
GSA
This directory is designed to help you find resources on GSA in Windsor-Essex. These listings were compiled by submissions from the community along with organizations that have supported the LGBTQ2S+ community in Windsor-Essex. If you feel there is an organization or business that should be listed, please submit the information on our submission form.
Resource Links
A guide to starting and supporting a GSA (University of Western Ontario)
Equity and Inclusive Education Resource Kit For Ontario High Schools (Egale Canada)
So you wanna start a GSA (Vancouver Coastal Health)
Local Resource connections
CAMPUS PRIDE CENTRE
University of Windsor
Room 235, 2nd Floor CAW Student Centre
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4
Phone: 519-253-3000 Ext.4093
The Campus Pride Centre provides a positive environment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Questioning, Two-Spirited, Intersex, Pansexual and Asexual individuals and their allies on the University of Windsor campus. The Campus Pride Centre holds a variety of events during the year. There are also events for National and International celebrations of queer identities such as: National Coming out Day, Transgender Day of Remembrance, International Women’s Day, World AIDS Day, and more.
EMBRACE YOUTH GROUP
320 Richmond Street, Unit #400
Amherstburg, Ontario, N9V 1H4
Phone: 519-736-6811
The House Youth Centre invites you to join us for Embrace at the House Youth Centre. This peer facilitated program is for individuals 14-21 years old and offers a positive space for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and marginalized youth and their allies. Embrace will foster a supportive community through unique discussions and creative activities, to help develop relationships and resilience.
QLINK YOUTH DROP IN
2109 Ottawa Street, Unit #216
Windsor, Ontario, N8Y 1R8
Phone: 226-348-3378
Qlink Windsor-Essex invites you to join us for the online QConnect LGBTQ2S+ Youth Drop In.This peer facilitated online program is for individuals 12-29 years of age and offers a positive space for LGBTQ2S+ youth and their allies in an online format. This group offers a space to hang out, meet new people and make connections while fostering inclusion, community belonging, positive relationships and respect for all LGTBQ2S+ people. Groups are on Mondays and Wednesdays weekly.
TRANS WELLNESS ONTARIO
1435 Tecumseh Road East
Windsor, ON N8W 1C2
Phone: 226-674-4745
The mission of Trans Wellness Ontario is to enhance and sustain the health and wellness of Transgender, Genderqueer, Two-Spirit, Non-Binary, Queer and Questioning communities and their families.
WINDSOR-ESSEX PRIDE FEST
2109 Ottawa Street, Unit #216
Windsor, Ontario, N8Y 1R8
Phone: 226-348-3378
Windsor-Essex Pride Fest strives to strengthen the sense of community and contribute to the vibrancy, health and overall well-being of LGBTQ2S+ persons in WindsorEssex. Raising awareness of ongoing issues facing the LGBTQ2S+ community including youth suicide, discrimination & bullying. Windsor-Essex Pride Fest as an organization is more than just a festival, it empowers individuals to reach out to each other and facilitates opportunities for connection and belonging through age-specific activities or initiatives, peer-facilitated groups and special events and will address social isolation and create a social environment that is more accommodating, resilient and connected to the broader LGBTQ2S+ community in Windsor-Essex.
WINDSOR PRIDE COMMUNITY
1770 Langlois Avenue
Windsor, Ontario, N8X 4M5
Phone: 519-946-4740
We support our committees who, among other things: work to create educational opportunities for the community, including diversity training; work with the local school boards and the Gay-Straight Alliances in schools; work with and support other community organizations, and; host seniors’ programs & activities.
WINDSOR YOUTH CENTRE GSA
1247 Wyandotte Street East
Windsor, Ontario, N9A 3K6
Phone: 226-674-0006
The Windsor Youth Centre (WYC) is a surrogate living room to over one hundred and fifty youth. Where else is there to go? The youth always answer, “Nowhere.” When it opened in October 2011, the WYC was the only drop-in centre for homeless and at-risk youth in Windsor-Essex . It still is.