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☆Spotlight Series☆
Building on last year’s series, this Black History Month we’re spotlighting Black activists, artists, innovators, and community members whose work shapes our movements, keeping our communities alive. From creativity to resistance, care to innovation, these stories remind us that Black history is living, ongoing, and foundational to abolitionist futures. Stay with us as we uplift Black leadership, brilliance, and community care, today and always.

Today, we’re starting off with Trevor Gray

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Trevor Gray is a Toronto-based advocate whose decades of work have strengthened HIV/AIDS care and harm reduction within the African Caribbean community. A longtime volunteer with organizations such as the African Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario, the Canadian AIDS Society, and the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention, Trevor has been a steady force in reducing vulnerability, improving access to care, and challenging the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. Known throughout the city’s harm reduction community, he approaches every client with dignity, compassion, and respect; never as a problem to be solved, but as a person to be cared for. Whether sharing his deep well of knowledge and stories or cooking nourishing meals for those he serves, Trevor Gray’s impact is felt not just through advocacy, but through everyday acts of care that build trust, community, and survival.