It’s official: Waterloo Region won’t have a tri-Pride festival this year.
However, tri-Pride volunteers say they’ve managed to clear another hurdle – one that will enable them to bring the festival back for 2017 and future years.
Last month, organizers of the festival said they were “overwhelmed” by declining interest and desperately in need of new volunteers to keep tri-Pride alive.
That call was heeded. The group announced Tuesday that it had elected a new board of directors, comprised of 13 volunteers.
Those volunteers voted not to put together a festival this year, but to focus instead on bringing it back for 2017 as a bigger event in a new location.
Other festivities will still be held to mark this year’s tri-Pride Week locally, the organization said in a statement.
Waterloo Region’s first tri-Pride festival, celebrating the local LGBTQ community, took place in 1995.
