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Pride Toronto
Pride Month June 1 - 30, 2022
Pride 2022 has concluded.
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Pride Toronto
Pride Toronto is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to bring people together to celebrate the history, courage, and diversity of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
Pride Month Events
The wait is finally over! We’re proud to announce the #Pride2022 calendar of events now live!
Get the Rundown
Check out the 2022 Pride Guide. This Pride Guide will show all the events coming this year!
Pride Toronto is happy to announce that planning for a physical Pride Month and Festival Weekend is in full swing for 2022 – The full month of programming will begin on June 1, concluding with the annual Festival Weekend on June 24-25-26, 2022.
Pride Toronto will ensure Pride Month and Festival Weekend will be organized in alignment with the City of Toronto’s Public Health recommendations.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are on the traditional territory of many Nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. We also acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.
We also acknowledge all Treaty peoples – including those who came here as settlers – as migrants either in this generation or in generations past – and those of us who came here involuntarily, particularly forcibly displanted Africans brought here as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery. We pay tribute to those ancestors of African origin and descent.
Pride 2022 Programming
The long-awaited return will include all of your signature favourites including the annual Trans March, Dyke March, Bi+ Pride Programming, Blockorama by Blackness Yes, Pride Parade, StreetFair, and multiple stages featuring over 300 2SLGBTQ+ artists.
We are also excited to include the annual City of Toronto Flag Raising on June 1, 2022, and Cabana Pool Party with Symone on June 15, 2022, Island Party on June 19, 2022, with so much more to be announced in 2022.
Book your stay now by visiting PrideToronto.com/VisitUs to find a list of hotel and travel partners with exclusive Pride Toronto discount codes. It’s been a long two years, you won’t want to miss this.
Headliners
The Legendary House of Miyake Mugler
When: June 24 – 7 pm – 11 PM
Where: TD Main Stage
Patrice Roberts
When: June 26 – 9 PM
Where: Bud Light Selzer Wellesley Stage
Charity of Choice and International Grand Marshal
Pride Toronto is proud to announce the first of many honoured positions for the Pride 2022 commemorations. Chosen by our community advisory panel; the Charity of Choice is The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) Canada’s largest organisation dedicated to mitigating the impacts of HIV/AIDS on Caribbean, African, and Black communities.
Pride 2022 International Grand Marshal
Lady Phyll
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah is the nucleus of the award-winning celebration and protest that is UK Black Pride. Widely known as Lady Phyll – partly due to her decision to reject an MBE in the New Year’s Honours’ list to protest Britain’s role in formulating anti-2SLGBTQ+ penal codes across its empire – she is also the executive director of Kaleidoscope Trust, an organisation working to uphold the human rights of 2SLGBTQ+ people around the world; a community builder and organiser; an Albert Kennedy Trust patron, and a public speaker focusing on race, gender, sexuality and class. She’s regularly called upon to advise nascent 2SLGBTQ+ organisations around the world to help leaders create cogent organising strategies, establish robust partnership networks and work effectively in service of the 2SLGBTQ+ community.
leZlie lee kam – Senior Dyke Ambassador
I am a world majority, brown, trini, Carib, indo, chinese, callaloo, queer, DYKE, differently-abled community activist, Elder. I am a 2SLGBTQI+awareness consultant and workshop facilitator. In my work I focus
Elder Blu Waters – 2Spirit Ambassador
LAUREEN BLU WATERS (They/Them) Laureen (Blu) Waters: Istchii Nikamoon: Earth Song, Wolf clan. Cree/Metis/Micmac, Blu is a member of the Metis Nation of Ontario. Blu’s family is from Big River
Rick Innis – Bi+ Pride Ambassador
Bio Genetically Anglo-Indian, culturally Scottish-Canadian, and queer by nature, Rick has grown up between worlds, so coming out bisexual was no surprise, except perhaps why it took so long. A
Marisa Rosa Grant – BIPOC Pride Ambassador
Marisa is an event producer focused on creating spaces for Queer BIPOC folx to feel safe and accepted. This passion for curating spaces came due to them noticing a lack
Arnaud Baudry – Francophone Pride Ambassador
Bio Arnaud Baudry (he/il) is a cis gay man from Boussay, a small rural town in France, and has been living in Canada since 2011. Trained in computer science, multimedia
Gloria Swain – Senior Pride Ambassador
Bio Gloria Swain, she/her, is a multidisciplinary queer Black elder artist on the asexual spectrum. Swain is an established visual artist, writer, and performance artist and advocates for anti-Black racism,
Aeryn Pfaff – Sober Pride Ambassador
Aeryn Pfaff is a social media manager, journalist, DJ and activist based in Toronto. He is a gay man who works creating educational content on HIV, AIDS and sexual health
Moka Dawkins – Trans Pride Ambassador
Moka is a Black & Indigenous Trans/2Spirit woman who experienced criminalization due to racial identity profiling, and transphobia by the Toronto Police Services and Ontario’s provincial and federal judicial systems
Tariq Richardson – Youth Pride Ambassador
Bio My name is Tariq, a 20 yr old Black Caribbean male originally from San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago currently residing in Toronto Canada. I caw caw caw cawed (in
