Passing of Gary Sealey (April 3, 1942-August 5, 2019), Former Lambda President

The board members of the Lambda Scholarship Foundation Canada mourns the loss of one of the foundation’s most committed board members and former president. Gary was a founder of Lambda and served most recently as our President until he retired from the Board of Directors in 2011. He passed on Sunday, August 10, 2019. OurContinue reading “Passing of Gary Sealey (April 3, 1942-August 5, 2019), Former Lambda President”

Congratulations to Veronica Vicencio Diaz, from Carleton!

Congratulations to Veronica Vicencio Diaz, this year’s winner of the Gary Sealey Award! Veronica is in her second year of a Master’s program in Anthropology at Carleton University. Her award-winning research concentrates on two towns in Veracruz, Mexico, as they represent the places she grew up and navigated during her childhood and teenage years, as wellContinue reading “Congratulations to Veronica Vicencio Diaz, from Carleton!”

Congratulations to Nicholas Hrynyk, Carleton University

Many congratulations to Nicholas Hrynyk, the most recent recipient of the Gary Sealey Friends of Lambda Award, from Carleton University. Nick is a PhD Candidate at Carleton, where he is examining the ways in which The Body Politic (TBP, Canada’s largest LGBT newspaper from 1971 until 1987) mediated understandings of masculinity as something that wasContinue reading “Congratulations to Nicholas Hrynyk, Carleton University”

Co-Winners at Carleton Share the Gary Sealey Friends of Lambda Award

Two PhD students are sharing our newly named Gary Sealey Friends of Lambda Award for their innovative and bold research. They are Melanie Rickert in Anthropology and Charlotte Hoelke in Canadian Studies. It is the first time the Lambda award at Carleton has been presented under its new name. Melanie won the Lambda Award at Carleton a couple of years agoContinue reading “Co-Winners at Carleton Share the Gary Sealey Friends of Lambda Award”