Move over, Utrecht—Toronto just snatched your queer thunder.
Until a few weeks ago, the little Dutch city of Utrecht southeast of Amsterdam was home to the longest rainbow road on Earth, a bike path of more than 570 meters (1870 feet) running through the heart of the campus of Utrecht University. In 2021, the colorful Holland trail usurped the previous record holder, a nearly 500-meter (1640-foot) path for cyclists installed in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2017.
But now the record has passed to Toronto’s new rainbow road running along the city’s famed Hanlan’s Point Beach, which for decades has been a meeting point for LGBTQ+ Canadians on the downtown-adjacent Toronto Island. Debuting on May 25 with a star-studded ribbon-cutting ceremony, the 600-meter (1968-foot) section of the primarily pedestrian Beach Road features traditional rainbow flag colors flanked by the trans, black, and brown chevrons of the Progress Pride flag at each end.
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