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Donate A Mask provides free supplies to people in need and charitable organizations. With back to school coming up, we want to be prepared, so that we can keep everyone in our spaces safe. Check them out: www.donateamask.ca

Such a great resource for Canadians!
Thanks again for the goodies. ❤️

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We’re just 11 days away from our annual Pride Family Picnic - Centre33!

A special shoutout to all of the local businesses who have donated to our collection of treasured raffle prizes so far:

U-Rock Music School 🎸 Cathy
Yogatown 🌈 Stittsville, Barrhaven, Preston
Brittany Singh Law 💜
Shears Colour & Hair Salon 🎀 Chelsea
CocoMutts 🐶 Asa, Dayna and Jennifer
Quilligree Creations🌷 Terilyn
🫖 Sipology Tea
Margaret's Creative Creations ☀️

And our photographer Maddie, owner of BlueJay Photography! 📷

🌈 Jam along with Monkey Rock Music at 11am
🌈 Eat tasty treats from Maverick's Donuts Ottawa - The Merry Dairy - Scratch Box Gastro Truck
🌈 Get competitive with our lawn games, badminton or volleyball
🌈 Check out a selection of q***r and gender diverse books available at Ottawa Public Library / Bibliothèque publique d'Ottawa - Gabrielle 🌻
🌈 Be creative in our Proudest Picnic Basket Decorating Contest
🌈 Check out our bubble station 🫧
🌈 If a break is needed, visit our quiet(er) zone where you can color outside of the lines, do a small craft, or just people watch while wearing our noise-canceling headphones
🌈 Have a peak inside Centre33
🌈 Buy a raffle ticket. Obviously. 😉
🌈 Come say “hi” to us at our Pride Merch Tent too - our gay pins are the CUTEST!

Come and make your support / love for community visible.
We can’t wait to meet you or see you again! 🙌🏼
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It was a the perfect day to attend Stittsville’s Pride Week Flag Raising ceremony at Village Square Park. Lovely to meet new people and see familiar faces. We’re incredibly grateful for the support this community has shown us - it’s an honour to be trusted to do this kind of work. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Thank you to Glen Gower - Councillor / Conseiller - Stittsville and his amazing team of magical humans for putting this event together again this year. Happy Pride Ottawa! 🙂

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🌈 Thank you for helping us to make our community more colorful. We cannot wait to get creative with these wonderful gift bags!!!

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Thank you for the amazingly fun raffle prize for our Pride Family Picnic. If you’re looking for a q***r/trans affirming place to shop and pamper your fur babes, check them out! Resident felines, Squid & Shrimp rocked our world today. 🙂

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Join our team! 🌈

We're seeking fun friends to join us on August 24th for our annual Pride Family Picnic - 11am-3pm.

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/c4ZeTNk8jWecxbyeA

Other opportunities:
🤩 Capital Pride Street Festival Booth on August 25, 12pm-3pm and 3pm-6pm
🤩 Peer-supporters, Youth Drop-in (Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4pm-7pm)
🤩 Alphabet Soup Co-Facilitators, 8-11 year (1st and 3rd Saturday of the month, 1pm-3pm)
🤩 Content Creator for creative things

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Registration for our next season of Alphabet Soup is open! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ A social group for 8-11 year olds where we learn about connection, forming healthy relationships and nurturing a safe and inclusive community.

If you’re interested, please fill out this form and we’ll be in touch: https://forms.gle/dfgTPEzn7tkPka5k8

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Tuesdays & Wednesdays: our Drop-in is open for youth, 12-17 years old. Come meet new peeps in a safe, loving and inclusive space.

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Come say “hi” and check out our 2SLGBTQIA+ book suggestions.

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Hi hi Friends! We'll be at West Side Pride tomorrow (Saturday, July 27th!), from 12pm-5pm. Come and say hi, learn more about Centre33, and pick up some fun swag ~ all proceeds support our children and youth programs.

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Today is a magical day! ⭐

It's International Drag Day! Today, people come together to embrace their love of drag by hosting drag shows, parties, and other events to celebrate the day. It is a day to recognize and appreciate the drag queens, drag kings, and every drag-identifying artist who has made a significant contribution to our lives and communities. Without drag, life would be a drag. Right???

Please share upcoming drag events that you know about in the comments section!

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YOU’RE INVITED TO our Q***r Summer Formal ⭐️

Join us on July 24th, 4pm-7pm!
Food, soda, and good vibes will be offered.

The link to register is available via the QR code or here: https://forms.gle/58WSTRgTDvGQxgjH6
All youth, 12-17 years old are welcome to attend. 💫

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We celebrate International Non-binary People's Day this week! This week celebrates and raises awareness of non-binary people who don't identify within the traditional gender binary. Did you know that since 2012, Nonbinary Awareness Week has been celebrated on July 14th because it is falls right in the middle between International Women's Day in March and International Men's Day in November? 💛🤍💜🖤

Here are some ways you can go to support non-binary people.

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Our Alphabet Soup participants are amazing. 🥰

Yesterday we warmed up with Pictionary (our volunteers didn’t do very well…) and then we made comics. I can’t wait to share more about “the Goose that was nonbinaire”. Is that not the most epic title for a comic? 💛🪿💜🖤

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Today is Femme Appreciation Day! 🟣🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜⁠

Celebrated on the first Saturday of July, Femme Appreciation Day is all about femme visibility, solidarity, and of course, appreciation! People can celebrate through sharing femme art, fashion, or discussions with the community. We see you, we value you and we know your visibility is important! 💗

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The Stonewall Uprising was a series of protests that erupted in the early hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, a q***r bar located in New York City's Greenwich Village. The uprising is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of the 2SLGBTQIA+ rights movement in the United States and the birthplace of Pride.

