{"id":17485,"date":"2014-06-29T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T04:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17485"},"modified":"2014-06-29T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T04:18:37","slug":"toronto-pride-festival-proving-to-be-a-big-hit-boosted-by-global-designation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/29\/toronto-pride-festival-proving-to-be-a-big-hit-boosted-by-global-designation\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto pride festival proving to be a big hit, boosted by global designation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17486\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1024px-Toronto_Gay_Pride_2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17486 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1024px-Toronto_Gay_Pride_2008.jpg\" alt=\"Toronto Gay Pride in 2008. Photo by Neal Jennings \/ Flickr.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1024px-Toronto_Gay_Pride_2008.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1024px-Toronto_Gay_Pride_2008-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Gay Pride in 2008. Photo by Neal Jennings \/ Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014An organizer of Toronto\u2019s gay pride festival says this year\u2019s event is shaping up to be the biggest one yet.<\/p>\n<p>Pride Toronto co-chair Sean Hillier says there have been a record number of groups registering to take part in WorldPride Toronto and that the \u201cstreets are overflowing\u201d with people attending.<\/p>\n<p>The festival kicked off on June 20 and the main event, the pride parade, will take place Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Hillier says more than 350 groups have signed up to take part in the march along with 12,500 marchers.<\/p>\n<p>He says that this year\u2019s annual festival being designated a WorldPride event by a global gay and lesbian group has boosted the number of people attending from abroad, such as more than 400 delegates attending a conference on human rights.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 34th year Toronto has held the gay pride festival.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau are all to attend a streetside service by the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto officiated by an openly gay pastor on Sunday morning<\/p>\n<p>The parade is to start at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014An organizer of Toronto\u2019s gay pride festival says this year\u2019s event is shaping up to be the biggest one yet. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-lifestyle","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}