Pride Toronto 2015

Pride Toronto – A ten day event, Pride Week is one of the premier arts and cultural festivals in Canada and one of the largest Pride celebrations in the world with an estimated attendance of over 1.2 million people. An award winning festival, Pride Week is one of only eight officially designated City of Toronto “Signature Events”, is recognized as one of the “Top 50 Festivals in Ontario” by Festivals and Events Ontario, was awarded the “Best Festival in Canada” award by the Canadian Special Event Industry two years in a row and received the “Best Arts & Culture Event” award for 2011. Toronto, ON.

Pride Toronto is the not-for-profit organization that hosts the Pride Festival, an annual 10 day festival in downtown Toronto during the last week of June. Pride Festival is one of the premier arts and cultural festivals in Canada. It is also one of the largest Pride celebrations in the world with an estimated attendance of over 1.2 million visits.

It celebrates the history, courage, diversity and future of Toronto’s LGBTTIQQ2SA* communities.

* Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, 2 Spirited, Allies

Pride Toronto 2015

This year, Chaz Bono transforms Pride. The Trans* Pride marchers proudly finish their steps in Yonge-Dundas Square for a free-to-attend, all-ages showcase of Trans* artists. Here, Pride Toronto transforms Toronto’s own “Times Square” into a celebration of our out, proud and loud Trans* communities, and welcomes our GLAAD award-winning celebrity hosts, the outspoken Chaz Bono, alongside Lambda Literary award-winner S. Bear Bergman. The site of the largest-ever celebration of Trans* Pride in North America, Yonge-Dundas Square rocks out with returning local favourites Crackpuppy and seasoned pros The Cliks. In addition, taking the stage is human rights activist and adult film pioneer Buck Angel, followed by a very special feature live-performance by Mx. Justin Vivian Bond. *Trans* is an umbrella term that refers to all of the identities within the gender identity spectrum, including (but not limited to), those community members who identify as transgender, transsexual, Intersex, third gender, genderqueer, genderfluid, gender independent, transvestite, non-binary and bigender.

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