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Combatting 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination, racism, and bullying in schools, summer camps, and workplaces. What is Get REAL?

Get REAL is a Canadian non-profit organization. Our mission is to combat 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination, racism & bullying in schools, summer camps, and workplaces. We accomplish this through our two core areas of focus:

Education: offering Inclusivity, Anti-Racism, and Trans 101 Workshops for students, teachers, parents, and workplaces, and by producing online and in-person resources, including curriculum pieces, posters, videos, and merchandise, and through:

Leadership development and youth support: through our University Chapter, High School After-School, and 2SLGBTQ+ Virtual Counselling Programs. Our programming aims to break down prejudice, promote unity, and foster compassion in our world. For all bookings and speaking engagements:

Workshop modules:
- Inclusivity (2SLGBTQ+ focus)
- Anti-Racism (Anti-Black Racism focus)
- Trans 101
- 2SLGBTQ+ History
- Black History
- Building Capacity: Employee Resource Groups
- Building Capacity: Positive Space Groups

For all audiences, please contact:

Marley Bowen
Executive Director
[email protected]

For all other inquiries, including:

--Corporate sponsorship or charitable donation opportunities
--Bulk merchandise orders for your school, summer camp, or office
--To reserve a sold-out item from our online store
--Volunteer opportunities
--To join an existing university chapter or start a new one
--Event partnerships
--Media inquiries
--After-School Programs
--University Chapters

Please contact:

Chris Studer
Executive Director
[email protected]

10/09/2026

FREE webinar for folks in the hospitality industry 🍽️🥘🍸☕️💻

📣Please Share 🗣️

Applications are NOW open for individual wanting to attend our FREE webinar 🔗 ↖️ 💌 🌈✊🏽

Workshops are also available for team: In-person (Greater Toronto Area) and Virtually (Canada Wide) 🗣️💻

Learn more:
www.thegetrealmovement.com/workshops
[email protected] 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤜🏻🤛🏿

• Hospitality, Inclusivity Workshop, Free Trainjng, Dining resource, Service Industry, Serving, Customer Satisfaction •

10/07/2026

TOMORROW: Pride Around the World 🌎🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

📣Join us!

🗓️: October 8th
⏰: 6:00 PM - EST
💻: Virtual Event

🗣️: Folks 18+ in the 2SLGBTQ+ Community & Allies are welcomed!

🎟️: FREE - register 🔗↖️ www.thegetrealmovement.com/pridearoundtheworld

🎁 First 30 people to register (and attend) the event will receive a FREE Get REAL T-Shirt!

Our speakers include:

🎙️ Bandy Kiki Bandy Kiki: Activist, Doctoral Researcher, & Director of ‘Living Free UK’, from Cameroon, living in the UK 🇨🇲 / 🇬🇧

🎙️ Tarek Zaiden: Activist, Harvard Law Student, Executive Director of Helem Lebanon, from Lebanon 🇱🇧

🎙️ Brigitte Bandit Brigitte Bandit: Activist & Drag Queen, from U.S.A. 🇺🇸

🎙️ Danijel Kalezić, Danijel Kalezić : Activist, Co-Executive Director of ERA LGBTI Equal Rights Association , from Montenegro 🇲🇪

“Pride Around the World,” is hosted by Get REAL, and features a panel of q***r leaders, influencers, and artists sharing their experiences with celebrating the 2SLBGTQ+ community in their own countries. 🌈

It’ll be an evening of COMMUNITY, LEARNING and of course PRIDE.✊🏾

We can’t wait to see you virtually there! 🤩🫂

Thank you to our partner Purdys Chocolatier for making this event possible!! 💜

This initiative is made possible thanks to the support and partnership of the Foundation for Leadership, Imagination and Place 🤍

10/06/2026

FREE EVENT! 🍿🤎🗣️

Steps of Hope: Combatting Anti-Black Racism Through Film🎬✊🏾

Join us for our in-person event where you will experience a short film screening, keynote speaker, panel discussion, community, insight, prizes and connection.

🗓️ November 18th, 2026
⏰ 5:30pm - 8:45p est
📍 Cineplex VIP Yonge & Dundas
🎬 All are welcome. 19+ event.
🎟️ Secure your ticket with a $5 deposit.
(Deposit will be refunded if the individual attends the in-person event.)
🍔 Food, 🍿 Popcorn, 🥤Soft drinks are INCLUDED!

