Rainbow Grants is sponsored by Community One Foundation. Rainbow Grants provide funding to foster new and innovative services and programs that have a positive impact on 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in the Greater Toronto Area (including Toronto, Durham, Peel, Hamilton, York, and Halton Regions, and Indigenous Communities across Ontario) under streams such as Arts & Culture, Community & Social Development, and Community Well-Being & Direct Services.

Rainbow Grants provide funding to foster new and innovative services and programs that have a positive impact on 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in the Greater Toronto Area (including Toronto, Durham, Peel, Hamilton, York, and Halton Regions, and Indigenous Communities across Ontario) under the following streams: Community & Social Development Community Well-Being & Direct Services Rainbow Grants Foundation Awards are available for up to $10,000 and are open to registered charities or groups trusteed by a registered charity.

Rainbow Grants General Awards are available for up to $3,000 and are open to unincorporated groups, collectives, and/or individuals without charitable status. Community One strongly encourages applications for programming, projects, and initiatives that prioritize and centre the work of Two-Spirit, Indigenous, Trans, Non-binary, Practitioners, Facilitators, Artists & Communities.

Anyone is welcome to apply, even if they have received funding from Community One before. However, new applicants and repeat applicants who have not yet been awarded will be prioritized. A note on Artificial Intelligence: While Community One understands that AI is easy and convenient, we will not accept applications made using any form of AI (generative or otherwise, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, et cetera).

Our application software may also auto-flag anything generated with AI and disqualify it. We believe in the power of creatives, and are proud to fund human-made projects. Remember: if you didn’t take the time to write it, you can’t expect anyone to take the time to read it!

The James Stewart Research and Education Award was created thanks to the generous bequest from James Stewart , the Toronto mathematician and musician who passed away in December 2014. As one of the Toronto-based 2SLGBTQIA+ charities to receive philanthropic support from Mr. Stewart’s estate, Community One is honoured to offer this annual grant in his name.

This award honours registered charities with projects in research and education pertaining to 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. The award recipient will receive $15,000 in funding to start or continue their project work. $15,000 .

The James Stewart Rainbow Grant focuses on one or more of the following key areas: seed new and innovative projects to combat discrimination on the basis of sexual/gender identity and create an atmosphere of respect and acceptance support needed but underfunded services to 2SLGBTQ+ individuals and families provide programming specifically aimed at supporting newcomers to Canada who have identified themselves with the 2SLGBTQ+ community The 2026 Rainbow Grants application portal is now open!

This page contains all the eligibility info you need for your application. For a more detailed breakdown of how to prepare your application (as well as some great tips!) , click here for the Rainbow Grants 2026 Application Guide Summary .

Once you’re ready, click here to apply for a 2026 Rainbow Grant! We are aware of some issues with dates listed in the application portal. Unfortunately, this is an issue with the software that we cannot fix at the moment.

Please ignore anywhere that says “2025,” proceed as though it says “2026,” and continue with your application as normal! We’re sorry for the inconveniences. This will not affect your application!

The portal will close April 12 at midnight, so be sure to get your application in before then.

Recent Rainbow Grant Recipients James Stewart Award (up to $15,000) Celebrating Pride Nationwide Magenta Publishing for the Arts Celebrating Pride Nationwide will be the FIRST-EVER NATIONWIDE Pride exhibition and publication telling the story of Pride, from each province, setting a monumental milestone for the Pride movement across our nation and celebrating love in all forms in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Foundation Grants (up to $10,000) Celebrating & Supporting Two-Spirit Youth This project represents a step forward in our mission to create a more inclusive and supportive environment for Indigenous Two-Spirit youth. Rooted in our unwavering commitment to making a meaningful impact, we are set to launch Two-Spirit-specific programming that seeks to celebrate individuals and address the unique challenges.

Comida Para Todes – Food For All A monthly vegan community kitchen that offers free and low-cost meals for 2SLBTQAI+ community members, prioritizing racialized individuals. With an elevated experience of live performances by local talents, which will be recorded and shared online. A zine will be published at completion with food recipes, highlighting performers and thanking sponsors.

