SLIDESHOW: Yorkville and Church Street dress up for WorldPride
SLIDESHOW: Yorkville and Church Street dress up for WorldPride
The WorldPride parade is on Sunday, and seemingly no business or institution near the marching route wants to be seen as aloof from the festivities. From staid department stores and banks to garish drag bars, much of the Yonge Street/Church Street downtown axis has been decorated with a riot of thematically appropriate colours. Click through the image gallery for a look at all the stuff that has been done up in rainbows in anticipation of this weekend’s big event.
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- The <strong>Yorkville Public Library</strong> is dressed for the occasion
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- A little ways down Bloor Street, the <strong>Royal Ontario Museum</strong> also has its colours on
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- <strong>Holt Renfrew</strong> went for a more subdued approach
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- Over by U of T, the <strong>Bata Shoe Museum</strong> has updated its window display accordingly
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- Two Church Street crosswalks have received rainbow-coloured makeovers
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- This mural on the side of the <strong>519 Community Centre</strong> is one of 11 large-scale paintings commissioned for WorldPride as part of the Church Street Mural Project
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- Yup, even the <strong>TD Bank</strong> at Church and Wellesley is in on it
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- As one of Toronto's better drag bars, <strong>Crews and Tango</strong> is pretty much obliged to go all-out
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- They should just leave the buses this way
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- The city and the local BIA split the cost of these new gateway markers for the Church-Wellesley Village
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- The Maple Leaf Gardens <strong>Joe Fresh</strong> has put up this rainbowy window treatment
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- And the Maple Leaf Gardens <strong>Loblaws</strong> has chosen to express its pride through baked goods
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The WorldPride parade is on Sunday, and seemingly no business or institution near the marching route wants to be seen as aloof from the festivities. From staid department stores and banks to garish drag bars, much of the Yonge Street/Church Street downtown axis has been decorated with a riot of thematically appropriate colours. Click through the image gallery for a look at all the stuff that has been done up in rainbows in anticipation of this weekend's big event.
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Pretty …. love the buses.