Campus Pride
Your path, your journey.
#CampusPride is an initiative which strives to create a safer and more inclusive space for 2SLGBTQIA+ students. Through campaigns, events, and by providing resources and opportunities to students, we can help in the growth and support of our local 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride community on campus.
Join the Pride Collective
@ufvpc
A social and educational club that aims to create a safer space for all 2SLGBTQIA+ identifying individuals and allies at UFV🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Spotlight
Discover local 2SLGBTQIA+ businesses, artists and creators.
BC/Canada 2SLGBTQIA+ Resources
Qmunity – BC’s Queer Resource Centre
Improving queer and trans lives through services, connection and leadership. We offer information and referrals, diversity training and consulting services, all-ages events and drop-in programming, counselling and social support groups, volunteer and practicum opportunities, and community meeting space.
HiM - Health Initiative for Men
A nonprofit society that aims to strengthen the health and well-being of self-identified GBQ men and gender-diverse people in BC. They offer a full spectrum of health-based programming and services to meet the sexual, mental, physical, and social health needs of these communities.
PFlag Canada - Peer-to-peer support for all in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community
A national charitable organization founded by parents who wish to help themselves and their family members understand and accept their 2SLGBTQIA+ children.
The Safe Zone Project - Online resource for 2SLGBTQIA+ awareness and ally training workshops
The Safe Zone Project (SZP) is a free online resource that provides curricula, activities, and other resources for educators facilitating Safe Zone training (sexuality, gender, and 2SLGBTQIA+ education sessions) and learners who are hoping to explore these concepts on their own.
How to use Pronouns? -
Pronouns are how we refer to one another. They’re key part of how we express our personal identity. Hence, it’s important we learn how to use them!
Canadian Center for Gender + Sexual Diversity
Empowering gender and sexually diverse communities through education, research, and advocacy. Find their resources!
Foundry BC
Focusing on wellness, empowering young people to live a balanced and fulfilling life
while providing the right support for what each young person needs, when they need it.
Fraser Valley Youth Society
Supports 2SLGBTQIA+ and Allied youth in the Fraser Valley by connecting them to their community and to supportive inclusive help if needed.
Sher Vancouver
Founded in 2008 - provides arts and cultural, and social service programs and services to queer South Asians and their friends, families, and allies in Metro Vancouver.
Trans Care BC
Find gender-affirming care resources and support for Indigenous people who are trans, non-binary, or gender-diverse Two-Spirit.
Listen, Learn
& Love
The 2SLGBTQIA+ community is rich and vibrant with multiple cultures, amazing talent and beauty. Explore some of the groundbreaking podcasts and music that just can’t help but get you feelin’ the love
Book Recommendations
Book recommendations are as diverse as the people who read them—whether they’re looking to feel more empowered, discover new books to add to their reading list, or find a few new 2SLGBTQIA+ titles to read. We've got you covered!
A Boy's Own Story is the first of Edmund White's highly acclaimed trilogy of autobiographical novels that brilliantly evoke a young man's coming of age and document American gay life through the last forty years. The nameless narrator in this deeply affecting work reminisces about growing up in the 1950s with emotionally aloof, divorced parents, an unrelenting sister, and the schoolmates who taunt him. He finds consolation in literature and his fantastic imagination. Eager to cultivate intimate, enduring friendships, he becomes aware of his yearning to be loved by men, and struggles with the guilt and shame of accepting who he is.
In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and c
Seasoned advice columnist and queer chick Lindsay King Miller cuts through all of the bizarre conditioning imparted by parents, romantic comedies, and The L Word to help queer readers live authentic, safe, happy, sexy lives. With advice on every aspect of life as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer woman—from your first Pride to confronting discrimination in the workplace—there is guidance for some of the most major parts of living in a world that can vacillate between supportive and cruel.
It was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to break down years of silence in simpson's debut collection of poetry.
Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.
Kiss My Genders celebrates more than 30 international artists whose work explores and challenges traditional gender categories. The book features works from the late 1960s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender.
This illustrated compendium celebrates LGBTQIA+ history and culture, written by and according to culture icon Justin Elizabeth Sayre! Based on Sayre's five-part show in New York City, From Gay to Z is a humorous collection of the rich legacy of gay culture, told through the letters of the alphabet. From ABBA to addiction, hair and makeup to HIV, Fannie Flagg to fierce, Sayre offers their own perspective on the things that have influenced gay culture today, including iconic figures, historical moments, ongoing issues in the LGBTQIA+ community, and everything in between. As gay culture is always evolving and different for everyone, this book does not serve as a definitive guide—instead, Sayre encourages readers to use this knowledge to reflect on the things that have informed their personal identities. Engagingly written and beautifully designed, From Gay to Z is a distinctive and dynamic look at gay culture for LGBTQIA+ readers everywhere
UFV’s Queer
Book Club
The Queer Book Club brings together the Pride Collective and the UFV Library to create a safe & welcoming space for literature lovers, especially 2SLGBTQIA+ students and allies, to connect and have fun.
You don't have to read the book to join us, so everyone is invited!
