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Toronto's Pride Week evolved out of the mass protests that followed the 1981 Toronto bathhouse raids, and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2005.In the 2005 parade, newly appointed Toronto police chief Bill Blair became the first chief of police in the city's history to personally take part in the parade.
Toronto's pride parade has been held yearly or every June since 1981; the first pride parade in Toronto was held in June 1981. In 2003, its activists helped score a major victory when the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling which made same-sex marriage legal in Ontario, the first jurisdiction in North America to do so. [ 202 ]
During Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019 in Manhattan, over 5 million took part over the final weekend, [5] [6] with an estimated four million in attendance at the parade. [7] [8] While NYC Pride still has the largest Pride March, since 2023 Pride Toronto has had the largest Pride Festival in North America with 2.9 million attendees in 2023 ...
Church and Wellesley is home to the annual Pride Toronto celebrations. Church and Wellesley is home to the annual Pride Toronto celebrations, the largest event of its kind in Canada with over 90 floats and an enthusiastic crowd that numbers in the hundreds of thousands. The main Pride Toronto festival and parade is always on the last weekend in ...
Pride Toronto, in partnership with the city's tourism agency, Tourism Toronto, submitted a bid to host WorldPride 2014 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from June 20 to June 29, 2014. The 28th annual conference of InterPride, held in October 2009 in St. Petersburg, Florida , United States, voted to accept the bid of Pride Toronto to host WorldPride ...
Ashdod Pride Parade Ashdod: 2013 Be'er Sheva Parade Beersheba: 2009 Eilat Pride Parade Eilat: 2001 Hadera Pride Parade Hadera: 2012 Haifa Pride Parade Haifa: 2003 Jerusalem Pride Parade: Jerusalem: 2002 Petah Tikva Pride Parade Petah Tikva: 2012 Rishon LeZion Parade. Rishon Lezion: 2010 Tel Aviv Pride Parade: Tel Aviv: telaviv-pride.com: June 1993
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This is a list of festivals in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.This list includes festivals of diverse types, such as regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.