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Building a Community
Strengthening the City
Media Relations: Gay West is happy to make a volunteer available for stories or quotes relating to the Traditional Gay Village, Queer West Village or Gay West Community Network for your magazine, newspaper, radio show, website, or television program. Write Bryen Dunn, Director of Media Relations - info @ bryendunn.com or if urgent Call 416-551-1709 ext 2 www.BryenDunn.com
May 1, 2008 Unofficial press announcement - Formal press release to be issued soonest with all biographies of the directors.
Gay West Community Network Inc. - is now governed by a ten member Board of Directors. An all-volunteer driven not-for-profit centre, connecting queer residents, business and community groups in High Park, Liberty Parkdale, Davenport, Trinity Bellwoods west central Toronto, Ontario neighbourhoods since 2001 Incorporated as a Charity on April 7, 2008. Election of Officers and passing of Bylaws took place Monday April 28, 2008.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Bryen Dunn
BOARD VICE PRESIDENTS
Shani Betz
Michael Paré
TREASURER
John Colautti
SECRETARY
Catherine Jean Nash
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Matthew Cutler
Gilbert Estephan
Nathaniel Fuks (Chair of Queer Peers Committee)
Tam Khuu
Warren Kennedy
Gay West's Incorporation Objectives:
To produce performing arts festivals for the purposes of educating and
advancing the public’s understanding and appreciation of performing
arts and to educate artists through participation in such festivals and
related workshops. and outreach programming for the lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgendered, transsexual, questioning and two-spirited (queer community).
Our network provides educational workshops, community events, and public forums. Our mandate will be to work with all members of the community, including youth, seniors, disadvantaged, and unemployed to provide the necessary counseling and services needed.
Press Release May 25, 2007 - Toronto Queer West Fest 2007
By Gay West Community Network
(EntertainWire.Org and PRLog.Org) – The Gay West Community Network and Triple-X Productions have teamed up to bring Toronto its first alternative Festival for queer culture. Having successfully coordinated several queer focused events over the past several years, 2007 marks the first year that a series of events are being presented over the course of one week as part of the new Queer West Fest.
The events range from a community fair, bike ride, and guest speaker presentation to the pulsating opening and closing night parties. These events are open and welcoming to individuals of all genders and sexualities.
So come out, get involved, have some fun and let this be your kick-off to summer! Press Releases:entertainwire.org/10018147/toronto-queer-west-fest-2007.html or www.prlog.org/10018147-toronto-queer-west-fest-2007.html
Press Release January 1, 2001
Gay West Community Network Launches Its Web Site for Online Gay Resources in Toronto Ontario
Toronto Ontario – January 1, 2001 – Gay West Community Network launches its official web site, (www.gaywest.905host.net), which offers the most complete online resource guide in the Toronto area, serving the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Communities. In addition, Gay West Community Network is providing and developing other services to help the community, including classified listings; personal ads; information about what's happening in Toronto; shopping links that help support Toronto West area gay service-oriented charities and nonprofits; useful travel information.
Gay West Community Network was envisioned and is being developed with the primary objective of better serving the needs of the Toronto West region’s gay community and those interested in that community’s resources, programs and activities. As step one in achieving that goal, the new website offers a clearinghouse of information for the community’s resources – and, more importantly, Gay West Community Network provides that information in an interactive, online, searchable and shareable format.
In the upcoming years, Gay West Community Network will be seeking opportunities to partner with many of Toronto's west end area’s gay resources to better serve the community, will continue developing and enhancing the web site to make information easily accessible to all interested persons, and will seek feedback from its users on other areas for development to further extend its network of information to continue reaching out to all members of the area’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered Communities.
Gay West Community Network is based in the West Toronto Ontario For additional information on Gay West Community Network or the services that they offer visit their Web site at http://gaywest.905host.net
