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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.
The São Paulo Gay Pride Parade in Brazil is South America's largest event, and was listed by Guinness World Records as the world's largest Pride parade in 2006 with 2.5 million people. [10] It broke the Guinness record in 2009 with four million attendees, [ 11 ] with similar numbers to at least 2016, [ 12 ] and up to five million attending in ...
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 ]
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]
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 ...
Pride in London in pictures as parade set to begin 11:57 , Tara Cobham Members of the LGBT+ community take part in the annual Pride Parade in the streets of London (AFP via Getty Images)
The church has provided office space for various community groups, such as the Toronto Counselling Centre for Lesbians and Gays, Lesbian & Gay Youth Toronto, and the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario. The MCC was also the first organization ever to organize a parade float in Toronto's Pride parade. [7]
Nepal Pride Parade: Kathmandu: June 29 2019 Queer Womxn Pride: Kathmandu: Queer Rights Collective March 8 2019 Mitini Nepal Pride Parade: Kathmandu: Mitini Nepal February 14 2005 Blue Diamond Society Pride Parade: Kathmandu, Pokhara, Biratnagar: www.bds.org.np: Gai Jatra: 2016 National LGBTI Day (Nepal) Nepal: Puash 6 (Bikram Sambat) 2015