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Happy Pride Everyone
For Pride 2024, I want to acknowledge two very important people who inspire me every day. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
As many of you know I was a gestational surrogate. Watching her amazing dads raise her is the most heartwarming experience!❤️
Second, Lowertown’s own Paul Fournier, aka Peaches Latour, Ottawa’s first drag queen. Fournier was arrested by the RCMP in the late 1960s and shown dozens of photo books filled primarily with snapshots of men suspected to be gay, but he refused to betray his friends and community by identifying them. He kept on performing and I will be nominating him for the Order of Ottawa this year.🎖️
Pride is an important reminder that often the most important work occurs without a parade, without fanfare, and that each and every one of us has the power, voice, and responsibility to create, maintain, and develop safe spaces, communities, and workplaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ people to live, work, grow daily.🙌
Happy Pride everyone! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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