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The Pride Parade happens during Pride Week in Toronto. I took these photos at the 33rd annual Pride Parade, which was on Sunday, June 30 this year. To me, Pride is at once a celebration of diverse sexual and gender identities and a celebration of tolerance and love over bigotry and hate. Pride is for gay, straight, bi, trans, truck drivers, the fat, the thin, dogs, babies, ballerinas, mermaids - anyone who has an open heart and mind. It's an enormous, wild, hot & sweaty street party and though it seems that sexuality is at the centre of the celebrations, I think that it's a joyful gathering of acceptance in the broadest sense too.