Fae Johnstone: Ottawa groups like Kind Space and the Ten Oaks Project, who provide family support and summer programs for LGBTQ youth, are in a tough financial position.

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LGBTQ charities and non-profits deliver critical services and programs to the most vulnerable queer people. In Ottawa and across Canada, they’re facing the perfect storm: economic precarity, government belt-tightening and corporations rescinding financial support, all made worse by a social and political climate increasingly hostile to LGBTQ acceptance.

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Organizations like Kind Space, Ottawa’s queer community centre, and the Ten Oaks Project, who provide family support and summer programs for LGBTQ youth, are in a tough financial position. Without help, staff will be laid off and services will be cut. In that event,........

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