Posted Mon, 3 Dec 2012, 10:24pm by Shawn Sheridan
On Friday, 23 November 2012, I was honoured to be asked to participate in a day-long workshop on PrideHouseTO, and to speak during an afternoon panel session. Our friends at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, Hart House, the Sexual and Gender Diversity Office, the Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office, the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, and Egale Canada hosted a large group of people at Hart House, as part of the work being done around the Advocacy and Policy pillar of the whole PrideHouseTO project.
After a warm welcome from Bruce Kidd, Warden of Hart House, and former Dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Dean Nelson and Louise Englefeild gave great presentations on the Vancouver and London Pride Houses respectively, which were very useful for us going forward.
In the afternoon, there were two panel discussions, in the first of which I participated, along with Paul Genest, Deputy Minister, Ontario Pan Am Secretariat, Louise Lutgens, Senior Vice President, Community and Cultural Affairs, Toronto 2015, Gordon Dunbar, Director, GLISA-NA, Clinton Brown, Director, GLISA, and Matthew Cutler, Director of Development and Community Engagement, The 519. As part of my participation, I gave an address, which can be found here.
The final afternoon panel session was entitled, "International challenges: what is the advocacy agenda for LGBTI in sport?" It featured Alfonso Cardoso, Consul General Brazil, Louise Englefield, Pride Sports UK, Karlene Williams-Clarke, LGBT Newcomer Community Services Coordinator, The 519, and Janelle Joseph, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, and was moderated by our very own Catherine Meade.
We should be receiving proceedings from the day, and as soon as we do, I hope to be able to post them for you all to get an idea of the day.
It was definitely a great day, with a lot of good ideas and focus that will certainly help further the PrideHouseTO project!
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