The Halifax Pride Society has been announced as the hosts of Canada Pride for 2027. Every two or four years, a pride organization from across the country is chosen to host Canada Pride, awarded by Fierté Canada Pride. The announcement came during the recent Canada Pride event in Vancouver, which took place from Aug. […]
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From China, with Pride
Victor Jin is lying awake when he’s startled by a noise. He bolts up from his mattress on the floor. “The back door is made of glass; it would be easy to break,” he thinks, and rushes downstairs to check for an intruder. No burglar is smashing through the door. Victor, 30, is alone. It’s […]
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These Pride bagels will brighten up your day and support 2SLGBTQ+ charities
From now until the end of August, you can enjoy some very insta-worthy bagels while supporting a good cause, thanks to the Rainbow Bagel Campaign. In a collaboration between Dreadlocks & Kindness and Stone Hearth Bakery, for every six-pack of Pride-themed bagels sold, 25 percent of the cost will go to the Youth Project and […]
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Dolly Parton’s house
It all started when Richie Wilcox asked his musician pals to cover some Rufus Wainwright tunes at The Music Room on an empty Monday night during Pride. What once felt like a way to fill time during the festival quickly took root as an important tradition, with Heist’s annual Pride tribute—then called the Angels & […]
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Halifax Pride’s low-sensory zone brings all the fun but less of the noise
Making space for marginalized groups is what Pride has always been about. And this year, it’s continuing to do the extra work to push that space even further. The Pride parade’s low-sensory viewing area returns for its second year at the festival. The space gives an elevated view of the parade and ensures reduced noise, […]
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Halifax, meet Hedwig
Just in time for Pride, Halifax audiences will have a chance to wig out and enjoy what Rolling Stone has dubbed “the best rock musical ever.” The Tony Award-winning Hedwig and the Angry Inch, written by John Cameron Mitchell with music and lyrics by Stephen Trask, follows the story of Hedwig Robinson, a genderqueer singer […]
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Before the Parade to chronicle early LGBTQ+ activism in Halifax
An often overlooked chapter of Halifax’s history will be published next fall. Journalist Rebecca Rose is documenting the “narrative history of the foundations of Halifax’s queer community” in Before the Parade: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Halifax from Nimbus Publishing. The book will focus on the city’s first generation of out lesbian, gay and bisexual elders, […]
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Drag princess
Lucas Campbell stands behind the tall amphitheatre entranceway doors. The glances from his big, blue eyes suggest high levels of nervousness and excitement. The crowd is cheering. It’s his moment. He’ll never look back. He hears his song playing and steps onto the stage as Patricia. It’s only the second youth drag show in Nova […]
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Coming Out Ministries preys on LGBTQ+ youth through guilt and shame
I’m a preacher’s kid and I’m trans. I’m not a believer and I never was but I spent my childhood conscripted into ritual practices, performing a personhood that wasn’t mine, essentially because the family enterprise demanded it. I was expected to be what I was expected to be, not what I am. That I would […]
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Christ preached love, not intolerance
We are all of us shipmates on the surface of a vessel called Earth. All religions of the world expect acceptance, respect and the right to worship and conduct themselves within the laws and doctrines of their chosen beliefs; without prejudice or interference. Should not these concepts apply to sexuality as well? Certain clerics are […]
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Former Sandy Lake Academy student says school preached gay conversion
The author of an online petition against Coming Out Ministries visiting Nova Scotia says the anti-LGBTQ+ group has previously preached gay conversion at one of the Halifax’s private Christian schools. Matt DeMerchant, a former student at Salt Lake Academy in Bedford, is alleging Coming Out Ministries gave several talks at the K-12 school in the […]
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Sandy Lake Academy sidesteps questions about conversion therapy
One of Halifax’s private Christian schools doesn’t have much of an answer on whether it approves of conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youth. Sandy Lake Academy in Bedford is owned and operated by the Maritime Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church—the same church that’s come under fire for bringing in two American speakers who say […]
