-October '09

Pride Toronto, returning for its 30th year, is seeking submissions from artists of all disciplines to perform at its 2010 festival happening June 25 to July 4. So, whether you’re a live band, DJ, drag queen/king, community group or theatrical troupe, we want to hear from you!

Past performers include Kelly Rowland, Deborah Cox, Mel C, Esthero, The Cliks, Islands, Lesbians on Ecstacy, Divine Brown, Jully Black, Thelma Houston, Indigo Girls, Uh Huh Her, Dragonette, Kinnie Star, Carole Pope, Sandra Bernhard, Bitch, Rupaul, Crystal Waters, MEN, Suzanne Palmer, Adam K and Soha, Jeremy Carr, Sydney Blu, Jonathan Peters, Lady Miss Kier, David Morales and White Punks on Dope just to name a few! Click here to read more

Click here to browse through Pride Toronto's 2009 Festival Programming

-July '09

Thank you to all of the artists who participated in this years festival and the over 1 MILLION people who attended!

This year's festival saw hundreds of artists participating including Kelly Rowland, Deborah Cox, The Cliks, Islands, Esthero, Gentlemen Reg, Opopo, Lioness, Jonathan Peters, Ultra Naté, Inaya Day, Cajjmere Wray, Ferron, JELO, Deko-ze, God-des & She and Mansion.

The festival also featured a literary series entitled "Proud Voices" featuring some of the best queer writers around including Shani Mootoo, Diane Flacks, Farzana Doctor, Zoe Whittall and S. Bear Bergman.

Our contemporary art project, "Plot, Engage, Disperse" gave people a chance to get interactive with the festival, whether it was sticking a body part in the "drag hole" to get decorated, making a moustache, silk-screening a shirt, watching a film or being part of a very messy pie eating contest.

Pride Toronto also commissioned 7 film makers to produce a short film for the festival as part of the "Video Art Is Queer" project which had a 2 week gallery exhibition at Trinity Square Video and showed on our South Stage all weekend.

We also partnered with local favourites CHERRYBOMB and BIG PRIMPIN' to bring you 2 of the best parties around for a special Pride edition.

Toronto's Pride Week is the third largest LGBTTIQQ2SA* outdoor, free, multi-disciplinary arts festival in the world and the largest festival in Canada. It features hundreds of artists on 8 stages and numerous events spread out over 22 city blocks and needs over 800 people to run it!

If you would like to be considered to perform at our 2010 festival (which is our 30th anniversary!), please stay tuned. Applications will be up in October 2009. In the meantime, you can browse the program from last year below.

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