At the time, gay and le***an bars were illegal, and police raids were commonplace. However, in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, when the Stonewall Inn was raided, the patrons of the bar did not go down without a fight.

Their resistance sparked several days of protests and clashes with the police. The Stonewall Uprising marked a turning point in the fight for 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, as they galvanized the community to demand equal treatment and protection under the law. In the months following the uprising, activists organized the first Pride marches in several major cities, and q***r organizations were formed across North America.

In the years following the uprisings, several landmark court cases challenged anti-q***r laws and discrimination, and many states and municipalities passed laws protecting q***r people from discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

While some US state legislatures work to ban history that includes q***r rights from Black history or Black history from q***r rights, the two are inextricably linked. Black people have always existed. Q***r people have always existed. Q***r Black people have always existed. And Black, q***r activists were an integral part of the Stonewall Uprising.

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Come check out our Drop-in this month. Stay tuned for more deets about our Summer Formal on July 24.

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On June 24th, 1973, a gay bar in New Orleans called The UpStairs Lounge was subject to an arson attack that resulted in 32 lives lost - considered to be one of the largest massacre of q***r people in 20th-century America. Today, we remember those who were lost that day and honour the legacy of The UpStairs Lounge.
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This book needs its own post - it’s brilliant!

Thank you Ottawa Public Library / Bibliothèque publique d'Ottawa for showcasing this gem during Pride month. 🟣🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜⁠

If you are at the start of your journey with gender identity, or looking to help someone who is, this insightful guide offers a safe space to celebrate you becoming your true – and most joyful – self. With fun activities, resources and LGBTQ+ role models throughout, this book sheds light on everything from gender identity, s*x, pronouns and expression, to barriers, mental health, allyship and finding happiness.

We absolutely need 72 copies of this. 😅

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This book needs its own post - it’s brilliant!

Thank you for showcasing this gem during Pride month. 🟣🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜⁠

If you are at the start of your journey with gender identity, or looking to help someone who is, this insightful guide offers a safe space to celebrate you becoming your true – and most joyful – self. With fun activities, resources and LGBTQ+ role models throughout, this book sheds light on everything from gender identity, s*x, pronouns and expression, to barriers, mental health, allyship and finding happiness.

We absolutely need 72 copies of this. 😅

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Affirmation by an 8 year old participant. 😊

“Let’s all remember a time when we experienced something tricky - when we didn’t know what to do next or our feelings were all jumbled up - let’s then write a note to ourselves during that time… what would you tell yourself?”

Alphabet Soup wisdom is fierce. ⚡️❤️⚡️

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Margaret's Creative Creations made these AH-mazing tumblers / travel mugs for us! Margaret donated her time, money, and big love for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Thank you x 1000!

Snag yours on August 24th!

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June 12th is Pulse Rememberance Day. Pulse was a gay bar, dance club, and nightclub in Florida, well known for hosting themed performances and educational events towards the LGBTQIA+ community. On this day in 2016, a mass shooting took the lives of 49 people and even more injured. Today is a day to pay tribute to the innocent people who lost their lives and the many others who were affected by the events of that night. 🟣🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜⁠

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Q***r spaces really are a site of joy. They are a testament to community, cooperation and love. We can celebrate and protect what we have and live in hope for more.

Rooms that have been purposely curated with specific identities in mind make for undefined factors of connectivity. To entirely juxtapose the fear felt in certain spaces, q***r safe spaces feel as though they are speaking to shared and in-built memories. They create an emotional aura that is nothing but disruptive and hold the power to heal all the times we were not accepted.

This is what Centre33 embodies at its core - it’s why we keep doing what we do. We have a magical community family at Centre33. Loving these beautiful flowers picked by a parent of a youth & some fresh 2SLGBTQIA+ books from today’s library haul. We hope that you found a glimpse of joy (or two) in today as well. 🌺

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Pride Month is whizzing by at lightening speed! ⚡️❤️⚡️

If you're looking for ways to get involved with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community at Centre33 this summer, we have some super suggestions for you. Let's walk alongside one another to protect love and identity in every form.

You can fill out our Volunteer Registration Form here: https://forms.gle/2Puwp7TsW1Lpj4588

As always, if you can, and if you're inspired to - we accept e-mail money transfers to [email protected] - all funds go towards our programming for children and youth. You can then request a Charitable Tax Receipt via this form: https://forms.gle/dLmq16QrnWtEPVDn6

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This year, more than ever, we are reminded that q***r solidarity (including allyship) extends to every corner of the planet. Recently, we've have received some DMs asking, "why is there a pride month?", "why don't straight people have a parade?", "why are progressive people always fighting for LGBT rights, what about us?", etc.

We have a lot of feelings regarding these messages and you may as well, but we're grateful that people are reaching out. This is what we know to be true - here are some things that shouldn't be "radical" anywhere in the world.

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Anyone else making gay t-shirts today? 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
If you have any heat pressing tips or cool ideas for t-shirt merch, let us know! T-shirts are making us feel like our wee organization is officially “adulting”. 😂

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Saturdays are all about Alphabet Soup shenanigans.
Thank you to the most wonderful volunteers for making today extra special for our kiddos.

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Excited to share that we’re running a non-perishable food drive in June to support Capital Rainbow Refuge.

Donations can be dropped off Tuesdays/Wednesdays, 3:30-7pm. We may be able to pick up depending on your location as well, please DM us for arrangements. For any food delivery services like Uber or Instacart - please make sure that it is delivered to 33 Leacock Drive during our drop-in hours. 🙂

Happy Pride Y’all!

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