Resource List

Kira Chalupa & Nathan Hynes

Note that these resources are current as of publication and may become inactive in the future. This is not a comprehensive list of resources - we encourage you to explore the linked organizations’ resource pages & contact them for additional & current information. For Youth

Organizations Help Lines

• Youth Project - Nova Scotia • Trans Lifeline - Canada (877-330- • - Nova Scotia 6366) & US (877-565-8860) • South House Halifax - Nova Scotia • Kids Help Phone - Canada (1-800- • PEI Queer Youth Collective Groups: 668-6868) PEERS Alliance - PEI • LGBT Youthline - Ontario (1-800- • LGBTQ Youth Creating Safe Spaces 268-9688; text: 647-694-4275) - New Brunswick • The Trevor Project - United States • Planned Parenthood: NL Sexual (1-866-488-7386) Health Centre - Newfoundland and Labrador LGBTQ+ Youth Camps • Egale - Canada • Youth Project Summer Camps - • PFLAG Canada - Canada Nova Scotia • The Canadian Centre for Gender & • Camp Eclipse - Newfoundland and Sexual Diversity - Canada Labrador • - British Columbia • Camp fYrefly - Alberta, Ontario, • Calgary Centre for Newcomers - Saskatchewan Alberta • Queer Scouts - Alberta • OUTSaskatoon - Saskatchewan • CampOUT! - British Columbia • Rainbow Resource Centre - • Camp Aurora - Manitoba Manitoba • Machane Lev - Ontario • Support Our Youth (S.O.Y.) - • Camp Ten Oaks - Ontario Ontario • Rainbow Camp – Ontario • Queer Yukon - Yukon

• Rainbow Youth Centre - Northwest Territories Miscellaneous • GLSEN - United States • Government of Canada - Rights of LGBTI Persons - Canada (Links to provincial info) • GenderGear - Online Canadian trans-owned store for gender- affirming gear • JusticeTrans - Legal information for transgender folks across Canada

For Professionals

LGBTQ+ Media Awards and Lists: Library/IM Organizations:

• The Stonewall Book Awards, • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and sponsored by the American Library Transgender Round Table Association's Gay, Lesbian, (GLBTRT), of the American Library Bisexual, and Transgender Round Association Table (GLBTRT) • Diverse Sexuality & Gender Section, • The Rainbow Book List, compiled by of the Society of American Archivists GLBTRT • LGBTQ Users Special Interest • GLAAD Media Awards, awarded by Group, of the International GLAAD Media Institute Federation of Library Associations.

• The Lambda Literary Awards (the • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and “Lammys”) Transgender Health Sciences Librarians Special Interest Group, of • James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award, the Medical Library Association an award “encouraging the exploration & expansion of gender” in science fiction/fantasy.

• Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers, awarded by Writers’ Trust of Canada

• Golden Crown Literary Awards (“The Goldies”), for excellence in , awarded by the Golden Crown Literary Society.

• The Dorian Awards, presented by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics

• Queer Books for Teens, a database of “all LGBTQIAP+ YA literature 2000-2017.”