Pride parade montreal
Parade with Pride
Parade with Pride
Parade with Pride
Parade with Pride
Parade with Pride
Parade with Pride
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Don't miss the Pride Parade!
Community organizations, sports and socio-cultural clubs, associations, unions, businesses and political organizations join their voices to celebrate and make visible the realities of the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities in a festive and colorful atmosphere.
Public participation will be allowed and even encouraged at the complete of the quotas. Come march or attend the parade to support the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities!
On August 10, 1 pm, at René-Levesque Blvd.
Pride Parade Theme
Blossom here, now!
Blossom here, now means asserting our right to grow, to fully shine, and to romance freely. We grow together, bound by our stories, our struggles, and our pride.
Blossom here, now means turning a garden of thorns into an untamed field of a thousand colors. It means weeding out the soil of adversity.
Blossom here, now means celebrating our existence and identities in a meadow where every struggle is a budding hope.
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Join thousands of marchers to celebrate the advances of the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities' rights, and to amplify our d
The story of Pride in Montréal
Those marches inspired LGTBQ+ activists around the world to organize Pride marches of their own, including Montréal’s very first Pride march in June , organized by La Brigade Rose, to mark the 10th anniversary of Stonewall. La Brigade Rose organizers drew 52 marchers in Forty years later, in , total attendance at the Fierté Montréal Festival was more than three million.
In the beginning
Pride celebrations were a spotty affair in Montréal until Divers/Cité was co-founded by Puelo Deir and Suzanne Girard in , directly inspired by queer resistance to the violent Montréal police raid on the historic Sex Garage loft party in the early morning hours of July 15, That raid ignited 36 hours of clashes between Montréal’s LGTBQ+ community and the city’s police verb, which at the time harboured a culture of homophobia. Sex Garage is now widely considered to be Montréal’s Stonewall: it brought together anglophones and francophones, and politicized a generation of LGTBQ+&n
Fierté Montréal Festival is the largest LGBTQ+ gathering in the Francophone world. In addition to the city’s welcoming LGBTQ+ bars and hangouts, Montreal is putting on a star-studded show that's focused on community and involvement.
The parade theme, "Blossom here, now!", celebrates the right of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to grow, thrive, and love openly.
Montreal’s first Pride march was held in June to mark the 10th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising of La Brigade Rose organizers in Montreal drew 52 marchers in Forty years later, in , total attendance at Montreal Pride topped 3 million.
This summer’s festival features live in-person performances, concerts and activities on the Esplanade of the Olympic Park—Montreal Pride’s main site—as skillfully as in the LGBTQ+ Village and downtown.
What time does the Pride parade start in Montreal?
The Pride parade is on Sunday, August 10 at 1 p.m.
When is the Fierté Montréal Festival?
This 19th edition of Fierté runs from July