Edmonton's 2SLGBTQ+ Heritage Through Community Storytelling
Edmonton's 2SLGBTQ+ Heritage Through Community Storytelling
Baker ParkThis is a Baker-Park montage from Pride 2009’s show at Churchill Square. What performers do you recognize? The theme for Pride 2009 was Age of Aqueerious with the Pride Festival running from June 12 – 21, 2009. The performances in this video montage are from the main stage on Churchill Square on Saturday, June 13, 2009.
Baker ParkBoots Bar hosted a lot of shows over their years – including this mega-tribute to Kylie Minogue. This montage shows the size of the cast and scope of the show, back in those days before Dragging our Heels taped everything start to finish! The event was held on November 25 & 26, 2008 and was presented by White Diamonds Productions and was a SHOWBOY Original event.
Rob BrowatzkeFifteen years ago, Aaron Granley and Daren Kavich were sitting at Boots, sharing a few pitchers of beer, and bitching how no one came out. Daren was recently back from Vancouver, where he’d attended one of the successful Bearracuda events that happened regularly there, and they lamented that nothing like this happened in Edmonton. There’d been bear groups before, but nothing was active. As Daren told Aaron stories about what the scene was like at Bearracuda, Aaron got more and more irritated that local bears and bear-admirers and bear-adjacents had to travel elsewhere for a party like that. Or…
Rainbow Story HubWith thanks to several contributors we have compiled a collection of Pride Parade videos. Many are only highlights and do not capture the entirety of the parade. Others are the full parade and come from ShawTV which filmed the parade and presented it live on the Shaw Community Channel. The final one is of the 2018 Pride Parade – the last we have had in Edmonton. This was from Radical Citizen Media and also captures as a separate video with a portion of the Protesters blocking the parade.
Updated: On August 23, 2025 Edmonton saw the return of he Pride Parade. we are delighted to have Blazewing Photography’s donation of their video of the parade now in our collection.
All these can be found on our website by using the SEARCH box and entering Pride Parades, by using this list of links or by visiting our YouTube Channel and choosing the “Pride History” Playlist from our menu.
Ron ByersIn 1996 Ron Byers, a member of the Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wild Rose, built their very first website on the Geocities – a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free. Recently the files used were found and so we have uploaded them to our website so you can check this “historic” part of our history. Click the pic below to access the website. Please note that it was NOT built to be mobile friendly (mobile internet did not exist then) and is best viewed on a desktop or larger tablet.
Rainbow Story Hub2018 was the last Pride Parade held in the City of Edmonton. The Parade – held on Saturday, June 9, 2018 – ran east on 82 Avenue (Whyte Avenue) to 104 Street where it then turned North to Gazebo Park Park where it disbanded and Parade attendees then headed East to End of Steel Park for the Pride Festival grounds. At about 10 minutes after the start of the Parade reached 104 Street it was blocked by protesters who held up the parade for over 30 minutes while officials from the Edmonton Pride Festival Society attempted to negotiate a resolution while considering the “Demands” of the protesters.
ShawTV EdmontonEdmonton Pride Parade 2017 – ShawTV This is a full length edition of the Edmonton Pride Parade filmed by Shaw TV Edmonton on June 4, 2016. The presentation was hosted by Shaye Ganam and Darrin Hagen with Reporter On The Street – Vanity Fair with special Guest Marni Panas Check out the @ShawTVEdmonton YouTube Channel Viewing time 1:18:29
ShawTV EdmontonEdmonton Pride Parade 2016 – ShawTV This is a full length edition of the Edmonton Pride Parade filmed by Shaw TV Edmonton on June 4, 2016. The presentation was hosted by Dana Giesbreicht and Darrin Hagen with Reporter On The Street – Vanity Fair and Jordan Hertner Check out the @ShawTVEdmonton YouTube Channel Viewing time 1:24:02
ShawTV EdmontonEdmonton Pride Parade 2015 – ShawTV This is a full length edition of the Edmonton Pride Parade filmed by Shaw TV Edmonton on June 6, 2015. The presentation was hosted by Alexa MacLean and Darrin Hagen with Reporter On The Street – Vanity Fair Check out the @ShawTVEdmonton YouTube Channel Viewing time 1:15:54
ShawTV EdmontonThis is a full length edition of the Edmonton Pride Parade filmed by Shaw TV Edmonton on June 7, 2014.
The presentation was hosted by Alexa MacLean and Darrin Hagen with Reporter On The Street – Vanity Fair
Times.10 MagazineThis is a collection of short clips of the Edmonton Pride Parade recorded on June 15, 2003.
Thanks to Times.10 Magazine for copyright permissions for including in our video catalogue.
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Times.10 MagazineThis is a collection of short clips of the Edmonton Pride Parade recorded on June 19, 2004.
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Times.10 MagazineThis is a collection of short clips of the Edmonton Pride Parade recorded on June 17, 2006.
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Times.10 MagazineThis is a collection of short clips of the Edmonton Pride Parade recorded on June 13, 2009. Thanks to Times.10 Magazine for copyright permissions for including in our video catalogue.
Rainbow Story HubThis montage was made by ISCWR Empress 38 Dayzi Chayne and Emperor 38 Jeffylube XXXpress at the May Long Weekend Drag Show at Boots Bar located at 10242 – 106 Street, Edmonton on the May Long Weekend in 2009
