In episode 15, Bruce Duncan Skeaff, the president and chair of the board at the Stratford Pride Community Centre, assesses how things have been going as it approaches the one-year mark since opening. He discusses what he had expected the role of the community centre would have been for the local 2SLGBTQIA+ community and how it has been utilized as a resource to help people.

Skeaff also promoted Stratford’s “big gay 2023,” which means that instead of introducing new events that would compete with Stratford’s already busy tourist season, the SPCC hopes to help promote 2SLGBTQIA+ friendly businesses and events that are already planned or operating.

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Links to more information about the SPCC and other topics discussed in this episode.

SPCC – https://stratfordpride.com/

The Pride Guide – https://stratfordpride.com/pride-guide-pg-intro-1

Stratford Festival – https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/

Stratford Pride’s Big Gay Ticket Sale for the Festival – https://stratfordpride.com/big-gay-ticket-sale

(In)tolerance and (in)visibility: LGBTQ+ sense of place in the Q+ sense of place in the Stratford area by Dayna Prest, The University of Western Ontario – https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/7729/

Partnership with Children’s Aid Society of Perth-Huron – https://stratfordpride.com/foster-homes-%26-children

The SPCC can be contacted by phone at 519-273-SPCC (273-7722), and it is located at 24 Downie St., 2nd floor, Stratford, Ontario.

Links to find out more about the music played in this episode

Apocalypse Hoboken – https://undercomm.bandcamp.com/album/everybodys-been-burned

She​/​Her​/​Hers – https://sheherhers.bandcamp.com/album/she-her-hers

Pansy Division – https://pansydivision.bandcamp.com/album/pileup and https://pansydivision.bandcamp.com/album/lost-gems-rare-tracks

Carolina Brown – https://imbrownmusic.bandcamp.com/album/falling-star

Frankiehtml – https://frankiehtml.bandcamp.com/album/pronouns-in-bio

Even in Blackouts – https://eveninblackouts.bandcamp.com/album/foreshadows-on-the-wall

Brandy McMaxwell – https://brandymcmaxwell.bandcamp.com/album/you-gotta-start-somewhere-am-i-right-ladies

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