page_title: Pride Toronto
hierarchical_section_title: Pride Toronto
caption_attribution_description: English: Toronto Gay Pride Parade 2006. Gay Pride Parade is the fun and fabulous arts and culture festival that happens on the last week of June each year in Toronto. Pride celebrates diverse sexual and gender identities, histories, cultures, families, friends and lives. Gay Pride Parade in Toronto attracts about 1 million tourists. More pictures... Русский: Прайд Парад в Торонто, 2006. Парад секс-меньшинств проходит каждый год в Торонто в последнюю неделю июня. Он завершает целую неделю праздничных событий, посвященных правам человека в самых разных сферах - в свободе сексуального проявления и культуре, особенностей национальных меньшинств и групп населения. В параде наряду с сексуальными меньшинствами традиционно участвуют мерия и полиция Торонто, церкви, банки, коммерческие организации, школы и институты. Один миллион туристов приезжает в эти дни в Торонто. Больше фотографий...
context_page_description: Pride Toronto is an annual event held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in June each year. A celebration of the diversity of the LGBT community in the Greater Toronto Area, it is one of the largest organized gay pride festivals in the world, featuring several stages with live performers and DJs, several licensed venues, a large Dyke March, a Trans March and the Pride Parade. The centre of the festival is the city's Church and Wellesley village, while the parade and marches are primarily routed along the nearby Yonge Street, Gerrard Street and Bloor Street. In 2014, the event served as the fourth international WorldPride, and was much larger than standard Toronto Prides.
  The event is organized by Pride Toronto, a non-profit organization. A growing complement of fourteen staff support the work of 22 festival teams; each team is responsible for an aspect of the festival. Each team is was formerly administered by two or three volunteer team leads. In 2019, the decision was made to strip that down to one lead per team in favour of a staff-centered approach.
context_section_description: Pride Toronto is an annual event held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in June each year. A celebration of the diversity of the LGBT community in the Greater Toronto Area, it is one of the largest organized gay pride festivals in the world, featuring several stages with live performers and DJs, several licensed venues, a large Dyke March, a Trans March and the Pride Parade.  The centre of the festival is the city's Church and Wellesley village, while the parade and marches are primarily routed along the nearby Yonge Street, Gerrard Street and Bloor Street. In 2014, the event served as the fourth international WorldPride, and was much larger than standard Toronto Prides.
  The event is organized by Pride Toronto, a non-profit organization. A growing complement of fourteen staff support the work of 22 festival teams; each team is responsible for an aspect of the festival. Each team is was formerly administered by two or three volunteer team leads. In 2019, the decision was made to strip that down to one lead per team in favour of a staff-centered approach. The long-term vision for, and strategic oversight of, the organization and the festival is intended to be managed by 12 volunteers on the board of directors. As of March 2020, the board consists of six members.
  For most of its history, Pride was a seven-to-ten day festival centred on the final week in June, with the parade falling on either the last weekend in June or the first weekend in July depending on the year's circumstances. Since 2016, the entire month of June has been declared Pride month, with a program of events throughout the month leading up to the parade.
  Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the organization's in-person Pride festivities, including the Trans March, the Dyke March and the Pride parade originally scheduled for June 26 to 28, 2020, were cancelled. On May 1, 2020, Pride Toronto announced the 2020 festival would be moving online via the Pride Toronto website.
  The organization's most recent executive director, serving from 2017 to 2020, was Olivia Nuamah. She was appointed in February 2017 to succeed Mathieu Chantelois, who led the organization from 2015 to 2016.
caption: Several Toronto City Councillors taking part in the 2006 Pride Parade.
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