Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance Film Screening

The documentary Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance is screening at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 on Monday, July 20, as part of a larger evening that doesn't stop when the credits roll. It's a film about the 2SLGBTQI+ movement, and the screening is just the first half of the night.

Once the film is over, the room opens up for a Q&A and a facilitated discussion. It's the kind of setup where you can hear from the people behind the work and then talk through what you've just seen with everyone else in the room. If you've been following the movement or just want to get a better handle on its history, that second half is where the real conversation happens.

The film itself, Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance, takes its title from the very thing that defines so much of the community's public life—the parade as both a celebration and a political statement. It looks at the 2SLGBTQI+ movement not just as a series of dates and legal wins, but as a history of love and resistance, and the screening puts that history on screen for an audience in Halifax to take in together.

It's all happening at Pier 21, so you'll be watching in one of the city's most recognizable spaces. The screening is on Monday, July 20, with the film followed by the Q&A and the discussion. If you're interested in the movement and want to see it laid out on screen and then talked through in person, this is the one to keep on your radar.