SUPPORT TORONTO EAST END KIDS PRIDE 2024 !!!

Celebrate QUEER JOY! Come together with rainbow families, friends, neighbours and our queer community to kick off pride month in Toronto's East End with a celebration of queer joy in the park! Help us fundraise this youth-inspired, youth-led pride event to celebrate our beautiful queer, trans, questioning and gender-variant existence!

The second annual Toronto East End Kids Pride will take place on Saturday June 1, 2024 and we need your support to make this grassroots community event even more joyous, colourful, and celebratory!

Background: 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. The event will centre kids and youth, and will include a parade through an east end park, face-painting, dancing, snacks, performances, a community art project and much more! We are partnering with East End Arts to help bring the magick and spread that east end love.

GOALS aka How your donations will support East End Kids Pride:

The first $1000 will go toward event essentials like poster printing, renting tables and canopies, A/V equipment, and sign-making, face-painting and art supplies!

When we reach $2500, we will engage Shadowland Theatre Company to run a workshop for the kids and youth helping to organize East End Kids Pride, as well as animate the event, tell our queer stories and lead the parade.

When we reach $4000, we will invite the Toronto Kiki Ballroom Alliance, a group by and for Black and Latinx 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, to lead a voguing and dancing workshop at East End Kids Pride, fostering community development.

When we reach $5000, we will invite a Drag Queen to host a story hour at East End Kids Pride, with a focus on reading stories about gender variance and cultural diversity, as well as spreading messages of love and kindness.

Any funds remaining at the end of the 2024 event will be used as a starting point for organizing the next year’s parade and celebration!

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 June 1st!

Our rainbow kids need to feel celebrated, empowered, and welcomed within their community in a public way. This year’s East End Kids Pride is all about QUEER JOY! It will 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. Thank you for your support!