Celebrate QUEER JOY and community! Come together with rainbow faeries, families, friends, neighbours and our queer community to kick off Pride Month in Toronto's East End with a sparkley celebration in the park!

This year’s theme is all about exploring our magickal selves — rainbow faeries , whimsical woodland creatures , fantastic flowers + fungi — a joyful transformation that celebrates the power of growing, glowing, and showing up as your unique, radiant self. We’re turning the park into a celebration of queer magick and youth-led brilliance, and we need your help to make it shine even brighter!

The 4th annual Toronto East End Kids Pride will take place on Sunday, May 31, 2026, and we need your support to make this grassroots community event even more joyous, colourful, and celebratory! Help us fundraise this youth-inspired, youth-led Pride event to celebrate our beautiful queer, trans, questioning and gender-variant existence!

How it all started:

In June 2023, an awesome 7-year-old kid asked her two moms if she could organize a Pride Parade for her friends who are rainbow kids or who are part of rainbow families. Six days later, over 300 people came out to celebrate the first East End Kids Pride in Toronto’s Maryland Park, near Main & Danforth.

It became abundantly clear that this event was overdue and it has inspired us to make an annual East End Kids Pride!

We are a grassroots group of parents, kids, and community members living in Toronto’s East End (including the rainbow family that started it all) who are organizing and fundraising this year’s East End Kids Pride, partnered with the amazing team at East End Arts to help bring the magick and spread that east end love.

The event will centre kids and youth, and will include a parade through Dentonia Park, face-painting, dancing, snacks, performances, a community art project, an arts market, and much more!

GOALS

(How your donations will support East End Kids Pride)

Funds raised will help with event essentials like poster printing, rented tables and canopies, A/V equipment, face-painting and art supplies!

Further , we can engage Shadowland Theatre Company to run a workshop for the youth as well as animate the event, tell our queer stories and lead the parade.

We will have a Drag performance and storytime as well as a performance by Rainbow Circus , with an interactive component for people to try out some moves!

Leading up to the event we will have artsy workshops hosted by East End Arts + lead by local queer artists , for youth to participate in + learn a new skill .

Any amount you’re able to contribute makes a difference! If you’re not able to donate at this time, you can still support by sharing this campaign with your friends and family, volunteering to help organize, and of course celebrating with us on May 31st!

East End Kids Pride is about visibility, joy, and belonging. It’s about letting our rainbow kids — and all queer, trans, questioning and gender-diverse folks — feel seen, celebrated, and loved out loud.

Let's foster community relationships and actively, boldly, and colourfully celebrate the diversity within our community and neighbourhood. As always, allies, comrades and co-conspirators are invited to celebrate alongside us. Together, let’s fill the park with colour, glitter, laughter and queer joy.

See you on May 31st — Thank you for being part of this magickal community event!