✨ A $25 Vistek gift card will be given to the first 50 filmmakers who secure their tickets. (Participants need to attend the in-person event to be eligible.)
💻 2x attendees will be selected for a free, virtual consulting session on their current film project with Lucah Rosenberg-Lee!

Secure your ticket: http://www.thegetrealmovement.com/stepsofhope

This event is funded by the Government of Canada Canadian Heritage .
Thank you to Cineplex and Somersby Canada for their support in making this event possible.

FREE EVENT! 🍿🤎🗣️

Steps of Hope: Combatting Anti-Black Racism Through Film🎬✊🏾

Join us for our in-person event where you will experience a short film screening, keynote speaker, panel discussion, community, insight, prizes and connection.

🗓️ November 18th, 2026
⏰ 5:30pm - 8:45p est
📍 Cineplex VIP Yonge & Dundas
🎬 All are welcome. 19+ event.
🎟️ Secure your ticket with a $5 deposit.
(Deposit will be refunded if the individual attends the in-person event.)
🍔 Food, 🍿 Popcorn, 🥤Soft drinks are INCLUDED!

✨ A $25 Vistek gift card will be given to the first 50 filmmakers who secure their tickets. (Participants need to attend the in-person event to be eligible.)
💻 2x attendees will be selected for a free, virtual consulting session on their current film project with Lucah Rosenberg-Lee!

Secure your ticket: http://www.thegetrealmovement.com/stepsofhope

This event is funded by the Government of Canada Canadian Heritage .
Thank you to Cineplex and Somersby Canada for their support in making this event possible.

FREE EVENT! 🍿🤎🗣️

Steps of Hope: Combatting Anti-Black Racism Through Film🎬✊🏾

Join us

10/05/2026

Thank you 🙏🏽🫶🏽

We want to send love and appreciation to all our educators, who, day in and day out, work to guide the minds of tomorrow. 🍎🧠

Our younger selves know how special your support, affirmation, and care is, and what a difference it made to have at least one supportive adult in our lives. ☀️🫂

Send this to an educator who continuously strives to create a more affirming school 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤜🏼🤛🏿

Check out our educator resources: www.thegetrealmovement.com/educatorresources

• International World’s Teacher Day, Educator Appreciation, Education, Subjects, Empathy, Compassion, Diversity, Classrooms •

10/01/2026

What does pride mean to you? 🌎🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Tell us in the comments⬇️

Here is what some of our past Pride Around the World panelist answered 🥹😭🫶🏽

Join us this year!! 💻

🗓️: October 8th, 2026
⏰: 6:00 PM - EST
💻: Virtual Event

🎟️: FREE - register 🔗↖️ www.thegetrealmovement.com/pridearoundtheworld

🎁 First 30 people to register (and attend) the event will receive a FREE Get REAL T-Shirt!
💻 Only those residing in Canada are eligible to receive a t-shirt!

Our speakers include:

🎙️ Bandy Kiki : Activist, Doctoral Researcher, & Director of ‘Living Free UK’, from Cameroon, living in the UK 🇨🇲 / 🇬🇧

🎙️ Tarek Zaiden: Activist, Harvard Law Student, Executive Director of , from Lebanon 🇱🇧

🎙️ Brigitte Bandit : Activist & Drag Queen, from U.S.A. 🇺🇸

🎙️ Danijel Kalezić, .kalezic : Activist, Co-Executive Director of ERA , from Montenegro 🇲🇪

“Pride Around the World,” is hosted by Get REAL, and features a panel of q***r leaders, influencers, and artists sharing their experiences with celebrating the 2SLBGTQ+ community in their own countries. 🌈

It’ll be an evening of COMMUNITY, LEARNING and of course PRIDE.✊🏾

We can’t wait to see you virtually there! 🤩🫂

Thank you to our partner for making this event possible!! 💜

This initiative is made possible thanks to the support and partnership of the Foundation for Leadership, Imagination and Place 🤍

🗣️: Event is 19+, 2SLGBTQ+ community & allies are welcomed!

09/29/2026

This should be lighting a fire in all of us. We all should be standing together to condemn white supremacy.

We stand with our Indigenous communities 🧡

Supports:
1-855-242-3310 - Hope for Wellness
1-800-668-6868 - Kids Help Phone
686868 - Text Kids Help Phone
988 - Su***de Crisis Helpline

🎥 via APTN News

“Leaders from across Canada are condemning the white supremacists that were marching in Kamloops, British Columbia over the weekend, just outside of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc reserve.

