Montreal Pride parade to go on as planned Sunday after abrupt 2022 cancellation
Montreal’s Pride parade will proceed on schedule this weekend, the organizer of the city’s LGBTQ+ Pride festival said Saturday as he reassured prospective attendees the event would not fall prey to the sort of abrupt cancellation that unexpectedly derailed last year’s festivities.
“If there’s a tornado, I have no control over that. But yes, there will be a parade tomorrow. Absolutely,” he said in an interview Saturday, assuring residents that Montreal Pride has all of the staff members and volunteers it needs. “We’re very ready. We’ve been ready for months.” The report also identified systemic communication and governance issues within the festival organization and recommended 13 reforms to address them. They included additional oversight of parade planning by Montreal Pride senior management, an update to the organization’s emergency response plan and more training for staff.
“We live in a very particular societal context,” he said. “There’s a lot of hate right now, a lot of it on social networks … In this context, we need to ally. We need to ally with each other more than ever.” “After it was cancelled last year I think a lot of people in the community were disappointed,” he said. “So I think the expectations are pretty elevated.”“I think right now … there’s some people that are opposed to our rights as queer people and they want us to not to be able to express our rights,” he said. “It’s important to respond to that hatred with pride and with engagement and with love, and I find that this pride walk is something that’s really encouraging.
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