Fierté Canada Pride (FCP)

Our Vision

Fierté Canada Pride (FCP) envisions a world where Pride & 2SLGBTQIA+ movements and communities that are connected, accessible, accountable, intersectional and equitable.

Our Mission

Fierté Canada Pride’s mission is to strengthen Pride organisations and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities through elevating equity-denied and global majority peoples, practising reconciliation in action, collaborating intentionally, building capacity, and advocating for systemic change.

Our Values

Reconciliation: Meaningfully supporting the work of Indigenous, Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer people challenging colonialism, racism, land theft, discrimination and human rights violations in so-called Canada.

Anti-Oppression & Anti-Racism: Seeking out education opportunities for our membership and our organisation on core principles of anti-racism and anti-oppression, centering the voices of the most marginalised and vulnerable to systemic violence.

Accountability & Integrity: Finding a balance between celebrating our wins and owning our mistakes with full transparency.

Collaboration & Capacity Building: Creating opportunities for our membership to collaborate and share their work with each other.

Mutual Care & Dignity: Fostering a coworking and collaborative environment within Pride movements and our organisation that celebrates diversity, encourages different styles of leadership and communication, and upholds the dignity of all through restorative and authentic relationship management.

Our Services

National Conferences: FCP hosts an annual conference in conjunction with its AGM, a gathering of Canada’s most active Pride organisations, as well as community organisations, government agencies, grassroots groups, and changemakers. We also have a licenced event, Canada Pride, held every 2-3 years in conjunction with a member organisation’s annual Pride Week, with a Human Rights Conference as its centrepiece.

Resources, Workshops, Networking Opportunities: In addition to the conference, FCP hosts a number of virtual skill-building workshops and networking opportunities throughout the year. Members have access to a growing library of documents including templates, handbooks and informational resources, as well as recordings of webinars and workshops.

Community Safety and Support Fund: FCP advocated for funding for Pride Organizations to address growing safety concerns during the 2023 Pride Season, as we navigate an environment with rising anti-2SLGBTQI+ hate. This advocacy resulted in Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) allocating a $1.5 million grant to provide funding to Pride organisations to organise safe Pride events across Canada.

Member Resources and Coaching: FCP in collaboration with Egale Canada produced and published Pride Safety Toolkits for event organisers and attendees. Throughout the 2023 Pride season, FCP offered a new series of free drop-in ‘Communications and Media Advisory Office Hours’ coaching sessions for Pride Organizations that would benefit from strategic communications and media support.

Rural & Remote Pride Collective: The Rural & Remote Pride Collective is a community group of pride organisers based in rural and remote areas throughout so-called Canada. FCP will facilitate meetings and workshops, and develop resources that will foster cross-sector collaboration between rural and remote pride organisations. This is part of our “Strengthening Relationships & Connections Between Rural Prides” project, funded by WAGE, which includes 2023-2024 FCP Micro-Grants.

Stories of Two-Spirit Indigenous Indian Residential and Day School Survivors: Through this project, eight 2Spirit Indian Residential School Survivors (Story Tellers) participated in a speaker series project preserving and sharing their stories through a series of storytelling workshops.