TORONTO PRIDE 2025

Toronto Pride has earned its reputation as one of the largest pride festivals in the world and returns with parades and marches including the Dyke March, the Trans March and a full schedule of kid-friendly programs.

It’s a month-long opportunity for 2SLGBTQ+ communities and allies to reflect on where they have come from, recognize what they have achieved, and to rally together for the ongoing push ahead towards an inclusive and supportive society for all.

The annual Pride Month kicks off with an official flag-raising ceremony at City Hall and runs throughout the month of June, building up to the high-energy festival weekend, which includes the Trans March, Dyke March, and culminates in the Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29th, 2025

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Queer East Social on June 19th

Queer East Social on June 19th

We are excited to bring back our Queer East Social hosted at Café ZUZU! This free event celebrates and highlights Pride on Juneteenth featuring Black-Queer performers, artists & and a DJ spinning for the night. The event supports our local charitable partner, Friends of Ruby. Register early from guaranteed entry!

SAFE SPACES

SAFE SPACES

All Gusto 54 Restaurant Group businesses continue to proudly welcome all into our spaces. Each restaurant publicly identifies as a space where Guests and Team Members alike can feel safe, supported and represented. Check out your business's everyone welcome sticker posted visibly near the entrance.

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Keep your eyes open for more announcements and events here!

Celebrating Pride Month

All month long, Gusto 54 Restaurant Group will celebrate our 2SLGBTQ+ team members and the community at large through tons of local opportunities for participation, education, and support.

Two-spirit pow wow

Two-spirit pow wow

Saturday, June 7, 2025, at Downsview Park for Toronto’s 4th Annual 2-Spirit Powwow, hosted by 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations.

Queer Cinema Club

Queer Cinema Club’s mission is to bring Toronto’s LGBTQ folks together in celebration of some of the best queer cinema ever made. Every month at Paradise, curator and host Peter Knegt offers queers (and anyone who loves them) a queer film classic (or future classic), special guests and performers, and some good old fashioned drinks and conversation in the Paradise’s lobby bar. Each film is paired with a different local queer artist, who designs an original poster for the screening.

Queer Cinema Club
ROM After Dark

ROM After Dark

ROM After Dark is the popular monthly adult (19+) event series that features curated music, visual arts, performances, and distinctive food and drink.

Get ready to light up the night at RAD: Summer Solstice—an electrifying celebration packed with live performances, high-energy DJ sets, activations from our Indigenous Learning Team, and a dance floor pulsing with summer vibes. Plus, enjoy full access to our galleries and the special exhibition Nature in Brilliant Colour.

Royal Ontario Museum, Friday, June 13th.

Luminato Festival

MOVE with Rainbow Wheel at Brookfield Place: Step into Wheel, where movement becomes meditation. As your motion sets a spinning rainbow in motion, discover how physical activity can create moments of presence and clarity. 

 

WONDER with Rainbow Garden at Bay Adelaide Centre: Immerse yourself in Garden, a whimsical landscape of oversized rainbow flowers and interactive elements. This gentle wonderland invites you to embrace playfulness as a source of joy and renewal. 

PAUSE with Rainbow Calm at First Canadian Place: Experience Rainbow Calm, where Lake Ontario inspires a sanctuary for stillness. rest in soft seating pieces designed to inspire stillness and comfort, and for finding quiet moments to notice the beauty that surrounds us. 

Wednesday, June 4 - Friday, July 25
Brookfield Place, Bay Adelaide Centre, First Canadian Place

Luminato Festival
Cadillac Fairview Pride Market

Cadillac Fairview Pride Market

The CF Pride Shop is back this June, in partnership with Toronto Queer Market! Celebrate Pride by supporting local 2SLGBTQ+ artisans and small business owners. From handmade jewellery to bold accessories and one-of-a-kind gifts, there’s something special for everyone to find. Stop by, explore, and show your support! 

📅June 1 - 30 📍Level 1, near Winners"

pride parade 2025

Sunday, Jun 29 · 2PM-6PM

 Whether you’re a long-time ally or part of the 2SLGBTQl+ community, this celebration is for you. 

The parade kicks off at 2PM, with over 25,000 marchers and more than 250 groups participating, all united in the mission to promote diversity, acceptance, and inclusion. It’s not just a parade; it’s a vibrant display of pride, strength, and solidarity. 

Be sure to find your preferred spot along our Pride Route, which starts at the intersection of Rosedale Valley Rd. and Park Rd. and culminates at Nathan Phillips Square.

