Over one million people dressed in rainbow colors to show their support for the gay community. Impassioned parents and community members have carried on since then: answered the support line, convened meetings in church basements all over the city, marched in every Pride Parade, and mounted two TTC campaigns. World Pride 2014 - Toronto celebrated World Pride 2014 on June 29.
PFLAG now served Toronto (June, Pauline), Mississauga (Anne) and Brampton (Mary). In August of 1971, the first protests for gay rights took place in Ottawa and Vancouver, demanding an end to all forms of state discrimination against gays and. Mary joined and things took off due in part to Mary publishing her number in a Chatelaine magazine article about resources for the LGBTQ2S+ community. In 1984, Mary Jones from Brampton was told by her lesbian daughter (she had a gay son too) about the group in Toronto.
Blackness Yes has organized Blockorama 23: Black is Love for 2021 under the theme Black is Love. They joined together and started calling themselves PFLAG. A first event date for Pride Toronto in 1981 d int event date 1981 Will There Be A Pride Parade In 2021 Toronto In 2020, the highlight of Toronto Pride will be the annual parade in Toronto, which will take place on Sunday, June 27, at 10:00 a.m. These moms discovered another mom, Pauline Russell from North Toronto, had founded a group called F-FLAG (Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays) that was meeting at the Community Centre at 519 Church. Initially, meetings were held in private homes, until they were provided meeting space and a phone line by the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC). As with many grassroots efforts, the actual date is not known.
Together, Tattle Goss and Rutledge founded Parents of Gays (POG) in the early 1970s. Eventually their sons met and introduced their mothers to each other. Two moms, June Tattle Goss and Anne Rutledge, independently became known in the community for supporting their gay children.