Kelowna Pride announces dates for 2020 celebrations

Kelowna’s 2020 Pride celebrations will run from June 6 to the 14.

Organizers are hoping for even more participation than last year when over 12,000 people turned out for the Pride March downtown.

Right now they’re concentrating on securing vendors, volunteers, advertisers and sponsors.

“2019 was our biggest Pride ever, with over 12,000 people joining us for the Pride March in downtown Kelowna. It was incredible to see the outpouring of support from the local community. Our challenge for 2020 is to try and make Pride even bigger and better. Pride is all about inclusivity and acceptance. It’s not about ‘us versus them’, but celebrating and creating a world where all can be their true selves regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation,” said Dustyn Baulkham, General Manager of the Kelowna Pride Society.

The month of June marks the internationally recognized Pride Month; in commemoration of the pivotal 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City and it is also the month Gilbert Baker’s original design of the Rainbow Pride Flag was flown at the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

You can learn more about the Kelowna Pride Society through the organization’s official website (KelownaPride.com).