HIV+ Community Arts Gallery and Studio Spaces People With AIDS Foundation Toronto PWA is creating a gallery and studio space for HIV+ community members, within a hub for grassroots community organizations, to hold public exhibitions of HIV+ artists, and to provide consistent and ongoing space for artist studio practice, art workshops and other cultural presentations accessible to HIV+/2sLGBTQ+ people across the GTA.

This project aims to support the physical & mental well-being of vulnerable 2SLGBTQ+ community members who are living with HIV/AIDS – particularly seniors and women who have or are experiencing housing insecurity/homelessness to participate in activities and access spaces that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to.

Flin Flon Cowboy Collective The Flin Flon Cowboy is an original autobiographical musical that explores disability, love, and sexuality through the remarkable life story of Ken Harrower, a queer disabled performer and singer from Flin Flon, Manitoba backed by live musicians as his country-western band. General Grants (up to $3,000) GFT’s Daddies Coming Home project will provide support and resources to 2SGBTQIA+ men who are fathers.

Through virtual and in-person peer-led support groups and quarterly social gatherings gay fathers will have access to a community of support and encouragement on their journey. Outreach efforts will be implemented to increase awareness. “Koli Kari” is a queer South Asian play debuting at the 2024 Toronto Fringe.

Our team of emerging QTBIPOC artists is seeking funding to cover the rehearsal and minimal production costs to produce the show and reach QTBIPOC audiences in the GTA. People With AIDS Foundation Toronto LubunTO Pride Project offers the membership of LubunTO with inside and outside events and workshops so that they can have the freedom of practicing social visibility, friendship and collaborative fun.

The events include movie screenings, community brunch, community activism forum, pre-pride banner making workshop and post-pride vision workshop. Masque of the Red Death: An immersive cautionary tale In this immersive re-telling, a wealthy company founder invites the ultra-rich to hide from the devastation outside at an event that acts as a safe haven.

The performers’ cabaret acts at the event serve as a potent commentary, exposing the inherent toxicity of wealth-hoarding at the expense of society. Pulse MVP is a hyperlocal newspaper in the Toronto’s Downtown East focusing on social issues like homelessness, drug addiction, mental health and 2SLGBTQIA+ issues.

Distributed in key locations, it aims to empower underrepresented voices, promote inclusivity, and build community connections through coverage of local events and stories. Que’d Up: Picture This is a daytime photo clinic featuring QT-BIPOC photographers offering low-cost professional portraits for emerging queer DJs to use in their press kits.

The event will also feature performances from Que’d Up DJs to showcase talent from this community. Queer Youth Dance Program This project is a program for queer youth ages 10 to 16 that is aimed at helping participants build confidence through movement, expression and dance. The project will embed protective factors that have been shown to have a positive impact on the mental health of queer youth.

The Skillshare Summit is a 2. 5 day outdoor education event designed to reduce barriers for the trans and queer community. Participants will share land-based knowledge and skills and have opportunities to build community at shared meals and around the nightly fire.

Sometimes I wish the mirror would ask how I’m doing Sometimes I wish the mirror would ask how I’m doing is a lens-based project portraying the artist’s intricate relationship with HIV as it intersects with queerness, culture and upbringing. It will be exhibited in Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.

James Stewart Award (up to $10,000) Movement Programming for 2SLGBTQ+ SKETCH Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth SKETCH’s Movement Programming for 2SLGBTQ+ Youth invites participants to come as they are to an inclusive space for weekly movement workshops. Participants of all body types/abilities wear what they want, be who they are, and lean into their right to occupy space and experience empowerment through movement.

Foundation Grants (up to $7,500) Building Capacity of QTBIPOC Youth in Durham Region Through Ballroom AIDS Committee of Durham Region Monthly vogue, drag, and dance workshops for QTBIPOC youth that will culminate in a ball. The goal is to foster a sense of community, enhance sexual health knowledge, build relationships with Queer mentors, and develop artistic skills for QTBIPOC youth.

The Modern Guide for Queer & Trans Asian Youth (multilingual resources) Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) The Modern Guide is a much needed update to a decade old resource. With this resource they aim to provide guidance and support for East & Southeast Asian LGBTQ+ youth and their family members in the coming out process with a culturally-specific lens.

