The event, called "Sex, Shelter and the Games", will take place at The 519 Centre - home to the PrideHouse Toronto Pavilion at the Games - tomorrow.

It will feature a panel discussion that looks at how sex working and street-involved communities experience the Games.

Amanda De Lisio, who is studying local, informal economies such as sex work within the context of Rio De Janeiro and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, and Sophy Chan, community engagement coordinator at SPORT4ONTARIO whose work involves identifying barriers and training youth to create sport programmes for under-serviced communities, will appear as guest speakers.

Olivia Nuamah, the executive director of the Innercity Family Health Team which provides health and social care services to the men of Seaton House, will be the moderator.

The event is part of the PrideHouse Toronto Café Series of public discussions ©PrideHouse Toronto/Facebook


The event is part of the PrideHouse Toronto Café Series of public discussions on key issues of inclusion in sports at school, community, amateur and elite levels in the lead-up to Toronto 2015.

The organisation is also planning to have a 47,000-square foot Pride House located in downtown Toronto, and "PrideHouse Celebrates!" will create a live street site during each weekend of the Games that will include stage shows, sports and games play, and licensed gardens.

The aim is to ensure this year's Pan and Parapan American Games are the most inclusive multi-sport games in history for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer athletes, coaches, trainers, spectators and visitors.

For further details on PrideHouse Toronto's plans for the Pan American Games, click here. 

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