QX Speaker Series: Voices of Queer Elders
Wed, Feb 25
|QX Community Centre (QXCC)
Time & Location
Feb 25, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
QX Community Centre (QXCC), 171 Queens Ave Unit 420, London, ON N6A 5J7, Canada
About The Event
Join us for an enlightening series where queer elders share their stories and experiences. This monthly gathering is dedicated to honouring the wisdom and journeys of queer elders in our community. Don't miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate together.
Join us February 25 at QX or online for our next event in our Speaker Series.
This month we welcome Sydnie Reighn Straal who is a transgender woman who is 58 years old. She has lived a very full and eventful life but for much of it, she didn't see it in a positive light.
It wasn't until she came out fully and authentically that she was able to look back and appreciate all that she had witnessed and learned along the way to see everything that contributed to create the person she is today.
In 1967, Sydnie was living on a military base in Kingston Ontario while she…