Happy Non-Binary People's Day! With Pride Month wrapping up for many - and just getting started for others across Canada, it's important that we continue conversations around diversity and inclusion and continue to raise our flags and our voices for our community. This 2020 has been a particularly hard year for our community amid the pandemic (see our recent study). However, in times of difficulty, we find our voice and we find ways to continue to lift LGBTQI2S people and issues to the forefront. This past month, in partnership with TAXI Agency, we launched a video that takes the international experience of COVID-19 and uses it as a metaphor for our LGBTQI2S community by blending feelings of being trapped inside one's home with the feeling of being trapped in the closet. Although the two don't even come close to a true comparison, it is a small way to help others begin to get a sense of that feeling and hopefully bring all Canadians a little bit further along their Allyship journey. This International Non-Binary People's Day, we're both celebrating how far we've come with they/them being added to the dictionary just last year among other advances, as well as acknowledging the continued barriers that our trans and non-binary community, in particular, continue to face when coming out. Watch our 'Coming Out' video For more resources, please visit the Awareness tab on our website at https://egale.ca/awareness | |
Helen Kennedy, Executive Director | |
