Queen City Pride | |
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Status | Active |
Genre | Pride festival |
Location(s) | Regina, Saskatchewan |
Years active | 32 |
Inaugurated | 1990 |
Organised by | Regina Pride Inc. |
Website | queencitypride |
Queen City Pride is an LGBT pride festival, held annually in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. [1] The event is held mid-June each year, normally in the week following Saskatoon Pride. [2] The festival is administered by Regina Pride Inc., a non-profit corporation in the province of Saskatchewan.
The event kicks off with a raising of the rainbow flag at the Regina City Hall on the Monday of Pride Week, [3] and concludes with a parade and community fair on the Saturday. [3] An estimated 3-4,000 people attend the event each year. [4] [5]
The event was first held on June 23 1990, though other pride marches and rallies were held in Regina during the 1970s and 1980s. [6] [7] The police chief refused to sign off on the event, so the march went ahead illegally. [7] [8] Somewhere between 50 and 90 people attended the original event, with some covering their faces out of fear of their identities being known. [7] [8] [9] [10]
The 2014 event marked the first time in the city's history that the incumbent mayor, Michael Fougere, presided over the raising of the rainbow flag to kick off the event. [11] Nearly 2,000 people attended the event in 2017. [12] In 2019, the event's 30th anniversary, the theme was "Growing from Many Voices". [9]
The event was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] The event went forward in a limited capacity in 2021, [13] and fully returned in person in 2022, with the theme "Together Again". [5] [14]
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