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2023 calendar

August 

16th - Pride Sociable

31st - International Overdose Awareness Day

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September 

19th - Take Back The Night with Athena's

20th - Pride Sociable: Celebrating Bisexual Awareness Week (16th - 23rd)

21st - Bisexual Flag Raising @ City Hall

23rd - International Celebrate Bisexual Day

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October 

18th - Pride Sociable: Celebrating Ace Week (23rd - 29th)

23rd - Asexual Pride Flag Raising

30th - National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 

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November

8th - Intersex Pride Flag Raising: Intersex Day of Solidarity and Remembrance

11th - Remembrance Day

20th - International Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR)

23rd - Polyamory Pride Flag Raising: National Polyamory Day

29th - Pride Sociable: Festivus!

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December Hibernation

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OPEN MIC NIGHT

HOSTED BY BARRIE PRIDE & C.W. COOPS

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THE THIRD WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

8:00pm - 11:00pm

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Sing! Dance! Play! Speak! We want to see you shine!!

19+ after 9:00pm without chaperone

annual events

January 21st  International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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May 17th  -  Rainbow Treats for Change

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June 3rd  Pride Parade and Festival

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November   Festivus!

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Since 2013 Barrie Pride has been serving, advocating for, and celebrating with the LGBTQ2I+ community. With our tenth anniversary on the horizon, let's take a look back at our history.

September:

â—‰ Barrie Pride forms and officially launches on September 1st, 2013

2013

2013

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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

2014

February:

â—‰ Raised the Rainbow Flag at City Hall in support of 2SLGBTQIA+ athletes at the Sochi Olympic Games

April:

â—‰ First anti-bullying Day of Pink in Barrie

â—‰ First Pride Prom in Barrie

June:

Pride Week in Barrie “Warm up to World Pride"

          ★ Seven brand new 2SLGBTQIA+ events

★ First Pride Parade in Barrie’s history

★ 500+ marchers

October:

â—‰ First open 2SLGBTQIA+ themed Halloween club night in Barrie

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2015

2015

May:

â—‰ Barrie Pride gives back at the “Hike for Hospice” with a team of 2SLGBTQIA+ and Allies, raising money for Hospice Simcoe

June:

Second annual Pride Week

★ First 2SLGBTQIA+ festival in Barrie

★ 1,000+ marchers

August:

â—‰ First time an 2SLGBTQIA+ organization enters a booth at Kempenfest

November:

â—‰ First time an 2SLGBTQIA+ organization enters a float in Barrie’s Santa Claus Parade

2016

2016

June:

Third annual Barrie Pride Week

          ★ 1,500+ marchers

          ★ 4,000+ festival guests

July:

â—‰ Barrie Pride visits Orlando, Florida, with banner of support for The Pulse

December:

â—‰ First all-2SLGBTQIA+ headliner comedy night in Barrie

2017

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

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

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

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

2021

2022

Spring:

â—‰ 2022 Rebrand 

â—‰ Rainbow Treats for Change

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â—‰ Barrie Pride Parade and Festival 2022!

2022

Summer:

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