So this year, Toronto Pride is celebrating it’s 30th year.

I wanted to do a portraits series of 30 queers in the community. Of course time and logistics got the best of me. I still want to do the project, but figured I’d make it more personal and shoot 30 of my friends. With each portrait I wanted to post their own personally story about pride. Could be about your first pride, a funny anecdote, whatever, as long as there is a positive spin too it.

So the original idea was to shoot only 30 people, so this afternoon, I started sending out facebook mail to all the people I knew, claiming a first come-first serve arrangement. I haven’t even finished sending out all my notes yet and I’ve already filled more than 20 spots. So I’m considering expanding and doing 140 portraits instead, for my new “140 characters” site coming soon.

So let me know if you want to participate and tell me, What’s your favourite Pride story?