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You're a day too late to catch the end of the city one here CH, and months late for the campus one, Pride Week was back in March.

Next time someone says attacks gay marriage, just point out that Jesus had two Dads.

Not only that, one of his dads was also his grandfather!

It was in Saskatoon and Regina this week,or last, I believe

It says that it is always held here in June.?

London isn't until July. My UU fellowship marches in the parade and has a booth at the festival.

Mendalla

It's the last weekend in August for Ottawa. They have it on different days in different cities during the summer to promote gay tourism. 

He was also "His Own Granpa"

I dont really get pride. I dont see a reason why someone should be proud to be gay (bi% etc.). For that matter, i dont see a reason why someone should be proid to be straight either. Its not like we accomplished or achieved something by having a particular orientation, we were just born the way we are. It seems to me that the pride festival is just another excuse for a loud party.

And loud parties are ... GREAT CELEBRATIONS of friends and community!  Hide your light under a bushel ... NO!   Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. 

Pride and Shame are opposites. LGBT people (as well as others) were and are taught to feel shame.  Pride becomes the antedote to shame, and the harm shame inflicts.

Really?

http://www.wondercafe.ca/discussion/church-life/straight-pride

Avatar from Rainbow Camp last year.

Thanks chemgal, it was good to read through that thread again.

interesting to look back on old threads isnt it. I think we can all be thankful for who we are, but i stick with what i have most recently said - that i dont see a reason to be proud of it.

the shaming of anyone for who they are is clearly wrong.

Dcn Jae - slow learner????  You and I need to meet.  I am in Toronto next week for the Rainbow Camp fundraiser at the Gladstone Hotel....Tuesday June 25th....

Even the ad for the fundaiser speaks volumes as to why we have Pride...

For the girl who really wanted to wear a tux,
For the quarterback who wanted to slow dance with the tight end,
For all the kids who hid out behind the punch bowl... or skipped prom altogether because established categories couldn't handle our vibrant range of gender expression.

103.9 Proud FM wants to Turn Back Time!!

Proud FM is Late to the Prom! We're turning back time to give you the queer prom you always dreamed of!

Join Proud FM kick off the Pride festivities on Tuesday June 25th in the ballroom of the Gladstone Hotel for a prom to remember. Enjoy music, dancing and a Slow Jam DJ Battle between DJ Scrumptious Booty and Proud FM's own DJ Bingo Bob! Lighting and decoration provided by S4 Sound Sensations. Door Proceeds support Rainbow Camp, a registered charity summer camp for LGBTQ youth.

If you ever wished for the chance to go to prom with the date you really wanted...now is your chance!
Brought to you by the station that knows it's better late than never.

CH, I thought it was a good thread, and clearly it stuck enough with me to remember it!

Jae, I can understand changing your opinion.  I'm surprised that you can't see a reason why someone would be proud about their sexuality when you yourself had pride about it 2 years ago.

As for pride week, they aren't all about just having a party.

From Pride Week at U of A:

These findings and others demonstrate how we achieved our Pride Week goals of Increased Visibility, Awareness, and Celebration!

Dr. Janice Ristock Keynote Lecture (ASL)
What's to be done: A dialogue on how communities can better respond to relationship violence in LGBTTQ lives

REACH Edmonton: Community Conversationson LGBTQ Campus Safety
 

Travelling Tickle Trunk Presentation
 

Safe Spaces Orientation

There were also celebratory and partying events, but it was also a time for education.

pride just seems to me to be an odd attitude to have about it. I can understand thankfulness, appreciation, acceptance... But not pride as, as i said, people didntactually do anything to have the orientation which they do.

thanks for the invite jobam but i would never attend an event like that. First, i am not a part of the right community. Second, i dislike large parties.

i never went to my own prom. I wanted to go but i was to shy to ask any of the girls to be my date and none of them seemed interested in me anyway. I spent the night instead watching Tv at home and feeling lousy about myself.

Pride =anti-shaming

Yeah, I think the idea is that after centuries of being made to be ashamed/guilty about their sexuality, it's not enough to simply be thankful or accepting of their nature. LGBTQ2S folks need to counterbalance all that shame with a sense of pride and celebration of what they are. Pride is the perfect term to use to my mind.

Mendalla

Perhaps it is semantics? I say to all - love yourself, love others, and celebrate who you were born as.

That is the essence of the meaning of  Pride as used by the LGBT community. 

They raised the Pride Flag at the Legislature today.

CH, that reminded me of this, I forgot to share it earlier:

EDMONTON - In what is being called a first in Canada, a rainbow-coloured Pride flag is to be raised at an Alberta military base Friday in a ceremony to be attended by senior officers and civilian members of the GLBT community.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/06/cfb-edmonton-pride-flag_n_339835...