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Archive 2008 - Campaign Goal
CAMPAIGN GOAL

HEALTHCARE

Annual campaigns to combat homophobia focus on a different scope of activity each year. The goal of the Homosexuality is not a sickness! campaign is to reach all healthcare workers and professionals.

Healthcare includes a vast number of workers and professionals in the physical, mental, and public health fields: chiropractors, dental hygienists, dentists, denturists, dieticians, emergency medical technicians, guidance counsellors, health technicians, hearing-aid specialists, midwives, nurses, occupational therapists, opticians, optometrists, pharmacists, physicians and specialists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, psychologists, school psychologists, social workers, surgeons, and so on.

Healthcare workers and professionals work in many environments that affect the entire population: hospitals, care centres, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, child welfare organisations, detention centres, learning institutions, medical clinics, assisted reproduction clinics, and daycare centres. They work in a wide range of service fields such as home care, social services, rehabilitation, domestic violence, suicide prevention, and alcohol and drug addiction.
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CONVERSION THERAPIES

One of the methods created to attack or eliminate homosexuality has been conversion therapies, or so-called “reparative therapies”, which ex-gay and other anti-LGBT movements are still based on today. However, starting in the early 90’s, they have been discredited by virtually all major medical, psychiatric, and psychological organisations because there is no scientific basis for such therapies and they can cause more harm than good.

Source: Fortier, C. and Julien, D. Les psychothérapies de conversion pour les personnes gaies, lesbiennes et bisexuelles : enjeux éthiques et déontologiques. [transl.: Conversion Psychotherapies for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People: Moral and Ethics Issues.] Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne, Vol. 44: 4, November 2003, pp 332-350.

See also:
International Day Against Homophobia - May 17th

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Têtu Le Devoir Egale Canada PFLAG Canada Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity
PRIDE house.ca Équipe Montréal The 519 Church Street Community Centre International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association CAEO Québec SOS-Homophobie Pink Pages Roses
Vision Diversité Coalition des familles homoparentales Gai Écoute Coalition Multimondo Qmunity
Franco Queer GLBT Québec / Lutte à l’homophobie Conseil québécois des gais et lesbiennes The Tolerance Foundation International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce Québec Lesbian Network Center for Research-Action on Race Relations
Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse Chambre de commerce gaie du Québec Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation et des psychoéducateurs et psychoéducatrices du Québec Ordre professionnel des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec
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