About Pride Cape Breton
                            

The Pride Cape Breton Society is Cape Breton’s first and only provincially registered organization dedicated solely to the well-being and unity of the island’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community. Its 6- member board is made up of dedicated, hard working volunteers from the last organization, and previous Pride Week organizers.

Since organizing in October of last year, we have been putting plans together for our August Pride Week festival, bringing aspects of previous festivals that have had great success. In addition to our planning process, we’ve been hosting monthly dances at the Southend Community Centre in Sydney. Turnout for the dances have increased with each dance, and we’ve been seeing more and more new people show up at each dance.

 Dances have become  a very popular venue therefore they are now held twice
 a month, check the events page for dates. With much interest from the community to be involved in more activities than these monthly socials, plans are coming together as well to offer our community members more activities such as baseball, hiking, pool and a garden club.

This year’s Pride Week festival will be held in August following Sydney’s annual Action Week events. We’ve chosen to move our festival to this date for a few reasons. An August festival would make it easier for people in our community to visit other Maritime cities hosting Pride Week festivals, and of course easier for other community members to visit Cape Breton Island for our own festival. August has also been a typical time when many ex-Cape Bretoners return home to visit, so the post-Action Week festival is a more appropriate time for them to enjoy the many events our festival has to offer.