Lyla Miklos
Lyla Miklos is a queer feminist activist and community organizer known for her advocacy in advancing LGBTQ rights and promoting gender equality.
Lyla Miklos is an award winning queer feminist activist, broadcast journalist, community organizer, education worker, publicist, vocalist and writer. Born in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, North West Territories, Lyla currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario.
She is a graduate of Mohawk College’s Media Studies program and a Mohawk College Alumni of Distinction. Lyla has self-identified as a sex positive, queer, feminist, activist for over two decades.
She helped create and served as President of Mohawk Pride, Mohawk College’s first official club for Two Spirit & LGBTQIA+ students. She was instrumental in forming the LGBTQ Advisory Committee for the City of Hamilton, later sitting on it as a member and Interim Chair.
Lyla was a part of the organizing committee of Hamilton Pride for over a decade, chairing it in 2005 and 2002. She was a support group facilitator for the Toronto Bisexual Network, Bisexual Women of Toronto and the Hamilton Bisexual Network and a volunteer with the Toronto Women’s Bathhouse Committee.
Lyla was a co-staff advisor with the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) for Parkside High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance Club and Westdale Secondary School’s Positive Space Club. Lyla was a member of the Ontario Federation of Labour Solidarity and Pride Committee representing Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation from 2011 to 2014.
Lyla was a member of the HWDSB’s Positive Space Committee, a Two Spirit & LGBTQIA+ staff advisory committee.