The story
Montreal Pride in Montreal
Fierte Montreal grew out of the earlier Divers/Cite celebration and became the city's official Pride organization in 2007, running a multi-day August festival that culminates in a parade along Boulevard Rene-Levesque drawing crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousands. Floats carrying community groups, sponsors and drag performers move past dense crowds packed along the curb, with sound trucks keeping the street dancing between each group's pass.
Fierte Montreal traces its roots to Divers/Cite, the Pride celebration that ran through the Village from 1993, and took its current name and organizational structure in 2007 when a new nonprofit assumed responsibility for the parade and festival.