{"id":100553,"date":"2022-06-14T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=100553"},"modified":"2022-06-14T16:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:51:58","slug":"a-long-time-coming-kingston-pride-celebrations-are-back-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/a-long-time-coming-kingston-pride-celebrations-are-back-in-person\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A long time coming&#8217;: Kingston Pride celebrations are back in person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After three years, Kingston Pride is returning in person, and Mark Richardson, communications officer at the Kingston Pride Board, says it\u2019s been a long time coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for us to come together, to be a community, to embrace our own identity, to show Kingston and the world, we\u2019re here, we\u2019re queer, please let us be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richardson says Kingston Pride has a history of pushing back and fighting for LGBTQ+ safe spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c30+ years ago here in Kingston, when one of the first day celebration day was trying to being organized, the city wouldn\u2019t even allow an official recognition of that day, it\u2019s always been a process of doing education, outreach, trying to essentially change the world one person at a time so we continue to feel safe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richardson says things are changing and people are starting now to not feel as safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI see a lot of progress that has happened in the last decade start to erode away\u2026a lot of anti-trans activism\u2026with progress in areas like same sex marriage and transgender rights, always comes those advocates against those expansions on equal rights to all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pride week began on June 9 and will run until Sunday, June 19. Upcoming events include a free screening of \u201cRocketman,\u201d a concert from Joyful Joyful as part of Skeleton Park Arts Fest and The Pride Parade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The parade will run Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon, it will begin on Clergy Street, head down Princess Street to Confederation basin for the community fair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full CFRC interview with Mark Richardson:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three years, Kingston Pride is returning in person, and Mark Richardson, communications officer at the Kingston Pride Board, says it\u2019s been a long time coming. \u201cIt\u2019s an opportunity for us to come together, to be a community, to embrace our own identity, to show Kingston and the world, we\u2019re here, we\u2019re queer, please let&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":100561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,3265],"tags":[15004,15579,15580,3012,7081,7079],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100620,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100553\/revisions\/100620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100553"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=100553"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=100553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}