Gay Okanagan Network
Check out the Kelowna Pride Events on the Event page June 21 - July 1, 2008.
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LGBT Okanagan Chorus - chorus.htm
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Health Study for Lesbian and Bisexual Women out of UBC-Okanagan. Penny Cash of the School of Nursing and Laurie MacDonald of the School of Social Work at UBC-O are conducting research to explore lesbian and bisexual women's health care practices. The reason for the study is that they are very concerned whether lesbian and bisexual women are actively and successfully able to negotiate appropriate health care especially around the more intimate issues such as breast cancer and cancer of the uterus. You can find out more information by downloading the Lesbian Bisexual Health Study letter by clicking on either of these formats (Lebisan & Bisexual Study.pdf) or (Lesbian & Bisexual Study.doc) .
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Health Study of Lesbian and Gay Senior Couples Health Care:
Please participate or forward this information to same sex couples
(male or female) over 55 years of age, who may be able to help in a
study about the needs of older same sex couples in regard to health
care/home care/long term care. The research group are having difficulty
connecting with aging same-sex couples and community organizations that
provide services. If you know of someone who fits this criteria and
would like to participate please either forward this email to them or
print it out and give the recruitment letter to them in order to make
traditional contact with the researchers.
Please read the recruitment letter which outlines the project and
includes contact information for the student researcher as well as the
principal investigator. Recruitment Letter If you have trouble
downloading the letter contact solutions@gayokanagan.net for another
format (pdf. or html). * Here is the link to the McMaster Research
Ethics Board Website with ethics approval for this project (Scroll down
to project number: 2006 037): http://iserv.mcmaster.ca/ethics/mreb/public/mreb_approved.cfm?sorter=Faculty%20ASC
* Here is the link to the McMaster web page of Dr. J. Gladstone's who is the supervisor of student researcher Robert Cosby: http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/socwork/faculty/gladstone.cfm
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Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition (Outlive Homophobia campaign - also found in our youth links.)
The following information pertains to the work of the Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition and the work they have been doing nationally to address the health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The information in the attached letter may be of interest to you and others that you know who are doing work related to health and LGBT communities. It also includes links to their website with new health resources that have been developed by community-based groups across the country. Please forward this to any others who might be interested. Canadian Rainbow Health Coalition => English.Pdf / French.Pdf
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Coming Out Can reduce Sexual Prejudice: Heterosexuals with personal contact to lesbians and gays have more positive feelings toward Lesbians and Gay men according to a survey done by the University of California at Davis. Here is the URL for that article (http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/comeout1.html this will open in it's own window).
This is not to suggest that people
should come out if they fear for their safety but it is a heads up not
to allow fear mongering and scare tactics to achieve the purpose that
some homophobics want ... to scare us deeper into the closet!
Canadians for Equal Marriage News (http://www.equal-marriage.ca/news.php)
Check out EGALE forother information
EGALE information
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