Celebrating Pride, Protection Island style

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Lauryn Mackenzie -

CHLY

Nanaimo,

British Columbia

Community

August 20, 2024

With about roughly 350 people living on Protection Island, every year community members come together to celebrate Pride and create safes for queer residents.

For the last ten years, the island known for its pirate theme and floating bar, residents come together to put on a Pride parade in the ways they know best, with golf carts.

CHLY attended the tenth-anniversary of the Pride parade and celebration on Protection Island on Aug. 17. About 14 residents decorated their golf carts to the nines with rainbow streamers and balloons before parading around the island as people onlookers cheered them on.

CHLY spoke with drag performer Chrys LoScerbo, who performs under the name “Mannaquinnn,” about the importance on celebrating Pride no matter the size of their community.

As well CHLY spoke with event organizer Wendy Martin about the start of the Protection Island Pride parade and giving a safe space for queer residents on the island.

A white golf cart is being driven down the road. One person is driving it wearing pink glasses and a silver shiny jacket. In the passenger side is someone holding a microphone to their mouth and wearing a rainbow ti-dye sweater. The golf cart is toeing a stage where two people-a man wearing a blue and purple long sweater and bright orange shorts is playing a guitar. Beside the man is an another man playing on a full black drum kit.

A drag performer is preforming in a field. They are wearing heavy makeup to look masculine. They are dress up in a black and red costume to look like a bull rider. They are holding a red piece of fabric like a bull rider does when trying to get the bull’s attention.

Protection Island Pride Parade on Aug. 17. Photos by Lauryn Mackenzie.

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Celebrating Pride, Protection Island style

Lauryn Mackenzie -

Community

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