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Worldpride Candidate City 2023 Ville candidate WORLDPRIDE Candidate City 2023 Partager la Fierté Share the Pride Licensed by PRESENTATION SUMMARY | AUGUST 10 TO 20, 2023 We would like to acknowledge that the land we will gather on for WorldPride 2023 is the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk). The island called “Montréal” is known as Tio’tià:ke in the language of the Kanien’kehá:ka, and it is a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations, including the Algonquin people. Mohawk traditional performance during the opening ceremony of Montréal Pride Festival, August 9, 2019. Photo: Fierté Montréal - Alison Slattery 2 WorldPride Montréal 2023 Bid A WORLD RENDEZ-VOUS Welcome to Montréal LIKE NO OTHER! Wa’tkwanonhwerá:ton. Bienvenue. Welcome. Share the Pride… and share the diversity. WorldPride 2023 is a unique opportunity to carry these messages in a spirit of celebration, of love and of respect. Montréal was built on an extraordinary diversity. A sexual and gender diversity, a diversity of histories, of cultures, of creeds and of origins. A diversity that Montréal has always considered and developed as part of its richness. Now a reality that Montrealers share more than ever through the acceptance of others and of their differences. For us, WorldPride Montréal 2023 represents the opportunity to share this diversity. By interacting together in a spirit of openness and generosity, we are building the bridges of tomorrow. For 2023, it is our wish to: / Celebrate our history, our advances and our achievements / Inspire future generations to share in a future based on diversity, love and dialogue / Promote our message of hope: that our richness comes with our diversity We are confident that these values would shine brightly in Montréal, and we look forward to the privilege of hosting WorldPride in 2023! The Montréal Bid Committee WorldPride Montréal 2023 Bid 3 4 Photo: Merry Montréal Photo: Tourisme Montréal Photo: Alison Slattery Photo: Fierté Montréal - Carl Éthier Photo: Régie des installations olympiques Photo: Fitz & Follwell Co. Photo: Tourisme Montréal - Marie Deschene Photo: Eva Blue MONTRÉAL: North AMERICA'S Welcome to Montréal Most VIBrant “AmeroPean” CITY! A gateway city to North America, Montréal Expect a warm welcome Montréal’s Village has been an LGBTQ+ cultural hub for decades. The metropolis is the beating heart of Québec, whose liberal and open-minded citizens Open and inclusive, Montréal and its friendly With Sainte-Catherine continue to champion the civil rights and inhabitants are warm and welcoming. International, Street as its main artery, culture of the LGBTQ+ communities, positioning cosmopolitan and open to the world, Montréal is a city The Village extends to the Québec and Canada as uniquely progressive and where you can be yourself. east and west around the welcoming destinations for LGBTQ+ people from Beaudry métro station, Montrealers are passionate about life and are around the world, where they can live their lives which bears the colours of renowned for their friendliness, warmth and charm. freely and openly. the LGBTQ+ communities. From the Village — one of the largest LGBTQ+ neighbourhood in North America — to downtown, Filled with cafés, Come as you are Old Montréal, Mile End and beyond, expect to be restaurants, boutiques, Photo: Tourisme Québec - Linda Turgeon welcomed with open arms. bathhouses, strip bars, Travelling to Montréal is discovering a welcoming discos and nightclubs, the Village is one of the world’s French-speaking metropolis in North America and most popular and most-visited LGBTQ+ destinations. immersing yourself in a city that marries almost four Yet in Montréal, queer life is not just found in the centuries of history with modernity and appreciating Village – it is proudly on display, celebrated and the energy of a constantly evolving community. integrated throughout the city. As the world’s second largest French-speaking city From May to September, Sainte-Catherine Street after Paris, Montréal has been cultivating its distinct turns into a lively pedestrian zone, where close to personality for more than 375 years and enjoys an 60 outdoor patios and many works of public art are enviable reputation around the globe. set up under a canopy of hundreds of thousands of multicoloured balls. As an island in the heart of the St. Lawrence River, Montréal is a famously surrounded by a region with thousands of natural treasures, Québec’s largest city, with more than four open-minded city whose million people, offers the perfect compromise between identity and diversity, vitality and quality of life. citizens have long embraced and celebrated its vibrant LGBTQ+ communities Photo: Eva Blue WorldPride Montréal 2023 Bid 5 MONTRÉAL PRIDE Festival Legal