Community Awards

The Dispensary is a non-profit community organization located in Saint-Jérôme and serving the greater Laurentians region. Since 1990, it has specialized in community infectious diseases and sexual health, overdose prevention and the distribution of safe consumption equipment. The organization has been involved in the fight against serophobia for 35 years now by defending the rights of HIV-positive people and, more recently, has focused on offering training to health professionals to promote a stigma-free approach.

titre posthume, le prix Claude-Tourangeau est remis à une activiste qui nous a malheureusement quitté beaucoup trop tôt en octobre dernier : Alexandra de Kiewit, activiste ayant lutté sans cesse contre la stigmatisation des personnes utilisatrices de drogues, des travailleuses et travailleurs du sexe ainsi que des personnes vivant avec le VIH. Le prix a été accepté par son frère, Ian Fillion de Kiewit.

Jordan Arseneault, or Peaches LePoz as he is known in drag, is an HIV-positive activist, translator and performer in the Montreal queer scene.

A co-founding member of the HIV-positive health and justice collective, SéroSyndicat, Jordan has been creating performative, social and political interventions based on his core concerns of sexuality, HIV, body alienation and social injustice since his diagnosis in 2006.

Jordan participated in the creation of the Positive Lounge at the International AIDS Conference 2022, a caring space by and for people living with HIV.

Jade Elektra is a Florida-born, Toronto-based HIV activist, queer, Afrodescendant and performing artist.

Jade is openly living with HIV and through activism and her art, she strives to make a positive impact on HIV positive, racialized and LGBTQ+ communities in Toronto and around the world.

Jade is one of the founders of POZPLANET magazine and the POZ-TO Awards, which fights the stigma of HIV/AIDS through social events, as well as the writer and performer of several HIV-themed hit songs, such as "H-I-Vogue", "Undetectable" and "Love Hangover".

Chloé Viau (1949 – 2024) was a long-time LGBTQIA+ rights activist who volunteered for many organizations, including Fondation Émergence and its Pour que âger soit gai program, Aide aux Trans du Québec, Réseau des lesbiennes du Québec, Interligne, Archives gaies du Québec, Jeunes identités créatives and Fierté agricole. She came out as a trans woman at the age of 60 and became a role model for her peers, working tirelessly for the recognition and inclusion of trans and queer people. The award was accepted by her son, Philippe Gref-Viau.

Dans une année marquée par une forte augmentation de la haine anti-LGBTQ qui a particulièrement ciblé les porte-étendards de nos communautés, nos drag queens et nos drag kings, Fierté Montréal a reconnu le rôle essentiel qu’a joué une de nos drag queens d’ici à défendre les droits des drags, à démystifier l’art de la drag auprès de la population et à sensibiliser les jeunes à l’ouverture et l’estime de soi : Barbada!

For this edition, the award was presented on August 3, 2022 on the main stage of the Esplanade of the Olympic Park to Celeste Trianon, an 18-year-old transwoman and trans rights activist at the Centre for Gender Oppression.

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A leading partner for Fierté Montréal since 2008 and several other LGBTQ+ community organizations and foundations.

The organization that officially founded Montréal's gay pride in 1992 and the parade in its current form in 1993.

Professional soccer player, named “Most Valuable Player” of the Montréal Impact in 2009.

Fondatrice de l’Aide aux transsexuel(le)s du Québec (ATQ).

Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities of Quebec and Member of Parliament for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

Minister of Justice of Quebec, Attorney General, Minister responsible for the fight against homophobia, and Member of Parliament for Saint-Laurent.

A LGBTQ+ society and culture magazine, FUGUES is the only Québec media outlet and the only one in French-speaking Canada to have followed current events surrounding LGBTQ+ issues, here and abroad, for the last 40 years. FUGUES is available on various platforms, in print and digital versions. Founded in 1984, FUGUES is the LGBTQ+ news magazine with the longest history in the entire Francophonie!

Laura Yaros est une activiste lesbienne militant maintenant depuis 50 ans à la visibilité, à la reconnaissance et au rayonnement des femmes lesbiennes. 

Elle a été impliquée auprès de la toute première organisation lesbienne de Montréal : Gay Women of Montreal. Laura Yaros a ensuite cumulé les formes d’implication militante, notamment auprès de divers groupes pour personnes LGBT juives : le Montreal Jewish Lesbian Group, Ga’ava et Nice Jewish Girls. Dès 1981, Laura Yaros s’implique à l’animation de l’émission de radio féministe et progressiste « Matrix », l'une des plus anciennes émissions de radio lesbienne et féministe en Amérique du Nord en plus de prêter sa plume à la première revue lesbienne montréalaise Long Time Coming.

At a time when homosexuality was considered a crime, the man also known as La Monroe revolutionized gay bars, providing the gay community with cabaret and drag shows specifically designed by and for the community.

On August 17, 1958, on its 24th anniversary, La Monroe succeeded in pushing hard enough to get gay men to legally dance together for the very first time.

These decades later, it was an honor for Montreal Pride to remember, recognize and honor La Monroe for bringing the community together and providing safe places to celebrate and be authentic.