Name: Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-04-24
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Tim McCaskell, Alexander Chapman, Svend Robinson

Well-done documentary of the Pride movement in Canada

This is a good documentary of the Pride movement from the 1950s persecution to almost the present. It features interviews with various notable individuals, and archival footage (including some from activists' private libraries).

For those who lived it, it is a piece of our history. For younger folks, it is instructive as to how we got to the freedoms we might take for granted. For some sub-communities (women and racialized groups), it is a reminder of the internal battle to be recognized - that Pride is not just a white male event.

My one disappointment is that this seems a bit centered on Toronto, but that is where most of the archival material could be found. I saw it at the Inside Out film festival, and the director was sad at potentially useful material in private collections that had been lost or thrown out. The Q+A closed with a member of the ArQives urging people to donate material that might be significant to them for safekeeping for the future.

The documentary is a form of non-fiction storytelling that aims to present factual information, insights, and perspectives on real-world subjects, events, issues, or people. Documentaries can cover a wide range of topics, including history, science, culture, social issues, nature, biographies, and more.

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