"PRIDE House Whistler" to open doors for the 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games

The Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are coming to Whistler and for the first time in Olympic history there will be a venue available to our Gay & Lesbian athletes, coaches, family, friends and allies.  A venue we call - PRIDE House.

PRIDE House will be a hip lounge with a cocktail bar with TV monitors to watch the Olympics, hang out, trade pins, a media area to do interviews, and a venue to just have fun.  PRIDE House will be designed with the core values of celebrating authenticity, diversity and inclusiveness.

The Mission of PRIDE House is to provide an open and welcoming venue for the LGBT community and their allies to celebrate together diversity and inclusiveness through sport.  To educate and make aware that LGBT people are still discriminated against and in some cases persecuted for being or assumed to be a homosexual.  It is still illegal to be gay in over seventy countries around the world and in seven countries the punishment for being gay is death. 

See the website for more details.