Queer History in Canada: The Peak Speaks Podcast (Pride Edition!) | THE PEAK

Welcome back to the Peak Speaks Podcast! This segment’s episode is about PRIDE!

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CONTENT WARNINGS:
Discussions and mentions of... (non-graphic)
- 2SLGBTQIA+ discrimination, violence and hate crimes
- sexual topics and themes
- colonialism
- conversion therapy
- military, police institutions, and the RCMP
- Palestinian genocide
- Indigenous genocide
- brief mention of child pornography
- brief mention of sexual violence

TIMESTAMPS (with content warnings):
0:00 - Intro
1:12 - What does pride mean to you?
7:20 - Queer censorship
14:40 - CW: brief mention of sexual violence
15:01 - CW: brief mention of child pornography
19:24 - "The Indomitable Act of Buggery"
23:05 - "The Purge"
26:24 - Queer RCMP
32:13 - Homonationalism
45:32 - CW: colonialism, Indigenous genocide
46:35 - CW: genocide in Palestine, violence and hate crimes against 2SLGBTQIA+, and military
48:42 - Pinkwashing (rainbow washing) and Israel
50:10 - "Queers Against Israeli Apartheid"
53:00: Queer liberation's connection to Palestine and Black liberation
55:06 - Pride is a protest
57:15 - CW: brief mention of conversion therapy
59:16 - 2SLGBTQIA+ issues are still prevalent today
1:02:00 - Celebrating queer joy!
1:02:20 - Quinn's current favourite pride media
1:03:59 - C's current favourite pride media
1:05:50 - Happy Pride! and outro

CREDITS:
Music: SoundSnap
Featuring and researched by @quinnmasselink8321, Assistant Multimedia Editor and C Icart, Humour Editor
Filmed and edited by @EmmaCiprianMedia, Multimedia Editor
Fact-checked by Karly Burns, Fact Checker
Filmed in the CJSF Studio
Produced by The Peak's multimedia team