Registration for Toronto Pride’s only annual athletic event is officially open…
On your mark, get set, go!
Toronto’s pride & remembrance run is set to return to the Church-Wellesley Village this summer. The 29th annual run will take place on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 2025.
Participants will have the option to do an in-person 5km or 3km run/walk, or to join the virtual race from wherever they happen to be cross the country.
“With increasing political rhetoric threatening our 2SLGBTQ+ community, our strength comes from standing together,” said Jonathan Iu, president of the Pride and Remembrance Association. “More than ever, we need to lift each other up, celebrate our resilience, and show the world that love, inclusion, and solidarity will prevail.”
“The pride & remembrance run is more than just a race — it’s a powerful statement of unity, a celebration of diversity in sports, and support for organizations improving the lives of 2SLGBTQ+ individuals in the GTA. Here in Canada, we will continue to show up for one another, because that’s who we are,” added Iu.
This year’s race promises to be fun (think drag queens, DJs, rainbows and bubble machines!), fast (feel free to run, walk or roll at your own pace), fab (it’s the only athletic event held during Pride Month), welcoming and inclusive (that means new runners, walkers and kids are welcome, too), community-driven and diverse.
The 2025 theme for the run is “remember your why,” which places equal importance on pride and remembrance by celebrating the history of our 2SLGBTQ+ community and forging a path forward to combat the ongoing inequities faced by and hate targeted at our community.
Beneficiaries for the 2025 run include: Women’s College Hospital Foundation’s Transition-Related Surgeries Compassionate Fund; Sherbourne Health Centre’s Resilient Roots program which trains Black, African, Caribbean, and multi-racial 2SLGBTQ+ youth with lived experience to become peer support mentors; Sunshine Centres for Seniors’ Rainbow Seniors OUT and About Together program which promotes healthy active living and community engagement for 2SLGBTQIA+ seniors in Toronto; and The Pride and Remembrance Foundation, which serves as the charitable arm of the pride & remembrance run.
Founded in 1996 in the aftermath of the AIDS crisis, the run honours twin themes of pride and remembrance and has raised over $3.3 million benefitting more than two dozen LGBTQ2+ community organizations. As for this year? The organization has set a fundraising goal of $325,000, which it is hoping to surpass.
Registration for Toronto’s 2025 pride & remembrance run is open now. Visit www.priderun.org to register or to learn more.
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