Our sister blog Yonge and Roxborough News snapped a picture of a booth at Pride Week (on Isabella Street) for the Communist Party of Canada. There are few events indeed where the Communist Party would bother (or dare) show its face and it can’t be a prideful moment for a lot of LGBT folks that it showed up at Pride. Same goes for the whacky “apartheid” gang with their incoherent shriek against Israel. But as to the Communists, it’s a free country and for all we know they may have actually paid Pride organizers to be there. That must have been a tough acknowledgement of the market system for these heirs of Stalin and Lenin. Point is, there seems to be room for Pride to, shall we say, grow up a little. It is a fact that LGBT, just like other secular ways of life, is not a monolith. Mature Pride-goers might find it liberating that their culture attracts discredited political fringes, but in the end it can’t be a source of, well, pride. Communists make rare public appearance here
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Our sister blog Yonge and Roxborough News snapped a picture of a booth at Pride Week (on Isabella Street) for the Communist Party of Canada. There are few events indeed where the Communist Party would bother (or dare) show its face and it can’t be a prideful moment for a lot of LGBT folks that it showed up at Pride. Same goes for the whacky “apartheid” gang with their incoherent shriek against Israel. But as to the Communists, it’s a free country and for all we know they may have actually paid Pride organizers to be there. That must have been a tough acknowledgement of the market system for these heirs of Stalin and Lenin. Point is, there seems to be room for Pride to, shall we say, grow up a little. It is a fact that LGBT, just like other secular ways of life, is not a monolith. Mature Pride-goers might find it liberating that their culture attracts discredited political fringes, but in the end it can’t be a source of, well, pride. 