HISTORY
In 1996 three gay triathletes founded The Pride and Remembrance Run, an annual 5K fundraising run/walk coinciding with Toronto's Pride Week. It was dedicated to partnering the themes of PRIDE and REMEMBRANCE with community celebration and personal achievement.
The Pride and Remembrance Run has become an annual tradition promoting and fostering community spirit, goodwill, volunteerism and sportsmanship in the LGBT community.
REMEMBERANCE
Everyone has their own reason for participating in the Run. Some run for the athletic challenge, others to raise funds for charity... there are also many people participate to honour the memory of someone who has touched their lives.
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FEATURED TEAM
Brian Orser & the Silver's
Bullets Skate Canada Team
Two-time Olympic silver medalist Brian Orser and his Silver's Bullets team, named in memory of
Canadian ice dance icon Robert McCall, have raised a phenomenal over $60,000 for The Pride and Remembrance Run.
Skate Canada's CEO, William Thompson, said: "This is one way to honor and remember so many of our alumni who have succumbed to this awful disease."
In 2007, the Silver's Bullets team (comprised of Skate Canada national team members) ran in honor of the late Brian Pockar, who won the Canadian men's title three times and claimed the bronze medal at the 1982 World Championships. Pockar died from the AIDS virus in April 1992.