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Pride Toronto
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65 Wellesley St EToronto, ON M4Y 1G7
Neighbourhoods: Church-Wellesley Village, Downtown Core
(416) 927-7433
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4 reviews for Pride Toronto
4 reviews in English
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Review from Laura C.
Toronto, ON
7/3/2011 4 photos
I think this is one of the most fun parades in the city. It's full of spirit and dancing. It happens in the summer when you want to be outside. Free stuff are thrown at you and super soakers of water to cool you down.
The parade is full of fun characters, drag queens, and super colourful people. Look carefully and find some nice rock hard.... bodies. yay! woo!
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Review from Ryan L.
11/19/2010
I think I read that Toronto Pride was the third largest in the world (after NYC and Sydney, Australia) and it's certainly the largest pride celebration in Canada. The last weekend in June, Church Street is blocked off and thousands of homosexuals descend on the city for a weekend of debauchery, acceptance and pride.
The official Toronto pride has many activities. Saturday is the Dyke March and Sunday is the Pride Parade which is normally the climax of the event.
Church street through the gay neighborhood is blocked off and there are merchants, bars, restaurants, bath houses and stores open to serve the gay community. Stages are set up all over the area for different performances, from Drag Queens to big name bands.
The gay pride parade normally takes place mid-day and the march is down Yonge Street, the center of the city and one block away from Church Street. This is one of the best, most flamboyant, most cheerful, most impressive parades I've been to. When watching the parade one is astounded by the blocks and blocks full of gay people and their supporters. Of course, Canada is more welcome than the US since they allow gay marriage. At the parade it's nice to even see families and large numbers of straight people too. It's a great experience.
Toronto is a large city with a huge gay population. It's also the destination for many people nearby throughout Ontario. Even large contingents from Detroit and New York go to the Pride celebration since it's so well done and very close.Listed in: The Rainbow Tour
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Review from Shan C.
6/28/2009
I have been to many pride festivals all over the US. It may lack the usual hundreds of excessive shopping booths of endless crap, but it makes up for it with the largest street party I have seen. Tons of stages and many blocks as well as many side streets blocked off. Great variety and wonderful entertainment linked with great atmosphere producing a truly diverse and well behaved group of Canadians.
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Review from John F.
North York, ON
8/6/2009
I am a new arrival in Canada from the States, having lived may years in Chicago. I greatly preferred Toronto's parade to Chicago's. More floats, more colour, much better drag and best of all, as most of the gay rights battle has been won in Canada and as the government is parliamentary, only three political entries, by party. (In Chicago you have to wait through an extremely boring processions of local, soon-to-be-indited politicians in their cars, often not accompanied by anything remotely colourful.)