Rainbow Roots: Advocating for Equitable Reproductive Care for 2SLGBTQIA Families Rainbow Roots is an advocacy project created with 2SLGBTQIA community members to help intended parents learn about their rights and how to advocate for their needs in family building journeys. We are addressing intersecting barriers related to 2SLGBTQIA family building through community advocacy, outreach, and training modules for healthcare professionals.

BollyHeelsTO will share Sanjina DaBish Queen’s story in the form of a musical, building upon a previous project. They aim to open the doors to both Bollywood and Hollywood to raise more awareness along with create and establish more openness within the South Asian and BIPOC communities.

“Unmasked Bodies”: Asian and Migrant LGBTQ+ Sex Worker Rights and Wellness Series Butterfly – Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network A community-led initiative that aims to foster connections and provide resources for Trans, Queer and GenderQueer Asian and Migrant Sex Workers.

Their project aims to “unmask” the stigma and barriers through engagement in training and programming that vitalizes social connection, community care and solidarity. HERMAPHRODITUS at Toronto Fringe Festival HERMAPHRODITUS is a theatrical retelling of the Greek myth of Hermaphroditus, the child of Hermes and Aphrodite.

Hermaphroditus desires to be a part of the greater Olympus and fights through Transphobia and discrimination to get there. This world-premiere was presented July 5-16 at the 2023 Toronto Fringe Festival.

The Gender Layer Tool- For Conceptualizing Experiences of Gender This project will review, revise and widely disseminate Faelix Kayn’s Gender Layer Tool (2016) and accompanying workshop in order to provide a free, accessible and more inclusive resource for understanding gender, presentation and perceived presentation in a way that includes and normalizes fluid, neurodiverse and non-western genders.

Vogue for Black Liberation (Vogue/Ballroom Summer Camp) Vogue for Black Liberation is a project to engage children/youth in ballroom culture/arts as an expression of Black LGBTQ+ liberation. As part of a summer ballroom camp in 2023 children and youth will dance and create art with: Twysted Miyaki Mugler, Tamar Carter, Kimora Amour and many others.

Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers “Queer Taiko” is a series of three interactive arts-based workshops inviting 2SLGBTTIQQ community members to activate the power and potential of taiko for emotional expression and collective action. Through movement, games and reflection, participants will learn taiko stills, practise creative embodied expression, and build community.

Meet, Eat & Move Your Feet: Healthy Living for 2SLGBTTIQ+ Seniors Sunshine Centres for Seniors This project will provide opportunities for 2SLGBTTIQ+ seniors to enjoy 30 social and recreational activities together including dance, neighbourhood walks, and outings to diverse local restaurants as well as participating in five health and wellness events.

The project will create social connections and improve Rainbow seniors’ overall health and well-being. Connected – Check – In Series Ubuntu – Black Trans, Non-Binary and 2Spirit Collective Connected – Check – In Series is a drop-in program which will run once a month from August 2023 through March 2024.

The sessions will foster community connectedness and empowerment of Black Trans, Non-Binary and 2Spirit people, through informative, fun facilitated sessions curated based on community feedback.

General Grants (up to $1,500) The Value of Blackness Market BOUNTIFUL Pride is offering no cost, barrier-free space to Black Queer/Trans artists and small business owners from Toronto over the age of 30 to showcase their wares, talents, and services at The Value of Blackness Market. Artists keep 100% of their sales revenue. The Disability Collective CRIPtonite is a drag and burlesque show featuring all Queer and disabled performers.

The ‘Lead with Hope’ project seeks to de-stigmatize mental health, offer support/resources to persons who experience schizophrenia, psychosis & depression through community wellness workshops offering yoga and mindfulness; and a website which will share personal stories, promote resources, support and advocate for improved access to care, treatment/support.

TranscenDANCE will be an eight-week program for Trans and Non-Binary youth with outreach support from Pflag, and studio space and administration support from Canada’s National Ballet School (NBS). James Stewart Award (up to $10,000) Gender Affirming Health Clinic Video Series ‐ Creation of 5-part video series to support trans and gender diverse individuals while on a waitlist for in-person services.

