Black Lives Matter Toronto stalls Pride parade

[Saviolo]

50. I thought that removing the floats...

...was not completely outlandish, though I did think that saying no floats or even booths was a little much. The police and the Toronto LGBTQ community have a chequered past, and a few queer-positive cops marching in the parade is great optics for an organization that hasn't entirely come around to be nice to the queer community.

But to cut off any outreach at Pride at all (in the form of booths, etc...) is shortsighted.

What I'd really love to see is a return to some of the roots of Pride, and see fewer corporate floats, but that is, of course, where the money comes from, so we're not gonna see that any time soon.

Look, it's the TD Canada Trust float, look it's the Tarzan-The-Movie float, look it's the Chrysler float, look it's the M&M Meatshops Float... All meaningless floats full of professional scantily clad eye candy.