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Our Latest Proud Out Loud Website:
The pride season has already begun!
This week we celebrate some of the
organizations around North America that are celebrating pride in June:
Santa
Cruz, California: Jun 1,
www.santacruzpride.org
Washington, DC: Jun 6-15,
www.capitalpride.org
Los Angeles, California: Jun 6-8,
www.lapride.org
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Jun 6-8,
www.pridefest.com
Hartford, Connecticut: Jun 7,
www.connecticutpride.com
Buffalo, New York: Jun 7-8,
www.pride-buffalo.org
Calgary, AB: Jun 7-8,
www.pridecalgary.ca
Hamilton, ON: Jun 7-15,
www.hamiltonpride.com
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Jun 8,
www.phillypride.org
Edmonton, AB: Jun 13-22,
www.prideedmonton.org
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Jun 13-14,
www.abqpride.com
Austin,
Texas: Jun 14,
www.austinprideparade.org
Portland, Oregon: Jun 14-15,
www.pridenw.org
San Jose, California: Jun 14-15,
www.sjgaypride.com
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Jun 16-22,
www.glccpgh.org
Flagstaff, Arizona: Jun 20-22,
www.flagstaffpride.org
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Jun 20-29,
www.tcpride.com
Toronto, ON: Jun 20-Jun 29,
www.pridetoronto.com
Anchorage, Alaska: Jun 20-29,
www.anchoragepride.com
Rhode Island: Jun 21,
www.prideri.com
Cleveland, Ohio: Jun 21,
www.clevelandpride.org
Nanaimo, BC: Jun 21-28,
www.nanaimopride.org
Okanagan, BC: Jun 21-Jul 1,
www.gayokanagan.com/pride2008.html
Seattle, Washington: Jun 22-29,
www.seattlepride.org
New York: Jun 22-29,
www.nycpride.org
Saint Louis, Missouri: Jun 28-29,
www.pridestl.org
Houston, Texas: Jun 28,
www.pridehouston.org
Chicago, Illinois: Jun 29,
www.chicagopridecalendar.org
San Francisco, California: Jun 29,
www.sfpride.org
Victoria, BC: Jun 29-Jul 6,
www.victoriapridesociety.org
Prince George, BC: Jun 30-Jul 6,
www.pgpride.com
In the coming weeks we will celebrate more cities
around the world that will be celebrating Pride in 2008.
Note: we recommend checking with the organizers prior to
attending any Pride event as we cannot be responsible for any changes in
date, venues, etc. We are in no way associated with any of the
Pride organizers listed. |
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Previous award winners in 2008:
The pride season has already begun!
This year
Phoenix, Arizona was one of the first cities to celebrate who
we are, where we have been and where we are headed as a community.
This week we celebrate some of the organizations around the world that
are celebrating pride in April & May:
Phoenix Pride (Phoenix,
Arizona, USA), 12 & 13 April
Las Vegas Pride (Las
Vega, NV, USA) - 2-4 May
New Hope Celebrates
(New Hope, PA, USA) - 16-18 May
Belgian
Lesbian and Gay Pride, (Brussels, Belgium)
- 17 May
Long Beach Pride (Long
Beach, CA, USA) - 17 & 18 May
Paris Pride (Paris, France)
- 17 May - 5 June
Winnipeg Pride (Winnipeg, MB, Canada) - 30 May - 8 June
Kansas City Gay Pride
(Kansas City, MO, USA) - 30 May - 1 June
Verein Gay Pride (Zurich
Switzerland), 30 May - 8 June
Central Alabama Pride
(Birmingham, AB, USA), 30 May - 8 June
Tulsa Pride (Tulsa, OK, USA) 31
May, 14 June
Moscow Pride Festival (Moscow, Russia)
- 31 May
Covering the South Okanagan Valley area
of British Columbia (including Penticton, Summerland, Okanagan Falls),
the
South Okanagan Gay and Lesbian Association provides information
and organizes events for GLBT residents in and visitors to this area.
One of the closest communities across the
border into Washington State, but did you know that Bellingham has a
thriving gay community, complete with a pride festival each year?
Check out
Gay Bellingham
courtesy of resident Robert Ashworth.
Few people know that there are actually
two Vancouver's - one in British Columbia and the other in Washington
State. Just before the Portland border, Vancouver, Washington has
a lively and active queer community and
GayVancouverwa.org is the place to find out all about it!
A little further afield this week, we end
up at the
University of Calgary - GLASS - their student association for queer
students and their allies. Not only does it provide information
and support for the queer population at the U of C but also provides
details on the University's "Ally" program - something we think that
should be replicated at schools across the country.
For some, growing up gay in the Fraser
Valley "bible belt" just outside of Vancouver can be challenging to say
the least. Imagine how happy we were to find out about the
existence of
The Pride Network at the University College of the Fraser Valley
helping staff, staff and faculty that are identify as LGBT.
A little further afield, this week we
celebrate the work of the University of Victoria Pride Collective or
UVic Pride providing services, advocacy and events for the
queer community at British Columbia's third largest university.
As any of our faithful visitors know we
love themes and we're proud to show off some of the great work that our
local Universities and Colleges are doing for the queer quality of life
on campus. This week we feature
SFU Out On Campus offering support and events for the GLBT
community at Simon Fraser University.
The
Capilano College Queer Students Collective provides support for
Capilano College students who are queer, trans or allied with queer and
trans causes and goals. Providing a queer resource centre on
campus the Collective organizes such things as events and awareness
campaigns for the entire student body.
Sometimes I wonder what life would have
been like for us older folks if we had support like they do now at
universities, colleges and even high schools for queer youth. This
week we celebrate along with the University of British Columbia as they
celebrate
Out Week 2008 at UBC!
Vancouver is home to many world-class
halls of higher learning. One of those is the British Columbia
Institute of Technology which has an international reputation for
producing some of the best technical people in the world.
Technically Queer BCIT helps to connect the BCIT queer
community. Check them out!
For an island with only 10,000
inhabitants we can't help but admire
GLOSSI
- Gays & Lesbians of Salt Spring Island Society for being out
there, queer and ensuring the GLBT community of this small island are
well looked after!
Imagine how thrilled we were to receive a
nomination from the place of our ancestral roots!
Gay
Cornwall is a first class source of information for GLTB people
in and for those planning to visit the Cornwall area of United Kingdom.
Canada's largest city has a number of
websites for visitors or residents but one of the best guides to Toronto
we've found so far is
Gay Guide Toronto. Events, business listings, links are
combined with some interesting columns as well.
We were a bit surprised at how difficult
it was to find information on gay Montreal but after some searching we
did find
queermonteal.INFO. A good source for info on bars,
restaurants, hotels, etc this site is worth a visit for your next trip.
