Our Mission

Pride Toronto exists to celebrate the history, courage, diversity and future of Toronto's LGBTTIQ2S* communities.
* Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer/Questioning, 2 Spirited

Our Vision

Pride Toronto will:

• Run a not-for-profit organization, committed to volunteers and staff.
• Create a safe space to engage communities in the celebration of their sexuality.
• Coordinate a series of pre-eminent arts & cultural events, including the annual Pride celebration, that empower and support our communities.
• Connect with and help develop our communities, fostering essential partnerships.
• Capture and build upon our organization's and our communities' history.
• Provide a platform for education through a significant public presence.

Our Values

We will:

• Honour – our past by remembering our history.
• Protect – our future by reaching out, educating and defending our right to celebrate.
• Value Diversity – by accepting and respecting differences and working to understand the diverse cultural complexities that influence identity, assumptions, behaviours, expectations, and beliefs.
• Celebrate – with provocative, racy, and outrageous events
• Engage – the diversity of our communities to participate in events and facilitate community development.
• Recognize – and acknowledge, the involvement and contributions of volunteers, staff and stakeholders.
• Respect – volunteers, staff and stakeholders by creating and sustaining an environment where we treat each other with respect and dignity.
• Sustain – the organization by ensuring transparency in our actions and accountability with, and to, our communities.
• Manage – with fiscal responsibility and foresight, ensuring the viability of the organization and the fulfillment of its mission.