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Living with PRIDE

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Picture Source: https://www.militarynews.com Having been a part of many workplace trainings, this one in particular, turned out to be more inspirational than I thought.  My organization had arranged for an LGBTQ2S workshop, to help orient us to the needs of this community when working with them.  Although I am familiar with this concept superficially, I was amazed to have a closer look at this perceived "other world". The best thing was the workshop, being conducted by two trainers of the community; in a community center run by them in the City of Toronto, who introduced us to  The Rainbow World . Just like many other communities who have faced hardships as a result of their being perceived different, this community is still struggling to gain the much-needed recognition on a global platform. Although Canada has stood up for them for the most part, there is still a lot of work to be done. As the trainers provided, lived experiences of challenges faced, ...