pride News Archive

May 6, 2025 — 
If you are organizing events for Pride Week (May 23 to June 1) or throughout Pride Month, please let us know. Submit your event details through the UM Pride Events form so we can promote a comprehensive calendar of celebrations happening across our campuses.

June 4, 2024 — 
Sunday Queskekapow (they/them) is a Two-Spirit Swampy Cree person from northern Manitoba who believes that representation matters. Originally from Opaskwayak Cree Nation, also known as OCN/The Pas, Sunday spent a lot of their teenage years feeling confused and secluded. Queskekapow says they just didn’t see a lot of people who were like them.

May 30, 2024 — 
You might say that Asper BComm alum Kevin Chamagua [BComm(Hons)/18] runs a small business outside of his fulltime role as a Property and Casualty Specialist at Columbia Insurance, leveraging his Asper education in unique ways. He invests time, money and creative energy into this side gig; creating business plans, doing his own marketing, networking and managing a busy schedule for Marquesa, who is actually much more than a business.

May 21, 2024 — 
Take the opportunity to gather and celebrate our pride with UM’s diverse communities! View a list of activities happening at UM during Pride Week 2024.

May 19, 2024 — 
I fled to the city to feel safer as a gay man. I never imagined I'd move back to a small town

April 25, 2024 — 
We would love to hear about all the different events happening at UM during Pride Week (May 24 to June 2) and throughout Pride Month. Submit your event details so we can help promote the events taking place on our campuses.

July 24, 2023 — 
On June 4th the Faculty of Education joined Pride 2023 in celebration of 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

June 30, 2023 — 
At the beginning of this month, many of us marched in celebration of 2SLGBTQQIA+. Now, in the final week of Pride Month, our peers at the University of Waterloo have experienced a heinous act of violence on their campus. The University of Manitoba extends our deepest sympathies and our solidarity against hate to our colleagues at the University of Waterloo. Our campuses should be places where we peacefully pursue knowledge and seek to benefit others.

May 30, 2023 — 
Register to participate with UM's Pride entry float and help us uphold our 2022 Parade Entry title for “Best Turnout”!

May 30, 2023 — 
Check out the new addition between UMSU University Centre and the Administration Building.