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Celebrate Pride Month

Pride Month is an opportunity to celebrate and uplift the 2SLGBTQ+ community, while recognizing the progress made towards equal treatment and human rights.

The City of Mississauga is committed to fostering an open, inclusive and equitable environment for all. Throughout Pride Month, we stand in solidarity with our 2SLGBTQ+ community members, and reaffirm our commitment to these values.

Join us in celebrating our 2SLGBTQ+ community in June. You can participate in Pride Month festivities in the following ways:

  • By attending a Pride event in-person or virtually
  • By checking out a book from the library to learn more about the 2SLGBTQ+ community

Events and activities

Recognize Pride Month by participating in these events and activities. Check back regularly for updates.

Lighting the clock tower
Lighting the clock tower

June 01, 2023 | 8:00 p.m. | Celebration Square

To recognize this important month, the Civic Centre clock tower will be lit with a rainbow of colours on June 1 and all other evenings in June when another cause isn’t scheduled to be recognized.

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Progress Pride flag raising event
Progress Pride flag raising event

June 03, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Celebration Square

The City will raise the Progress Pride Flag at Mississauga Celebration Square (MCS) with Rainbow Sauga Alliance to honour Pride Month and our 2SLGBTQ+ community. Video greetings from Mayor Bonnie Crombie will be shared and Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services will participate by showcasing this year’s colourful Pride fire truck. Members of the public are invited to take part in this event.

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PRIDE Pitch
PRIDE Pitch

June 14, 2023 | 5:00 p.m. | The Blind Duck (University of Toronto Mississauga)

We are proud to support ICUBE’s fourth annual PRIDE Pitch competition! Celebrate diversity this Pride Month by attending PRIDE Pitch on Wednesday June 14, at 5pm! PRIDE Pitch gives you the opportunity to watch and support 2SLGBTQ+ entrepreneurs deliver an investor pitch while presenting their innovative concepts and competing for prize money! Register today and cheer for your favourite pitch!

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Online Pride Book Club
Online Pride Book Club

June 08, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. | Virtual

This month we will be reading Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead.All are welcome to join us for this virtual book club featuring titles written by 2SLGBTQ+ (2 spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) authors. Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga Libraries strive to contribute to a culture that recognizes diversity and fosters social inclusion. In this book club, diverse ideas can be communicated while following our collective responsibility to uphold safer spaces for all community members.

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Cris Derksen Quartet Performance
Cris Derksen Quartet Performance

June 16, 2023 | 7:30 p.m. | Living Arts Centre

The Internationally acclaimed ensemble includes the talents of Juno-nominated Cree cellist Cris Derksen, artist and storyteller from the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach Marie-Celine Charron Einish, Tuscarora/Gaelic Singer Rebecca Benson, and professional percussion and jazz drumming musician Stefan Schneider. Tickets are $20.

Purchase your tickets online

Pride fire truck
Pride fire truck

Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services will tour the city all month long in this year’s Pride fire truck (Pumper 180) featuring rainbow colours, including Pride decals on various MFES vehicles.

Mississauga’s Fire and Emergency Services team will also be participating in the Pride Toronto Parade to celebrate their commitment to inclusivity and diversity within Mississauga’s Fire Services.

Pride Public art
Pride Public art

Be sure to check out a temporary Pride mural on display in the heart of Streetsville. Located on the Village Square, Blissful Release by Vivian Rosas is a beautiful, colourful hand-painted mural and one of over 35 public artworks on display across Mississauga.

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Pride park benches
Pride park benches

The City is proud to display rainbow-coloured Pride benches in select parks. The community can view these at Port Credit Memorial Park and Scholars’ Green, located next to Sheridan College’s Hazel McCallion Campus.

MiWay
MiWay

Throughout the month of June, MiWay Transit Operators will have the option to display “Pride Month” on the electronic destination signs on the front and curbside of the bus as an additional message to the service information.

2SLGBTQ+ reading list

This reading list celebrates the experience and diversity of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Books include memoirs, graphic fiction, young adult fiction, picture books for children, and more. Check our complete Pride recommendations reading list.

Heartstopper, Volume 1 by Alice Oseman

A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. This edition features beautiful two-color artwork.

The Guncle by Steven Rowley

A warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.

Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) by Andrew Sean Greer

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of “arresting lyricism and beauty” (The New York Times Book Review).

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Mississauga fosters a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion of all.  Let’s support and uplift the 2SLGBTQ+ community by raising awareness and honouring the achievements of inclusivity and equality for 2SLGBTQ+ people this month. #PrideMonth

Support Rainbow Registered business

When you see a Rainbow Registered symbol on a local business, you know the business or organization meets a stringent set of standards to ensure LGBT+ customers feel safe, welcomed, and accepted. Find a Rainbow Registered business near you!

Pride Logo Mississauga will roll out a Pride-themed corporate rainbow logo on the City’s corporate social media channels for the duration of Pride Month.