Regina’s Queen City Pride parade sees biggest attendance ever | 24CA News
Regina noticed its greatest Queen City Pride parade ever on Saturday because the occasion wound via downtown.
The vibrant celebration for the Queen City Pride parade had 122 float and group individuals and hundreds of attendees.
“There’s a lot of people here at the actual parade, so I don’t know who’s left in the city,” joked Riviera Bonneau, a Queen City Pride board member. “We’re expecting hopefully a couple of thousand people to be able to watch the parade and participate and to hopefully come to the park afterwards.”
Over the years, the Queen City Pride has grown in attendance and within the help it has obtained from Regina. It’s an important sight to see for Bonneau.
“We’re a small little group and it’s grown into this incredible 10-day festival every year that people love to get into and love to celebrate with us,” Bonneau stated. “We have to almost try to contain the number of people coming because we have so much in only so little space. So, it’s grown a lot in the last 30 years.”
Parade participant Olivia Redston-Davies attends the satisfaction parade yearly as a watcher, however this 12 months, for the primary time, she participated within the parade itself.
“It feels really fulfilling to be here supporting different communities, different community members, standing up for others’ personal rights in what we believe in,” she stated. “We’re all just human and we’re just trying to exist and feel happy.”
Dominka Krzeminska of Big Sisters of Regina stated that within the work she does, the group serves a number of youngsters locally, and they’re all about inclusivity.
“There’s a lot of kids who require or need that additional support and we want to be here to support them,” she stated.
“Pride parades started as a protest. It wasn’t a celebration for obvious and important reasons, and I think now that it is a celebration, it is amazing to see.”
People of all ages and all walks of life had been in attendance to rejoice satisfaction.
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