Surrey Pride March   Come celebrate Surrey Pride on June 25 with the Pride March and Pride Festival. The Pride March will assemble at City Hall Plaza, Surrey, BC at 10 am with the March starting at 11am. Despite funding concerns, the community was determined to make sure this years Pride March happens. Surrey Pride ...

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For decades, people in Vancouver have marched through the West End celebrating the LGBTQ community. And now people in Surrey are following suite and gearing up for that city’s first Pride Parade. Jen Marchbank, an associate professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, says it’s a major move forward. She notes ...

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The shocking news of the mass shooting at a gay Orlando, Florida, nightclub on June 12 garnered widespread media coverage and prompted vigils to be held around the world, including those in Vancouver and New Westminster. Meanwhile, there was some other unrelated local LGBT news this past weekend on a positive note. Nanaimo made history ...

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Parade another historic step forward for Vancouver suburb with checkered LGBT past Surrey has hosted Pride festivities for the last 17 years — but never a parade. Until now. On June 26, 2016, the Vancouver suburb will host its first-ever Pride parade. Surrey Pride Society president Shawn Ewing says she got the go-ahead from the ...

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Pride Events This Weekend EAST SIDE PRIDE June 27th Kicking off Vancouver’s pride season is EAST SIDE PRIDE on Saturday June 27th at Grandview Park. A day full of games, artisans and culinary delights! Stage performances by local bands, Improv, an East Van fashion show, and some of the East Side’s top drag performers will ...

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No Flag, Pride pushed up to June 28th Surrey Surrey Pride has asked for help to encourage Surrey City Hall to fly the Pride flag. Some may argue that Surrey City Hall is homophobic, some will deny it no matter what. This is the ongoing saga of Surrey City Hall struggling to come to terms ...

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