A new group has formed in the city to provide a safe place for LGBT/Q to gather.

Pride for Days is the creation of Kat Anderson, who said she wanted to create a way for LGBT Queer youth in Yorkton to have more opportunity to get together.

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So Anderson started the group which kicked-off its activities Saturday with a movie night.

“It went quite well,” she said, noting they had 16 attend.

The movie night did cause something of a stir on social media with a number of posts deriding the effort.

“It’s kind of a big thing for me not to engage with hating on us,” said Anderson, who said she was certainly aware of the distasteful posts.

Anderson said she prefers to focus on the positive like the fact “people were stepping up to defend us.”

And the negative comments will not deter Anderson, or her new group, which she said hopes to hold monthly events, with bowling tentatively scheduled for early January.

The idea for the group came to Anderson while attending a LGBTQ conference that brought youth from across the province together in Regina to work on ideas to improve things in local communities for LGBTQ youth.

Initially, Anderson said she went in with the idea of a group home for LGBT youth in the city, but quickly realized as a young teenager with high school to complete that was too big an idea.

The Pride for Days group was more manageable and she hopes it “builds up a team” locally that can eventually turn its attention to the group home idea.

Anyone wanting more information on the group, or its activities can find them on Facebook or Instagram or by emailing pridefordays2019@gmail.com