Andrea Houston
Andrea Houston is a Toronto journalist, human rights advocate and community organizer, who is a contract professor at Ryerson School of Journalism for its Queer Media course. She broke the 2011 story that Ontario Catholic schools were banning Gay-Straight Alliances. Her reporting on this story helped lead to legislation requiring all provincially-funded schools to allow the clubs, if students want them.[1] After her reportage on the GSAs, she was an employee of MPP Cheri DiNovo, Ontario’s first LGBTQ critic.[2]
In 2012, she was the Honoured Dyke at Pride Toronto.[3] She received a Ontario Newspaper Award for feature writing in 2007,[4][better source needed] and j-source, a news website about Canadian news industry, nominated her as Canadian Newsperson of the Year 2012.[5][better source needed]
As of 2014, she was listed as a of a coalition against international homophobia/transphobia called #ENDhatelaws.[6]
She was raised in Brampton, Ontario.[7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Rider, David (14 January 2015). "Gay newspaper Xtra to stop printing, go digital only". Toronto Star. Toronto.
Andrea Houston, a former Xtra reporter whose stories exposing Catholic school suppression of student gay-straight alliances led to provincial legislation protecting such alliances, said the business has long struggled.
- ↑ "Andrea Houston". http://rsj.journalism.ryerson.ca/team/andrea-houston/. Toronto ON: Ryerson University. [2016]. Retrieved 16 December 2016. Check date values in:
|date=(help); External link in|website=(help) - ↑ Hains, David (21 June 2012). "Xtra reporter named honoured dyke". Daily Xtra. Toronto. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
- ↑ http://www.andreahouston.com/?page_id=34
- ↑ "Andrea Houston, Xtra!". j-source. Canadian Journalism Project. [2012]. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/05/22/ugandan_gay_activists_denied_visas_to_world_pride_conference.html
- ↑ Ryan English, "Queer Media course schools Ryerson journalism students on LGBTQ history and reporting", University Affairs, 6 December 2016.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- RSJ profile
- "Email exchange between reporter, Transport Canada removed due to ‘copyright infringement’", Toronto Star, 2012
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