Southwest Nova Pride Association
This is your official ‘save the date’ notice for the 2024 SWNPA Pride Festival! Details forthcoming, but yes, we are hoping to bring back the parade, the fair, karaoke and all your faves!
Vendor & volunteer calls coming soon!
See you at Pride! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
FREE PUBLIC EVENT
Did you know that 2024 is the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Transgender Pride Flag??
It is with enormous pride and deep gratitude for our queer elders that the Southwest Nova Pride Association (SWNPA) welcomes American author, activist, and veteran Monica Helms, creator of the Transgender Pride Flag, to speak to our community on Friday April 19th, at 7pm, at Beacon United Church in Yarmouth.
Monica is visiting us as part of the International Day of Pink’s 2024 Visibility Anniversaries Tour. SWNPA is thrilled to once again be collaborating with the International Day of Pink after our hugely successful event with Day of Pink and Stonewall activist Martin Boyce last year.
So, you’re curious about Southwest Nova Pride Association. Who are we, what do we do, why do we do it? Maybe you have questions about your 2SLGBTQIA+ neighbours, or you want to know how to be a better ally, or you’re wondering what’s the deal with pronouns anyway?
Come out to the museum on the 19th of September, and we’ll see if we can set a few questions (if you’ll pardon the expression) straight 😉
All welcome. Flag raising to begin.
It can be easy to focus on the negative, on the struggle, on the heartache that many trans* people experience. But it is critical to also turn our attention to the liberatory power, the freedom, and the joy that being trans* can contain.
Trans* people have always existed; we are free-thinkers and survivors. Trans* rights are human rights. As transgender icon Leslie Feinberg wrote, “It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.”
Happy International Day of Transgender Visibility to all our trans, nonbinary, two-spirit, genderfluid, gender nonconforming, agender, genderqueer, questioning and otherwise non-cisgender friends, lovers, loved ones, family and community members.
We see you, we love you, and today, we celebrate you in all your awesomeness.
We’re hosting a candlelight vigil in honor of all the transgender people who lost their lives to acts of anti-trans violence. An annual observation since 1999, Trans Day of Remembrance is an acknowledgement of the losses we face due to bigotry and violence, and a token of our ongoing commitment to justice.
Battery-powered candles will be provided. For safety reasons, please do not bring normal candles or open flames to the event.