PTBO-NOGO Pride 2025 Theme

Pride Week 2025 will take place from Friday, September 19th, to Sunday, September 28th.

Each year, we ask the community to submit a theme for PTBO-NOGO Pride – what’s pride without your voice?

We greatly appreciate the over a dozen very thoughtful suggestions we received and are now happy to announce the chosen theme!

The Peterborough-Nogojiwanong Pride 2025 theme is: All of Us or None.

This powerful phrase was submitted by a local queer trans activist, who described it as a refusal to give in to hatred, and a reminder that in times like these, “love is love” is not enough. Action, solidarity, and collective care are essential.

All of Us or None speaks to the interconnectedness of our struggles and our liberation. It reminds us that true progress doesn’t happen unless it includes everyone — especially those most often pushed to the margins. When any part of our community is under attack, we are all called to respond. None of us are free until all of us are free.

This theme has deep roots in social justice movements and appears in a 1930s poem of the same name by Bertolt Brecht, a German Marxist poet, playwright, and theatre director. Written in the face of fascism, after he was forced to flee Germany in 1933, Brecht’s words still resonate today. They call us to protest, to protect each other, and to build a future where no one is left behind. Read the poem here.

As members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and our allies, we are facing challenging times. Policies like banning 2SLGBTQIA+ books in schools and libraries, and the spread of anti-trans legislation, show no sign of slowing. Organizations and businesses that once stood with us are pulling away. Now more than ever, we must stand together — across identities, experiences, and generations.

We all deserve joy, safety, love, and the freedom to live as our fullest selves. This Pride, let’s show what it means to build a community where no one is left behind.

We invite you to reflect on what “All of Us or None” means to you — and to express it in your signs, your celebrations, your protests, and your presence. Let’s make this year’s Pride a living example of the solidarity we need — and deserve.

Now that the theme has been chosen, we need a design for the Pride T-shirts to match it.

For details on the t-shirt design competition go to this LINK