For years, I’ve spent most of Toronto Pride Week an anxious wreck, trying to understand my place at an event that promotes equality through a white lens. There has always been a QPOC (Queer People Of ...

There’s tons of great music all over Pride, but one of the more unusual events is the annual Blockorama stage. Hosted by Blackness Yes!, it provides a showcase for the often overlooked black queer ...

Blockorama will be front and centre this year as it returns to the Wellesley Stage, Pride’s main venue. That’s where the event — a day-long dance party highlighting black queer pride — started in 1999 ...

'All power to all people': Syrus Marcus Ware makes art in hope of a more free world Anyone who's ever attended Blocko knows that the event gives off an indescribable, overwhelming sense of love, ...

This past Sunday, Blackness Yes celebrated 19 years of Blockorama. “Blocko,” as it is more popularly known, is an event that brings thousands together every year to celebrate Black queer pride. Though ...

You may have already heard something of Pride Toronto’s new sign-vetting policy, its banning of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) from the parade, and its outlawing of the term “Israeli ...

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French brand Pierre Hardy releases the seventh installment of the brand’s Blockorama sneaker, a limited edition design produced in a run of only 500. The shoes feature Hardy’s trademark velcro strap ...

About Blockorama: Curated and organized by the community collective Blackness Yes!, Blockorama showcases Black queer and trans history, creativity and resistance. Blackness Yes! has cultivated a space ...

BLOCKORAMA 20 with SWV, TIKA, HOUSE OF MONROE, MICHELLE ROSS, COCO LA CRÈME, JAMES BALEY, DJS BLACKCAT & JOJO FLORES, DJ TAMIKA and others at Wellesley Stage (15 Wellesley East) on Sunday (June 24).

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