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A Brief Lgbtq2story Your Guide to Pride Summer Issue 2019 all that fun stuff OUT+ pride got me like Your Guide to Pride yxebuilding out: Let's grow together A Brief LGBTQ2story Directors Notes Rachel Loewen Walker Executive Director homosexuality as a myth [email protected] because people were still criminalized for homosexual Amanda Guthrie acts after 1969, and Education & Operations Manager because today people are [email protected] still excommunicated from their families, bullied in schools and Krystal Nieckar workplaces, and excluded from Support Services & Housing Manager needed programs and services. [email protected] All of these things remind us Sean Ryan History is never a straight line Community Engagement Officer - it’s often pretty queer ;) and that history is complex and social change is not linear. So, [email protected] especially in Western cultures, we like our pasts to be as we move into the celebrations of Saskatoon's Briana Hedlin neat. We like to tell clean tales Office Coordinator about progress, stories about Pride festival, I invite you all to tell those complicated stories – [email protected] overcoming adversity, and to believe that we have overcome stories of our strengths alongside our failures. Stories Jessica Fisher the past. But that’s never Gender Based Violence Educator actually how it works. Time about how we have been hurt alongside stories about how we [email protected] rewinds and repeats, we make strides and then we fall back. will continue to rise. Jack Saddleback Cultural & Projects Coordinator Recently we celebrated the fact We still need the not yets, the getting theres, the futures yet [email protected] that it has been 50 years since the partial decriminalization of to come for these propel us toward one day living in a future Wendy Li homosexuality. OUTSaskatoon fYrefly Program Coordinator was proud to raise a flag in of acceptance, intersectionality, and inclusion. A future where we [email protected] celebration, just as I am proud that that it is not criminal act to are - just as we are now - a vibrant, strong, boisterous, and Tiff Strachan love who I want to love and Pride Home Coordinator privileged to have grown up in a passionate community. [email protected] country where that is the case. I can’t wait to see all of you at out at Pride. Benjamin Lindsay At the same time, it was an Youth & Sexual Health Coordinator opportunity for us to thicken our [email protected] timelines so that we also hold our failures alongside our Connor Rodriguez strengths. Failures such as the Community Support Advocate fact that many describe the [email protected] decriminalization of Rachel Loewen Walker Executive Director Iris Akbar Counsellor [email protected] Board of Directors Connor Rodriguez Wendy Li Martha Smith-Norris (Chair) Troy Boyenko Dave Culleton (Vice Chair) Jordan Sherbino Connor came to Saskatoon from Orlando, Wendy was a substitute teacher in Sean Homenick (Treasurer) Natalya Mason Flordia when he met his wife. He has Saskatoon, as well as a camp leader with been volunteering with OUTSaskatoon for a youth peace education camp and Melody Wood (Secretary) Jennifer Boyle the past two years in the drop-in and both experiences prepared her perfectly Mark Meyers when the Community Support Advocate to be the new fYrefly Program position came up at the same time Coordinator. Wendy will be helping to as his permanent residency, he jumped coordinate Camp fYrefly in Saskatoon this at the chance to apply. The rest is summer and will be providing year- history and Connor is excited to help with round education to students and OUTSaskatoon's new Gender-Based teachers across the province. She is Violence initiative, as well as providing excited to be a part of the fYrefly family! healthcare navigation and advocacy. What's Happening... June 4: Eat & Learn- PrEPing For Pride June 6: Eat & Learn- Shed the Shame June 7: Youth Pride Prom June 11/14: Eat & Learn- Queer 101 June 14: Youth Talent Showcase June 15-23: Saskatoon Pride Festival June 15: Revitalizing the Circle: Saskatchewan’s first Two Spirit Powwow June 17: Pride Flag Raising June 18: Zine Workshop June 19: Welcome to the GAYbourhood June 20: High 'T': A Trans Social June 22: Saskatoon Pride Parade June 25: OUTSaskatoon's AGM Aug 8-12: OUT on the Land Kenda Mullock Featured Volunteer Thank you Kenda for sharing your story with us! We are so grateful to have As a busy University student, putting aside my such fantastic volunteers like you who are always working to advocate for the studying and school obligations isn’t easy. wellbeing of others. Keep up the However, dedicating my time to OUTSaskatoon amazing work Ken! is one of my top