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Pride month's expansive finale — the pridefulness parade — is happening on Sunday. And as the last play of the period approaches, Toronto will beryllium filled with events celebrating the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Here's a roundup of events from the 2nd largest Pride lawsuit successful the world
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· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago
Pride month's expansive finale — the pridefulness parade — is happening on Sunday. And as the last play of the period approaches, Toronto will beryllium filled with events celebrating the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
As the largest Pride solemnisation successful the country, these events pull millions of visitors to the city every year.
Pride Toronto says this year's ceremonies include a focus connected the transgender and non-binary community, and that it's important to usage Pride arsenic a level for visibility, education, and advocacy. This year's event also features a 99 per cent Canadian lineup of performers, organizers say.
Here are immoderate of the highlights successful the metropolis this weekend:
Friday, June 27:
Opening Night: 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
TD Main Stage - Nathan Phillips Square - 100 Queen St. W.
The play kicks disconnected with opening night, and Pride Toronto says the celebration will see a lineup of immoderate of the best 2SLGBTQI+ creation artists successful the world.
Sober Pride: 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Paul Kane Parkette - 58 Wellesley St. E.
This year, the festival says it's arrogant to big an event that embraces amusive and celebration without substances.
StreetFair: 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
StreetFair is taking implicit Church Street from Bloor to Dundas and this year, and Pride Toronto says it's bigger than ever with much than 200 stalls. It's expected to see a cautiously curated enactment of unsocial shops, food and activities.
Trans Rally and March: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Charles Street Riser (March Rally Point) - 620 Church St.
Pride Toronto says this event offers a almighty abstraction to honour trans, non-binary and two-spirit identities portion raising consciousness and advocating for trans quality rights. According to the website, the day begins with the Trans Community Fair that showcases trans assemblage groups, and closes disconnected the nighttime with the Trans Afterparty astatine the Community Stage.
New Ho Queen // All In: Asian Pride: 10 p.m. to 12 a.m.
Mill Street Wellesley Stage - 15 Wellesley St. E.
New Ho Queen is returning to Pride Toronto's Wellesley Stage for Asian Pride. Pride Toronto is encouraging radical to come creation and observe queer Asian artistry, resilience and self-expression with local performers and DJs.
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Saturday, June 28
Family Pride: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Church Street Public School - 83 Alexander St.
Pride Toronto says Family Pride offers a vibrant situation wherever parents, caregivers and children nether 12 can connect, play, and observe together. The weekend lawsuit is expected to beryllium filled with unrecorded music, storytelling, arts and crafts and family-friendly entertainment, each designed to make a welcoming abstraction for 2SLGBTQI+ families.
Dyke Rally and March: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Charles Street Riser (March Rally Point) - 620 Church St.
Pride Toronto says attendees tin commencement the time with inspiring speeches, performances, and sign-making anterior to the march. Starting astatine 2 p.m., attendees volition march through the streets of Toronto.
Youth Pride: 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Church Street Public School - 83 Alexander St.
Pride Toronto and the SOY Youth Advisory Committee are bringing backmost different twelvemonth of showcasing younker excellence done singing, dancing and drag performances.
Sunday, June 29:
Pride Parade: 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Rosedale Valley Rd. and Park Rd., westbound connected Church St., southbound connected Yonge St., to Nathan Phillips Square.
Toronto's Pride parade kicks disconnected astatine 2 p.m., with implicit 25,000 marchers and much than 250 groups expected to participate. Pride Toronto says the lawsuit isn't conscionable a parade, but also a vibrant show of strength, pridefulness and solidarity.
Two-spirit and Indigenous Pride: 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Rogers Community Stage - 78 Gould St.
Pride Toronto encourages attendees to travel unneurotic with two-spirit community members for a gathering pursuing the Pride Parade astatine its Community Stage. The lawsuit includes a two-spirit artist market and honours Indigenous civilization and 2SLGBTQI+ identities done art, connection and celebration, organizers say.
Closing night: 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.
TD Main Stage - Nathan Phillips Square - 100 Queen St. W.
Pride Toronto says you tin creation the day distant to house, disco and Pride bangers for closing night. DJs volition beryllium spinning the tunes to support attendees moving and grooving each day long.
The City of Toronto besides has its ain database of events which tin beryllium found here.
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