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Despite repeated vows by members of Toronto’s gay community and other longtime parade attendees to boycott Pride this year, executive director Olivia Nuamah and the Pride board refused to back down.

And it looks like the city’s LGBTQ community — not to mention sponsors and donors — made good on their threats. Attendance was clearly down at this year’s parade, as I saw for myself, and the financial numbers don’t lie.

The 2017 statements state that revenues were down in every category. Most disturbing? The drop in sponsorships from nearly $2.3 million last year to $1.5 million this year.

Donations didn’t fare much better, either: they dropped from $758,015 in 2016 to $106,565 this year.

Photo by Mark Blinch / THE CANADIAN PRESS

The 2017 statements state that revenues were down in every category — most telling was the drop in sponsorships from nearly $2.3-million last year to $1.5-million this year and donations from a high of $758,015 in 2016 to $106,565 this year.

Beverage sales were also down by nearly half compared to last year and the government grants were also half those provided in 2016.

Photo by Jack Boland / Jack Boland/Toronto Sun

Efforts to reach Nuamah and Pride spokesperson Ryan Connelly were unsuccessful Tuesday.

But Bryn Hendricks, who has had his Pride membership revoked for daring to back the cops and for supporting the withdrawal of the city’s Pride grant this past year, said he’s not surprised in the least.

He hopes Pride organizers will take notice of the impact of the police ban.

“There were fingers in ears on Pride’s end (this year) … they were dead set on achieving one goal only, to ban the police from the parade,” he says. “And now they’re paying the price.”