Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance (2025)

Original title

Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance

Directed by

Noam Gonick

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

2.8 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of LGBTQ activism in Canada. It covers major events and people from the We Demand Rally to the rise of two-spirit identity.

celebratorydefianteducationalhistoricalhopefulcommunity-focusedspiritedfactual

What happens

Parade: Queer Acts of Love and Resistance is a 2025 Canadian documentary film, directed by Noam Gonick. The film profiles the history of LGBTQ activism and mobilization in Canada, including historic milestones such as the We Demand Rally, the launch of The Body Politic, the protest marches that followed the Sex Garage and Operation Soap raids, Svend Robinson coming out as Canada's first openly gay Member of Parliament, and the rise of two-spirit identity among Indigenous Canadian LGBTQ people. Key figures appearing in the film include Robinson, Tim McCaskell, Alexander Chapman, Richard Fung, John Greyson, Jearld Moldenhauer, Connie Merasty, Rinaldo Walcott, Chris Bearchell and Susan G. Cole, as well as Michelle Ross in archival footage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• A Place Where I Belong (2025)
• The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs & Who Has Control (2025)
• Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising (2025)
• Pidikwe (2025)
• Supporting Our Selves (2023)
• A losing game (2025)
• Come See Me in the Good Light (2025)
• Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride (2009)