Tag: Toronto Pride
Pride in Pictures: Toronto Pride is one of the largest in the world
Toronto will celebrate its 44th annual Pride Parade come this June. Though Toronto celebrates the entire month of June, the parades take place in either the last weekend of June or the first weekend in July. It is one of the biggest Pride festivals in the world.
Toronto’s Pride parade began after the the Bathhouse Raids in 1981, where metropolitan police raided several gay bathhouses and arrested over three hundred men. It was the largest mass arrest in Canada since 1970...
Justin Trudeau says world leaders should be “expected” to attend Pride
Justin Trudeau has suggested that world leaders have a duty to attend Pride events.
The Canadian leader, who is a strong supporter of the LGBT+ community, attended his latest Pride parade over the weekend in Halifax, where he marched through the streets with his wife and kids and took photos with drag queens.
He became the first sitting PM in Canada to ever walk in the Halifax parade, but it’s not the first time that he’s made such history, as he...
