The Pride Flag will be installed in Patterson Park for the month of June. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)

By Derek Cornet

human rights

La Ronge to declare June as Pride Month, organizers planning for several events

May 12, 2022 | 3:49 PM

Members of the Lac La Ronge Regional Pride Committee are planning for the largest celebration of Pride Month to date in the tri-communities.

The festivities will begin June 1 with the raising of the Pride Flag at 6 p.m. in Patterson Park. Kostas will host a Pride n’ Pint Trivia Night on June 23 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Two events will be held June 25 including a Pride CrossFit Workout of the Day at Jonas Roberts Memorial Community Centre during noon hour, followed by the YXE Collective Drag Show at The Lands from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

The Pride Parade will be held June 26 starting at 10:30 a.m. at the Lac La Ronge Indian Band office and end at Patterson Park. That will lead into a donation-based barbecue and live entertainment from noon to 4 p.m.

“Also, last night with our committee, we’re adding a diversity service,” committee member and La Ronge Mayor Colin Ratushniak said. “It’s going to be a collaboration of the different religious groups in town. It’s going to be hosted by the United Church.”

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At a regular town council meeting on Tuesday it was decided the municipality would collaborate with Pre-Cam Community School and Churchill Community High School Gay Straight Alliance clubs to repaint the pride sidewalk on Boardman Street. The town will also formally declare June as Pride Month in La Ronge and will pass a proclamation stating the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning and two-spirit (LGBTQ2S+) community, their friends and the allies of, are integral and important contributing members of La Ronge.

The proclamation notes La Ronge recognizes and values the rights and freedoms of these and all Canadian citizens to love whom they choose and to establish for themselves a healthy vital family unit defined by that love.

Ratushniak explained the events are a good way for the community to get involved, to learn, to educate and support the cause for equality and human rights, not only locally, but globally.

“It’s kind of funny when you looked back to three years ago when I first moved to the community, I think that was my first take into politics here,” Ratushniak said of his efforts to raise the Pride Flag in 2019. “It’s really great to see where we’ve come as a community and a council to see that through, so I’m really proud.”

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