This article was published more than 9 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. Participants walk the route during Toronto's Pride Parade on June 28, 2015. Chris Young/The Canadian Press ...

The Queer Skate Pride event starts at 12 p.m. and lessons will be given every hour. Garcia is encouraging attendees to bring a canned food donation that will be given to Community Fridges Toronto.

TORONTO — As a major funding shortfall looms over Pride Toronto, some prominent LGBTQ+ advocates say it's high time to rethink the organization's corporate partnerships and return to its ...

In the past couple years, Toronto Pride parades have gathered crowds of a million people for Pride week events, and up to 100,000 people for the parade itself. World Pride was held in Toronto in 2014.

Pride Toronto has commitments with more than 300 artists, most of whom are Canadian. But Modeste added that the Pride festival will not be any smaller. "It is sad," Modeste said on Thursday.

Though Pride Toronto's Executive Director Kojo Modeste called the protests that shut down the parade "disappointing, " Pride has always been the place for protest. Check out the images below.

6. Toronto, Canada Emerging from the 1981 bathhouse raids and protests that galvanized Canada’s LGBTQIA+ rights movement, Pride Toronto has grown into one of the world’s largest.

And so, a year after Toronto hosted World Pride, 2016’s festivities had the glow of fresh diversity. In a sense, this year felt like the blackest Pride I’ve ever attended in Toronto.

Pride Toronto hasn’t adequately highlighted issues that disproportionately affect the LGBTQ+ community, such as poor access to housing, mental health struggles and increased substance use, Bain ...

Though Pride Toronto's Executive Director Kojo Modeste called the protests that shut down the parade "disappointing, " Pride has always been the place for protest. Check out the images below.