Six Nations Pride is about “Visibility, Acceptance, Inclusion”

Volunteers Rachel Montour and Sage Takacs handed out food tickets to Six Nations Pride attendees!

By Alex Murray Writer The “Six Nations Celebrates Pride!” event is all about “visibility, acceptance, and inclusion” to Six Nations Social Services family well-being navigator Maureene Ninham. “Being an Indigenous queer woman myself, I understand the difficulties to be accepted in certain situations,” Ninham, one of the main organizers told Turtle Island News at the event held at the Six Nations community hall this year. “And to be able to be visible and having something like this was something that probably wouldn’t happen 20 years ago.” The decade old Six Nations Celebrates Pride event has been marked for the past decade with a parade down Chiefswood Road. But this year’s event, held at the community hall on June13th, got a helping hand from Six Nations Social Services and Department of…

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