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Transgender Parent Day

By Hannah Wanamaker / November 8, 2024
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Transgender Parent Day

By Intern Intern / November 3, 2024
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Parents’ Coffee Hour

By Intern Intern / October 30, 2024

Monthly social event for parents of trans kids.

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West Side Pride: Trans(Form) the Narrative

By Intern Intern / October 29, 2024

An empowering event to uplist the voices of the transgender community.

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Daddies and Dragons!

By Khaled / May 6, 2020

Building Community…One Dice at a Time! As a young queer man, I spent a large portion of my time surrounded by straight friends in high school. One of the activities…

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Community MAXimizers in Action!

By Khaled / February 24, 2020

Have an idea on how you can improve the health and well-being of guys into guys? Community MAXimizers are community leaders that help promote the health and well being of…

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Black Queer Excellence

By Khaled / December 5, 2019

On December 3, 2019, MAX Ottawa, The Aids of Committee of Ottawa, and Somerset West Community Health Centre hosted ‘Black Queer Excellence.’ This BQE party was for all Black, African,…

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Harm Reduction Supply Packing Party

By Khaled / November 29, 2019

So far in 2019, MAX Ottawa has distributed 13,584 harm reduction supplies! How do we keep up? With the help of volunteers and community members such as yourself!  Harm Reduction…

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MAX presents at National GBT2Q Men’s Health Summit

By Khaled / November 22, 2019

MAX Ottawa presented at the 2019 Community-Based Research Centre’s (CBRC) Summit. The Summit is CRBC’s annual two-day event that promotes knowledge exchange and capacity building for gay, bi, trans, Two-Spirit,…

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Spill the Tea Premieres in Vancouver

By Khaled / October 28, 2019

YouthCO and MAX Bring Innovative “Spill the Tea” Campaign to Vancouver With a grant from ViiV Healthcare, YouthCO and MAX are launching their groundbreaking campaign to promote safer partying education…

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