Videos will improve the mental health of clients, increase knowledge of transgender/gender diverse issues and transition options and improve resiliency/coping skills to manage the distress/discomfort often felt with gender identity/expression in this population. An invitation to discover Toronto‚ Underground Ballroom Scene ‐ An exciting look into the voices, faces and hearts behind Toronto’s Underground Ballroom Scene.

This in-depth initiative led by IGBC will provide much-needed exposure through a video series, collaborative youth-led creative projects and a live stream panel, reflecting on the project and the Ballroom scene’s path forward post-COVID.

Foundation Grants (up to $7,500) DAO – Trans Community Outreach – Now focusing on our Trans community’s mental health and support, through ongoing group support/presentations/education and access to private counselling services. Including access to FTM garments to ease Body Dysphoria Syndrome.

Passion Fruit: Club Kidz Alley – An arts and culture homage to the 90’s era of Queer Club Kid culture told through the artistry of Video, Drag, Music, and Immersive Performance. Presented through a short film and a Queer Sex-Positive Arts Event Experience by Torontonian racialized queer Nightlife artists.

From Bigotry to Bollywood: 2SLGBTQ+ Stories in Motion – Five South Asian 2SLGBTQ+ artists will work with fifteen 2SLGBTQ+ seniors to create five original dances that tell stories of their lived experiences. These pieces will then be performed at #BollywoodMonster Mashup, the largest South Asian festival in Canada.

Queer Youth Cabaret – Queer Youth Cabaret provides young queer artists with a platform to express their identity while acquiring mentorship and learning to guide their artistry. Twelve selected artists from the 2SLGBTQIA+ community will develop and rehearse performances to be presented at Soulpepper on June 24 and 25 during Pride Month.

LGTBQ2+ Youth mural Jam – On June 22, a series of workshops will be held at ScarboroughArts, invitingLGTBQ2+ Youth, to create/participate in a mural jamLEARNING.

Mentored by Monica Wickeler and youth-artist FP MONKEY, the muralJAM will take place at the West-Scarborough-Neighborhood-Community-Center on July/August 22 Queen West Art Crawl Festival – Kid Zone – The Kid Zone project focuses on creating a space for 2SLGBTQ+ families and their youth. This project creates live and interactive theatre that teaches inclusivity, Arts and Crafts, Young Art Entrepreneurs, and Drag story/Drag In the Park.

Working with community partners, this initiative creates an inclusive space for all. Period Equity for All – Period Equity for All will benefit and serve 2SLGBTTIQQ+ individuals in the Toronto community by providing a full range of free period products in all washrooms (dispensers included) and free comprehensive training on reusable period products.

Backstage Center Technical Apprenticeship (BCTA) – The Backstage Center Technical Apprenticeship provides unique performing arts technical skills training to underrepresented youth ages 15-30 with career aspirations in the production industry. Apprentices receive high-quality, paid job training and are paired with professional mentors in the production industry for 5-6 weeks on professional theatre shows produced by SIA.

Never Get In Your Own Way – New Play Development – Roseneath commissioned Indigenous artist Brendan Chandler to create a short piece for young audiences that could be performed digitally. Using digital components the longer live version will be 30-40 minutes in length.

Bricks and Glitter 2022 – Bricks and Glitter is a community arts festival that provides a low barrier, intersectional space for celebrating 2SQTBIPOC+ talent, and building community capacity in arts and activism. In 2022, a three-month workshop series will take place after a weekend of programming spanning the Toronto to Peel region.

Mental Health Zine – Zine focused on the mental health needs and experiences of queer youth in Toronto and the GTA. The issue will provide a creative outlet for queer and trans youth as well as a toolkit to help those who are struggling.

Durham Region 2022 Pride Week Festival – With in-person and virtual components – Emerging from two years plus of restrictions, it is important to be visible and to reconnect with our community giving new life, renewed hope, and a sense of pride in ourselves and our community. This will be done through virtual and in-person events.

