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The history of the festival is now in question, just before it's 30th anniversary. In 2014, the festival goes through it's biggest financial crisis ever, with the board of directors and membership voting to delare bankruptcy with over $100,000 in debt. The festival changes its name from Pride of Ottawa-Gatineau to Capital Pride in 2008. Steele comes back along with several other capable organizers, and slowly the festival gets 'back on track' as its 2005 campaign theme declared.
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Unfortunately, they are also among the most financially disasterous, and in 2004 the organization is massively in debt. The festival gains an ambitious producer in Robin Duetta, who closes off Bank Street for a couple of years in some of the most memorable events of the history of the fesstival. The funds they raise from 'selling' square metres of the flag more than covers the cost of purchasing it, and the Rainbow Party becomes a popular annual tradition for many years.
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When Yvon Vaillant, Kevin Hatt and Marion Steele become involved in the festival, they slowly pay off the debts with a series of highly inventive solutions, including a successful Rainbow Party dance they hold at Lansdowne Park and a idea to create a fundraiser to buy an oversized rainbow flag that they can use to walk in the parade and raise money. It nearly collapses from massive debts in 1995. The organization goes through several ups and downs, with varying financial success. GO Info estimates that approximately 300 people walked.įrom then on, Pride becomes an annual tradition, growing in size as the community becomes more visible. Ottawa's first Pride Parade happens on Sun, June 18, 1989, starting at Somerset and Metcalfe, going west on Somerset to Bank Street, turning north on Bank to Laurier, turning east on Laurier to Elgin, then going south on Elgin to the Jack Purcell Centre at Gilmour.
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The picnics last for a few more years, being hosted in different parks, until a full fledged Lesbian and Gay Pride Week is organized from June 9 to 18, 1989. Gabriella Goliger recalls going to the picnic, which had many colourful balloons with lesbian and gay gender symbols drawn on them.
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Ottawa gets it's first Pride event in 1986, when a small group of roughly 50 people gather in Strathcona Park for a picnic.