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In addition to being in the Pride Parade on Sunday (it's okay to be jealous), Torontoist also lingered in the crowds. Our Nick Kozak arrived towards the end of the parade and wandered the closed-off streets, snapping photos as he went of Pride partiers—some more extravagantly dressed, and some just more dressed, than others—and a dissenter or two, too.

                            

Thanks to Derek Forgie, founder of Heterosexuals for Same-Sex Equality, Torontoist didn't just get to see Toronto's 29th Annual Pride Parade; we were in it! Marching behind HSSE's proud banner, we got to look out and see the masses of happy faces lining the parade route from start to finish. They perched on rooftops, dangled out of windows, swung from lampposts, and stood twenty rows deep—all dancing, waving, and cheering. While the crowd was taking photos of us (well, maybe not us specifically, but surely the lovely body-painted topless girls we were with), we turned our camera outwards on them to capture the amazing people who endured the early afternoon downpour to show their support, love, and pride. Happy Pride, everyone.

MUSIC: Vic Chesnutt has been fighting for his life with fiery music since experiencing a near-fatal drunken car crash in Georgia as a teen, and his career weaves together a string of collaborators thick with some of the most influential musicians on the continent. Jonathan Richman not only carries the same influential weight, but he also wrote the best two-chord song ever ("Roadrunner")—not to mention his charming attraction to the best song subjects of anyone we know: Picasso, ice cream, secretaries, the astral plane, not owning a cell phone, and so on. There are only a few tickets left for the Jonathan Richman (playing as a two-piece with drummer Tommy Larkins) and Vic Chesnutt double bill tonight—get them while you can. The Great Hall (1087 Queen Street West), 9 p.m., $25 at the door.

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ART: Gallery 47 hosts the opening reception for a new painting installation, Jennifer McGregor's Slant. We’d love to tell you more, but as the exhibit explores the themes of “concealment and disclosure” it’s all kind of hush hush. We can suggest that with the installation's air of whimsy, in a format usually reserved for film and sculpture, it may be the closest thing yet to physically entering a painting. 47 (47 Milky Way), 7–10 p.m., FREE.