Kind Space is a community centre in Ottawa for 2SLGBTQ+ individuals. They offer an accessible physical location that is open during the week for people to drop in, participate in programming, attend events, eat food, find thrift clothing items, make friends, and check out books.
Kind Space has a long history of activism and community building within Ottawa. A month after the ‘We Demand’ demonstration on Parliament Hill in 1971, a political, social, and health organization was born – Gays of Ottawa (GO). 13 years later, GO made a decision to start a new organization that would take on the social and health programming and that would be eligible to receive charitable status, apply for funding, and grant tax receipts to donors. On March 29, 1984 Pink Triangle Services (PTS) was granted charitable status, the first 2SLGBTQ+ organization in Canada to do so. In 2015, the organization embarked on a new direction, undergoing a rebranding process from PTS to Kind Space with a radical re-visioning of community engagement and participation, values and commitments, and collaborative partners.
This listing was uploaded by Amber Collins, Special Projects Assistant at the National Trust for Canada, on Monday July 22, 2026.
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