with Susan Tarshis

• Straight Allies on tour with Davis Hein and Irene Sankoff

DAY of PINK

April 13th is the Day of Pink. We invite everyone at OTHS to stand up and show their determination to end discrimination.

From dayofpink.org

The International Day of Pink is a day of action, born when a youth in a high school in

Cambridge, Nova Scotia was bullied because he wore a pink shirt to school. His fellow

students decided to stand up to bullying; hundreds of students came to school wearing

pink to show support for diversity and stopping discrimination, bullying and

homophobia.

Moved by this event, the National Capital Region GSA Network (an initiative by Jer’s

Vision: Canada’s Youth Diversity Initiative) decided to share this day with the world by

creating the International Day of Pink.

The goal of DayofPink.org is to spread the message across the world. Anyone can

participate, organize related events and activities. We encourage you to spread the word,

raise your voice, engage your community and help stop discrimination.