Pride

The best of Toronto Pride 2019

The hair! The outfits! The signs!

By Xtra Staff • June 25, 2019 5:16 pm EDT

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra, Francesca Roh/Xtra

The dancing, the glitter, the celebration: Relive the spirit of Pride by visiting some of the best signs, hairs and outfits that covered downtown Toronto this weekend.

Here are some of the standouts we captured at Pride 2019.

Best Dressed

If outfits were statements, these ones are loud, proud and unapologetically queer.

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Best Hair (and beard)

This Pride was definitely a good hair day for its revellers.

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Best Signs

They’re here, they’re queer and they came with something big to say.

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

Credit: Nick Lachance/Xtra

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