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Gay Prides in Toronto June 19-28 and the US (June)

Published: 1 June 2015

Event: Pride Toronto is the not-for-profit organization that hosts an annual festival in downtown Toronto, which takes place each year during the last week of June.

Pride Week celebrates our diverse sexual and gender identities, histories, cultures, creativities, families, friends and lives. It includes a three-day street festival with over eight stages of live entertainment, an extensive street fair (including community booths, vendors, food stalls), a special Family Pride program, a politically charged Dyke March, a Trans March and the famous Pride Parade.

http://www.pridetoronto.com/about/

 

Expert: William Ryan

Expertise: homophobia, legal issues for LGBT people and LGBT communities

billryan [at] ismh-isms [dot] com

(514) 277-6994

Bio : https://www.mcgill.ca/socialwork/faculty/ryan

English

 

Experts: Sean Waite and Nicole Denier, McGill PhD students in Sociology

Expertise: They reported in the journal Gender and Society that wage gaps in the Canadian labour market are stratified by sexual orientation.

More info: link https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/gay-pay-straight-work-250143

Sean [dot] waite [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca and nicole [dot] denier [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca

Print interviews only due to their schedules.

Bio : https://www.mcgill.ca/sociology/graduatestudents/phd

English only

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