What is the history of PRIDE? The following is a highlight of the moments in history that shaped PRIDE and it’s significance. You can read about Canada’s PRIDE history and the milestone events here.
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Canada’s Bill C-150 receives royal assent on June 27, 1969, the day before the Stonewall Riots in NYC.
On June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera ignited a movement!
“You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.”- Marsha P. Johnson
Diana Davies/Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
It has been called the We Demand March or Canada’s First Gay Liberation Protest and March. On August 28, 1971, over 100 people marched on Parliament Hill.
The ArQuives Photograph by Jearld Moldenhauer
Pride Week and the concept of Gay Pride emerges into the 1970’s in Toronto.
Image: © Jearld Moldenhauer/jearldmoldenhauer.com
Operation Soap in the 1980’s led to what some call Canada’s Stonewall.
Photo: courtesy of the Arquives #PrideMonth #pridehistory
In the 2000’s, a tipping point changes the conversation and 2SLGBTQIA+ Black, Indigenous and Racialized voices are amplified.
Credit: Nick Lachance, Mark Bogdanovic, Francesca Roh/Xtra
What is the history of the Pride Flag and why are there so many different versions?
Celebrating 2SLGBTQIA+ Black, Indigenous and Racialized communities during PRIDE month and beyond!
Elisha Lim, “Two co-founders of 2-Qtpoc Montréal, Li Wai-Yant and Marshia Celina” (2013) (photo by the author)
The largest Transgender Archives in the world are housed on the traditional territory of the Songhees, Esquimalt and W?SÁNE? people. Preserving the history of trans, non-binary and Two-Spirit activism and research dating back to 1893.
A research partnership among McMaster University, The AIDS Network and Hamilton community researchers who identify as Two-Spirit and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer (2019).