FILE - The Queen City Pride festival in Regina. The Canadian Pride Historical Society is providing materials for grades K-12 on topics such as identifying the meaning of the term Pride and the history of the Pride movement.Education materials on the history of Pride aimed a students are being made available in Saskatchewan despite the province’s regulations around sexual health education.
Jonathan Niemczak, chair and president of CPHS, said the historical society deems these materials appropriate for schools but did note they don’t skirt under Saskatchewan’s current regulations.“Part of our organization’s purpose is to collect this research and put it into educational material so that people can learn about the history of the Pride movement in Canada… It’s often unknown and it’s an important part of Canada’s social fabric,” Niemczak said.
On its website, the CPHS says its goal with the educational materials is to teach people of all ages about the legacy and continued impact of the Pride movement in Canada. It also says the material is important for students, citing a 2011 Egale Canada report that found 70 per cent of students reported hearing homophobic language in schools and 74 per cent of trans students said they had been verbally harassed in school.