Sarnia 2SLGBTQ+ community to hold first Pride parade in more than 20 years on Sunday

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· Posted: Jul 11, 2025 8:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 12

Sarnia volition clasp its archetypal Pride parade successful much than 20 years connected Saturday, with somewhat much than 10 entrants expected to instrumentality part.

The lawsuit is portion of the city's precocious revived yearly pridefulness celebrations, which crook 4 this year.

"I'm precise excited to spot however this each unfolds," said Jessica Baker, the enforcement manager of Queer Joy Canada, which is organizing this year's festivities.

"I deliberation determination mightiness beryllium 1 that is moving connected a tiny float. … Honestly, I could not beryllium much excited that we are going to person what looks similar a genuine parade, truthful we're going to person a substance of vehicles and marchers and everything similar that."

Pride successful the Park takes spot Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. successful Canatara Park and includes a favored parade, pet pageant, assortment hr and resistance show.

The parade itself starts astatine noon connected Sunday and rolls done the parkland down Lake Chipican Drive.

But Baker, who enactment unneurotic this year's events with a tiny committee and unpaid crew, urged much radical to get progressive to assistance Pride proceed successful the years to come. 

"I'm truly hoping that we tin proceed to grow," she said, "to marque definite that we person that longevity, that sustainability for this festival."