via CBRC:
We are excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for Summit 2025, taking place November 20-22, 2025 in Montreal, QC.
Each year, CBRC brings together diverse voices, impactful research, and innovative strategies to improve health outcomes for 2S/LGBTQIA+ communities. Whether your work is in community health promotion, research, or grassroots advocacy, we want to hear from you.
We welcome submissions from individuals, organizations, and experts across various disciplines, including healthcare providers, researchers, Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, community activists, and policymakers. This is your opportunity to showcase your work and offer practical strategies to transform healthcare for queer individuals in your community. At Summit 2025, you can engage, educate, and empower participants to influence the future of 2S/LGBTQIA+ health.
Summit 2025 Theme
We are proud to announce that the 2025 Summit theme is: Convergence & Emergence.
Summit 2025 Narrative
Excerpt: As researchers, educators, service providers, and advocates who work in queer, trans, and Two-Spirit health promotion, our dedication to 2S/LGBTQIA+ people and communities is core to who we are. It’s what unites us and brings us together. In the year since the last Summit, 2S/LGBTQIA+ activists and advocates have continued to sound the alarm on rising homophobia and transphobia in Canada and around the world, including the erasure of trans, non-binary, and gender diverse identities, experiences, and people. At the same time, we’re also witnessing wider attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion, harm reduction, sexual and reproductive health, immigration, and on many other social justice issues and movements, raising the spectre of funding cuts and disruptions to programs or services, if not outright government hostility.
In response, queer, trans, and Two-Spirit people are showing up for each other. When we pool our resources and spheres of influence, we emerge stronger and more able to advance our community’s health and well-being around the world. In this moment with heightened concerns about the shifting social, economic, and political context for 2S/LGBTQIA+ health and human rights, we must remind ourselves that this is the work that we’ve always done. We must remember that generations of queer people past and present have been doing the work to challenge homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and many intersecting oppressions. Whether in the streets, the courts, the classrooms, the clinics, or our homes, we have been doing the work.
In these times, more than ever, we have to ask ourselves:
- What are our obligations to each other, our families, communities, and lands, and how can we show up for each other?
- What can we learn from our struggles and our successes?
- How can we honour the work done by people in our communities—service providers, researchers, and community members and organizers—who help create a better world for queer, trans, and Two-Spirit people?
Whatever 2S/LGBTQIA+ health goal we work towards—accessible and affordable medications and care, better and more accessible health data, lower transmission rates, or better mental health outcomes—also works to improve health for all. When we make our health systems work better for 2S/LGBTQIA+ people, we make the system work better for everyone. Visit Summit Call to learn more.
We welcome submissions that identify and respond to 2S/LGBTQIA+ health needs, as well as promising programs or services that have a positive impact on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility for queer, trans, and Two-Spirit people and communities in Canada.
Important Dates
Proposal submission deadline: 11:59 PM Pacific Time on July 6, 2025
Notification of acceptance: End of August 2025
Visit CBRC Summit Submission page for complete information on submitting a proposal.