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The Pride parade (also known as gay pride parade, pride event and pride festival) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) culture. The events also at times serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage. The parade occur annually and takes place worldwide. In recent decades Toronto has emerged as a leader on progressive gay and lesbian policy in North America. Its activists scored a major victory in 2003 when the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling which made same-sex marriage legal in Ontario, the first jurisdiction in North America to do so. By this time the Toronto Pride Week Festival had been running for twenty-three years, making it one of the world's longest running organized Pride celebrations. It is also one of the largest, attracting around million people in 2009. Toronto will host WorldPride in 2014.
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Location: Church and Wellesley, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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