Parades are the heart of any festival and the Halifax Pride Parade is no exception. Halifax’s 26th annual parade will be held Saturday July 27, beginning at 1:30pm on Lower Water Street. The parade route continues down Barrington Street to Spring Garden Road and ends at the Garrison Grounds at 3pm. This year’s festival theme […]
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timeOUT for Pride
Pride may be all about celebrations, but it’s also about conversations. Since 2005, the timeOUT Lectures have been held at the Spring Garden Road Library on all sorts of topics, from queer history to HIV, trans rights to sex. Put on by Halifax Pride and the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, this year’s crop of […]
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Found in trans*lation
Kimberly Macdonald is an attractive young woman with a good job. Like most women in her early twenties, she’s flirtatious, funny and happens to do a killer Amy Winehouse impression. And like most people in their early twenties, Macdonald was expecting to live part of her life in debt. But her debt wouldn’t be due […]
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Gay play
The best thing about sex toys is that everyone can use them: gay, straight, transgender. Whatever your preference or orientation, there’s a toy for it. Everybody has nipples, right? Luckily, Venus Envy stocks a variety of products that can be tailored to almost any desire and kink. The sales staff is informed and eager to […]
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Eyes on the Pride
It’s that’s time of year again: Partee-time! See what’s going on and what’s being talked about at this year’s Pride Festival, by clicking here.
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Wrapping good time
You might not want to wear white to the WetSpot party, this year’s Pride wrap-up event (July 28, 10pm-2am, Garrison Grounds, $16 advance tickets, $20 at the gate). “Rumour has it there’s going to be a lot of Super Soakers around,” hints Pride Week festival chair Krista Snow mysteriously. Snow hopes to bust some misconceptions […]
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Cyndi Lauper gives a damn
On July 27, as proud and powerful people pump up the jams at Halifax Pride’s OutDancing event at the Garrison Grounds, a proud and powerful woman will be taking to the Casino Nova Scotia stage, down the street, to celebrate Halifax’s true colours. Cyndi Lauper is coming to town. Lauper is a very big deal. […]
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Be the change
Early on the morning of April 17, 2012, Raymond Taavel and a friend were leaving Menz Bar on Gottingen Street when Taavel’s friend was suddenly attacked and thrown against the building. Raymond intervened, at which point he was thrown to the sidewalk and beaten to death. He was 49. That evening, a thousand people congregated […]
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Prideful performances
Young Kaii From Providence, Rhode Island, rising hip-hop star Young Kaii is taking steps to change the rap game. As a woman in a male-dominated industry, Young Kaii says she has to work harder but doesn’t make compromises. Staying independent, Young Kaii creates art freely for herself and those who enjoy it. Inspired by east […]
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25 years of Pride
On Saturday, tens of thousands of folks will enjoy the 25th Halifax Pride Parade. The parade and the week of events around it are listed in tourist guides. It will be broadcast live on TV. Banks and governments and businesses will have floats. I won’t be there. Back in 1987, the date thought of as […]
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Everyone loves a parade
For the tens of thousands of people who will congregate in the streets of Halifax this upcoming weekend, Pride will seem like a colourful celebration of sexual diversity. But in 1988, there weren’t throngs of people lining the streets to watch and cheer. It was a political march, where close to 100 people—some hiding their identities by […]