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Thanks to Derek Forgie, founder of Heterosexuals for Same-Sex Equality, Torontoist didn't just get to see Toronto's 29th Annual Pride Parade; we were in it! Marching behind HSSE's proud banner, we got to look out and see the masses of happy faces lining the parade route from start to finish. They perched on rooftops, dangled out of windows, swung from lampposts, and stood twenty rows deep—all dancing, waving, and cheering. While the crowd was taking photos of us (well, maybe not us specifically, but surely the lovely body-painted topless girls we were with), we turned our camera outwards on them to capture the amazing people who endured the early afternoon downpour to show their support, love, and pride. Happy Pride, everyone.
All photos by Andrew Louis/Torontoist.
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okay... wtf is up with this pic?
http://torontoist.com/2009/06/proud_crowds.php?gallery0Pic=18#gallery
One of the very few protesters at the parade. Derek Forgie responded by singing a great rendition of AC/DC's Highway to Hell for the crowd.
You've got to be kidding me.
Well that really speaks to the crowd, any other type of crowd would have beat that protestor down.
I had no idea we had Phelps types in this city.
Oh yeah. They're out there! Just keep your eyes open for them and they sort of reveal themselves like a brown moth on bark.
I'm just glad they are less then a minority here, but I do like what they did in Manhattan when the gay basher's put up their pickets. It's a great way to counter-protest.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/22/2009-06-22_manhattan_synagogue_makes_money_off_of_westboro_baptist_church_protest.html
I don't get the point of the Israel & Palestine references on the signs in #3 (also in the other gallery). Can someone explain?
I am confused by that too.
No doubt the work of terrorists hoping to get photographed with the intent of starting a flame war right here on Torontoist. Probably best not to respond, otherwise the terrorists will have already won.
From what I gather, it was a vague rebuttal to the Israel Apartheid crowd. Basically saying "hey, at least Israel doesn't doesn't persecute queers."
That was my best guess, too. I'm sure most Palestinian gays would rather be gay in Israel, too; only they don't have much of a choice.
The Israeli-Palestinian references are in reaction to the efforts of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, this year's grand marshal El-Farouk Khaki and B'Nai Brith.
You can wade through the rhetoric here:
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/642138
http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/andrew-brett/2009/05/pro-israel-lobbyists-threaten-funding-torontos-gay-pride
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2009/05/27/toronto-pride-organizers-ban-anti-zionist-group.aspx
http://www.cjnews.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17102&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=86
Thanks for these! I was wondering too.