Sackville Pride Parade creates ‘special and meaningful’ moments for first-time marchers
Sackville showed its Pride last Friday afternoon, with a brief but well attended double flag raising and march from the Mount Allison campus down to the Tantramar municipal office on Main Street.
CHMA was there and brings you some of the voices from the crowd of over 100 Pride marchers, starting off with organizers Marshall Campbell and Hannah Saulnier, from Mount Allison’s Catalyst student group, who helped organize the event.
“Pride is really important to me because it shows that we’re not afraid of the people that feel that we don’t belong or that we don’t have a right to exist and to express ourselves,” said Campbell. “So I’m really happy to see how many people came out today.”
The all-ages crowd was a mix of Pride veterans and first-timers, many of whom were moved by the outpouring of support and love for the queer community.
“I have lived in areas that have been extremely bigoted and homophobic,” said first year Mount Allison student Catherine, who was attending her first ever Pride event. “I never thought I’d be able to experience this, and now I am.”
“It makes me very emotional to just see people from every age demographic,” said Catherine. “It’s really inspiring and really hopeful.”
