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LATEST NEWS from Queer YUKON

Queer Yukon AGM

Join Queer Yukon at our Online AGM on Sun. Dec. 5 @ 3pm. Learn about the work we've done over the past year, ask questions, and help elect the Board of Directors.

Join the QUEER YUKON BOard

Queer Yukon Society (QYS) is putting the call out for board members to join us in our work to support the LGBTQIA2S+ community in the Yukon. We encourage folks to submit an online expressions of interest by Nov. 16 @ 5pm. 

We're Hiring

Queer Yukon is currently hiring 2 positions: Community Access Team Lead (Whitehorse) and Rural Community Access Coordinator (Dawson City or Watson Lake). These positions will work together to support systemic change alongside Yukon Women's Organizations.

​Deadline Extended to: Nov. 25, 2021

Honouring the 215

Duane Gastant' Aucoin, Vice President for Queer Yukon Society asked us to share this story.

To honour the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were recently found at a former residential school in BC, Duane helped to organize a memorial in Pembroke, Ontario, where he currently resides. Duane purchased one blue and one pink pair of shoes. When Duane was placing the shoes on the Cathedral steps, he ended up placing the blue and pink shoes together in a pair. Duane said, "I was going to change them until I realised that this was for the 2-spirit children who never made it home!"

To learn more about Duane's story and the memorial he helped organize, please visit:
https://www.pembrokeobserver.com/news/local-news/pembroke-memorial-forms-for-215-children-found-at-former-b-c-residential-school

Duane also made a video you can watch by clicking the button below.
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Queer & Trans young adult council

Are you between the ages of 19-25, live in Whitehorse, and want to help Queer Yukon imagine Young Adult programming and a pride centre? QYS is looking for LGBTQIA2S+ folks to join a Queer & Trans Young Adult Council! ​ Spots are limited so apply by September 2nd!

apply for up to $500 in utility payments

The Yukon Pride Centre's Utility Payments Program provides direct utility payments for LGBTQIA2S+ Yukoners. This program is designed for folx who are in need of emergency support making utility payments or who are experiencing housing insecurity.

Queer yukon society calls on yukon party for systemic change

An open letter from the Queer Yukon Society on Addressing Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in the Yukon Party.

YUKON PRIDE CENTRE LAUNCHES GENDER GEAR 2.0

The Yukon Pride Centre is excited to launch YGG 2.0! In partnership with GenderGear.ca, BYTE, and Northern Voices Rising, the Yukon Gender Gear program provides Yukoners with access to gender gear including: chest binders, breast forms and bras, gaffs, packers and packing straps or pouches, STP devices, shapewear, makeup and IM injection kits.​

Yukon Pride centre online events now available!

We are excited to bring our online Spring/Summer programming to you!
​Have a look at our fantastic line-up of recurring events. There is no need to attend all of our events, just register and join us whenever you can!

yukon pride centre: Community conversation

We want the Yukon Pride Centre to be community-driven and collectively-imagined, with a goal of creating a physical space where community members can gather and access resources, programs, and supports. As we work together to create something truly exciting, we look forward to your input on this ground-breaking project.

Black lives matter: A Statement from Queer Yukon Society & All Genders Yukon Society

Queer Yukon Society and All Genders Yukon Society condemn racism in all its forms. We condemn police brutality and murder, and we condemn quiet complacency with the racist status quo.

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