status and structure Community initiatives Montréal Pride is a non-profit organization headed Montréal Pride can count on the incredible energy of The Montréal Pride Festival has implemented by a 13-member board of directors, four of whom more than 1,200 volunteers who are the heart and countless community initiatives aimed at enabling are elected representatives of the Greater Montréal’s soul of our Pride. a maximum number of groups, associations and LGBTQ+ communities. They represent local LGBTQ+ individuals to participate in as many activities associations, the business community as well as the We also organize two annual consultations with the as possible. Montréal Pride thus give back over special events and tourism industries. various stakeholders and/or organizations involved $250,000 CAD to the community every year. in the LGBTQ+ communities to foster and maintain We strive to ensure representation of the diversity excellent community relations. within the LGBTQ+ communities as well as bring a solid and varied professional expertise to the table to Finally, we contribute financially to over 100 Québec- better serve the organization. based LGBTQ+ organizations on an annual basis, while providing logistical or financial assistance to several Montréal Pride also relies on a team of 21 employees Pride organizations around the world. who are active on a full-time basis during the busiest period of the year (April to the end of August) including 15 who work for the organization throughout the year. Community Day in the heart of the Village Photo: Fierté Montréal - Alison Slattery Board of Directors Diversity representation (indigenous, POC, queer, trans and non-binary members) Back row from left to right: Esther- Léa Ledoux, Éric Pineault, Stéphane Proulx, Karl Boulanger, Jean-François Perrier, Alexandre Dumont Blais, Marie-Ève Baron, Marie-Philippe Drouin and Jean-Sébastien Boudreault. Front row from left to right: Michel Dorion, Ketty Cedat, Michel Villeneuve Photo: Emily Minier Photo: and Annie Pullen Sansfaçon. Photo: Fierté Montréal - Alison Slattery 6 WorldPride Montréal 2023 Bid Organization MONTRÉAL PRIDE Festival Montréal Pride Festival History Since 2007, at the initiative of Montréal’s LGBTQ+ The first ever Pride March in Montréal was held in communities, the Montréal Pride Festival has 1979 and drew only 52 participants. The following promoted the rights and celebrated the cultural year, some 250 people took part. Between 1981 and richness and social advances of LGBTQ+ individuals 1992, various committees continued to organize and organizations. Montréal Pride, the largest Pride Parades usually at the end of June. Divers/Cité gathering of the sexual and gender diversity (SGD) was founded in 1993 to organize the annual Pride communities in the francophone world works locally celebrations, continuing until 2006. As of 2007, the on a daily basis while serving as a beacon of hope current committee took over and has been organizing for people living in regions of the globe hostile to the annual Pride festival in the month of August. LGBTQ+ people. With 11 days of free cultural and community Vision activities annually, including the Pride Parade and Community Day, the festival promotes the many The Montréal Pride Festival celebrates the power advances of the LGBTQ+ communities in a festive and beauty of diversity by enabling our LGBTQ+ ambiance and increase public awareness of the communities to showcase their realities to the local issues to be addressed to eliminate homophobia, mainstream community and to people from around the locally, nationally and internationally. Like numerous world. We seek to create a other Montréal-based festivals, admission to the main site is free of charge. world where diversity Now the largest Pride celebration in Canada, the is valued, so that Montréal Pride Festival possesses the required expertise to organize a successful WorldPride. Most communities of sexual notably, it has already successfully organized the first-ever edition of Canada Pride and its International and gender diversity Conference in 2017, as Montréal and Canada marked their 375th and 150th anniversaries, respectively, and can shine worldwide. drew 2.7 million admissions and featured more than 250 activities. Photo: André Bilodeau André Photo: WorldPride Montréal 2023 Bid 7 8 Photo: Fierté Montréal - André Bilodeau Photo: Fierté Montréal - André Bilodeau Photo: Fierté Montréal - Alison Slattery Photo: Fierté Montréal - Alison Slattery Photo: Michel Filion WorldPride Montréal 2023 Bid Photo: Fierté Montréal - Michel Filion Photo: Fierté Montréal - Alison Slattery Organization MONTRÉAL PRIDE Festival Leadership in LGBTQ+ human rights Montréal Pride at a glances Our commitment The Montréal Pride Festival
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