pflag Canada on Breakfast Television: What Family Support Really Looks Like During Pride 2026
Every June, Pride fills up with colour and celebration. But for a lot of parents, it’s also the month their kid comes out to them, and the celebration is the last thing on their mind. If that’s where you are right now, this is worth reading.
On June 5, pflag Canada joined Breakfast Television for their Pride Brunch special, bringing together chapter leads, volunteers, and board members from across the country. The segment gave pflag members a chance to share their stories on national television, and what came through wasn’t a polished advocacy message. It was something more honest than that.
Evelyn, now a chapter director, came to pflag 13 years ago as a parent. Her son is a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community and lives with a disability, and she was looking for resources to help him. Within a week she had found what she needed. She became a volunteer, then operations manager, and eventually chapter lead. On air, Evelyn offered some of the most grounded advice of the morning: only come out when you feel safe, and do it for yourself, not for anyone else.
Jordan and her kiddo Charlie told a different version of the same story. Jordan came out as queer in her 30s and found pflag while looking for community. Charlie found their way in too. Together they now run Queer Peers Burlington, a drop-in group for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth aged 12 to 18. Charlie, still in school, has helped bring pflag into their elementary school.
That pattern shows up a lot in pflag’s story. A parent arrives because they love their kid and don’t know where to turn. They find support, and then they find each other. The organization has been built, chapter by chapter, on exactly that.
pflag chapters have been doing this work since 1972, when a mother marched publicly in support of her gay son. The context has changed enormously since then. The core of it hasn’t.
If you’re a parent who is searching right now, you don’t have to figure this out alone. Find your local chapter and national resources at pflagcanada.ca.