Pride Week

A performer pumps up the crowd in downtown Nelson on Sunday during the Kootenay Pride parade. Photo: Tyler Harper

Kootenay Pride Parade (finally!) returns to Nelson

The parade packed Baker Street on its return from the pandemic hiatus

 

Charlotte Mortimer, from left, vice president Williams Lake Pride Society (WLPS), Billie Sheridan, secretary for WLPS, Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars, Mayor Walt Cobb and Sonny Dyck, WLPS president, all stand under the newly raised Pride flag in front of city hall. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

VIDEO: Pride in the Puddle kicks off first official Pride week for Cariboo town

Rainbow Pride flag raised at city hall Aug. 15 marking the beginning of Pride week in Williams Lake

 

Toronto-based graphic designer Dylan Horner is shown in this undated handout photo. Horner says a lot of the marketing campaigns he’s come across during Pride month make him cringe. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Dylan Horner *MANDATORY CREDIT*

Corporate Pride campaigns are back. But advocates want more than ‘rainbow washing’

Public displays of support need to be backed up by action in other 11 months of year, say advocates

 

Smokii Sumac with Alone Time 9 by JJ Levine at the Touchstones Nelson gallery. Photo: Bill Metcalfe

Ktunaxa poet reads at Touchstones Nelson for parade-less Pride week

Smokii Sumac describes himself as two-spirit, transmasculine, and a member of the Ktunaxa Nation

Smokii Sumac with Alone Time 9 by JJ Levine at the Touchstones Nelson gallery. Photo: Bill Metcalfe
Nelson’s Pride Weekend usually culminates with a Baker Street parade. This year an exhibit at Touchstones explores the parade’s history. Photo: Jamie Srigley

Exploring gender, sex, and the history of Pride at Touchstones

The exhibit is on until Oct. 30

Nelson’s Pride Weekend usually culminates with a Baker Street parade. This year an exhibit at Touchstones explores the parade’s history. Photo: Jamie Srigley