Tri-Pride 2023

This year was another day of beautiful weather as Waterloo Region celebrated tri-Pride, the region’s annual pride festival. The sun was shining, but not too hot, and the wind was light and pleasant. We made sure we didn’t miss it.

We had some amazing volunteers take time out of their busy schedules to volunteer with us at the booth. Buttons were made to give our supporters a little something to show their Pride. We also showed off one of our proudest petitions. Over 160,000 people signed our petition to allow asylum seeker status to the trans community and non-binary people. At tri-Pride, we had a few new federal petitions, hot off the press, for festival-goers to sign. Topics included Climate Change, Indigenous Reconciliation, the Poison Drug crisis, the Housing Crisis, Electoral Reform, and Guaranteed Livable Income.

We also had some visits from some notable Greens, including Green Party of Ontario leader Mike Schreiner and Kitchener-Centre By-election candidate Aislinn Clancy! The conversations were lively and insightful. We’ll continue to appear at future summer events to keep reaching out to our communities.

It’s imperative for us to show up to Pride. With acts of hate on the rise, it is important that we all show how much support the queer community has from a multitude of corners of the community. As the buttons we gave away said, there is no room for hate.