Experience history.

Exhibition Statement

The LGBTQ+ Resource Centre and the 2SLGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Humber celebrate Pride at the College and within the community. We honour the identities and self-expression of two-spirited, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex members of our community, students, staff, and faculty. 

Humber College’s theme for Pride 2023 is “Queer Joy.” Amid growing curbs on the freedoms of 2SLGBTQ+ people in the US and around the world, it is even more important that institutions like Humber College make space for the celebration of 2SLGBTQ+ life. 2SLGBTQ+ people both inside and outside of Humber College ask not just to be accepted or tolerated, but that their celebrations and happiness be an integral and necessary part of the wider community. When faced with forces that seek to restrict, invalidate or erase their lives, queer joy is a radical act. Deployed fully, queer joy can remake Humber College and Etobicoke Lakeshore into a more accepting, healthy and resilient community. 

We especially celebrate queer communities of colour, migrant 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, trans, intersex, and disabled queer folks who still navigate intersectional barriers in their everyday lives. We also acknowledge that Pride takes place on Indigenous lands, and that Pride Month takes place during National Indigenous History Month (June). We believe that reclaiming Indigenous two-spirit identities and traditions is central to the ongoing process of reconciliation and decolonization of LGBTQ+ movements.