Sault Pride

Sault Pride A link to other 2SLGBTQIA+ people, support groups, events, etc. that happen within Sault Ste. Marie. Bringing PRIDEFEST to Sault Ste. Marie ONTARIO since 2014!

This is an open forum for 2SLGBTQIA+ people and their allies to come together to meet each other, discuss topics and issues that matter within our community and develop strategies and create initiatives that contribute to the well being of 2SLGBTQIA+ and allied persons, families and networks within Sault Ste. Marie, the district of Algoma and elsewhere. We recognize that Sault Ste. Marie is in Rob

inson-Huron Treaty territory and that the land on which we are gathered is the traditional territory of the Anishnaabeg, specifically the Garden River and Batchewana First Nations, as well as Métis People.

06/10/2026
06/10/2026

Pride is for everyone. Stop policing it 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧱💅🏼(OP: Rosalarian)

06/09/2026

Believe trans youth.

We don’t make the rules — you’ll just have to try loving yourself! If it’s hard, we’ve been there. Try starting with one...
06/09/2026

We don’t make the rules — you’ll just have to try loving yourself! If it’s hard, we’ve been there. Try starting with one little thing about you that is awesome and go from there!

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06/09/2026

Love requires a helping hand 🤷🏻‍♀️

06/08/2026

Canada Post just put a Vancouver bookstore on a stamp — a bookstore the Canadian government spent twenty years trying to destroy.
The Little Sisters bookstore is in Vancouver's west end and it became a sanctuary for Vancouver's q***r community, stocking everything from novels and magazines to erotic literature and self-help books.
Almost immediately, Canada Customs came for them. Starting in the mid-1980s, shipments to Little Sisters began disappearing at the border, or arriving with pages literally torn out. Books labelled obscene. Magazines held up for months.
At one point, nearly 75 per cent of everything the store ordered from the United States was being seized or destroyed. Other bookstores, ordering some of the same material, had no problems. The targeting was not subtle.

THE CROWN'S DIRTY HANDS
The federal government was doing this under laws that dated back to the 1800s, which gave customs officials sweeping power to seize material they personally judged obscene. The burden of proof sat entirely on the importer. You had to prove your books weren't immoral. The government didn't have to prove anything.
So Little Sisters' owners sued in the BC Supreme Court, then the BC Court of Appeal, and it finally landed at the Supreme Court in 2000.
The court's decision: that Canada Customs had violated Little Sisters' Charter rights, both freedom of expression and equality rights.
It also flipped the burden of proof. From that point forward, customs officials had to prove something was obscene before seizing it.

A STAMP OF ABSOLUTION
This week, Canada Post, a Crown corporation, part of the same federal government that spent two decades trying to bankrupt that store through bureaucratic harassment, put Little Sisters on a postage stamp. Part of a series called Places of Pride.
The stamp features portraits of the two owners, their longtime store manager, plus the cat Little Sister, after whom the whole place was named.
It is, depending on your disposition, either a beautiful act of institutional redemption or the most Canadian thing that has ever happened: The government that tried to silence you eventually decides to honour you.

Happy Pride Month 💙💜🩷

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06/08/2026

A reminder that Pride Month is not just a celebration, but a protest!!

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