Rainbow Faith and Freedom in the Press
Speaking With Reverend Brent Hawkes, Officiant Of First Gay Marriage
Breakfast Television
May 2023
Celebrating pride by taking a look back at LGBTQ2SA+ history in Canada. We are joined by Canadian activist, Reverend Brent Hawkes to discuss.
Repairing the conversation around transgender teacher can build lasting change
The Toronto Star
By: Brent Hawkes
February 26, 2023
Rev. Dr. Hawkes discusses the importance of repairing and improving the conversation surrounding transgender teachers in order to bring about meaningful and lasting change.
Religious intolerance happens in Canada too, and it hasn’t gone away
The Globe and Mail
By: Brent Hawkes
August 12, 2022
Rev. Dr. Hawkes emphasizes the continued presence of religious intolerance and highlights the need for ongoing vigilance in order to address and combat it effectively.
Russia sanctions LGBTQ activist, Freeland and Joly's staff, singer Chantal Kreviazuk
CTV News
By: The Canadian Press
August 5, 2022
Russia sanctioned a raft of Canadian public figures on Friday including Maj.-Gen. Michael Wright, head of Canadian Forces Intelligence Command, and the pastor who officiated the first gay marriages in Canada.
Federal government extends LGBTQ2 Community Capacity Fund
Xtra Magazine
By: Dale Smith
February 23, 2022
$7.5 million earmarked for existing recipients, plus new monies for two additional queer and trans community projects.
Reverend Brent Hawkes on officiating the world’s first same-sex marriages
Cityline
June 25, 2021
Founder of Rainbow Faith and Freedom, Reverend Brent Hawkes, shares what partaking in Canada's first same-sex marriages in 2001 was like from his point of view.
Grad students make queer history accessible through collaborative special podcast series
YFile
By: York University
June 16, 2021
York University PhD candidates Hannah Maitland, Stephanie Jonsson and Angela Stanley, from the Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies program, are highlighting queer oral history through a new special podcast series.
Forty years of Pride and there is more work to do
Toronto Star
By: Brent Hawkes
June 1, 2021
“After consulting widely, it became obvious that many LGBTQ2S+ people of faith were struggling as they seek recognition of their human rights,” writes Brent Hawkes. “It was this recognition that put me on a path, planning and developing a new international organization to set about “changing hearts and minds” as they relate to the LGBTQ2S+ community.”