Dancing in the streets. Pride 2022.
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Pride Parade 2022
Posted: June 27, 2022 in events, peopleTags: Bloor St., costumes, crowds, dancing, dogs, flags, hugging, parade, people, placards, pride, Pride Parade, rainbow, signs, spectators, tattoos, trans, umbrella, watching, Yonge St.
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Dyke March 2022
Posted: June 26, 2022 in events, peopleTags: abortion, banners, bikes, bubbles, coat hanger, crowds, dyke, dykes on bikes, fun, march, motorcycles, parade, people, poster, protest, Yonge St.
And we’re back! After missing two years because of Covid, Pride is back in Toronto.
Hot! ( 30+ C and sunny) but it didn’t seem to slow anyone down!
Pride, no parade 2020
Posted: June 28, 2020 in events, peopleTags: crowd, dancing, flags, float, flowers, fun, laugh, LGBQT, naked, nude, parade, people super soaker, rainbow, spectators
Instead of pictures of this year’s Pride Parade, I am posting some photos from previous Pride weekends from my archives. I have tried to use pictures that weren’t chosen for prior blog posts. As you know, the fall out from Covid-19 includes cancellation of parades in Toronto this summer. There was a virtual Pride parade online this year (so I hear) but that doesn’t lend itself to photography. We miss the social interactions that normally occur. We miss the atmosphere and the fun. This collection is a poor substitute for the real thing but maybe it will bring back a few memories….. See you in 2021!
Santa Claus Parade 2019
Posted: November 19, 2019 in events, peopleTags: bands, clowns, cookie, costumes, cowboys, elves, floats, hats, instruments, kids, marching, Mrs. Claus, music, parade, people, reindeer, SAnta Claus, sleigh, snowmen, toy soldier, walking, wigs
Santa Claus Parade photos
below: What could be more appropriate than a few clowns with shovels to follow the police horses?
below: Crazy wabbits didn’t still in one place long enough to let me focus on them
below: Mrs. Claus
below: And at the very end, the main attraction, jolly old Santa Claus himself
downtown on a Saturday afternoon
Posted: July 16, 2019 in general Toronto, peopleTags: dance, Festival of India, hot, India, lying, Mellow Dee, parade, parrot, people, selling, shade, sleeping, spiderman, sunny, Thai, walking, watermelon
Like most summer weekends in the city, this past weekend was a busy one.
below: There was a Thai festival at Yonge Dundas Square with dancers performing in front a screen that was showing a video, in real time, of them dancing.
below: Women carving intricate floral shapes out of watermelon,
below: carrots, and other root vegetables.
below: The colours of the Thai flag
below: A small parade for the Festival of India made its way down Yonge street towards the ferry for Centre Island. Sweepers cleared the streets while other people joined together to pull the floats.
below: This parade for Ratha Yatra is an annual event. A more complete description of the parade, as well as some photos from 2016, can be found on a blog post that I wrote three years ago (how time flies!), or even older, is a post from 2015.
below: A parrot, belonging to one of the men walking in the parade, perches on a policeman’s bike helmet to everyone’s delight.
below: With the parade and all the people on Yonge Street, traffic was slow. This may not be unusual!
below: Yes, I am 6 feet tall!
below: Mellow Dee plays the piano outside the south entrance of the Eaton Centre.
below: Finding shade wherever they can… it was a hot one!
below: It appears that selling bras isn’t a very exciting job?
below: Some people sit and read, while others sit, smoke, and watch the world go by….
… and others go skate boarding past….
Pride Parade 2019
Posted: June 29, 2019 in events, peopleTags: balloons, banners, costumes, crowds, dog, flags, floats, flowers, gay, LGBQT, naked, nudity, outfits, parade, people, placards, pride, rainbow, signs, sunglasses, topless, walking, Yonge Street
I’m a few days late but here are some photos from this year’s Pride Parade, Sunday June 23rd.
below: The crowds line both sides of Dundas at the end of the parade route as the beginning of the parade has just reached them.
below: Thousands of pieces of bright and sparkly mylar.
below: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walked at the beginning of the parade, along with a lot of security.
