Pride can look very different depending on where you stand.

In Canada, many of our conversations focus on policy, representation, church inclusion, and public belonging. Those conversations matter. But they can also make it easy to forget that the global story of 2SLGBTQIA+ resistance is not simply a story of other countries catching up to us.

In many places, visibility is dangerous. Organizing can carry real risk. Community has to be built carefully, often quietly, with trust earned slowly and protection held close. And yet this is not only a story of danger. Around the world, 2SLGBTQIA+ people are also creating culture, building families, shaping theology, making art, forming movements, celebrating joy, and teaching the rest of us what courage can look like.

That is one of the things Pride should remind us. Solidarity is not charity flowing from places with more legal protection to places with less. It is not a saviour story. Liberation has always started at the margins. 2SLGBTQIA+ people around the world are already building community, resisting violence, creating beauty, and protecting one another in ways that deserve our attention and respect.

If Pride is truly about liberation, then it has to be bigger than our own national stories. It has to make room for courage that does not always look like parades, flags, or public celebration. Sometimes queer resistance looks like survival. Sometimes it looks like secrecy. Sometimes it looks like joy. Sometimes it looks like refusing to let isolation have the final word.