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0227-3780

Accession Number:

19812850

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The article discusses a framework of social justice advocacy and a list of educational resources that can be used by teachers and public librarians in Canada to improve the everyday lives of LGBTQ youth. The decriminalization of homosexual sex acts, the adoption of the Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms, the inclusion of sexual orientation into Alberta's human rights statute and Canada's climate of social responsibility and inclusiveness have improved the lives of LGBTQ youth.

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Vol. 24 Issue 4, p9-47 39p

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In this article the author argues that the Canadian judiciary, while affirming and protecting adults' right not to be discriminated against on the grounds of sexual orientation, has not done so to the same extent in the case of adolescents and children. And the few cases in which youth's rights related to sexual orientation have been implicated have usually been characterized as conflicts between the rights of adults and institutions, often based on religious belief. Judicial recognition of the right to freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation in the school context, moreover, has been tied to what the author terms an inappropriate belief/conduct dichotomy that establishes too high a threshold, endangering the rights and even mental wellbeing and physical safety of students. The author expresses the need for proactive curricular measures that would affirm and reinforce for all the worth and dignity of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth.

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0144-5596

Accession Number:

18165275

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The objective of this paper is to explore the ways in which diversity is taken into account in the conceptualization, definition and role of the voluntary sector as well as policy debates around the recasting of relations between the state and the voluntary sectors. The paper is based on a study of voluntary sector organizing among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens in the city of Toronto. It presents an overview of LGBT voluntary sector organizing in the city, demonstrating the rich network of non-profit organizations that serve the LGBT community in the city of Toronto, Canada's largest city. The paper argues that the dominant cross-national and cross-time definitions of the voluntary sector do not account for some of the specific features of LGBT organizing and result in the marginalization of such organizing from the very concept of the voluntary sector. The paper discusses the implications of this mapping for policy discussions of the state-voluntary sector relationship. Drawing on the Canadian experience of government consultation with voluntary sector organizations, the paper demonstrates that such initiatives define certain forms of diversity in voluntary sector organizing out of the policy-making process. Traditional policy-making around voluntary sector issues is organized in ways that exclude urban and local identity-based organizing.

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Vol. 39 Issue 5, p463-480 18p