Rainbow Families: Increasing Capacity and Support for QTBIPOC and Trans and Non-binary Led Families in South Etobicoke – This project will focus on increasing support to and resources for QTBIPOC and trans and non-binary led families within south Etobicoke by offering a Family PRIDE Day celebration in June as well as monthly drop-in programs at LAMP’s EarlyON and Family Centre for families with children up to age 6.

Sugar Plum – Sugar Plum is a queer coming of age story. It is a dance-theatre comedy that embraces those who have been systematically rejected by ballet, imagining what the future can look like if all bodies were welcome on the dance floor.

Queer Jewish Incubator – Queer Jewish Incubator responds to a demonstrated need to bolster emerging LGBTQ+ Jewish leaders with the skills, community, and mentorship to advance LGBTQ+ Jewish life in Toronto. The project invests in these leaders as the visionaries, storytellers, guides, weavers, and disrupters currently needed within our Toronto Jewish communal context.

Camp Rainbow Phoenix – Virtual and in-person leadership camp for 2SLGBTQI youth 12-17. Leadership summer camp experience embedded with identity-specific programming. Educational and fun!

Ondru Koodal – This initiative will organize and create inter-generational spaces including events, gatherings and workshops that are centred around radical joy, love and pleasure for queer trans, non-binary and intersex Tamil people and their loved ones.

QueerDigital Speaker Series – Indigenous Friends Association (IFA) will host (3) QueerDigital Speaker Series for Queer BIPOC communities around ways digital spaces can affirm and support queer identities and foster solidarity and relationship building between Black and Indigenous communities. We will invite the Queer Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous speakers to facilitate conversations.

Out and About Under the Rainbow: Creating Connections for 2SLGBTTIQ+ Seniors – Our project will create connections among 2SLGBTTIQ+ seniors through social, recreational, artistic and educational activities which provide opportunities to be “out and about under the Rainbow”. Presentations by BIPOC/TC artists will celebrate their artistic contributions.

Outreach to BIPOC/TQ individuals and the broader LGBTTIQ+ community will encourage involvement in the project. Rainbow Griffins RFC – Pathway to Inclusive Sports – 2SLGBTQIA+ – Rainbow Griffins is actively promoting 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Newcomers inclusive rugby to activate players to their potential without discrimination, and Captains into Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) Champions.

To do so, RGRFC will invest heavily in training new players, regardless of gender, age, skill, financial situation and experience. Queer Asian Joy – This grant will be used to launch an online hub and home for our LGBTQ2+ Inclusive Education materials so that teachers, student groups, partners, and community members can access these materials for free.

Wear We Stand – For four weeks in August 2022, the Wear We Stand project will bring together 2SLGBTQIA+ QTBIPOC youth in Scarborough to learn how to design and create screen-printed t-shirts as a way of engaging with gender-affirming fashion and self-expression through workshops on radical self-love and social justice equity.

QTBIPOCSA Youth Abilities – This initiative will create a safe environment for QTBIPOC multicultural youth with intellectual, physical and developmental abilities to learn heritage through workshops, and allow each member to learn their own ancestry & culture. The group will create an art mural to use going forward – a shield of power.

LGBTQ2+ Inclusive Education: Online Hub – This initiative will launch an online hub and home for LGBTQ2+ Inclusive Education materials so that teachers, student groups, partners, and community members can access these materials for free.

General Grants (up to $1,500) Healthy Kitchen Workshop ‐ Healthy Kitchen workshop aims to not only equip its participants with fresh ingredients and kitchen tools but also inspire them with confidence in navigating their nutritional health despite food/income insecurities, and depression-based loss of appetite, all while embracing self-acceptance and internalized compassion.

Phantasmagoria ‐ NEAR&FAR Projects (NFP) is presenting “Phantasmagoria” at the 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival. This live contemporary dance experience explores the process by which one renounces themselves in pursuit of their beloved. Choreographed by Tavia Christina, this show offers a vignette of all that can be lost and gained in love.

Stories of Life With HIV: A Queer Asian Perspective ‐ 10 queer Asians Living with HIV in Toronto will be photographed and interviewed about their experiences of discrimination and resiliency. These stories will be published in Timid Magazine, National Geographic Yourshot, Photo Ed Magazine and Where Love is Illegal.

