Celebrate Pride with OPL

OPL actively centres and celebrates 2SLGBTQ+ voices and experiences through programming, collection displays, reading recommendations, and sharing community support services resources. Our programs and events will also align with the start of Pride celebrations in June. 
 
OPL has always supported diversity and values belonging, in thought and in the communities that make up Oakville. There will always be a safe, welcoming, and respectful space at our library for our 2SLGBTQ+ community – within our branch walls, our virtual spaces, and in the discussions and relationships we share. As a library, OPL values equity and social inclusion, and we will always celebrate our community’s diversity.

Read full statement: Halton Libraries Committed to Supporting 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities

Programs this June at OPL

• Big Dreamers - Elton John - Celebrate the stories and achievements of these diverse and inspirational individuals who each started out as a child with a dream.

• Pride Book Club - Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary by Luna Ferguson

• Fay and Fluffy Family Storytime

• Fay and Fluffy - Drag Queen Storytime for Teens

• The Art of Allyship - Presented by Drag Academy

• Big Dreamers - Billie Jean King - Celebrate the stories and achievements of these diverse and inspirational individuals who each started out as a child with a dream.

Reading Lists

• 2SLGBTQIA+ - Preschool
• 2SLGBTQIA+ Picture Books
• 2SLGBTQIA+ - School Age
• 2SLGBTQIA+ - Teen
• 2SLGBTQIA+ - Adult

 

Books and Learning Guides

• 2SLGBTQ+ Studies - Guides at Sheridan Library & Learning Services

• Sheridan College’s PRIDE Guide

• Sheridan College Podcast series, SuperQueero

• The Canadian Gay and Lesbian Archives Our ArQuives - collections of people's personal papers

• The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity CCGSD | For a world without discrimination

 
Community Resources

• 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations

• Home - The 519

• AFFIRM

• Asian Community AIDS Services

• Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Addiction and Mental Health Services

• Determination Martial Arts, Rainbow Pals Summer Camp

• FrancoQueer

• Halton Pride Collective

• How to Find - 24 Hour Crisis and Distress Services, Halton

• Interligne

• International Railroad for Queer Refugees

• Lesbian Gay Bi Trans YouthLine

• LGBTQ+ Youth HeLP, Online/Web Service

• Ontario. Ministry of Health, No physical address, Sexual Health Infoline Ontario/The Mainline

• Pflag Canada

• ROCK, Danielle's Place - Eating Disorder Support and Resource Centre

• ROCK, Positive Space Network

• Ten Oaks Project

• Thrive Counselling, Individual, Couple, and Family Counselling

• Toronto Pflag

• Trans Lifeline