Tsui said the Glow office in Room 2102 in the Student Life Centre, is open to any student who would like to share their thoughts about the Orlando shooting or who are seeking other supports. The University of Waterloo’s Equity Office has a website that lists support services for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer and questioning people in the campus community.
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Joyce Tsui, a Glow volunteer and computer science and business administration student, said: “June is Pride month and we at Glow are heartbroken that this violence happened, especially at this time when we’re supposed to be celebrating love and individuality.” Supports for LGBT, queer and questioning people “These acts must be condemned, those directly impacted must receive the critical support they need, and, from a local perspective, our community must band together to reaffirm our support for members of the Rainbow Community, to counteract the fear, anxiety, and sense of isolation that events like this can generate.” “It is very difficult to find the words to express the impact of incidents such as this on individuals who identify with a diverse range of sexual orientations and gender identities,” said Steffler. Jeremy Steffler, a member of the University of Waterloo’s Working Group on Sexual and Gender Diversity, which is part of the Provost’s Advisory Committee for Equity, and current Chair of the Waterloo Region Rainbow Coalition, is one of the community organizers of this event. Representatives from Glow will speak at the vigil. Johnson, along with representatives from the University’s Federation of Students Glow Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity, (Glow) will be attending a Candlelight Vigil for the Orlando Shootings in the Waterloo Public Square on Thursday June 16 starting at 9 pm. Our heterosexual allies will have to step forward and do their part to foster a more accepting climate.” Candlelight vigil scheduled for Thursday June 16 in Waterloo “Even if you don't identify as LGBT, this is an issue impacting our youth, your family or friends and colleagues. Pulse was founded by a woman whose brother died of AIDS For many, the raid is remembered as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the US. Johnson noted that the 1969 Stonewall riots started after a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City. “They’ve also been a really pivotal space across the history of the LGBT rights movement.”įorty-nine people were killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida on Sunday, the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
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“In some ways, gay bars are expressive places where people test out and explore their LGBT identities,” said Johnson. Gay nightclubs are pivotal in gay rights movement “The fact that this mass shooting happened in a gay bar, the severity of the situation, the religious and racial politics and that it happened in a typical ‘safe’ space, is part of the reason it’s having such a huge impact on the LGBT community,” says Johnson, who researches discriminatory practices in leisure and teaches courses on social justice, gender and sexuality. Johnson, a University of Waterloo professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. “The gay bar is the one, central leisure institution that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, even if they aren’t fans of bars, can be assured that they will find others who share their identity”, says Corey W. The Orlando massacre that has shocked the world is devastating not only for its scale, but also because it happened in a gay bar - a place where LGBT people have historically found sanctuary, says a Waterloo expert on leisure and sexual identity.