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Thunder Pride is an annual
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parade and festival, staged in
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,
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."Thunder Bay Pride celebrations biggest ever, organizers say"
CBC Thunder Bay, June 17, 2018.
Following the launch of a planning committee in 2010, the event was staged for the first time in 2011. For the first two years it consisted solely of a community festival, with a parade added to the event calendar for the first time in 2013. It was only the second pride festival ever launched in the
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region, following Sudbury Pride in 1997. The parade route follows Red River Road, from Waverley Park near
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's Bora Laskin Faculty of Law campus to Marina Park on the waterfront. At the 2018 festival, organizers took special security precautions following the disruption of several small-town Pride events in
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earlier in the year."Thunder Pride taking precautions in case of disruptions"
CBC Thunder Bay, June 15, 2018. No disruptions were reported in the end.


References

Festivals in Thunder Bay Recurring events established in 2010 Pride parades in Canada Organizations based in Thunder Bay 2010 establishments in Ontario LGBTQ festivals in Ontario {{LGBT-event-stub