Thousands of people marched and cheered down Montreal’s René-Lévesque Boulevard Sunday afternoon in what has become the largest Pride parade organized by Fierté Montréal to date.
Parade participants waved colourful flags and blared music along a 2.9-kilometre route that began at Dorchester Square and stretched into the heart of Montreal’s Gay Village.
They say the parade was a long time coming after last year’s edition was cancelled at the eleventh hour due to a significant shortage of security volunteers.
To prevent a repeat of the past, Fierté Montréal hired 208 staff members and 152 volunteers for this year’s parade, Gamache said in a news conference kicking off the celebratory march.
Gamache added that the parade is an opportunity to commemorate previous triumphs of the LGBTQ community while bringing attention to the injustices that some people continue to face.
In that moment Gamache was thinking of Roger Thibault, one half of the first couple to enter a same-sex civil union in Quebec, he told CBC News.
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Thousands of people marched and cheered down Montreal’s René-Lévesque Boulevard Sunday afternoon in what has become the largest Pride parade organized by Fierté Montréal to date.
Parade participants waved colourful flags and blared music along a 2.9-kilometre route that began at Dorchester Square and stretched into the heart of Montreal’s Gay Village.
They say the parade was a long time coming after last year’s edition was cancelled at the eleventh hour due to a significant shortage of security volunteers.
To prevent a repeat of the past, Fierté Montréal hired 208 staff members and 152 volunteers for this year’s parade, Gamache said in a news conference kicking off the celebratory march.
Gamache added that the parade is an opportunity to commemorate previous triumphs of the LGBTQ community while bringing attention to the injustices that some people continue to face.
In that moment Gamache was thinking of Roger Thibault, one half of the first couple to enter a same-sex civil union in Quebec, he told CBC News.
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