Instead of a sgle grand marshal at the 2018 Pri Para, dozens of gay-straight alliance and queer-straight alliance members hered the downtown Calgary celebratn on Sunday.
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5 CALGARY FLAM PLAYERS MARCHG GAY PRI PARA SATURDAY
* calgary gay pride parade 2018 *
CalgaryInstead of a sgle grand marshal at the 2018 Pri Para, dozens of gay-straight alliance and queer-straight alliance members hered the downtown Calgary celebratn on Sunday. Stunts and teachers gay-straight allianc acted as this year's grand marshalsThis year’s marshals were kids om Gay Straight Allianc (GSAs) and Queer Straight Allianc (QSAs). (Rachel Maclean/CBC)Instead of a sgle grand marshal at the 2018 Pri Para, dozens of gay-straight alliance and queer-straight alliance members hered the downtown Calgary celebratn on Sunday.
Gay-straight allianc are peer support anizatns meant to provi supportive environments and safe spac for LGBTQ stunts, and tackle issu like homophobic and transphobic stunts and teachers om GSAs lead the para was a symbolic cisn, as the anizatns have been unr threat by some parents' rights groups and fah-based schools that have requted a review of the nstutnaly of an Alberta law that blocks schools om rmg parents if their children have joed such a group. Alberta judge dismiss bid to place gay-straight alliance law on holdAn timated 80, 000 Calgarians turned out to watch the para on Sixth were 190 entri this year. Marchers clud Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and last year's para marshal Lois Szabo, who opened one of Wtern Canada's first gay bars Calgary back the group notably absent om this year's para was the Uned Conservative Party, as the polil party's applitn to march was nied by para anizers for the send year a row.