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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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: