- Gay Line
Gay Line is a Canadian
LGBT non-profit organization . It was founded in 1976 bysocial worker s and activists to provide advice and counseling togay andlesbian people inMontreal .Citation
last = Hays
first = Matthew
author-link =
title = Lending a queer ear
newspaper =Montreal Mirror
date = June 2006
url =http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/060106/news2.html
accessdate=2008-06-26 ] cite web
title = About Us
work =
publisher = Gay Line
date =
url = http://www.gayline.qc.ca/aboutus.php
accessdate =2008-06-26 ]History
Gay Line was founded in 1976 by social workers and activists who wanted to provide a
helpline with information and advice to gay and lesbian people in Montreal. It was part of what was called the "Gay Social Services Project" of the Ville Marie Social Services Centre and was staffed by volunteers and professional social workers, who offered counseling services. In the early 1980s, aFrench language version of the helpline was formed inQuebec called Gai Écoute. In the late 1990s, Gay Line widened its scope to includebisexual andtransgender people.Present day
Today, Gay Line operates every night of the year as a general information and listening helpline for the LGBT community in Montreal. [Citation
last = Hays
first = Matthew
author-link =
title = Out in Montreal: a city on a page
newspaper =The Advocate
date = 2003-09-30
url =http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_Sept_30/ai_110917272
accessdate=2008-06-26 ]References
External links
* [http://www.gayline.qc.ca/ Official site]
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