Kingston Youth Pride

Our Pay What You Can Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser is TONIGHT! Come on down to The Spire (82 Sydenham Street) anytime between 6 and 8 tonight to enjoy a warm meal on a cold day! https://facebook.com/events/s/pay-what-you-can-spaghetti-din/460352961574956/?ti=as

Today is World Kindness Day, which is observed on November 13, every year. It was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, a coalition of nations' kin...dness NGOs. It is observed in many countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, Nigeria, and United Arab Emirates. Kindness is the sincere and voluntary use of one's time, talent, and resources to better the lives of others, one's own life, and the world through genuine acts of love, compassion, generosity, and service. Moreover, kindness involves choice. How can you be more kind in your daily life to others? Seven ways to start making kindness the norm in your daily life: Send an uplifting text to a friend or family member. Let that guy merge into traffic with a wave and a smile. Include intentional moments of kindness, laughter, and delight in your daily routine. Go slightly outside your comfort zone at least once a day to make someone smile. Share a compliment with a coworker or friend. Reach out to a family member you haven't spoken to in a while. Treat someone to a cup of coffee (a friend, stranger, or even yourself). #HARS #Kingston #kindness #compassion #bekind #belove #giving #loveeachother #givelove #showlove #secondchance #spreadlove #lovealwayswins #chooselove #hope #dogood #empathy #bethechange #humanity #gratitude #justice

All youth between the ages of 14 and 24 are encouraged to register for Agnes Etherington Art Centre's Healthy Sexual Conversations Youth Symposium happening October 17, 2019! This full day event includes multiple workshops, lunch, and tours of the "Let's Talk About Sex, bb" exhibit, now on display! Workshop content is different for high school aged (14-18) and post-secondary aged (18-24) individuals. KTown Youth Pride is helping to organize the "30 Years of Kingston Pride: ...The Highlights and Challenges of Organizing Pride Events" workshop along with the Gender Panel Discussion that will follow lunch! Only those who register online are able to attend this event. Limestone District School Board students are asked to register online first, then complete a school-approved permission form that can be obtained from your high schools Visual Arts and/or Phys. Ed. departments. For more details and to register, please visit: https://agnes.queensu.ca//healthy-sexual-conversations-yo/ For anyone (of all ages) looking to attend the exhibit but not the event, please visit: https://agnes.queensu.ca/exhibition/lets-talk-about-sex-bb/. The exhibit is on display until December 1, 2019.

As Pride month has come to an end, and as your volunteer board of directors returns from a much needed post-Pride break, we are looking ahead, pondering the fut...ure, and turning our sights to #KingstonPride2020! Did you attend the this year's Kingston Pride Parade? Perhaps you came down to the Community Fair? Or maybe you attended one of our other fabulous events? If you did, we want to hear from you. Please take 10 minutes to complete our participant survey. The information will help us make Kingston Pride 2020 even better! To complete the survey, please click here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx : Doug VanKoughnett

REID and Ben: On #BellLetsTalk Day and every other day, we say a big thank you to all of Kingston's mental health organizations, including Addiction & Mental He...alth Services - KFLA and CMHA Kingston Branch, for the important work they do throughout the year. We hope this information helps anyone that may be struggling.

Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day. For every view of this video, Bell will donate 5 towards Canadian mental health initiatives. Watch now and share this video to help us spread the word! #BellLetsTalk

We have a post holiday event coming your way, gifting gays and games! Come down to One Roof on January 3rd from 1-4pm and hang out with friends and play games. If you got a gift this holiday season or something around the house you know you will never use, feel free to bring it and regift it to someone else! This is a drop-in free event, open to all LGBTQ2S+ youth ages 12-24. Can’t wait to see you there!

LGBTQI2S youth please share your voice! Egale Canada has launched a national survey on LGBTQI2S youth (14-24) dating violence, in partnership with the Univ...ersity of Manitoba. The results of this survey will help inform policy decisions, programming options to combat gender based violence, and will shed light on the unique contexts in which LGBTQI2S youth experience dating violence. Access the survey here: www.egale.ca/speak-out See more