{"id":21762,"date":"2014-08-14T00:16:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21762"},"modified":"2014-08-14T00:16:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:16:18","slug":"pride-parade-held-at-louisburg-national-historic-site-in-cape-breton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/14\/pride-parade-held-at-louisburg-national-historic-site-in-cape-breton\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride parade held at Louisburg national historic site in Cape Breton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12650\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LGBT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12650\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LGBT.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LGBT.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LGBT-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOUISBURG, N.S. &#8212; Cape Breton&#8217;s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community gathered at the federal historic site in Louisburg on Tuesday for a parade.<\/p>\n<p>The group walked through the historic streets of the Fortress of Louisbourg and heard a cannon fired by drag queen Rouge Fatale as part of the national historic site&#8217;s Pride Week festivities.<\/p>\n<p>Serena Matheson, co-chair of Pride Cape Breton and the Gender Sexuality Alliance adviser at Riverview Rural High School, said the first-time event at Louisbourg was focused on youth.<\/p>\n<p>Activities included a ghost tour and dance party Monday night, overnight camping at the site, and continued throughout the day Tuesday with the parade and workshop sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Lester Marchand, visitor experience manager with Parks Canada, said park staff reached out to a number of community organizations in 2013 as part of the site&#8217;s 300th anniversary, and Tuesday&#8217;s diversity day was a result of those efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISBURG, N.S. &#8212; Cape Breton&#8217;s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community gathered at the federal historic site in Louisburg &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}