Toronto Body Pride Ride

Toronto Body Pride Ride

Toronto Body Pride Ride is a queer, trans, and feminist clothing-optional bike ride in Tkaronto/Toronto, Ontario, organized in cooperation with Lez Beach Toronto.

The ride is held in the spirit of the World Naked Bike Ride: a protest against car culture, oil dependency, pollution, and the vulnerability imposed on cyclists and pedestrians by unsafe streets. It is also a ride for trans liberation, bodily autonomy, anti-racism, anti-fascism, anti-colonial practice, and an end to war.

The ride welcomes people to participate however they feel safest and most powerful: clothed, nude, partially nude, masked, covered, in hijab, decorated with glitter or paint, in costume or cosplay, or in any other form of self-expression.

Nudity is never required. Clothing optional means choice.

Next ride

Date: Saturday, June 13, 2026

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Starting location: Allan Gardens, Tkaronto/Toronto

Who is welcome: Queer, trans, feminist, and allied riders

Wheels welcome: Bikes, mobility devices, skates, skateboards, scooters, and more

Participants are encouraged to arrive early to meet other riders, decorate bikes, make signs, apply body paint, and review safety expectations.

Why this ride exists

Women's, trans, and queer bodies are under attack.

The rise of fascism is pressing on freedoms that feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist, and anti-colonial movements fought to make possible — freedoms that were always partial, fragile, and unfinished.

Our bodies are still treated as public property: debated by governments, policed by institutions, shamed by strangers, denied care, punished, or met with disgust when we refuse to conform.

This ride is a refusal of that control, and a commitment to keep fighting for bodily autonomy through feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-war, and anti-colonial practice.

Values

Toronto Body Pride Ride is grounded in:

• bodily autonomy
• trans liberation
• queer liberation
• feminism
• anti-racism
• anti-fascism
• anti-colonial responsibility
• opposition to war
• disability justice
• body autonomy and body acceptance
• consent culture
• safer streets for cyclists and pedestrians
• opposition to oil dependency, pollution, and car domination
• joy, care, protest, play, and public visibility

Our bodies are not up for debate.

Clothing optional: as bare as you dare

Nudity is welcome, but not required.

Participants may ride clothed, nude, partially nude, in underwear, in swimwear, in hijab or other coverings, masked, decorated with glitter or paint, in costume or cosplay, or however they feel powerful and safest.

No one should be pressured to undress. No one should be shamed for covering. No one should be sexualized for participating.

Who is welcome

This ride centres women, queer people, trans people, Two-Spirit people, non-binary people, lesbians, dykes, sapphics, feminists, BIPOC people, disabled people, fat people, migrants, poor and working-class people, and others pushed to the margins.

Allies who support the values of the ride are welcome to participate respectfully.

No harassment, racism, transphobia, transmisogyny, homophobia, misogyny, ableism, body-shaming, objectification, or creepy behaviour.

People who act in ways that make others unsafe may be asked to leave.

History

The World Naked Bike Ride in Toronto has roots going back to 2004, when it was started by a group of local organizers that included queer participants and community activists.

Toronto Body Pride Ride has been organized as a queer, trans, and feminist clothing-optional ride since 2022, continuing the spirit of body freedom, anti-car protest, and public cycling activism while centring consent, bodily autonomy, anti-racism, anti-fascism, anti-war politics, and safer participation for women, queer, trans, and allied riders.

Photography and media

No photos or videos without consent.

Because this is a queer, trans, feminist, and clothing-optional ride, photography must be handled with care. Do not take close-up photos of people without consent. Do not photograph people changing. Do not sexualize participants. Do not livestream people without consent.

This is a public ride, and bystander photos may happen. Participants should plan their visibility accordingly.

Media, photographers, and livestreamers are expected to respect participant privacy, dignity, and safety.

Ride with care

Ride together. Look out for each other. Follow marshals and organizers where applicable. Stay calm around hostile spectators. Do not escalate with drivers or police. Support riders who need help.

This is a no-harassment, no-objectification, no-body-shaming ride.

Participants are responsible for riding safely and within their abilities.

What to bring

• A bicycle or other people-powered wheels
• Water
• Sunscreen
• A helmet, lights, and basic safety gear
• Body paint or skin-safe markers
• Signs, flags, or bike decorations
• Clothing for before and after the ride
• Snacks
• Medication or access supports you may need
• Respect for consent, privacy, and other riders

Accessibility

All wheels are welcome, including bikes, mobility devices, skates, skateboards, scooters, and other people-powered ways of moving.

Organizers aim to make the ride as accessible and no-drop as possible, while recognizing that streets, policing, traffic, and public infrastructure can create barriers.

Organizing groups

Toronto Body Pride Ride is organized by local queer, trans, feminist, nudist, cycling, and body-pride organizers, in cooperation with Lez Beach Toronto.

Lez Beach Toronto organizes naturist beach gatherings for lesbians, dykes, sapphics, and queer women in Toronto, with a focus on reclaiming space, safety, and community care.

Land acknowledgement

Tkaronto/Toronto is on the traditional territory of many Nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.

This acknowledgement must be connected to action, including opposition to colonial violence, displacement, policing, environmental destruction, war, and the carceral use of public space.

Links

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZU-4Cqke4f/
• Lez Beach Toronto: https://www.instagram.com/lezbeach/
• World Naked Bike Ride: https://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/