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The first Pride celebration in Edmonton was a small picnic and campfire held in 1980 at Camp Harris and was attended by about 75 participants. [3] [4] In 1981, following the police raid at the Pisces Spa, [5] a small group of queer Edmontonians participated in the Klondike Days Sourdough Raft Race with a raft by the name of S.S. Pisces.
By 1973, Pride events had expanded to several Canadian cities, including Montréal, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Winnipeg. [ 2 ] Historically, Pride celebrations were only held in major city centres but now occur in small rural communities in every corner of Canada.
After Calgary hosted a Western Cup LGBT curling bonspiel in 2003, leagues from across the country began discussing the formation of a Canadian Gay Curling League; the result of those discussions was the first Canadian Gay Curling Championships, which were hosted by Curling With Pride in Edmonton in 2006. [7] [18] By the time Edmonton hosted the ...
Edmonton Pride [19] June: LGBTQ+ and Gay pride: Edmonton Rock Music Festival [20] August: Rock music: Edmonton Rocky Mountain Wine & Food Festival [21] October: Wine, beer, spirits, food Edmonton Short Film Festival [22] 3rd week of October: Independent film Found Festival [23] June: Edmonton's only multidisciplinary found space arts festival.
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2021: Around this time, Stonewall Columbus began referring to the parade as a march as a nod to history. 2022: Columbus Pride comes back with record attendance again, with more than 17,000 ...
In addition to the events noted above, festivals are currently held in Cranbrook, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Prince George, Victoria and Whistler in British Columbia; Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Jasper, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat and Red Deer in Alberta; Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, Regina (Queen City Pride), and Saskatoon ...
According to a search of Newspapers.com, an online archive of more than 26,000 newspapers, the first mention of “Pride Month” was in a June 5, 1972, issue of Pennsylvania’s Delaware County ...