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Text Reads: You are Brilliant, Powerful, and Beautiful.
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Text Reads: Do what you need to do for you. Creating space away from negative experiences. Having chosen family. Defining self-care in your own way. Expressing your glorious self in what feels most comfortable for you. Creating your own path to self-love and affirmation. Asking for, and defining what help is, and when you need it.
Consider submitting your own thoughts through the “Submit a Message” tab below
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Text reads: “It’s okay to want validation from others, but I hope that you know you don’t need it and you are everything that you need to be on your own.”
Submit a message of love, hope, resilience, or support to The 519′s Queer Community Journal tumblr or our Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N5PV8V8
The LGBTQ community has some incredible people and a lot of love and support to offer. Here are some messages of love, resiliency, and some reminders that there are people in your corner rooting for you. Take a pause from your day and read through some notes.
Submit your own through Survey Monkey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N5PV8V8)
or submit through our Queer Community Journal tumblr: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N5PV8V8
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Text reads: “If you are going through a hard time, please know that there are people who love and support you. You may not have met them yet but they are out there and you will be glad to meet them when you do.”
The 519 is starting a new project for community support! We are asking that people can send in supportive and affirming messages for folks in the community who might be experiencing isolation or are in need of a reminder that they are loved.
Words have a lot of power and these ones are reminders of the resiliency of LGBTQ folks. They are from the queer community, for the queer community.
Messages can be for the community, to your past self, something that you need to hear now, or something that you want to say to someone else. Messages can be as long or short as you’d like. They will be posted on The 519’s tumblr account and may be sent out through twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. All messages will be kept anonymous.
Submit your own messages through our Queer Community Journal! https://the519queercommunityjournal.tumblr.com/
Take a minute to read through some affirmations that have been sent in from members of the queer community to members of the queer community!
We would also love to hear from you! Send in your submissions through tumblr (https://the519queercommunityjournal.tumblr.com/) or through Survey Monkey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N5PV8V8).
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Text reads: “Your identities are valid and you know them better than anyone else ever will. You can take some time to figure them out and if they change again that’s completely fine. It’s never too late to explore your identities and who you are as a person.”
The LGBTQ community has some incredible people and a lot of love and support to offer. Here are some messages of love, resiliency, and some reminders that there are people in your corner rooting for you. Take a pause from your day and read through some notes.
Check out other messages and submit your own through our Queer Community Journal tumblr or our Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N5PV8V8
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Text reads: “1. When you feel free to be you is when you know you have found a community that loves and respects you for you. 2. Never wonder about a situation or a person when you can just ask. Sometimes I just want to be. Saying hello isn’t asking a lot of anyone. Greet somebody and make their day!”
The 519 is starting a new online project! The Queer Community Journal will be an online space where supportive messages from the community will be posted for LGBTQ people who are in need of some support.
Submit messages about resiliency, affirmation, love, and solidarity and we will post them online for folks in the community to read! Messages can be for the community, to your past self, something that you need to hear now, or something that you want to say to someone else.
Words and stories have power. Send in yours as a way of offering support to the community.
Submit through our Queer Community Journal tumblr or our Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N5PV8V8
The 519 is starting a new online project! The Queer Community Journal will be an online space where supportive messages from the community will be posted for LGBTQ people who are in need of some support.
Check out other messages and submit your own through our Queer Community Journal tumblr or our Survey Monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/N5PV8V8
the519 reblogged
Text reads: Your chosen family is as valid as any other family. You are allowed to choose who you are around and if you need to distance yourself from someone for a while, that’s okay. You need to be able to take care of yourself.
The queer and trans community has some incredible people and a lot of love and support to offer. Here are some messages of love, resiliency, and some reminders that there are people in your corner rooting for you. Messages are from the queer community, to the queer community. Take a pause from your day and read through some notes.
The 519 is starting a new project for community support! We are asking that people can send in supportive and affirming messages for folks in the community who might be experiencing isolation or are in need of a reminder that they are loved.
Words have a lot of power and these ones are reminders of the resiliency of LGBTQ folks. They are from the queer community, for the queer community.
Messages can be for the community, to your past self, something that you need to hear now, or something that you want to say to someone else. Messages can be as long or short as you’d like. They will be posted on The 519’s tumblr account and may be sent out through twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. All messages will be kept anonymous.
Submit your own messages through our Queer Community Journal! https://the519queercommunityjournal.tumblr.com/
the519 reblogged
Text reads: “You don’t owe a disclosure of your identity to anyone. You are who you are with or without external validation. If it’s not safe for you to be out, you don’t have to be out. If you don’t want to be out, you don’t have to be out. Not being out doesn’t mean that you are not queer. You are yourself, with or without the validation of others, and that’s the best thing you can be.”
