Pride in our Community

The Municipality of Kincardine works to be a community where everyone is welcome and each may celebrate their own gender identity and gender expression in a safe and inclusive way.

Kincardine Pride is the local not-for-profit organization who's vision includes helping our community realize it's ability to be a healthy, diverse, affirming community for those who are Two-Spirit and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex, asexual, and other gender-diversities.

The annual Pride parade is celebrated in June during Pride Month with this year's event planned for June 22nd, 2024. 

Pride month celebrations were born from the Stonewall Riots of late June 1969. One year late, in June 1970, Stonewall rioters organized a march to Central Park in support of “Gay Pride”, building on the spirit of resistance built through the riots. The march expanded to other cities and grew in popularity throughout the 1970s.

Ever wonder what the 2S in LGBTQ2S+?

Two Spirit (2S) is an English umbrella term to reflect and restore Indigenous traditions forcefully suppressed by colonization, honouring the fluid and diverse nature of gender and attraction and its connection to community and spirituality. It is used by some Indigenous People rather than, or in addition to, identifying as LGBTQI. 

Watch this video produced by Egale, an organization with a mission to improve the lives of 2SLGBTQI people in Canada and to enhance the global response.