Remarks by
The Honourable Anita Neville, P.C., O.M.
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
WINNIPEG PRIDE PARADE AND RALLY
Manitoba Legislative Building
Sunday, June 2, 2024, 10:00 a.m.
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Good morning Winnipeg Pride! What a pleasure it is to join you at the Pride 2024 rally as we Transcend Together*.
This annual gathering brings people together in the heart of Treaty One land and in the homeland of the Red River Metis.
Today as we celebrate the two spirit and LGBTQ+ communities and the diversity of this province, we acknowledge and celebrate that Manitoba is the ancestral and present-day home of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Dakota, Dene, Inuit and Red River Metis peoples.
Together, we are listening and learning and working to make this province and this country a better place – a place of justice, equity and opportunity for all.
The Pride community has worked to make Manitoba a better, more understanding and open place – beginning long before the first rally was held on the steps of the Legislative Building in 1987.
Since then, the people who raise their voices at this rally, and who parade joyfully through Winnipeg at this celebration, have played an important role in defining and defending rights.
For 37 years, Winnipeg Pride has opened minds, nurtured courage and understanding, and given people in this city and province a great excuse to sing and dance and be as fabulous as they want to be.
To all who have made this possible, thank you for nurturing Winnipeg Pride – and along with it, Winnipeg Joy, Winnipeg Understanding, Winnipeg Hope.
Have a wonderful festival.
Thank you. Merci. Meegwich.