| STREET YOUTH POSTER PROJECT
Between April and June of 1998, Supporting Our Youth had the opportunity to partner with YouthLink Inner City and Turning Point Youth Services in the production of a poster geared towards lesbian, gay and bisexual youth and street youth serving agencies. For four weeks in May street youth were provided with the materials and space (YouthLink Inner City) to produce art work, images and slogans that would best confront homophobia in street youth serving agencies (shelters, group homes, drop-ins, etc.).
The Street Youth Poster Project provided a safe space for lesbian, gay and bisexual street youth to be creative and informally discuss issues connected to the street and sexuality with one another and adult volunteers. It resulted in the creation of an informative and colourful poster that has since been distributed to shelters, hostels, drop-ins and group homes around the city with the aim to promote safe space for lesbian gay and bisexual youth within those housing contexts.
In addition to managing the distribution of the poster to street youth serving agencies throughout the city, SOY also facilitated media attention for both the open house and the poster launch at the Toronto Mayor's Pride Week Breakfast on Wednesday, June 24th 1998. |