The goal of our project is to video interview LGBTQ families across Ontario about their children’s experiences in school and share our findings from these interviews with teachers, community educators, and other LGBTQ families.

​Progress Report

To date--September 13, 2018--we 
  • have conducted video interviews with 36 parents/families in five Ontario cities (Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury, London, and St. Thomas) and surrounding suburbs and rural communities;
  • have uploaded and curated video clips from 16 of the interviews onto our website; 
  • are currently curating and uploading video clips from an additional 20 interviews including our interviews with Two-Spirit and Indigenous parents/families in Toronto and LGBTQ families in Sudbury, London, and St. Thomas.

We use the initialism LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer) with the intention of including people who identify as transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual, agender, gender queer, gender variant, and/or pangender. We understand the names people use to describe their gender and sexual identities are always evolving and that the most important thing is to be respectful and to use names that people prefer.

A selection of our video clips...

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Music from ​Out at School:
Pushing the Envelope

Music from ​Out at School:
​Let Love Be The Way

"Pushing the Envelope" and "Let Love Be The Way" are songs composed by research team member and musician Kate Reid from our verbatim theatre project Out at School​.  The monologues, the visual images, and the songs in ​Out at School are based on the excerpts from our interviews with LGBTQ families.

"Pushing the Envelope"
​​Written and performed by Kate Reid, 2017
Recorded by Stew Crookes
Produced by Stew Crookes and Kate Reid

Musicians
Kate Reid: vocals, acoustic guitar
Stew Crookes: pedal steel
Doug Friesen: stand-up and electric bass
Roger Travassos: percussion


"Let Love Be The Way"
​​Written and performed by Kate Reid, 2018
Recorded by Stew Crookes
Produced by Stew Crookes and Kate Reid
Assistant engineering by Andrew Scott

Musicians
Kate Reid (vocals, acoustic guitar)
Andrew Scott (drums, percussion)
Kurt Nielsen (bass)
Todd Lumley (piano and synth)