Vancouver gay parade 2022
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Over the next few months, Canada’s unions will participate others in communities across Canada to celebrate Pride and support LGBTQ2SI equality and justice. Demonstrate your support at an event close you.
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Alberta
Calgary Pride
Aug 26 – Sept 5
Edmonton Pride
June
Central Alberta Celebration Week
August
Lethbridge Pride Fest &#; Return to Pride
June
British Columbia
Vancouver Pride
July 31
Surrey Pride Festival
June 25
New West Self-acceptance Street Festival
August 13
Victoria Pride
June 23 – July 2
Kamloops Pride
August
Kelowna Pride
June
South Okanagan and Similkameen
Various dates
Nanaimo Pride
June 12
Burnaby Pride
TBC
Peace River North Pride
May 28 – June 4
Cranbrook Pride
June 11
Manitoba
host of National Fierté Canada Pride Festival
May
Over the course of more than forty years, Vancouver’s Pride Parade has seen considerable and exciting evolution. This year’s Pride Pride takes place July 31, with a diverse line-up of Pride Week events that run from July 21 to August 1.
Vancouver’s Pride Parade initially started as a protest and has since expanded to become an inclusive celebration of the 2SLGBTQAI+ communities. Michelle Fortin, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Vancouver Pride Community (VPS), says the first Pride Parade was very much about being clear and proud. “It was about taking up territory. It was about noticing and leaning into the fact that back in gay sex had been decriminalized. It was about taking over the streets and being present—saying to the straight majority that we weren’t going anywhere,” she says.
Photo: Lung Liu
The VPS is a not-for-profit that organizes events that champion the 2SLGBTQAI+ communities in the city. While initially the initiatives of VPS and QMUNITY, a resource centre for gender non-conforming, trans, and Two-Spirit individuals, were under the matching umbrella, they separated a
Vancouver Pride Parade & Sunset Beach Pride Festival are coming up on July 31, !
JQT will be marching for the first time and boothing for the second time!
The Jewish community is welcome to walk under JQT’s banner. Please register here to sign up to amble with JQT in the parade:
The Jewish group is also welcome to volunteer at JQT’s booth. Please register here to sign up as a volunteer at JQT’s booth:
Thank you in advance for supporting your local Jewish queer and gender non-conforming non-profit!
All donations can be made here: or via etransfer to donate@
WHO ARE WE?
JQT is a volunteer-run Jewish queer and transgender non-profit and an official Vancouver Pride Society Society Partner.
Our mission is to ‘queer’ Jewish spaces and ‘Jew-ify’ queer spaces. Our work takes place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh.
Vancouver Pride Parade
To: BC Locals
Re: Vancouver Pride Parade
Greetings:
We are excited to invite you to join Unifor LGBTQ members and allies at this years Vancouver Pride Parade Sunday, July 31st.
As with previous years, Unifor will have a truck and trailer with a float on it. The parade route will be 3 km’s long so those marchers not able to step this distance can sit on the trailer while others can march alongside. For safety reasons the decision to ride on the trailer will need to be made at the begin of the parade as you will not be able to jump on and off once the parade starts moving.
Unifor’s staging location will be ES-6, section E is on Alberni Road just west of Burrard Road. Marchers should arrive at the staging area by noon (no earlier than a.m. and no later than p.m.) For reference see the attached map of the staging area.
What: Vancouver Pride Parade
When: Sunday, July 31 &#; arrive at Unifor’s staging area by noon
Where: Unifor’s staging location, ES-6 (see attached map)
Please contact Danni Fitzpatrick at [e