Halifax Pride is an

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festival, held annually in Halifax,

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. It is the largest 2SLGBTQ+ event in

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,"Halifax celebrates Pride Parade 2013"

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, July 27, 2013. and one of the largest 2SLGBTQ+ pride events in Canada. First held in 1988, the inaugural event featured just 75 marchers, some of whom wore

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s over their heads due to the stigma against being openly identified as LGBT. The 2014 event featured approximately 2,500 marchers, with 80,000 people in attendance as participants or spectators."Music, colourful pageantry highlight Halifax pride parade"
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'', July 26, 2014. The event's

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in 2014 was Scott Jones, an LGBT activist from

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who launched the Don't Be Afraid campaign of LGBT awareness after being left

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by an anti-gay attack in 2013. The event also featured a commemoration of

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, a former chair of the event who was killed in a violent attack in 2012. The 2014 parade route started on Upper Water Street, and followed

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and South Park Street to the Garrison Grounds at Citadel Hill. In 2011, co-chair Ed Savage created some controversy by describing the event as "less promiscuous" and more family-oriented than other Pride festivals across Canada."A parade everybody loves"
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'', July 21, 2011.

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* Pride parades in Canada Festivals in Halifax, Nova Scotia Recurring events established in 1988 1988 establishments in Nova Scotia LGBT in Nova Scotia {{LGBT-event-stub