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Halifax Pride 'full steam ahead' for Saturday parade

After the Halifax Pride parade was cancelled in 2023, the organization says it's looking forward to getting back on track this year.

Organization celebrating first parade since 2022

A woman wearing a tank-top poses for a photo. She has pink hair and her top reads Halifax Pride.
Fiona Kerr is the operations manager for Halifax Pride. (Andrew Sampson/CBC)

After the Halifax Pride parade was cancelled in 2023, the organization says it's looking forward to getting back on track this year.

"We're full steam ahead,"operations manager Fiona Kerr said this weekduring an interview with CBC Radio'sMainstreet Nova Scotia.

The parade took place on Saturday and the festival runs until Sunday, July 28.

This year's Pride ambassador is April Hubbard, a queer and disabled artist who has worked to increase accessibility in Atlantic Canada, including in queer art spaces.

Its that time of year again. Halifax Pride kicks off this Friday and operations manager Fiona Kerr joined Mainstreet to discuss what to expect from this years festival.

The late Jane Kansas, a writer and activist who died in 2022 and worked for the organization in the '90s, has also been named an honorary ambassador for Pride this year, said Kerr.

"She really did a lot to move our organization and festival forward," she said. "She actually brought our after-parties out of closed spaces and into the public, and here we are today on the Garrison Grounds."

The full schedule of Pride events, including community planned festivities, is available here.

With files from Mainstreet Nova Scotia