Pride Toronto - July 3rd Parade

Sunday July 3, 2106 The 2016 Pride Parade starts at 2 P.M. at Church and Bloor, travels west on Bloor to Yonge, then south on Yonge to Dundas.

GROUP BANNERS  Metropolitan United Church, with support from other congregations, is coordinating a United Church walking group for this year’s Toronto Pride parade, under the banner of Radical Love, Walking Proud, see the photo below. We will also have a general banner that says, The United Church of Canada, at the front of the group.  Bring your congregation banner as long as you want to carry it.  We hope to have some folks who will also want to carry our United Church and Radical Love banners -- it's great to spell off half way.

MEETING PLACE AND START TIME Our marching permit # is G62, titled AFFIRM-UNITED-INTERFAITH and our check in time is 2:15 at Ted Rogers Way (Jarvis) and Bloor.   We will gather on the south-east corner and we will try to hang the United Church banner up so it can be a visible gathering spot. Please be aware that although our group has been given the 2:15 time to check in, we don't know the actual time that we will be queued into the parade. Come prepared to wait. In the past it has been an hour or two (or more) before we are able to join. It depends on how many other groups are registered and where we are in the line up.  If you have not already let us know you are planning to join, please let Susie Henderson or John Joseph Mastandrea know.  Once the parade begins the walkers are behind the barricades so you cannot join the group from the sidelines.  Nor is it easy to leave.  So please consider the challenges. Pride Toronto provides accessibility shaded/seating areas available for people to watch the parade on a first-come first serve basis.  See the Pride website for more information.

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