Ahead of last month's Pride parade, organizers sounded the alarm over Pride Toronto's $900,000 shortfall after sponsors such ...

Pride Toronto has commitments with more than 300 artists, most of whom are Canadian. But Modeste added that the Pride festival will not be any smaller. "It is sad," Modeste said on Thursday.

Pride Toronto’s shortfall has increased to $900,000 — a jump from $700,000 10 days ago — due, in part, to such corporate sponsors as Google, Nissan, and Home Depot pulling out.

Toronto Pride encompasses all of the city's various intersecting queer identities with events for Two-Spirit and Indigenous Pride, Middle Eastern Pride, youth-friendly Pride, and more.

In the wake of her award of 'extraordinary ally' at last year's International Pride Awards, Drag Night co-chief executive and Equal Namibia board member Lize Ehlers recently returned from Pride ...