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Yukon Pride Committee Postpones In-Person Events

In light of the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Whitehorse, Dawson City and Watson Lake, the Yukon Pride Month organizing team has made the difficult decision to modify, postpone, or cancel our in-person events across the Yukon. This includes a postponement of the Dawson City Pride Festival, Watson Lake Pride events, and all in-person Whitehorse events.

FIND EVENTS FOR YUKON PRIDE 2021 HERE!

Honouring the 215

It's Yukon pride month!
Duane Gastant' Aucoin, Vice President for Queer Yukon Society asked us to share this story.

To honour the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were recently found at a former residential school in BC, Duane helped to organize a memorial in Pembroke, Ontario, where he currently resides. Duane purchased one blue and one pink pair of shoes. When Duane was placing the shoes on the Cathedral steps, he ended up placing the blue and pink shoes together in a pair. Duane said, "I was going to change them until I realised that this was for the 2-spirit children who never made it home!"

To learn more about Duane's story and the memorial he helped organize, please visit:
https://www.pembrokeobserver.com/news/local-news/pembroke-memorial-forms-for-215-children-found-at-former-b-c-residential-school

Duane also made a video you can watch by clicking the button below.
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The focus of this year's festival is to bring community together, to support one another and to create spaces where we all belong.
​With over 40 events planned,  the Yukon Pride Festival has grown from a week-long celebration in Whitehorse to a month-long festival across the territory!

Visit our new website to check out the latest events for Pride 2021 and don't forget to mark your calendars!

apply for up to $500 in utility payments

YUKON PRIDE CENTRE LAUNCHES PRIDE AT HOME NOMINATION PROGRAM!
The Yukon Pride Centre's Utility Payments Program provides direct utility payments for LGBTQIA2S+ Yukoners. This program is designed for folx who are in need of emergency support making utility payments or who are experiencing housing insecurity.

Program is open until June 20 or while supplies last.
The Pride at Home Nomination Program provides Yukoners experiencing housing insecurity with a care package, while supplies last.

Queer yukon society calls on yukon party for systemic change

An open letter from the Queer Yukon Society on Addressing Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in the Yukon Party.

YUKON PRIDE CENTRE LAUNCHES GENDER GEAR 2.0

The Yukon Pride Centre is excited to launch YGG 2.0! In partnership with GenderGear.ca, BYTE, and Northern Voices Rising, the Yukon Gender Gear program provides Yukoners with access to gender gear including: chest binders, breast forms and bras, gaffs, packers and packing straps or pouches, STP devices, shapewear, makeup and IM injection kits.​

Yukon Pride centre online events now available!

yukon pride centre: Community conversation
We are excited to bring our online Spring/Summer programming to you!
​Have a look at our fantastic line-up of recurring events. There is no need to attend all of our events, just register and join us whenever you can!
We want the Yukon Pride Centre to be community-driven and collectively-imagined, with a goal of creating a physical space where community members can gather and access resources, programs, and supports. As we work together to create something truly exciting, we look forward to your input on this ground-breaking project.

COMMUNITY Alert: Unwelcome rcmp presence at yukon pride festival

This statement is to let our community members know that there was an unwelcome RCMP presence at Yukon Pride Flag raising ceremony on July 31, 2020.​

PROUDLY ANNOUNCING OUR EVENTS FOR
THE 2020 yUKON pRIDE fESTIVAL FROM aUGUST 1 - 9

This is going to be an amazing Pride Week!  Join us for some incredible online and in-person events. The Yukon Pride Festival’s theme this year, “Remote Connections”, invites Yukoners from across the Territory to be part of the Pride celebrations.

Statement on police participation in the yukon pride festival

In solidarity with  Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, and members of the LGBTQ2S+ community who are protesting police brutality and systemic racism, we are joining other Pride festivals across Canada by announcing that any visible police presence is not welcome at the Yukon Pride festival.

Funding for Black, indigenous, people of colour (BIPOC) Pride organizers in Yukon

Queer Yukon Society is offering funding to Black, Indigenous, People of Colour who want to organize QTBIPOC-focused events for the 2020 Yukon Pride Festival happening from August 1 – 9. Please contact us at pride@queeryukon.com no later than  July 13, 2020 (deadline extended) to tell us you’re interested and a brief idea of the event you would like to organize!

Black lives matter: A Statement from Queer Yukon Society & All Genders Yukon Society

Queer Yukon Society and All Genders Yukon Society condemn racism in all its forms. We condemn police brutality and murder, and we condemn quiet complacency with the racist status quo.

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