Rainbow bright: Nanaimo Pride festival marks 20 years of progress
NANAIMO — What turned out to be one of Nanaimo’s biggest celebrations of last year is set for round two this weekend.
The Nanaimo Pride Society’s second annual Pride parade and festival takes over downtown Saturday, June 10.
Society vice-president Lauren Semple told NanaimoNewsNOW they were blown away by the love and support their first event received last year. She said the roughly 10,000 people that turned out more than tripled their expectations.
“We learned that Nanaimo has big hearts and big open arms for our society in our community,” Semple said. “The people of Nanaimo were ready to celebrate love in a new and inclusive and big way so we had to do everything on a bigger scale this year.”