Welcome to the official "about us" page of ourpride! Here, you can learn about our history, staff, pillars, and who we are as an organization. If you ever want to learn more, email our community engagement email (ourpridecommunityoutreach@gmail.com)! If you ever want to contact us, feel free to read our contact page!
On November 13th, 2024, four friends entered their library. The four decided to play a game searching for books in their library, spearheaded by iwanfan. HolyLlama found a book called the "2SLGBTQIA+ ABCs" and took initiative to suggest the recreation of said book with more appropriate terms that represented the community.
Due to this dissatisfaction, psychedelicteenager created their original document, "2SLGBTQIA+ ABCs & Terms," suggested by HolyLlama. This was originally meant to become what we know today as CACLOT. This would've happened, but iwanfan suggested a slideshow. Soon after, the slideshow ownership was transferred to psychedelicteenager. The slideshow was named "The Complete and Compiled 2SLGBTQIA+ ABCs & Terms." Co-founded by iwanfan, psychedelicteenager, and HolyLlama, this would evolve into something we know as CACLOT.
The original portions of the slideshow (the list of terms) was finished on November 15th, and the dictionary began development on November 16th. The initiative to nominate members of the project to lead teams which had their own jurisdictions began on November 15th. The official motion to nominate psychedelicteenager as project director was completed on November 20th. Development on the dictionary continued as usual.
On the night of November 20th, psychedelicteenager was in their bed. This is where some of the first concepts of ourpride was drafted. On November 21st, psychedelicteenager proposed to their team leads about the idea of ourpride, an organization that would teach people more and more about the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
A picture of the first slide of CACLOT
A picture of the original preserved google document. Please note some terms in this original document are no longer recognized by ourpride.
As the original founder and Organizational Director, psychedelicteenager appointed bread.1114, iwanfan, enter.nickname, and HolyLlama to their Keys of Staff. Website development started on November 21st, 5:49 P.M.
On November 25th, 2024, the four Keys of Staff were promoted to Assistant Organizational Directors. On the same day, the domain name www.our-pride.ca was bought by psychedelicteenager from GoDaddy.
On November 26th, psychedelicteenager managed to verify their ownership of their domain name. On December 9th, 2024, the first Key of Staff since the promotion of the assistant directors was selected. The first head of coordination after iwanfan, imissthestardarling.
Development of the edition 1 CACLOT dictionary finished at 1:38 PM, December 14th, 2024 when psychedelicteenager wrote the Xenogender slide. Official development for edition 1 (including decorations, etc.) was finished later that day at 2:36 PM.
A picture of the original vote for promotion
A picture of the purchase of the domain name
A picture of the confirmation of ownership
A picture of the last slide of the CACLOT dictionary
The original ourpride website had everything under the stylization of lower-case by the executive decision of the Executive Director. Due to many protests both by website visitors and staff, we have chosen to change everything to a proper stylization. These changes were applied on January 1st, 2025. Major website rehauls to improve how the website looked were also completed on January 1st, 2025 by psychedelicteenager.
On January 3rd, 2025, the Board of Commissioners was created by psychedelicteenager to ensure the long-term sustainability and financial affairs of ourpride were managed by a team of elected volunteers who work in the organization's interest. psychedelicteenager appointed enternickname and imissthestardarlings to the Board of Commissioners, and took charge as the De-Facto Chair Comissioner. A major staff rework was also started on January 4th, reworking the administrative staff of ourpride. On January 9th, thatoneguy1.1 was appointed to the Assistant Director of CACLOT Project & New Projects.
On February 8th, a substantial website rehaul took place to update the website.
Under the current ourpride Administration, the next goals of ourpride are to expand the organizations' volunteer numbers and to establish bylaws that our members can follow by.
We seek to help any small businesses, 2SLGBTQIA+ businesses, or any other organizations seeking to partner! If you are interested in a partnership or any other type of mutually beneficial deal, please feel free to reach out to our External Affairs Director!