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The Montréal Pride Celebrations Organising Committee is thrilled to announce that the August 17 LGBTA Parade will feature official Grand Marshals for the second time in Montréal Pride history. These ceremonial roles will honour two members of the Québec gay and lesbian community who continue to inspire us through their actions, their fearlessness and the generosity of their spirit.
The Grand Marshals of the 2008 Pride Parade are:
Mr. Jasmin Roy
Jasmin Roy is no stranger to the world of television. From Chambres en ville to Salut
Bonjour and Caméra Café, he is equally at ease in the role of host, reporter and actor. He also has extensive experience in radio, both as a host and cultural reporter. M. Roy strongly believes in the social recognition of Montréal’s LGBTA community as well as the importance of visibility for LGBTA communities worldwide.
Ms. Nicole Brossard
Very early on, Nicole Brossard, poet, novelist and playwright, was involved in many different avant-garde movements in Québec poetry: she was co-founder of the influential literary magazine La Barre du jour (1965-75), organizer of jazz and poetry performances at the Youth Pavilion at Expo’67, co-founder of the feminist newspaper Les Têtes de pioche (1976-1979), and was associate director of La Nouvelle Barre du jour (1977-1979) and the ‘‘Réelles’’ collection (1979-1981). In 1982, she founded her own publishing house under the name L’Intégrale, éditrice.
She has won the Governor General’s Award twice, once for Mécanique jongleuse (1974) and again for Double impression (1984). In 1991, she was awarded Québec’s highest literary honour, the Athanase-David Prize. In 1993, she was made a member of L’Académie des Lettres du Québec. Most of her books have been translated into English.
Her taste for romance writing developed with the publication of her novel Un livre (1970). Many other novels and books of poetry followed, leading up to her latest work, Baroque d’aube (1995).
Nicole Brossard is a committed feminist and her book of essays, La Lettre aérienne, influenced an entire generation of feminists.
On October 18, 1997, to celebrate her work in the field of arts and literature, the University of Sherbrooke awarded an honorary doctorate in literature and communication to poet, novelist and essayist Nicole Brossard.