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  CBU Celebrates Pride

  Pride at CBU

  Here at CBU, we are proud to celebrate and empower the 2SLGBTQ+ society and to educate allies and community members at large. 

  The official 2SLGBTQ+ Lgbtq+ fest Month is held each June to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June In an strive to help educate people who are actively inquiring out information on Identity festival, we’ve created this hub to serve as an educational centre with stories, resources and more which will be updated on a regular basis. 

  Pride Month in Cape Breton is held each August, but we are proud to recognize and celebrate the 2sLGBTQ+ community all year. 

   

  CBUSU Pride and Ally Centre

  The Pride and Ally Centre, located in the Students’ Union Building is unclosed to any and every student who wishes to join a safe and inclusive space on campus. The Centre is operated by a student coordinator and volunteers who function hard to make the Centre as welcoming as possible. Any contact made with the Pride and Ally Centre is completely confidential.  

  The Pride & Ally Centre provides: 

  • Advocacy
  • Resource Library
  • Referrals to the Human Rights Officer
  • Workshops on topics such as ally training, safe
    
    
    
    

    by Liam Devitt

    In , the AIDS Coalition of Cape Breton was founded. Cape Breton Island, a petty industrial region, was a far cry from the perceived metropolitan hotspots of the AIDS epidemic. It did not have the cosmopolitan queer nightlife of these cities and brief activism that could be called “gay liberation” manifested in any visible way. In short, Cape Breton is not the place a historian would ordinarily look if they wanted to say interesting things about the AIDS crisis or even queer being in general. Yet, there are histories here that can help us stare at the legacy of deindustrialization and non-metropolitan gender non-conforming communities differently.

    Peter Steele, a Cape Bretoner long active in the LGBT society on the Island, recounted to me his story of the AIDS Coalition’s founding:

    I became a founding member of the AIDS Coalition of Cape Breton. And through that, I came to know a lot of guys who lived elsewhere, who left here after high college, and contracted HIV wherever they lived, and when it developed to AIDS, they moved back here. Some moved back to be with their families, some moved back to be taken care of by their families, and a lot of them moved back here because
    

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