Across Canada, Pride month is celebrated in communities across the country. The month of June is a time when the celebration of diversity, the acknowledgement of the struggles the LGBTQ2S+ communities have endured and the progress that has been made in fight for equality occurs. This year, community members from our tri-community of The Pas, Opaskwayak Cree Nation and the RM of Kelsey are also joining in the celebration of Pride month.
Over the past few weeks a group of tri-community members have been meeting to plan a number of activities designed around celebrating Pride month and bringing awareness to the struggles and judgement that still exist around the LGBTQS2+ community. The committee, adopting the name Tri-Community Pride, began when two friends came out together last year and have discovered there is still a lack of support and some stigma and judgement that exists in the community.