The LGBTQ community has some incredible people and a lot of love and support to offer. Here are some messages of love, resiliency, and some reminders that there are people in your corner rooting for you. Take a pause from your day and read through some notes.
'Being an ally is about doing something and making change with, and for, trans communities.' https://goo.gl/9Yy4py
Sign up now for Play It Forward part of our Youth Action and Arts Space (10-15 Year Olds):
Telling your own story is a powerful way to change the world. For six weeks,Soulpepper Theatre Company artists will build safer space and help you find and shape your story, discover and build confidence to share it, and explore the idea that 'existence is resistance'.
Trans+Sport is a documentary short that highlights many of the barriers trans and genderqueer youth face in accessing sport and physical activity.
Through interviews with youth and adult leaders, viewers will gain a better understanding of why it is important to challenge these barriers, how individuals can create change, and the impact creating safer spaces will have for everyone in your community. This video was created by The 519, with support from The Toronto Community Foundation.
In partnership with Pride at Work Canada / Fierté au travail Canada and TD we are launching the French edition of our Creating Authentic Spaces, gender identity and gender expression inclusion toolkit in Montreal, QC today.
En partenariat avec Pride at Work Canada / Fierté au travail Canada et la Banque TD, nous dévoilons la version française de notre boîte à outils sur l'identité et l'expression de genre, Créer des milieux authentiques, à Montréal aujourd'hui.
In partnership with Pride at Work Canada / Fierté au travail Canada and TD we are launching the French edition of our Creating Authentic Spaces, gender identity and gender expression inclusion toolkit in Montreal, QC today.
En partenariat avec Pride at Work Canada / Fierté au travail Canada et la Banque TD, nous dévoilons la version française de notre boîte à outils sur l'identité et l'expression de genre, Créer des milieux authentiques, à Montréal aujourd'hui.
Share solidarity. It's a good time to be a member. Join. Connect. Share. http://www.the519.org/join
The 519 Education Team Supporting 10,000+ People in 2016 to Create Authentic Spaces
We would like to thank the 10,000+ people who participated in our education and training sessions in 2016. Last year, hundreds of non-profit, public sector and corporate organizations worked with us to advance LGBTQ inclusive spaces where people can be their authentic selves.
The 519 Education and Training team provides organizations with the insight, tools and understanding to create environments that are LGBTQ-inclusive, respectful and welcoming. Our education team advances efforts that promote diversity and inclusion and creates inclusive environments for everyone. We have an amazing team of trainers who bring an incredible breadth of experience, passion and courage to their work.
We support the diversity and inclusion efforts of a wide range of organizations in Toronto, across Ontario and beyond; from retailers and banks; to hospitals and care environments; to shelters and housing organizations; to municipal, provincial and federal government departments and ministries. We share our advocacy work and resources, including our Creating Authentic Spaces / Créer des Milieux Authentiques toolkit and LGBTQ2S Youth Homelessness campaign with partners from across Canada and internationally.
Every day our education team works to ensure LGBTQ people of all ages feel safe to access services and community supports, where queer and trans families are free to define themselves, and where LGBTQ2S young people do not become homeless and have to experience poverty, despair and fear. We work to advance human rights and to ensure legislation is enacted in a way that creates real safety and inclusion for queer and trans people and where no one experiences isolation, violence or discrimination because of who they are.
We are inspired by the conversations that are taking place in the training room and by the growing number of people who are committed to creating spaces that are inclusive of all sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.
Find out more about how we can help your organization in 2017.
Book a free consultation to build a custom training program for your team:
Laura Gibbon, Supervisor, Education and Training
416-355-6772 | LGibbon@The519.org
We encounter so much joy and happiness at The 519 throughout the year. We are a space for change, where many different kinds of events and gatherings take place on a daily basis.
Our Family Resource Centre is filled each week with the inspiring energy, laughter and creativity of children. Our programs celebrate throughout the year with movie nights, craft parties, fashion shows, and karaoke.
The hallways quietly echo with music when Counterpoint Community Orchestra and Singing Out meet for practice and rehearsals. The floorboards spring to life with dance and movement from community groups Rainbow Ballroom Toronto, Triangle Squares, Swingin'OUT and ILL NANA/DiverseCity Dance Company.
There are colourful birthday parties, pubs, Bar and Bat Mitvahs, weddings, volunteer fairs, craft fairs, film screenings, retirement parties and staff get-togethers throughout the year under the sparkle of the chandeliers in our Grand Ballroom.
We learned to create and make so many crafty things with you this year - crochet, sewing, silk screening, button making, animation, and quilting - and we look forward to even more engaging craft opportunities in the months ahead.
Thank you for your smiles and your support, and the many ways you inspire us and each other.
From all of us at The 519, our best wishes for a happy, healthy and hopeful New Year.