Pride Message from our Chair – June 2022

Happy Pride, everyone!

The Pride season is a wonderful time of year for the entire SOGIE community to celebrate our ourselves and our many subcultures. It has also become a time to recognize the gains we have made toward full equity in society and acknowledge the injustices we still have yet to correct. Pride month is of course a focal point of our celebrations and when many of our local Pride events occur, such as in DrumhellerFort McMurrayFort SaskatchewanEdmonton, and Lethbridge, among many others. Alberta, however, is lucky enough to have Pride events happening all over the year, so we never need to go without.

For our part, the Alberta LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce keeps Pride in commerce year-round to economically empower our community through our entrepreneurs. For instance, in April we were lucky enough to have the team at Freddie speak in person in Calgary about their work at increasing access to PrEP in Alberta and other provinces. (If you get the chance to hear them speak at an event, they are just as entertaining as they are informative.) This year, the Chamber has expanded our Pride festivities to include both Edmonton, with our Night of the Arts event, and Calgary, with our second annual Pride market (details to come soon).

Regardless of where you are in these Métis and Treaties 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 lands, on behalf of the Chamber, I hope you all take the time this month to express your truest selves, in each your own unique ways, because that is the true essence of Pride. By continuing to live openly, we each will help create the world we want to live in.

Proudly,

Saul Benary
Chair
Alberta LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce

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