Kelowna Pride Reveals Key Dates for City’s 2020 Celebrations

) The Kelowna Pride Society has revealed the key dates for Kelowna’s 2020 Pride celebrations. Kelowna’s Pride Week will run from Saturday, June 6, 2020, to Sunday, June 14, 2020, and the Kelowna Pride Society wants you to save the dates now.

“2019 was our biggest Pride ever, with over 12,000 people joining us for the Pride March in downtown Kelowna. It was incredible to see the outpouring of support from the local community. Our challenge for 2020 is to try and make Pride even bigger and better. Pride is all about inclusivity and acceptance. It’s not about ‘us versus them’, but celebrating and creating a world where all can be their true selves regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation,” explains Dustyn Baulkham, General Manager of the Kelowna Pride Society.

The month of June marks the internationally recognized Pride Month; in commemoration of the pivotal 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City and it is also the month Gilbert Baker’s original design of the Rainbow Pride Flag was flown at the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. Pride Month is a month-long inclusive celebration of the LGBTQ2+ community and an opportunity to reflect and consider the progress still to be made in the search for equality. There will be a wide range of events taking place across Kelowna, including a Pride March and Festival downtown.

Looking ahead to June, the Kelowna Pride Society has several key needs, as explained by Baulkham:

“At this point, there are three key components we’re focusing on. We’re in search of vendors who would like to exhibit at our Pride Festival, we’re always in search of great volunteers who are willing to help out during Pride – there’s everything from taking tickets to snapping photos – and we’re also looking to secure advertisers and sponsors for our Pride Guide which will be published in the lead up to Kelowna Pride 2020.”

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Would-be vendors are encouraged to complete this form. Meanwhile, those who would like to advertise in the Kelowna Pride Society’s Pride Guide should complete this form, and those looking to run an ‘Affiliate Event’ in conjunction with Pride Week 2020 should fill out this form. Those who would like to sponsor Kelowna Pride’s 2020 celebrations should email dustyn@kelownapride.com.

Kelowna’s Pride celebrations are presented by TD. You can learn more about the Kelowna Pride Society via the organization’s official website (KelownaPride.com).

About the Kelowna Pride Society

The Kelowna Pride Society (KPS) is a non-profit organization committed to serving Kelowna’s LGBTQ2+ community. KPS creates events and offers programs to connect the community. The organization depends on volunteers, membership, sponsorship and patronage to thrive, and KPS is grateful for the support it is receiving from the community. KPS hosts the popular annual Kelowna Pride Festival (formerly the Okanagan Pride Festival) which draws visitors from throughout the Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada, and the United States.

The Kelowna Pride Society would like to respectfully acknowledge that they operate on the unceded, traditional territory of the syilx (Okanagan) people.