Dyke March 2019
Posted: June 23, 2019 in events, peopleTags: banner, bikes, bubbles, cheer, colours, costumes, couples, dog, dyke, flags, motorcycles, paint, parade, people, pride, protest, rainbow, spectators, umbrella, walking, whip, women, Yonge Street
Dyke March 2019, sunshine and smiles, and a lot of positive energy.
I’ll let the pictures do the talking.
below: Pride over Mannum and a sign for Amma
below: I don’t exist for your pleasure and something about liking girls!
below: Let me be perfectly queer, respect existence or expect resistance
below: Society has Evolved in 2019, Love Wins, catch up!
below: Playing with dolls
below: Many flags! Pink, yellow and blue horizontal stripes for pansexual and pink, purple, and blue for bisexual.
below: Another flag, this time it’s asexual.
below: A large transexual flag and a group from Womens College Hospital
below: Ford Cabinet for sale, real cheap! Just a buck!
below: Proud to be queer and Jewish
below: Still a Pakistani, Still a Muslim, and Still a Dyke, along with a proud Polynesian dyke.
below: Say Know to Sex Ed
Raptors take over the city
Posted: June 17, 2019 in events, peopleTags: banners, baseball caps, basketball, Canadian flag, celebrate, champagne, crowds, dump truck, flags, nathan phillips square, parade, people, Raptors, red, signs, T-shirts, team, video, we the north, wine
Today was the day of the parade to celebrate the Raptors NBA Championship win. Today was the day that downtown was immobilized. Like many of the thousands (millions) of people, I couldn’t get anywhere near the parade. I also couldn’t get into Nathan Phillips Square, the end point of the parade. I am not sure I wanted to! Too crowded. Besides, walking around the periphery of Nathan Phillips Square still gave me a plethora of opportunities to take lots of pictures of people out celebrating.
below: Bay Street was one of the many streets that were closed. Two large screens showed footage of the parade as it progressed. In this photo, you can see a sea of red at the Prince’s gates, the entrance to the Exhibition grounds.
below: A larger picture of the screen. This photo was taken at 10:49 a.m. The parade was supposed to start at 10 a.m. I am not sure what time it arrived at Nathan Phillips Square, I was already long gone by the time it did.
below: Red for Manchester United as well!
Greek Independence Day Parade
Posted: March 25, 2019 in events, locations, peopleTags: banners, Canadian flags, crowd, flags, genocide, Greek, Greek flags, groups, Helles, Macedoia, parade, people, spectators
Greek Independence Day is March 25, comemorating the start of the War of Greek Independence in 1821. Prior to that, they had been part of the Ottoman Empire for almost 400 years, since 1453. Yesterday there was a parade along the Danforth to mark the occasion.
There were people with banners representing many groups including the Cultural Society of Kilkis and Suburbs,
the Thessalon Federation of Ontario, and many more,
below: There was only one float in the parade. It was a memorial to those who died in the Greek genocide during and after WW1 when the Christian Ottoman Greeks living in Anatolia (now part of Turkey) were killed or driven out.
Labour Day Parade 2018
Posted: September 3, 2018 in events, peopleTags: ACTRA, AFL-CIO, Amalgamated Transit Union, Canadian Media Guild, CNE, CP24, CUPE, dog, Doug Ford, flags, IATSE, Jennifer Keesmaat, justice, lock out, millwrights, NDP, OPSEU, parade, pay equality, people, placards, protest, rights, sex ed, signs, slogans, Sprinkler Fitters of Ontario, Toronto Civic Employees Union, TTC, unions
below: IATSE Local 58 led the parade this year. They have been locked out of the CNE who brought in workers from Quebec and Alberta to help set up the Ex this year. Usually the parade ends at the CNE grounds at the Dufferin Gate and participants get free admission to the Ex. This year, the parade ended at Lamport Stadium instead.
below: Mayoral candidate, Jennifer Keesmaat, walked in the parade with the IATSE locals. At Bathurst St., the groups at the front slowed down to let the others catch up. At that point, Keesmaat was interviewed by CP24.
as I walk Toronto 