Celebrate Pride Month 2025

CBC Saskatchewan would like to provide ways to celebrate and support LGBTQ2S+ people.

Here are some ways to celebrate and support LGBTQ2S+ people

CBC Communications · Posted: Jun 02, 2025 1:59 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 3

The CBC Gem in the LGBTQ2+ colours as well as the typed words CBC Saskatchewan. — (CBC)

In June, many across Canada recognize Pride Month. It is a time when we celebrate the diversity of LGBTQ2S+ communities, while acknowledging their history, the hardships they have endured and the progress that has been made.

We have assembled some resources so that you can learn about, celebrate and better support LGBTQ2S+ people in your community.

Please note, where terms other than LGBTQ2S+ might be used below, we chose to keep the language of the host community or organization.

Spotlighting Saskatchewan stories

Here's where we'll be compiling our Pride coverage this year. Have a story idea? Contact sasknews@cbc.ca

Your Local CBC

CBC Saskatchewan is delighted to support and be a part of pride celebrations during Pride Month. We will be participating in the Queen City Pride parade on Saturday, June 14th.

CBC marching in Queen City parade — CBC Saskatchewan takes part in the Queen City Pride parade in 2019 (Heidi Atter/CBC)

Celebrate Pride

From hosting parades to leading educational opportunities, here are some Pride non-profits operating in Saskatchewan.

Children and adults walking together during the 2022 Foam Lake Pride parade — Children and adults walk together during the 2022 Foam Lake Pride parade. (Nelson Bryksa)

Seek resources

From employment tax assistance to an annual camp for gender and sexually-diverse youth, Saskatchewan is awash with support. Here are several of those resources.

OUTSaskatoon.
Regina Public Library's programs, films and reading lists.
TransSask Support Services.
UR Pride.
USSU Pride Centre.

Learn the history

We're fortunate that folks have dedicated time to assembling information about queer history and experiences in Saskatchewan. Happy learning!

A black and white image of women lined up in several columns and rows, they are all wearing sporting attire. — From a league of their own to a lifelong relationship they kept a secret. A Secret Love debuting on Netflix documents the lives of two Saskatchewan-born women, including professional ball player Terry Donahue. (Secret Love/Netflix)

Pride on the Prairies: Queer History in Saskatchewan — An online exhibit by the Diefenbaker Canada Centre in partnership with the USSU Pride Centre.
Neil Richards Collection of Sexual and Gender Diversity.
Gender and Sexual Diversity Video Series – Saskatchewan Voices: Using student voices to capture their experience as they explore their gender identity, this video series explores the types of support that is needed for youth to feel accepted and safe in Saskatchewan schools.
Netflix's documentary Secret Love highlights the 71-year love story of two Saskatchewan-born women, including baseball legend Terry Donahue.

Nationally

The 200 most iconic queers in cultural history.
Super Queeroes is a celebration of 101 queer artists such as Jane Rule, Rae Spoon, Dan Levy, and many more, who have helped shape Canada's rich 2LGBTQ+ history.

Be a better ally

By CBC Kids News: She/her, he/him and they/them. What are pronouns?

Watch with Pride

Celebrate Pride Month with movies and series telling the stories of the LGTBQ2S+ community on CBC Gem. Here are some highlights. More will be released throughout June.

Sabi Mehboob, a fluid millenial and star of CBC's 'Sort of" sits in the backseat of a car looking off camera. Title is white text on black. — CBC Gem is rolling out a selection of LGBTQ-focused content over the course of June. (CBC Gem)

Here and Queer: An interview series hosted by Peter Knegt that celebrates and amplifies the work of our greatest LGBTQ2S+ artists through unfiltered conversations. Season 3 dives deep into the stories of various incredible artists such as Connor Jessup, Amanda Cordner, and Vivek Shraya. Plus, make sure to get caught up on season 4, released on May 30th!
Please Like Me: Twentysomething Josh is going through a number of big changes as he navigates his first decade of adulthood. After being dumped by his girlfriend, he comes to the realization that he is gay.
Sort Of: A big-hearted series about Sabi Mehboob, a fluid millennial who straddles various identities.
Someone Like Me: When a queer group of strangers unite to support a gay Ugandan man seeking asylum in Canada, unexpected challenges lead them down an emotional road together in search of personal freedom.
Small Town Pride: An intimate portrait of LGBTQ2S+ pride and queer life in small towns, told through the stories of people from communities across Canada.
Girl Like You: As a couple battles to stay together while one of them transitions genders, they confront the effects of new body parts, changing gender roles, and navigate their own evolving sexual identities.

This June, we're shining a spotlight on powerful stories that celebrate resilience, innovation, and identity. CBC has curated a list featuring the Top 5 picks for June, highlighting some must-watch LGBTQ2S+ and Indigenous entertainment.

Listen to LGBTQ2S+ voices

Three people are in the image, one wears a cowboy hat and mask, the middle wears a colorful ensemble with heavily styled hair, the last is a older man with salt and pepper hair wearing a dark blue suit and a light blue tie. — A Pride playlist that suits every celebration, be it physically distanced, virtual, or solo. (Getty Images and courtesy of the artist)

CBC Music has curated this playlist to honour some of Canada's great LGBTQ2S+ artists, including Parachute Club, Tegan and Sara, Pet Shop Boys and more.

CBC Saskatchewan has featured LGBTQ2S+ musicians in several of our Local Music Project initiatives such as:

respectfulchild: An agender Chinese-Malaysian musical artist settler who is born, raised, and living on Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon.
Anna Haverstock: Once the radio-ready, catchy alt-rock pop tunes of Saskatoon's Anna Haverstock hook you, they never let you go. CBC Radio 3 has compared her with Serena Ryder and we couldn't agree more. Anna's electric vocals, rock rhythms and overall energy are just a few of the many reasons we wanted to celebrate her sound.

Musicians inspire other musicians, and CBC Music highlights 6 2SLGBTQ+ artists and the trailblazers who came before them. In this article, T. Thomason, iskwē, Adria Kain and more tell us who has inspired them, and what we should be listening to.

The sounds of Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ musicians are as vast and diverse as the community itself. An anthem can be loud and proud or heartfelt and intimate; it can be explicit in its subject matter or more subtly filled with hidden meanings. CBC spotlights 25 essential Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ anthems, and how these songs of love, pride and resilience highlight the country's rich history of queer musicians.

Season 3 of The Village: The Montreal Murders is on CBC Listen and the podcast Le Village: meurtres, combat, fierté, on Radio-Canada OHdio. Both put the spotlight on early 1990s Montreal, where — against a backdrop of police violence and the AIDS crisis — the LGBTQ2S+ community is shaken to the core by the unsolved murders of 17 gay men.

In CBC Podcasts' Chosen Family, artists, activists and Black Lives Canada co-founders Syrus Marcus Ware and Rodney Diverlus join hosts Thomas and Tranna for a special conversation on the movement for racial justice within the queer community. The two friends and co-editors of the best-selling essay collection Until We Are Free share their journey and open up about what Pride means to them.

What is "gender identity"? How is it different from "gender expression"? What about "non-binary"? Join host Faith Fundal as they explore these questions in CBC Podcast's They & Us, alongside people who find themselves navigating the world of preferred pronouns, trans rights and the quest to be recognized for who they are.

How are you celebrating Pride Month? Have something to add? Email us at saskcomms@cbc.ca.