QTBIPOC Provincial Policy Proposals – This project will conduct research to identify how the Ontario Government can improve health, social and economic outcomes for queer and trans Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (QTBIPOC), in order to provide policy recommendations for the newly-elected Ontario Government following the June 2022 election.

Trans Love and Remembrance Quilt ‐ Love and Remembrance Quilt is bringing awareness to the daily violence Trans women of Color and 2Spirit women experience daily. This quilt will showcase through art, photos or poetry the lives lost and the violence endured by community members. This showcase is on Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20th.

The Nuance of Gender: Building Solid Foundations For Better Inclusion (Part 1: The Gender Layer Tool) ‐ This project will review, revise and widely disseminate Faelix Kayn Gender Layer Tool (2016) and accompanying workshop to provide a free, accessible and more inclusive resource for understanding gender, presentation and perceived presentation in a way that includes and normalizes fluid, neurodiverse and non-western genders.

Muslim Pride Toronto 2022 ‐ Muslim Pride Toronto 2022 is a community-led collaborative hybrid festival creating opportunities for queer and trans Muslims in the GTA (and beyond) to build connections, celebrate, and share skills. It strives to center the brilliance of Black queer and trans Muslims & to disrupt Islamophobia within mainstream LGBTQ spaces.

Tafari Anthony Album Visuals – This project will help bring the queer story-telling in Tafari’s music to video form. The album heavily deals with alternative queer relationships and navigating that which we have not had many mainstream examples of.

Curve Lake First Nation PRIDE Event ‐ Curve Lake First Nation PRIDE/Wellness event will be an exposition of 2SLGBTTQ+ events that centre around a combination of both modernized and traditional Indigenous 2 Spirit and LGBTQ culture. LGBTQ2S+ Bike Program ‐ This project is entire classes and exclusive shop time dedicated to specifically serving people of marginalized genders, who have been made to feel excluded in the cycling industry.

k’taab | ASL Transformative Justice Bookclub ‐ QTBIPOC led initiative, k’taab is a contributory act towards the advancement of groups that experience exclusion and targeting, by developing a template for an ASL Transformative Justice Bookclub that will allow events across the GTA (and eventually wider) to educate various audiences.

Asian Queer Alliance Community Growth Project – Asian Queer Alliance (AQUA) is a project that aims to provide spaces, events and programs for support, advocacy, education and connection of queer Asians of marginalized genders. Asian meaning East-, South-, and Southeast Asian communities. Marginalized genders include cis and trans women, non-binary folks and gender diverse individuals.

Pride is Forever/Pag-pride ay Magpakailanman – a zine workshop for the Filipino LGBTQ+ community in the GTA, for all ages, that explores how play and care manifests in our lives. Zines created will be collected and compiled into a booklet as a celebration of intergenerational healing, joy, and community.

James Stewart Award (up to $10,000) MCC Toronto’s LGBTQ+ Refugee Programs – As identifying as LGBTQ+ is still a criminal offence in 72 countries, the LGBTQ+ Refugee Programs work to support LGBTQ+ refugee claimants to Canada by providing a host of programs that provide support to help them navigate their new beginnings, along with a community of family to call their own.

Foundation Grants (up to $7,500) Sanjina: The Untold Story of a Fijian Drag Queen – BollyHeelsTO will share the story of a Fijian male, gay dancer based in Toronto named Sanjay DaBish Queen, in the form of a short dance piece. The aim is to open doors to both Bollywood and Hollywood and raise more awareness, create, and establish more openness within the South Asian and BIPOC communities.

Drag Academy – Drag Academy (run by The Concerned Kids Charity of Toronto) brings together 2SLGBTQ+ artists who share their expertise in drag through immersive classes. QueerDigital – Indigenous Friends Association will deliver 8 QueerDigital educational sessions to Queer BIPOC youth in the GTA, with content around the intersections of Queer digital spaces and Indigeneity.

