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Windsor_Essex Pride – Windsor, ON
After a few years of successful growth the decision was made to split the Windsor Pride Community and the “Windsor-Essex Pride Fest” will be its own incorporated organization focus on solely enhancing and promoting the annual LGBT festival and work with regional tourism partners to promote LGBT tourism to Windsor-Essex.
Join us in August 2014 with some of the old favorites and the exciting new plans for the 2014 festival. It will be again at the Riverfront Festival Plaza stage with even better entertainment!
Windsor Essex Pride 2014
Windsor-Essex Pride Fest aims to promote equality and diversity through all of its campaigns including its annual Windsor Pride Festival. The weekend Pride festival uses theater, music, art and entertainment to raise awareness of discrimination and the issues and difficulties affecting the lives of LGBTIQ people in the community and around the world.
Our Parade is an explosion of Pride in the heart of the Downtown Windsor, attracting over 5,000 people in a celebration of diversity. Through this we aim to promote a sentiment in favor of equality, uniting people in a celebrative atmosphere where all are welcome, and fostering a sense of community within the Windsor-Essex LGBTIQ population.
Windsor-Essex Pride Fest and its board of directors is responsible for promoting, managing, arranging, supporting and conducting all the events of the festival, including the Parade, parties, exhibitions and entertainment. We recruit the best artists and entertainers, the top health advisors and high profile journalists to ensure that the events we put out are at the top of their game and that everyone who participates in Pride has a fantastic time. Another of our aims is also to raise funds. As a not for profit organization run entirely by volunteers, we can never afford to sit back and enjoy the celebration. Instead, our volunteers work the year round, campaigning and working to give the Windsor-Essex region one of its best festivals every year.
History
1992
- First Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Festival
- Jim Monk and Diane Skomash are Man and Woman of the Year.
1993
- Pride Festival held
- Debra Dumochelle & Barry Adam (Man & Woman of the Year)
- Founding of Lesbian/Gay Community Council. Its mandate is to: initiate and coordinate activities and provide mutual support among area organizations, respond to concerns of the gay and lesbian community though its member organizations, provide representation for the local gay and lesbian community to the press and to other non-gay organizations, and provide representation to the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario. The member organizations are: AIDS Committee of Windsor, Gay phone line group, Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee, Gay/Lesbian Drop-in Group, Metropolitan Community Church, One in Ten, Out on Campus, Queer Radio, Women’s phone line group.
1994
- Pride Festival held
- Caroline Carnerie & Steve Lough (Man & Woman of the Year)
- Pride includes an angry march on the provincial building protesting the failure of Bill 167 which was to recognize same-sex relationships. Windsor MPPs David Cooke, George Dadamo, and Wayne Lessard vote in favour of Bill 167; county MPPs Bruce Crozier and Pat Hayes, against.
- Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario steering committee hosted in Windsor
- 7 ad hoc liaison committee meets with police chiefs, Jim Adkin, then John Kousik, to discuss problems in police-community relations.
1995
- Pride Festival held
- Jacquie Gahagan & John Shellhorn (Man & Woman of the Year)
1996
- Pride Festival held
- Ligaya Byrch & David Lyons (Man & Woman of the Year)
- Federal government adds sexual orientation to the Canadian Human Rights Act as ordered by the Supreme Court.
1997
- Pride Festival held
- Robin Chamberlain & Reverend Evan LeBlanc (Man & Woman of the Year)
1998
- Windsor Pride reorganizes and succeeds the LGCC
- Pride Festival held
1999
- Pride Festival held
- Liz Chamberlain & Evan LeBlanc (Man & Woman of the Year)
2000
- Paulette Kupnicki & Kirsten Schmidt (Pride Festival Co-Chairs)
- Kirsten Schmidt & Brent Kulba (Man & Woman of the Year)
2001
- Cory Albert & Paulette Kupnicki (Pride Festival Co-Chairs)
- Paulette Kupnicki & Chris L. Cecile (Man & Woman of the Year)
2002
- Cory Albert & Chris Cecile (Pride Festival Co-Chairs)
- Cory Albert & Jim Davies (Man & Woman of the Year)
2003
- Val Pearson & Chris Cecile (Pride Festival Co-Chairs)
- Hedy Halpern/Colleen Rogers & Alan Sears (Man & Woman of the Year)
2004
- Windsor Pride Festival cancelled due to lack of funds and community involvement.
2005
- Windsor Pride Festival is re-organized and held at Charles Clark Square. Robert Vitella (Festival Chair)
- Bill C-38 passes into law; making Canada the 4th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
2006
- Windsor Pride Community incorporated. Joe McParland, President
- Festival held at Charles Clark Square. Dani Bobb, Festival Chair
2007
- Windsor Pride Community: Marc Dubois, President
- Windsor Pride Festival held at Riverfront Plaza. Jason Patterson, Festival Chair
2008
- Windsor Pride Community: Marc Dubois, President
- Windsor Pride Festival: Jason Patterson, Chair
2009
- Windsor Pride Community: Marc Dubois, President
- Windsor Pride Festival: Jason Patterson, Chairperson
2010
- Windsor Pride Community: Jason Patterson, President
- Windsor Pride Festival: David Lenz, Chairperson
2011
- Windsor Pride Community: Lawrence Lavender, President
- Windsor Pride Festival: David Lenz, Chairperson
- Windsor Pride Community separates the festival aspect from its programming, allowing Windsor-Essex Pride Fest to establish itself as a non-profit organization
- Windsor-Essex Pride Fest Inc. is incorporated in November 2011
2012
Windsor-Essex Pride Fest Inc. is awarded the Ontario Trillium Foundation grant for $120,500 for the following:
- Hiring of a Business Development Coordinator to raise additional funds for the organization
- Completion of a survey of the Windsor-Essex Community to gauge the interest of the festival in the Windsor-Essex community.
- Design and production of the new www.wepridefest.com website
- Brand Development which includes logo, letterhead, etc
Windsor-Essex Pride Fest partners with Travel Gay Canada and Toursim Windsor-Essex & Pelee Island on LGBT tourism destination initiatives.
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