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Pride Toronto
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Pride Toronto
June 26 – 28, 2026
About

Pride Toronto started in 1981 as a protest after a police raid on the city's bathhouses. Forty-five years later it's a 10-day festival with the Pride Parade as the headline — one of the largest in the world by attendance.

The Church-Wellesley Village (Church Street between Bloor and Carlton) is the heart of it. The street closes Friday night and reopens Sunday after midnight. Rooftop parties, drag brunches, allies and elders and trans youth and bachelorette parties all sharing the same sidewalk.

When

Trans Rally + March (Friday June 26, 7pm — starts at Allan Gardens). Dyke March (Saturday June 27, 2pm). PRIDE PARADE — Sunday June 28, 2pm, starts at Bloor and Church.

Where
Church Street, Toronto (Church-Wellesley Village)
Church-Wellesley Village
What to expect
  • ●Church Street closed to cars Fri evening through Sun midnight
  • ●Rooftop parties along Carlton, Wellesley, and Maitland charge cover but worth it
  • ●1.2M+ attendees over the weekend — the densest crowds in Toronto all year
  • ●Drag queens, leather daddies, a kid in a tutu, your boss's boss — all on the same sidewalk
Insider tips
  1. 01Best parade-watching spot: along Yonge between Wellesley and Carlton, get there by 12:30pm
  2. 02Lipstick & Dynamite (Carlton rooftop) is the lesbian crowd HQ
  3. 03Crews & Tangos, Flash, the Beaver — the queer dive bars to know
  4. 04Drag brunches at Glad Day Bookshop are the weekend's best hidden gem
  5. 05TTC adds extra trains on Sunday afternoon — use them, traffic is sealed

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