The annual Nelson Pride Week kicked off today with a flag raising ceremony at City Hall and this year's celebration has new events in store.<\/p>\n
Pride Week is a seven-day celebration of the local LGBTQ+ community consisting of several events for all ages. Nelson Pride added several new events this year including a pride youth party, a Truth Seeker Meditation Class, a workshop about creating safer spaces and a pride worship service. The detailed list of events can be seen at nelsonpride.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n A volunteer with Nelson Pride and longtime member of the LGBTQ+ community Michael Wicks says, \u201cwith all the new events this year it feels more like a festival.\u201d<\/p>\n Wicks joined CJLY to discuss Pride Week and what the support of the Nelson community means to him. Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The annual Nelson Pride Week kicked off today with a flag raising ceremony at City Hall and this year’s celebration has new events in store. Pride Week is a seven-day celebration of the local LGBTQ+ community consisting of several events for all ages. Nelson Pride added several new events this year including a pride youth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":175638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[3012,29733,29732,17787],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175622"}],"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\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176305,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175622\/revisions\/176305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175622"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=175622"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=175622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}