LGBTTQ Issues
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Access to Health Services
CAMH: Asking the Right Questions (2) -- Talking with clients about sexual orientation and gender identity in mental health, counselling and addiction settings (PDF)
CAMH: Asking the Right Questions (2) -- Project Evaluation and Report, 2008 (PDF)
Service Use & Gaps in Service: LGBT Obstetrics (PDF)
Homophobia
Pushed (back) in the closet: Safety needs of LGBTTIQQ2S Women and Trans Communities of Toronto (PDF)
Serves You Right: Lesbian and Gay People's Expectations of Discrimination (Great Britain) (PDF)
The Cost of Homophobia: Literature Review of the Economic Impact of Homophobia on Canada (PDF)
What is Homophobia? (PDF)
Homophobia Affects Everyone - 2009 (PDF)
Transphobia (pamphlet, 2009) (PDF)
Violence Against Lesbian & Bisexual Women: Fact Sheet (PDF)
A New Look at Homophobia and Heterosexism in Canada (2003) (PDF)
Labour Market - Canadian Labour Congress
www.canadianlabour.ca
This guide is designed for trade union leaders, union staff representatives, local executive and committee members and shop stewards so that we can better protect the rights of our trans members and ensure they have the support they need before, during and after they transition.
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/news-room/publications/workers-transition-practical-guide-union-representatives
Trans Issues for the Labour Movement
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/TransissuesEn.pdf
Collective Bargaining Checklist: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/COLLECTIVEprideEn.pdf
CLC policy on Sexual Orientation
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/SexualOrientation-EN.pdf
40th Anniversary of decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada
http://www.canadianlabour.ca/news-room/statements/against-homophobia-and-transphobia
Two-Spirited People of the First Nations
Two-Spirited People of the First Nations Guide.pdf
Websites:
Egale Canada
Egale Canada is a national organization that advances equality and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans-identified people and their families across Canada.
www.egale.ca
The Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists: The history of psychiatry and homosexuality
http://www.aglp.org/gap/1_history/
Out on the Shelf – Queer Library and Resource Centre (Guelph ON)
www.outontheshelf.ca
The Rainbow Resource Centre (Winnipeg, MB)
www.rainbowresourcecentre.org
Gender and Health Collaborative Curriculum
http://www.genderandhealth.ca/
McGill Student Health: Queer Health
http://www.mcgill.ca/studenthealth/information/queerhealth/ - McGill University (2009)
Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives
http://www.clga.ca
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