​Mission
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Barrie Pride exists to promote equity and inclusion for all 2SLGBTQIA+ in our community by creating safe and fun experiences, while educating our allies and advocating justice for 2SLGBTQIA+.
Vision
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Our Vision is equity and acceptance as who we are.
Barrie Pride will achieve this vision through 2SLGBTQIA+ education and advocacy events, building community partnerships and collaborating in charitable efforts that support us all.
Values
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1. Equity – the state of being fair and impartial, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.
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2. Justice – a concern for justice, peace, and genuine respect for people.
3. Integrity – the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
4. Progress – the advance or development toward a better, more complete, or more modern condition.
5. Empathy – the ability to understand and sympathize with the feelings of others; fellowship and togetherness.
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our history
September:
â—‰ Barrie Pride forms and officially launches on September 1st, 2013
2013
November:
â—‰ Transgender Day of Remembrance flag raising at City Hall. Barrie becomes the first City Hall in the province to raise the Transgender flag on TDoR.
2014
February:
â—‰ Raised the Rainbow Flag at City Hall in support of 2SLGBTQIA+ athletes at the Sochi Olympic Games
June:
Pride Week in Barrie - “Warm up to World Pride"
★ Seven brand new 2SLGBTQIA+ events
★ First Pride Parade in Barrie’s history
★ 500+ marchers
April:
â—‰ First anti-bullying Day of Pink in Barrie
â—‰ First Pride Prom in Barrie
October:
â—‰ First open 2SLGBTQIA+ themed Halloween club night in Barrie
2015
May:
â—‰ Barrie Pride gives back at the “Hike for Hospice” with a team of 2SLGBTQIA+ and Allies, raising money for Hospice Simcoe
August:
â—‰ First time an 2SLGBTQIA+ organization enters a booth at Kempenfest
June:
Second annual Pride Week
★ First 2SLGBTQIA+ festival in Barrie
★ 1,000+ marchers
November:
â—‰ First time an 2SLGBTQIA+ organization enters a float in Barrie’s Santa Claus Parade
2016
June:
Third annual Barrie Pride Week
★ 1,500+ marchers
★ 4,000+ festival guests
December:
â—‰ First all-2SLGBTQIA+ headliner comedy night in Barrie
July:
â—‰ Barrie Pride visits Orlando, Florida, with banner of support for The Pulse
2017
June:
Fourth annual Barrie Pride Week
★ 2,000+ marchers and 6,000+ festival guests
★ First Drag Queen Storybook reading in Canada
August:
â—‰ First series of 2SLGBTQIA+ themed pop-up events in Barrie
September:
â—‰ First weekly 2SLGBTQIA+ social night in Barrie begins
â—‰ First Pride themed Delta Bingo event
November:
â—‰ First 2SLGBTQIA+ themed green social in Barrie
â—‰ Barrie Pride board members host the Barrie Arts Awards
â—‰ Barrie Pride witnesses the Government of Canada’s 2SLGBTQIA+ Apology in person
2018
January:
â—‰ Barrie Pride launches the “Because It Matters” campaign.
April:
â—‰ Barrie Pride becomes the first pride in North America to adopt and endorse U=U
â—‰ Barrie Pride becomes the first Pride to name U=U as Parade Grand Marshal
June:
First 3-day LGBTQ2I+ Festival in Barrie and Simcoe County
★ First Transgender Pride March in Barrie
★ 10,000 people in attendance
2019
January-June:
â—‰ 2019 Reconstruction to serve you better
May:
â—‰ Barrie Pride assists Dawna Brown, a transgender woman, in being moved from a male prison to a female facility
â—‰ Barrie Pride attends International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia march
â—‰ Inaugural Partners In Pride (PiP) meeting at The Ridge Resort and Campground
â—‰ “Drag Me To Dinner” Drag Show Event with PiP member, Borden Pride Network
July:
â—‰ Barrie Pride supports a wrongly-terminated local Transgender person at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
â—‰ The City of Barrie opens a Rainbow Crosswalk at Barrie’s lakeshore
August:
â—‰ Barrie Pride becomes the first parade to cross over the downtown Rainbow Crosswalk
â—‰ Barrie Pride honours 4 Grand Marshals reflecting our values: Equality, Integrity, Justice and Progress
October:
â—‰ First Intersex Awareness Day flag raising at a City Hall in Ontario, followed closely by London Pride.
November:
â—‰ Barrie Pride places a wreath in honour of our fallen 2SLGBTQIA+ service members at Remembrance Day
December:
â—‰ Barrie Pride launches Pride Positive Places, an anti-discrimination, inclusivity oath program
2020
January:
â—‰ Barrie Pride honours International Holocaust Remembrance Day with Am Shalom Congregation
June:
â—‰ During COVID, Remote Rainbow Pride Live Stream on Twitch with over 1,000 hours of content streamed
August:
â—‰ Pride Paddle event with Innisfil Pride at Centennial Beach in Barrie
September:
â—‰ Barrie Pride joins the Barrie Police Service Community Advisory Committee
â—‰ Bi Visibility Day flag raising at City Hall
â—‰ Barrie Police Service takes the Pride Positive Places oath of inclusion
October:
â—‰ International Lesbian Day flag raising at City Hall
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Summer:
â—‰ Marley Yott Transgender Wellness Fund opens
â—‰ Pride in the Park with Rogers TV
â—‰ Open Air Dunlop Days
2021
2022
Spring:
â—‰ 2022 Rebrand
â—‰ Rainbow Treats for Change
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â—‰ Barrie Pride Parade and Festival 2022!
Summer:
2023
Spring:
â—‰ International Holocaust Remembrance Day
â—‰ Rainbow Treats for Change
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â—‰ Barrie Pride Parade and Festival 2023 - Tenth Anniversary
Summer: