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General Lindsay Franco, Communications

McMASTER ATHLETES AND ATHLETICS & RECREATION STAFF SUPPORT MSU PRIDE PARADE

Hamilton, Ont. - A number of supporters participated in the MSU Pride Parade yesterday including McMaster athletes and McMaster Athletics & Recreation staff. Marauder sports teams including basketball teams, the wrestling team and rugby were represented at the parade through McMaster campus.

From Nov. 14 to 18, the Queer Student's Community Centre (QSCC) is hosting MAC Pride Week. Pride week celebrates the process of embracing and accepting one’s identity. It includes a multitude of creative events, like McMaster’s third annual Pride Parade and the QSCC Drag Show. This year, the McMaster Pride Parade had an impressive turn out of over 60 people from various groups around campus, like EFRT, Marauders Athletics & Recreation, the SRA and Residence Life.

 McMaster's sports community has also taken steps to buidling a more inclusive sport community and works to address homophobia in sport. McMaster Athletics & Recreation also offers Positive Space Training to help everyone on campus learn about and take a stand against homophobia and transphobia. A number of members of the Athletics & Recreation community have participated in and are commited to the tenets of Positive Space. 

The QSCC is a service supported by the McMaster Students Union and advocates for gender and sexual diversity. Their mandate upholds that queer students are entitled to a safe and supportive campus, absent of homophobia, where the expression of one's gender and sexual identity is welcomed and respected. 

The Ally Program is also an important installation in educating, creating awareness and building sustainable relationships between people in the McMaster community. The Centre is a ’for-students-by-students’ service (under the MSU banner) that aims to challenge problematic social attitudes and norms, patriarchy and sexism, heterosexism, homo/trans/bi/lesbophobia and the like, at the systemic level. It is a myth to think that the kinds of discrimination that the QSCC aims to erase are no longer an issue on campus or in society at large. 
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