Drumming, dancing, Girls Just Want To Have Fun , rainbow umbrellas, rainbow bowties, a rainbow-spotted Dalmatian, the twang of Shania Twain and the rhythm of a fiddle. Those were the sights and sounds of the 2024 Saskatoon Pride Parade weaving through the city's downtown core. The first float, opening the parade with drumming and Indigenous singing, embarked west down 24th Street E.
just after noon. "I think it's a beautiful way to start Pride, because two-spirit people have always existed on these lands," said Prestin Thôtin-Awâsis, a Cree and Métis person and part of the Saskatchewan chapter of the 2 Spirits in Motion Society (2SiMS). Prestin Thôtin-Awâsis, left, walks alongside the leading float in the 2024 Saskatoon Pride Parade.
(Dayne Patterson/CBC) The national 2SiMS organization hosted a two-spirit powwow on Friday. "It was just beautiful to feel that community showed up for us, so this is that same feeling I'm having yesterday as I do today." Saskatoon Morning 7:39 Saskatoon's Traditional Two Spirit Powwow kicks off Host Theresa Kliem speaks with Angelina Perea and Jordy Ironstar, both with the 2 Spirits In Motion Society.
Farther down the pack, Saskatoon churches showed support for Pride. "Pride is an amazing celebration of our community and its diversity," said Rev. Mitchell Anderson from St.
Paul's United Church. "Churches have often been sites of homophobia and transphobia, and so for those churches from many traditions that are committed to inclusion o.