The aim of the program is to increase the digital literacy and career skills of the participants while simultaneously embracing their identities. 2021 Virtual Visible Pride Week – An initiative that will assist Pride Durham in continuing Pride in the Durham Region through virtual events and online presence.

Music In Community: Rainbow Writes 2021 – A music program for Scarborough LGBTQ2S+ youth to explore, collaborate on, and create music that discusses identity for the BIPOC and LGBTQ2S+ communities. At the end of the project, youth will have recorded and completed 2-3 original songs. Durham TransEmpowerment – An initiative by Durham Alliance Outreach that seeks to improve and ease the cost that the trans community faces in transition.

Bigger Than We 2 – A project to develop an intergenerational creative experience using the arts to build connections and facilitate knowledge exchange among members of the GTA’s Black queer communities. Journey of Rainbow Pride in Scarborough 10 year anniversary – A documentary bringing much needed visibility to QTBIPOC community with intellectual and physical disabilities.

It will be used as a tool to raise awareness, generate discussion and to address the stigma that the community faces. Queen West Art Crawl Festival – Kids Zone – A project that focuses on creating spaces for our 2SLGBTQ+ families and their youth. The event will bring live and interactive theatre that teaches inclusivity, along with arts/crafts and drag story time.

Mature Trans Sisters – A social drop-in group where mature trans women unite, talk and learn, share resources, and enjoy a hot meal. Led and supported by participants and facilitators, MTS is a safe space for self-identified trans women, gender-non confirming, Two-Spirit and intersex people aged 45 years plus.

EducAsian – Community Learning for LGBTQ+ Youth in the Face of Anti-Asian Racism – A workshop series that will equip and empower East and Southeast Asian LGBTQ+ youth with basic knowledge and skills to deal with Anti-Asian racism in their daily lives and connect them to the community.

General Grants (up to $1,500) The 2021 Virtual POZ-TO Awards ‐ An online awards ceremony that will shine light on individuals and organizations who do thankless work in the HIV/AIDS community.

The Art of Blackness Workshop Series ‐ A virtual workshop series that will connect Toronto Black Queer and Trans folks ages 30+ through visual arts, creative writing, and movement workshops by promoting community, healthy expression, destigmatization of mental health needs, and safe(r) spaces, while considering the isolation caused by the pandemic. ACE ‐ A short film following Ace, a socially awkward trans-man.

The two are unrelated but have an equal impact on his life. Narrated, visual vignettes – adapted from three short stories written by the man himself.

Queerdigital Speaker Series – Indigenous Friends Association will host (3) Queerdigital speakers series and invite Queer Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous speakers to facilitate conversations with Queer BIPOC youth around ways digital spaces can affirm and support queer identities, and foster solidarity and relationship building between Black and Indigenous communities.

Asian Queer Alliance Community Growth Project ‐ A project that aims to provide spaces, events and programs for support, advocacy, education and connection of queer Asians of marginalized genders. Asian meaning East-, South-, and Southeast Asian communities. Marginalized genders include cis and trans women, non binary folks and gender diverse individuals.

Queer of Colour ‐ A storytelling platform where queer people of colour have a safe space to tell their stories on their own terms. Asian Transmasculine Community Space Project ‐ This project will build a peer support network by hosting monthly workshops, events that address culturally-specific issues for East & Southeast Asian transmasculine and non-binary people.

We’ll also improve coping of Gender Dysphoria and overall well-being of trans folks by increasing access to transition-related gear to those who lack disposable income. The Goddess Day Arts Festival – a not-for-profit women-run festival celebrating International Women’s Day, featuring women artists from different genres.

In celebration of Pride month in Toronto, Community One Foundation announced “ Community One Foundation’s We Are Family – Emergency Drag Support Fund ” — a $50,000 COVID-19 relief program to financially assist local drag artists in the GTA. “Drag queens and kings have been the essence of Toronto’s queer community for decades. A hobby for some and a career for others.

The drag community has not only been a source of entertainment for all, but they have often been leaders within our cause, fighting for equality, inclusion and rights for all community members,” said Community One Foundation board member Sam Katz. Community One Foundation distributed 100 grants of $500 each, to eligible, in-need community members. To qualify for a grant, drag