Past Events

Pride Month 2021

This year marks 10 years of Brantford Pride, check out the 2021 schedule of events!

June 1 at 3pm: Livestream Pride Flag raising (watch the stream on both the Brantford Pride and The Bridge Brant Facebook pages)

June 9 at 7pm: The Bridge Brant is hosting Safer Spaces 101 and 2SLGBTQIA+ Trivia with Brant County Pride & County of Brant Public Library

June 10: Alongside friends at "Fruits from Fruits", we're sponsoring a rainbow meal serve at Soup for the Soul

June 10 at 7pm-8:30pm: We're hanging out in the virtual drop-in space "A Place to Be" hosted by Belonging Brant

June 16 at 7pm-9:00pm: Join The Bridge Brant for a virtual screening of the film Our Dance of Revolution

June 19 at 12pm: Fly a Kite (together apart 2SLGBTQIA+ picnic extravaganza https://fb.me/e/6xOGmhuvc

June 24 at 7:00pm-8:30pm: Virtual Pride Open Mic Night with Belonging Brant https://fb.me/e/13C8gx06G

June 30: [covid guidelines pending] Pub Night

You can join in the fun all month long by participating in our colouring contest (https://fb.me/e/2j3QrURli) & buying a t-shirt (https://www.zbtfd.ca/...) and our "Pride-it-Up" campaign for local businesses and organizations to display rainbows and flags all around town

Keep watch for a Pride window display and book recommendations from Brantford Public Library!

More details to come about the unveiling of the Brantford rainbow crosswalk!! We also can't wait to see your lawn signs!

Happy Pride!!!!

RE: Together, apart for Pride Week 2021.

Dear Community,

Here we are again, getting closer to a month that typically represents coming together, celebration, and visibility for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. It is with heavy hearts, that we must state that this year, we again need to be apart in order to keep each other safe.

As a community we face unprecedented challenges in this harrowing, isolating and scary time, particularly those among us who are most marginalized. We are in a collective moment of grief and precarity, which uniquely positions us, as 2SLGBTQIA+ folks with a long and storied history of coming together and overcoming. As a community, we understand struggle, fear, and loss in ways that our loved ones, neighbours, families and colleagues may not. These are heightened times, but if anyone knows how to band together and advocate for community safety, health, and collectivity it is the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

In light of COVID-19 and in order to keep each other as safe, healthy, and secure as possible, Brantford Pride will not be able to host any in-person gatherings for the 2021 Brantford Pride Week. 2021 represents the 10th year of Pride in Brantford, so do expect to see some fun things happening virtually and in the community as a means to mark this milestone year! (Things like a virtual flag raising event, and celebrating the new rainbow crosswalk ) We will continue to find ways to connect through social distancing, and to support the most vulnerable members of our community through practices of mutual aid and grassroots care.

Thank you all for your ongoing care and support—we see you; we love you, and know that despite how heavy and isolating the world feels right now—you are not alone.

With fierce love + solidarity,

The Brantford Pride Committee

RESOURCES:

Gender Journey Brant, online meetings: email genderjourneybrant@gmail.com for details

LGBTQ YouthLine: (a phone & text peer-support service for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, operates Sunday to Friday, 4:00PM to 9:30 PM) tel: 1-800-268-9688 text: 647-694-4275

TransLifeLine: (a peer-support hotline for trans folks; "Trans Lifeline is a trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive") tel: 1-877-330-6366

CareMongering Brantford:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/213797779864927/?fref=nf

519 Friendly Check-ups: https://www.the519.org/programs/fci

RE: Pride Week 2020 Cancelled.

Dear Community,

We, as a community, faces unique challenges in this difficult time, particularly those among us who are most marginalized. We are in a collective moment of grief and precarity, which uniquely positions us, as 2SLGBTQIA+ folks with a long and storied history of coming together and overcoming. As a community, we understand struggle, fear, and loss in ways that our loved ones, neighbours, families and colleagues may not. These are heightened times, but if anyone knows how to band together and advocate for community safety, health, and collectivity it is the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

In light of COVID-19, and in order to keep each other as safe, healthy, and secure as possible, Brantford Pride will not be proceeding with our 2020 Pride Week festivities. We were in the process of securing permits from the City for both the Pride March and Pride in the Park, and will no longer be continuing that process. Further, the grants that we typically rely on to make Brantford Pride a success are on hold indefinitely. This was not an easy decision to make, but we know that it is the most strategic and safest call in these complicated times.

We will continue to find ways to connect through social distancing, and to support the most vulnerable members of our community through practices of mutual aid and grassroots care. We encourage everyone to keep up-to-date with community action through the Brantford-Brant Caremongering Facebook page (link here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/213797779864927/?fref=nf). And stay tuned to our Facebook page for new content and ways of fostering connection digitally.

We cannot wait for Pride 2021, a year that marks a decade of 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride in the Brantford-Brant community. Thank you all for your ongoing care and support—we see you, we love you, and know that despite how heavy and isolating the world feels right now—you are not alone.

With care,

The Brantford Pride Committee

RESOURCES:

Gender Journey Brant, online meetings every Tuesday at 6pm: email genderjourneybrant@gmail.com for details

LGBTQ YouthLine: (a phone & text peer-support service for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, operates Sunday to Friday, 4:00PM to 9:30 PM) tel: 1-800-268-9688 text: 647-694-4275

CareMongering Brantford: https://www.facebook.com/groups/213797779864927/?fref=nf

519 Friendly Check-ups: https://the519.formstack.com/forms/friendly_phone_program

City of Brantford Neighbours Helping Neighbours: https://www.brantford.ca/en/living-here/brantford-neighbours-helping-neighbours.aspx#

We would love your feedback about Brantford Pride Week 2019 to help us better plan Brantford Pride 2020, so we’ve created an anonymous Google feedback form that community members can fill out. You can find the form here.

Tickets for the Sunset Rainbow Boat Cruise fundraiser are being sold via Eventbrite this year (with a limited number of tickets available offline, please contact if you require an offline ticket).