The Hamilton Pride 2017 committee was constituted from interested community members at an open LGBTQ town hall in November of 2016.

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There were two main questions that evening:

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*What values does your ideal Pride include?

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*What activities does your ideal Pride include?

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We had over 100 individual answers to these questions and when we clustered the events and clustered our collective values, we were left with a clear direction moving forward.

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When it comes to events, we are proud to present with our partners and sponsors over two weeks of programming that is fun, inclusive, informative, and important.

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The core values of our communities have driven the hard work of your Hamilton Pride committee members the past seven months, they include:

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Solidarity Building: reach out to old and new allies, partners, and accomplices

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Inclusivity: recreating and creating new space that is safe and safer for all LGBTQ2S Hamiltonians including newcomers, People of Colour, folks who multi-identify, families, seniors, PHAs, and youth

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Political: Pride is political, our communities embrace positive self-expression, challenge monologues, reject homo-nationalism, reject homo-colonialism, and homo-gentrification

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Historical: We believe our stories must be preserved, and commit to physical documentation of Pride

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Safety: We believe the safest spaces are those we ourselves create and will wherever possible self-secure LGBTQ2S spaces