{"id":954622,"date":"2026-11-01T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954622\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T18:26:15","slug":"halloween-on-church-thousands-pack-torontos-gay-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954622\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween on Church: Thousands pack Toronto&#8217;s Gay Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Church Street\u2019s Halloween festival saw a massive turn out as an estimated 80,000 people took to the streets to celebrate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thousands of people packed Toronto\u2019s Gay Village for the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halloweenonchurch.ca\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.halloweenonchurch.ca\/\">Halloween on Church<\/a> event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Billed by organizers as \u201can inclusive, family-friendly, safe queer space where everyone is encouraged to celebrate and express uniqueness and self-expression,\u201d the festivities took place on Friday and Saturday nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police told CP24 that they attended that area on Oct. 31 for \u201cconcerns of overcrowding and overall crowd control.\u201d No arrests have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is unclear exactly how many people took in the festival, they said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/67191\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/67191\/\">previously said<\/a> more than 80,000 people could attend the block party throughout the evening on Halloween night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Church Street, from Gloucester Street to Alexander streets, and Wellesley Street East, in the immediate vicinity of Church Street, were closed on Oct. 31 but have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Videos posted on social media show throngs of Halloween revelers milling about on Church Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CP24 has reached out to Halloween on Church\u2019s organizers, the Church Wellesley Village Business Improvement Area, for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Church Street\u2019s Halloween festival saw a massive turn out as an estimated 80,000 people took to the streets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-954622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}