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CANFAR float in the 2006 parade 2012 Thai-Canadian float at Pride Parade Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow at the 2024 Pride Parade. Pride Toronto is an annual event held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in June each year.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Later, in October 1981, the now-defunct organization Lesbians Against the Right held a "Dykes in the Streets" march in Toronto, Ontario, with lesbian power, pride, and visibility as the theme. 350 women participated in this demonstration. [5] [6] Another similar demonstration would not be held again in Toronto until 1996. [7]
North by Northeast, an annual five-day live music and film festival and music conference; Pride Week a large gay pride festival; Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival - various indoors and located throughout the downtown core; MuchMusic Video Awards; Toronto International Dragon Boat Festival - Centre Island; Fête de la Musique (World Music Day ...
Patrick Walter Brown (born May 26, 1978) is a Canadian politician who has served as the 51st and current mayor of Brampton since 2018. He served as leader of the Official Opposition in Ontario and leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party from 2015 to 2018.