This celebration is about more than just enjoying the festivities–it’s a powerful reminder of the importance of community, love, and equality. We’re not only marching to celebrate how far we’ve come, but to reaffirm our commitment to shaping a future where everyone, regardless of who they love, how they look, or what they feel, can live openly and proudly

pride parade 2025
March with Destination Toronto

March with Destination Toronto

Destination Toronto is proud to be participating in the 2025 Toronto Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29th

As a valued member of our community, you and your family are invited to march alongside us in one of the city’s most vibrant and meaningful celebrations. 

  • Date: Sunday, June 29, 2025

  • Time: Arrival time around noon (TBC). Parade begins at 2 p.m.Anticipated marching time will be 1- 2 hours. 

  • Location: Bloor Street East & Ted Rogers Way (exact location to be confirmed) 

STELLA + SUPERGAY

STELLA + SUPERGAY

Stella is working with SuperGay Spirits on a custom cocktail menu available for the month of June!

From SuperGay Spirits: “Every bottle we produce is a love letter to quality, creativity, and the community we're a part of." 

Supergay gives back a portion of profits to LGBTQ+ organizations.

QUEER BOXING CLUB

QUEER BOXING CLUB

Our friends at QBC are a queer-focused community that underscores strength, empowerment, and connection. Get sweaty in a heavy bag class to a set of high-energy queer anthems that will leave you feeling stronger and motivated. All fitness levels are welcome, and no experience is necessary. Allies are encouraged! 

During Pride month, classes are held every Saturday at 2 PM out of Rumble Boxing Studio in Yorkville (1235 Bay St., #101). First-timers get in free. See their upcoming themes here!

MORE PRIDE

MORE PRIDE

Discover even more Pride events happening this year!

Exhibit

Exhibit

By R.O. Kwon

Cracked open, Jin finds herself telling Lidija about an old familial curse, breaking a lifelong promise. She's been told that if she doesn't keep the curse a secret, she risks losing everything; death and ruin could lie ahead. As Jin and Lidija become more entangled, they realize they share more than the ferocity of their ambition, and begin to explore hidden desires.

House Mates

House Mates

By Emma Copley Eisenberg

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sparkling novel of love, friendship and chosen family by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl.

When Bernie replies to Leah's ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a mutual belief in their art, and each other. Both aspire to capture the world around them: Leah through her writing; Bernie through her photography.

Indian Winter

Indian Winter

By Ali Kazim

"I am leaving for the winter – I have to get away from this small town and all its dangers – to write, read, think, all the most important things in the world but which are thought the least important, the most expendable."

Thus begins the Indian winter of our narrator, a queer writer and translator much like the author, a winter that includes a meandering journey through India, trying to write about a long-ago lover whose death he has just learned of.

like happiness

like happiness

By  Ursula Villareal-Moura

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman’s destructive relationship with a legendary writer.

It’s 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner, Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. More than anything else, she loves this new life for helping her forget the decade she spent in New York City orbiting the brilliant and famous author M. Domínguez.

Broughtupsy

Broughtupsy

By Christina Cooke

When Akúa meets Jayda, a brash stripper who reveals a different side of Kingston. As the two women grow closer, Akúa is forced to confront the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family, and what it means to be a gay woman in Jamaica. Her trip comes to a frenzied and dangerous end, but not without a glimmer of hope of how to be at peace with her sister — and herself. 

Broughtupsy asks: What are we willing to do for family, and what are we willing to do to feel at home?

APPLE TV

APPLE TV

Apple TV's collection of programming includes many films that focus on the process of “coming into” queer identity, community, and family. PRIDE, a six-part documentary series chronicles the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights in America from the 1950s through the 2000s.

CBC GEM

CBC GEM

If you haven't heard of this must-watch series yet, Sort Of stars Sabi Mehboob (played by Bilal Baig), a gender-expansive millennial in Toronto who is so over-editing themselves to make others comfortable. From love to family to career — every aspect of Sabi's life is in transition.

NETFLIX

NETFLIX

On Netflix you can find a curated collection of film, docs and TV series to celebrate Pride, including The Andy Warhol Diaries. After he's shot in 1968, Andy Warhol begins documenting his life and feelings. Those diaries, and this docuseries, take a peek behind his persona.

PRIME VIDEO

PRIME VIDEO

On Prime Video you'll find many LGBTQ+ storylines. Winner of eight Emmys and two Golden Globes, Transparent returns for a fourth season. The Pfeffermans take off on a spiritual and political journey as they dig deep into their family's history. Maura heads to Israel to speak at a conference and makes a startling discovery.

Disney Plus

Disney Plus

Disney+ has a Pride collection films and TV shows that includes Out, Disney and Pixar's first short to feature a gay main character and storyline, including an on-screen same-sex kiss. The plot features a young gay man who has not yet come out to his parents, who unexpectedly has his mind magically swapped with his dog's. .

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