| 1979 | No organized Pride events |
| 1978 | From August 24-27, GAYDAYS: In Celebration of Lesbians and Gay Men, is held. This was the first year Pride Day was celebrated at Cawthra Park, with ceremonies on the steps of the 519 Community Centre and a beer garden in the park.
Some speakers generate controversy by supporting intergenerational sex and S/M. A PrideFair is also held at Queen's Park. |
| 1977 | No organized events; Anita Bryant declares her war on homosexuality. Teenager Emmanual Jacques is raped and murdered above Yonge Street, and a strong backlash is levelled against the Toronto gay community. |
| 1976 | No organized Pride events take place, but the Fourth Annual Gay Conference for Canada and Quebec is held in Toronto. |
| 1975 | No organized Pride events took place |
| 1974 | Pride Week is August 17-24 and includes another Pride Picnic on Ward's Island, a theatre night and church service at Metropolitan Community Church.
More than 100 people march from Allan Gardens to Queen's Park in an effort to include sexual orientation in the Ontario Human Rights Code. The mainstream press reports on the events for the first time. The Globe and Mail misreports the numbers of those involved and the mood of the event, characterizing the marchers as "beating a hasty retreat". |
| 1973 | Pride Week is August 17-26. The organizers ask Mayor David Crombie to recognize the event, but are turned down. Permission to march on Yonge Street is also denied |
| 1972 | On July 9th, the second annual Gay Picnic is held as part of a series of events for the first Gay Pride Week. The week includes a festival, film night, Pride Dance, a rally and a march to Queen's Park. Activists present a brief to the Ontario government. |
| 1971 | Toronto's first "Gay Day Picnic" is held at Hanlan's Point on Sunday 01 August as a fundraiser to send activists to Ottawa for a 2nd anniversary march marking decriminalization. |
| 1970 |
The picnic is organized by Toronto's first queer activist organizations - the University of Toronto Homophile Association (UHTA), Toronto Gay Action Now, and the Community Homophile Association of Toronto (CHAT). On the 28th of that month, under police watch, the first gay demonstration in Ottawa takes place. 100 activists attend. |
