##  [Honouring and celebrating 2SLGBTQIA+ people: Week 4](/news/2021/honouring-and-celebrating-2slgbtqia-people-week-4) 

   Posted June 28, 2021 

 

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UBC Pride event in 2019. Photo credit: Paul Joseph / UBC Brand & Marketing

Edited: June 29, 2022

June is Pride Month in Canada and each week we have been sharing content to honour and celebrate 2SLGBTQIA+ people and draw attention to the issues this community continues to face. In this last post, we ask you to:

## Get Educated

- Stories of Two Spirit identities within the Indigenous population: [Two Spirit - Queer California Untold Stories](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD1ebR5qMtY)
- Stories about LGBTQ2S+ scientists from a variety of different fields in this Podcast - [LGBTQ+ Stem Cast](https://anchor.fm/lgbtqstemcast).
- Stories – Watch [*Sex, Sin & 69*](https://egale.ca/awareness/sex-sin-69-learn/) – an 80-minute historical, retrospective film about the 1969 legislation to ‘decriminalize’ homosexuality.
- Stories – [Read the stories of 2SLGBTQIA+ nurses and allies](https://minoritynurse.com/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-in-nursing/) within the nursing field. 2SLGBTQIA+ nurses form one of the largest minorities within the profession, and yet they are hardly recognized as a subgroup.

## Get Engaged

- Join [Positive Space Campaign](https://equity.ubc.ca/resources/positive-space/), which is a campus-wide initiative intended to raise awareness and visibility of 2SLGBTQIA+ students, staff, faculty, alumni and allies at UBC.
- Support the UBC [Gears and Queers](https://www.facebook.com/gearsandqueers/) student club, which is comprised of 2SLGBTQIA+ engineers and allies. They are dedicated to creating an open, accepting space for queer engineering students at UBC.
- Support [EngiQueers](https://www.engiqueers.ca/), which is a national organization that celebrates, promotes, and advocates for diversity and inclusivity in engineering.
- The LOUD Business Creates opportunities for professionals and entrepreneurs within Vancouver’s 2SLGBTQIA+ community to network, learn and grow — both professionally and personally.
- The [Health Initiative for Men](https://checkhimout.ca/) is a nonprofit society that aims to strengthen the health and well-being in communities of self-identified GBQ men and gender-diverse people in BC. They offer health-based programming and services to meet the sexual, mental, physical and social health needs of GBQ men and gender diverse people.

## Learn More

Explore [Pride Month Resources](https://apsc.ubc.ca/news/2022/happy-pride-month) from the UBC Applied Science EDI.I Office.

Let us celebrate, support and continue the progress that has been achieved through the work of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and supporters.



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