Celebrate Pride Month 2023

In June, many across Canada recognize Pride Month. It is a time when we celebrate the diversity of LGBTQ2S+ communities, while acknowledging their history, the hardships they have endured and the progress that has been made. 

We have assembled some resources so that you can learn about, celebrate and better support LGBTQ2S+ people in your community.

Please note, where terms other than LGBTQ2S+ might be used below, we chose to keep the language of the host community or organization.

Spotlighting Saskatchewan stories

Here's what we've reported on so far this Pride. Have a story idea? Contact saskcomms@cbc.ca.

• Accessibility issues at Pride events, LGBTQ spaces can be isolating, say people with disabilities
• Saskatoon's 2023 Pride parade in pictures
• Sask. residents reflect on 30th anniversary of legal protections for sexual orientation

Saskatchewan Weekend13:35Celebrating Pride Month with a transgender and non-binary parent and teacher

Happy Pride Month! You couldn't have asked for more perfect summer weather for the Queen City Pride parade. Kacey Colibaba was pumped about the occasion, and so is their son. They drove two hours to enjoy the celebration. Host Shauna Powers speaks to speaks with Kacey about their journey to embrace their true self as a transgender and non-binary person.

Saskatoon Morning6:06Fabulous Feathers Bird Walk celebrates diversity in nature

The CBC's Theresa Kliem joined local birders Ryan Bradshaw and Ryan Dudragne on their Pride Month's Fabulous Feathers Bird Walk tour at Donna Birkmaier Park.

Celebrate Pride

From hosting parades to leading educational opportunities, here are some Pride non-profits operating in Saskatchewan.

• Battlefords Pride.

• Humboldt & Area Pride Network.

• Lac La Ronge Regional Pride.

• Moose Jaw Pride.

• Prince Albert Pride.

• Saskatoon Pride.

• Southwest Saskatchewan Pride.

• Queen City Pride.

• Yorkton Pride.

• Meadow Lake.

Seek resources

From employment tax assistance to an annual camp for gender and sexually-diverse youth, Saskatchewan is awash with support. Here are several of those resources.

• OUTSaskatoon.

• Regina Public Library's programs, films and reading lists.

• Saskatchewan Pride Network.

• TransSask Support Services.

• UR Pride.

• USSU Pride Centre.

Learn the history

We're fortunate that folks have dedicated time to assembling information about queer history and experiences in Saskatchewan. Happy learning!

• Pride on the Prairies: Queer History in Saskatchewan — An online exhibit by the Diefenbaker Canada Centre in partnership with the USSU Pride Centre.

• Neil Richards Collection of Sexual and Gender Diversity.

• Queering the Queen City audio walking tour: Created by Evie Johnny Ruddy and co-produced with Dr. Claire Carter, this walking tour will give you a chance to learn about the history of the LGBTQ+ community in Regina.

• Gender and Sexual Diversity Video Series – Saskatchewan Voices: Using student voices to capture their experience as they explore their gender identity, this video series explores the types of support that is needed for youth to feel accepted and safe in Saskatchewan schools.

• Netflix's documentary Secret Love highlights the 71-year love story of two Saskatchewan-born women, including baseball legend Terry Donahue.

Nationally

• The 200 most iconic queers in cultural history.

• Queeries, a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ+ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens.

Be a better ally

By CBC Kids News: She/her, he/him and they/them. What are pronouns?

Your Local CBC

CBC Saskatchewan is delighted to support and be a part of pride celebrations during Pride Month. We will be marching in both the Regina Pride Parade on June 10 and the Saskatoon Pride Parade on June 17. 

Watch with Pride

Celebrate Pride Month with movies and series telling the stories of the LGTBQ2S+ community on CBC Gem. Here are some highlights. More will be released throughout June.

Here and Queer: An interview series hosted by Peter Knegt that celebrates and amplifies the work of our greatest LGBTQ2S+ artists through unfiltered conversations. First season guests include Billy Eichner, Tegan & Sara, Bilal Baig, Matt Rogers and Lido Pimienta.

Riot Girls: In an alternate 1995, a mysterious disease has wiped out all of the adults. In this new age, two gangs are pitted against each other in a brutal war for territory, resources and survival.

Sort Of: A big-hearted series about Sabi Mehboob, a fluid millennial who straddles various identities. New episodes weekly.

Someone Like Me: When a queer group of strangers unite to support a gay Ugandan man seeking asylum in Canada, unexpected challenges lead them down an emotional road together in search of personal freedom.

Small Town Pride: An intimate portrait of LGBTQ2S+ pride and queer life in small towns, told through the stories of people from communities across Canada.

Listen to LGBTQ2S+ voices

CBC Music has curated this playlist to honour some of Canada's great LGBTQ2S+ artists, including Orville Peck, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Peaches, James Baley, Witch Prophet and Wares.

CBC Saskatchewan has featured LGBTQ2S+ musicians in several of our Local Music Project initiatives such as:

• Elle & Jules + Cupid's Heart: There's something so magical, in life and music, when two become one. We share the stories and sounds of Sask-based power duos Cupid's Heart, Elle & Jules, Winsome Kind and Munro & Patrick.

• ZOCHI: Faith, sexuality, Nigerian meat pies, radio love from Kenya and much more inside Regina's oldest building.

• respectfulchild: An agender Chinese-Malaysian musical artist settler who is born, raised, and living on Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon.

• Anna Haverstock: Once the radio-ready, catchy alt-rock pop tunes of Saskatoon's Anna Haverstock hook you, they never let you go. CBC Radio 3 has compared her with Serena Ryder and we couldn't agree more. Anna's electric vocals, rock rhythms and overall energy are just a few of the many reasons we wanted to celebrate her sound.

Season 3 of The Village: The Montreal Murders is on CBC Listen and the podcast Le Village: meurtres, combat, fierté, on Radio-Canada OHdio. Both put the spotlight on early 1990s Montreal, where — against a backdrop of police violence and the AIDS crisis — the LGBTQ2S+ community is shaken to the core by the unsolved murders of 17 gay men.

In CBC Podcasts' Chosen Family, artists, activists and Black Lives Canada co-founders Syrus Marcus Ware and Rodney Diverlus join hosts Thomas and Tranna for a special conversation on the movement for racial justice within the queer community. The two friends and co-editors of the best-selling essay collection Until We Are Free share their journey and open up about what Pride means to them.

What is "gender identity"? How is it different from "gender expression"? What about "non-binary"? Join host Faith Fundal as they explore these questions in CBC Podcast's They & Us, alongside people who find themselves navigating the world of preferred pronouns, trans rights and the quest to be recognized for who they are.

How are you celebrating Pride Month? Have something to add? Email us at saskcomms@cbc.ca.