08/01/2026
Emancipation Day. August 1 ✊🏽
The Slavery Abolition Act took effect across the British Empire on this day, including Canada. Freedom on paper, still years from freedom in practice.
Tonight’s Rainbow Road set with Dread Boss Entertainment 🔊🔥 and The BlacQ(ueer) Collective PEI was curated as The Soundtrack for the Resistance. Which moves through the sound of the Stonewall era. Pride exists because Black and brown trans women, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera among them, fought back at the Stonewall Inn in 1969. Same refusal to be erased, different century.
Then I’m closing out the night at Be You Bar 🎤, PEI’s first and only gay bar, marking their first year.
Two histories, one thread. Tonight, we leave it on the floor.
📍 Rainbow Road on Kent St. 9-9:30 PM
📍 Be You Bar, 119 Grafton St. 10 PM–2 AM