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The march is the culmination of a week-long festival, bringing together people identifying as LGBTI and allies for more than 50 fun-loving events. Masa Kateb (she/her), a projects manager at Jumpstart Refugee Talent, was an underground activist within the LGBTQ community in Syria, a cofounder an LGBTQ safehouse in Damascus, and launched the Syrian LGBT Media Monitor virtual space to translate LGBTQ news from English to Arabic.Vancouver will celebrate the LGBTI community with the 40th annual Pride parade on 5 August. DJ O Show (she/her), is a DJ, inspirational speaker, an Afro-Indigenous member of the Squamish Nation, and an elected member of the Squamish Nation Council, who received 2015 Indigenous Business Award and Vancouver Pride’s 2018 Stand Out Award.Ĭlaire Ens (she/they) has worked in the non-profit sector for various organizations including the WISH Drop-In Center Society, Fraser Valley Youth Society, and as president of the Vancouver Dyke March. In the meantime, the Vancouver Pride Society announced that it has three new elected members of its board of directors. How Vancouver Pride 2021 will be held still remains to be determined. Information about upcoming events will be posted at the UBC Pride Online webpage.
Any LGBTQ artists interested in submitting their work will have to do so by today (February 3). Participating artists with a talkback wrapup event on April 17. Photography and multimedia works by queer artists will also be showcased in the Overexposed art exhibit-photography will appear in a decentralized gallery for one month while different multimedia work will be showcased each week at the website and Instagram account. Rather than events being held in a specific time frame, it’s being held all throughout the second term of the 2020-2021 school year.Ī vogueing lesson was already held this past weekend, and there are more events to come. UBC Pride is being celebrated differently for its fourth edition this year. Meanwhile, Jasper Pride is scheduled for April 22 to 25. Peak Pride at Big White Mountain was cancelled in April last year but we’ll have to wait to see if this year’s event will be held. Nonetheless, Pride couldn’t be stopped altogether-the Resort Municipality of Whistler issued a proclamation celebrating Whistler Pride Week and has lit up Fitzimmons Bridge with rainbow colours on January 26. But it will return for its 29th year from January 23 to 30, 2022. Whistler Pride, normally held in January, was not held this year. Some winter Pride festivities have already been cancelled. The community cluster at Big White Mountain and the surge in cases at Whistler have both been linked to young adults who live, work, and socialize together. For those heading out to the ski hills, Henry has said that day trips are less risky than staying overnight or for several days. Bonnie Henry has explained that outdoor winter sport activities are safe but what is of concern is when people gather afterwards indoors. (In 2020, the parade was held online.) Winter Pride festivalsĪt B.C. In Toronto, all events up to March 31 have been cancelled but it remains to be seen how Toronto Pride will be held in June. With so many unpredictable factors involved in the current state of the pandemic-from vaccines to variants-the question of whether Pride celebrations will be held in some physical form or virtually this year remains up in the air.