They wore white masks and dressed in all black to conceal their public identities and RCMP are asking anyone with more photos grvideos to come forward.”

09/24/2026

These responses 😭😭 We’re so grateful for the impact we’ve been able to make ❤️🥹

We’ve spoken to over 1 million students and counting 🫶🏽🗣️

Book a workshop for your school:
↖️🔗 www.thegetrealmovement.com/workshops

To support our work: check out our merch ↖️🔗 www.wegetreal.ca ✊🏾🌈 all proceeds go towards our mission to combat 2SLGBTQ+ discrimination, racism and bullying in schools, workplaces and community spaces 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤜🏼🤛🏿

• workshops, school presentations, antibullying, youth support, belonging, affirming environments •

09/21/2026

Pride Around the World 🌎🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🗓️: October 8th
⏰: 6:00 PM - EST
💻: Virtual Event

🎟️: FREE - register 🔗↖️ www.thegetrealmovement.com/pridearoundtheworld

🎁 First 30 people to register (and attend) the event will receive a FREE Get REAL T-Shirt!
💻 Only those residing in Canada are eligible to receive a t-shirt!

Our speakers include:

🎙️ Bandy Kiki Bandy Kiki: Activist, Doctoral Researcher, & Director of ‘Living Free UK’, from Cameroon, living in the UK 🇨🇲 / 🇬🇧

🎙️ Tarek Zaiden: Activist, Harvard Law Student, Executive Director of Helem Lebanon, from Lebanon 🇱🇧

🎙️ Brigitte Bandit Brigitte Bandit: Activist & Drag Queen, from U.S.A. 🇺🇸

🎙️ Danijel Kalezić, Danijel Kalezić : Activist, Co-Executive Director of ERA LGBTI Equal Rights Association , from Montenegro 🇲🇪

“Pride Around the World,” is hosted by Get REAL, and features a panel of q***r leaders, influencers, and artists sharing their experiences with celebrating the 2SLBGTQ+ community in their own countries. 🌈

It’ll be an evening of COMMUNITY, LEARNING and of course PRIDE.✊🏾

We can’t wait to see you virtually there! 🤩🫂

Thank you to our partner Purdys Chocolatier for making this event possible!! 💜

This initiative is made possible thanks to the support and partnership of the Foundation for Leadership, Imagination and Place 🤍

🗣️: Event is 19+, 2SLGBTQ+ community & allies are welcomed!

Introducing Danijel Kalezić, from Montenegro, a leading LGBTIQ+ human rights advocate and Executive Director of ERA - LGBTI Equal Rights Association for the Western Balkans and Turkey. 🇲🇪🌈

Introducing Danijel Kalezić, from Montenegro, a leading LGBTIQ+ human rights advocate and Executive Director of ERA - LGBTI Equal Rights Association for the Western Balkans and Turkey. 🇲🇪🌈

Bandy Kiki, an award-winning LGBTQ+ activist and writer from Cameroon! She is serves as the Director of Living Free UK, a community interest organization in the UK. Hear from her at our 2026 panel!

Bandy Kiki, an award-winning LGBTQ+ activist and writer from Cameroon! She is serves as the Director of Living Free UK, a community interest organization in the UK. Hear from her at our 2026 panel!

Brigitte Bandit, a Texas based Dra

09/17/2026

Send this to the educators you know 🗣️

‼️‼️

✨ FREE Educator workshops available. Spots are limited! 👀
✨ FREE Positive Space Kits available. Apply today!💅🏽
✨ NEW Pride in our History and Black History Matters Worksheets! 📝

🔗↖️ www.thegetrealmovement.com/educatorresources

If you have any questions, feel free to emails us: [email protected] 💌

• Affirming Space, School belonging, PA Day, Teacher Resources, TPT, Teachers Pay Teachers, Classroom, Back to School •

09/14/2026

emphasis on the relief 🫶🏽🥹🏳️‍⚧️

📣📣 “Gender affirming care affects all of us. Cis people under go gender affirming care every day.”

📹 ✂️ clip via Jeff Yoo, MD | Emergency Physician 🙌🏽

• healthcare, belonging, care, gender affirming care, respect, support, doctor•

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