This year, Kelowna is hosting a month-long (May 30th-June 30th) Pride celebration full of fun and festivities for everyone to come together as a community to promote love, diversity, and acceptance. 2025's Pride theme is Rise and Resist, where we will celebrate LGBTQIA2S+ history, achievements, and…
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June is a big month. From Pride to National Indigenous Peoples Day to the official start of summer, it’s a month for getting out and about to explore Kelowna…
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Kelowna will welcome delegates from over 75 Pride organizations for Fierté Canada Pride's 2023 National Conference & AGM in just over a week…
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Fahmy Baharuddin (he/him/his) attended his first Pride in Vancouver at 22. It was his first year in the country. Baharuddin came to Canada as a refugee, and celebrating Pride was illegal where he grew up…
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Kelowna Pride Week is back! Due to the ongoing pandemic, Kelowna Pride Week has shifted to October…
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Brad Tomlinson along with his business partner and pizza wizard, Damien Moore, opened Jackknife Brewing in March of 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic…
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“Your Future, Your Story...” This is the theme for Kelowna Pride 2020, which takes place September 18-27. As this year has been challenging for everyone, creating isolation and uncertainty, Kelowna Pride looks to bring people together in a safe, socially distanced way at some of Kelowna’s most premiere locations…
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Upon meeting Bobby Bissessar, you will be struck by his poise, professionalism, and plain old…
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Ella Lamoureux is a truly Canadian drag queen. Heralding from the Kaska First Nation, whose traditional territory covers parts of northern British Columbia and southeastern Yukon, Ella’s ancestral people have lived in what is now Canada for thousands of years…
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Loyal Wooldridge is a successful entrepreneur - operating Loyal Hair, a full-service luxury hair salon since 2006 - and in fall 2018, he was elected to Kelowna City Council…
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