Sudbury Pride is an annual LGBT pride

Gay pride

LGBT pride or gay pride is the concept that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity...

 parade and festival, held in Greater Sudbury, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

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Held for the first time in 1997, the event was originally organized by a committee that included sociologist Gary Kinsman

Gary Kinsman

Gary Kinsman is a Canadian sociologist. He is one of Canada's leading academics on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. In 1987, he wrote one of the key Canadian texts on LGBT social history, Regulation of Desire, reprinted in 1995...

. Originally held in August of each year, the event has been held in July since 2007.

It is currently the only Pride event in the Northern Ontario

Northern Ontario

Northern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron , the French River and Lake Nipissing. The region has a land area of 802,000 km2 and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it contains only about 6% of the population...

 region. In 2006, This Magazine

This Magazine

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cited Sudbury Pride as an event which, because of the city's working class culture, feels "real, dangerous, like Pride's supposed to feel."

Events

Following a raising of the Pride Flag at Tom Davies Square

Tom Davies Square

Tom Davies Square is the city hall of Greater Sudbury, Ontario.Built in the 1970s and formerly known as Civic Square, the building was part of an urban renewal movement toward transforming the city's visual image by investing in more distinctive and modern architecture...

 to launch the festival, a week-long series of events is held, including film screenings at the downtown Rainbow Cinema

Rainbow and Magic Lantern Cinemas

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 theatre as well as events at Science North

Science North

Science North is an interactive science museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.The complex, which is Northern Ontario's most popular tourist attraction, consists of two snowflake-shaped buildings on the southwestern shore of Lake Ramsey, just south of the city's downtown core, as well as a...

, Market Square, Bell Park

Bell Park (Sudbury)

Bell Park is a large municipal park in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, located on the western shore of Lake Ramsey.The park is named for William J. Bell, an early lumber baron in the city whose former mansion is also the site of the Art Gallery of Sudbury. The park site is part of his former...

, the downtown branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library

Greater Sudbury Public Library

The Greater Sudbury Public Library is a public library in Sudbury, Ontario.The library has 13 branches throughout the city. The main branch is called "Mackenzie" and it is located on Mackenzie Street in the city's downtown core...

and various bars and restaurants in the city's downtown core, including Zig's, the city's only gay bar. On the final day of the festival, a march takes place through downtown.