Toronto/CMEDIA: Toronto Pride 2024 Festival weekend reportedly being right around the corner brings with it fun events to attend and celebrate the city’s vibrant 2SLGBTQI+ community.
Continuing a legacy deeply intertwined with the rich, progressive history of Toronto’s queer community, Pride Toronto is dedicated activists fighting for their right to love and be seen.
With its mission of creating and supporting events and programming to celebrate the diverse talents, stories, and achievements of all 2SLGBTQI+ communities to defend their human human rights has its vision to create a world in which all people feel safer, valued, celebrated, and included, regardless of how they identify or who they love.
Pride Toronto’s values include Authenticity, Respect, Integrity, Freedom, community, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
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Although the city has been replete with Pride events all month long, things really ramp up for the weekend leading up to the Parade on Sunday, June 30 and the night afterwards.
As Pride Weekend falls on a long weekend this year, one can make the most of all the fun happening around the city.
Kicking off on Wednesday, June 26, The Green Space Festival in support of The 519, Canada’s largest 2SLGBTQI+ community centres, would be accompanied with five nights straight of alfresco dance parties.
The 519’s Green Space Festival has reportedly become a thriving, internationally recognized cultural festival in Toronto, during the Pride month since its inception in 2008.
Parties being totally free to attend and open to the public, featuring live DJ sets, music and dance performances and appearances by drag royalty from Toronto and beyond.
Church Street becomes alive starting June 28 with the return of the Pride Festival Street Fair.
Serving as a hub for the weekend, a stretch of the street from Bloor to Dundas would be filled with live performances on six street stages, food and drink vendors and more.
At the Street Fair, special events, performances and competitions, like the fan-favourite Wood St. Block Party, METAMORPHOMANIA, and Blockorama would be showcased.
Also, on Friday, June 28, the Trans March, Rally & Pride will hit the streets, marching down Yonge between Bloor and Gould at 7 p.m.
Yet other event taking place would be Pride Sober Oasis, which is a sober spaces to rest, relax, connect, and be replenished. Throughout the day, many different Sobriety Modalities will host meetings, including 12 Step and SMART Recovery.
TD Toronto Jazz Festival would also be held on that day.
Taking place in The Village from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 29, the Pride & Remembrance Run event would honour the contributions of instrumental BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ individuals in the community with a huge post-run party at Barbara Hall Park.
Later, at 1 p.m., it’s the Dyke March, Rally & Pride’s turn to take to the streets, following the same parade route as the Trans March.
Taking place outside the village on June 29 would be Drag Ball at the TD Main Stage (Nathan Phillips Square).
Other events being held on June 29 would include Dyke Parade and Pup your Pride.
Yet other events held on the closing night are as follows:
The conluding event of the weekend is the Pride Parade, which is happening down Yonge Street from Bloor to Dundas and ending at Nathan Phillips Square at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 30.
