The last of the consultation sessions on the University of Victoria’s rainbow crosswalk held by a third-party facilitator was held on Thursday. The crosswalk is fading and in need of a refresh, but the university says it wants to consult with its LGBT community before it gets a new coat of paint.The meeting was advertised to LGBT students and recent alumni as a queer, trans, BIPOC — Black, Indigenous, People of Colour — town hall.
“It doesn’t seem well advertised to me, which isn’t the hallmark of a good consultation,” she said, adding that it was likely that the UVic Pride Collective had no idea the session even existed. The university has said that the fading rainbow crosswalk will not be repainted until “fulsome consultation” has been conducted with LGBT students, staff and faculty.