priorities each week! Moving to Saskatoon alone a couple years ago was If you would like to volunteer at OUTSaskatoon please scary- especially when I wasn’t out and was visit: outsaskatoon.ca/volunteer questioning my identity. The services at OUT or alternatively, email gave me the comfort, community, and [email protected] resources to express myself and embrace my identity. Being able to help provide the same care and services to others is the most rewarding feeling ever. Being a volunteer has introduced me to the amazing members of my community and helped me learn from the diversity that surrounds us. Whether I’m cooking, washing dishes, visiting with folks, cleaning up, or giving high-fives, volunteering at OUT is always exciting, fun, and there is never a dull moment. I hope I can make a difference the same way OUT and the members of my community have helped me. Pride Talent Showcase All Ages Talent Show Troupe du Jour 10$ FRI. JUNE 14 | 5-8PM pride got me like your guide to pride 1st Annual Pride Golf Classic Live in Colour Fashion Show Sat Jun 1st 3 - 10pm Fri Jun 14th 7pm - 12am 1 Moon Lake Golf Course, 905 Valley Rd 5 Hilton Garden Inn, 90 22 St E The Saskatoon Pride Festival and TD are This year features amazing local designers proud to present the annual Pride Golf Laurie Brown,Melissa Squire, Reginald Tournament, set to tee-off on Saturday June Sankey, and Solar Opposites and as well as 1! We anticipate to sell out this tournament fabulous local artists showcasing their work. bringing 80 golfers to Moon Lake Golf and Dress to impress and come out to enjoy a Country Club for a shotgun tournament glamorous evening of fashion, music and live followed by dinner and prizes. entertainment including Drag Performances, dance performances by def SOL Productions. Pride Prom Fri Jun 7th 8pm - 12am Revitalizing the Circle: Saskatchewan's All Ages Two Spirit Powwow 2 St George’s Senior Centre, 1235 20th St W Sat Jun 15th 12 - 4pm 6 Beardy's & Okemasis' Cree Nation OUTSaskatoon is excited to announce our annual LGBTQ2S youth Pride Prom! The prom OUTSaskatoon and the Two Spirit community will be bigger and brighter than ever beofre, are proud to bring forward a first for Canada, and has a spooky goth them! as we will be hosting the first public Two Spirit powwow to ever be held on First Ryde at Divas Nations Reserve Lands in our country. The Mon Jun 10th intent of the powwow is to create a safe 3 Divas Nightclub, 220 3 Ave S space for all people, especially Two Spirit peoples, to take part in cultural celebrations Ryde YXE Cycle Studio and Divas Nightclub in gender-affirming spaces. come together to turn the space into an intense, high energy spin class with lights Reading with Royalty and heavy beats. All proceeds donated back Sat Jun 15th to SASKATOON PRIDE. Classes fill up quick Cliff Wright Branch 3–3:45pm so don’t wait, Download the Ryde YXE app to 7 Frances Morrison Central Library 4–4:45pm REGISTER! Come join us for a family adventure! Talent Showcase Celebrate inclusion and diversity with our Thur Jun 14th 5 - 8pm family-friendly storytime program, led by 4 All ages local drag queen and king performers. Troupe de Jour, 914 20th St W Trailblazer Shake LGBTQ2S youth and their allies are coming Sat Jun 15th 7:00pm - 11:30pm together to share their talents with you at St. George’s Anglican Church Hall, this revolution themed talent showcase! 8 624 Avenue I S Shake out the cobwebs and shimmy with Pride—it’s time for another community dance celebrating those who blazed the trail that brought us to where we are today. The music’s geared for the older set but the fun is for everyone. Family Pride BBQ Climbing with Pride (All Ages) Sun Jun 16th 2pm - 5pm Wed Jun 19th 6 - 8pm Meewasin Park North, 15 Clip and Climb, 127 McLeod Ave 9 2703 Spadina Crescent E A great family experience! Inclusion and Spend a relaxed afternoon visiting/playing in community coming together. This event is a shady picnic area with large lawn for BBQ free and will include pizza. You MUST and games. For LGBTQ2S parents and their preregister for this event. children, families with gender creative children, and allies. Bring lawn chairs and Drag Bingo blankets. Food will be provided. Wed Jun 19th 7pm - 12am Louis, Lower Level 93 Campus Dr Pride at the Movies Sun Jun 16th 6:30 - 10pm 16 O69!! What better way to celebrate pride 10 Roxy Theatre, 320 20th St W than with Drag Bingo. Come on down to the Louis Pub on Campus (downstairs) for fun, It’s the summer of 1984 and the National food, bingo, and of course some Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting inappropriate banter and jokes from our local a London-based group of gay and lesbian queens.
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