First Loss of Funds..Now Loss of Speakers...Toronto Pride

Revan · Jun 10, 2010

Wel some of you may remember a little while ago how Toronto decided not to fund this year's Pride. Well now another thing has happened:

All speakers at Pride Toronto's June 28 human rights event have pulled out, citing Pride's censorship of "Israeli apartheid."

Here is their brief letter to the Pride Board of Toronto:

Dear Pride Board,

With their voices go ours.

- All speakers at the day and evening program of Sex Inter/National: A Global Fight for Rights?, originally scheduled for June 28 at the Isabel Bader Theatre, including

Andil Gosine: Program Curator, and Coordinator of Sexuality Studies & Associate Professor, York University

Amy Lind: Author/Editor, Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance and Associate Professor, Women's Studies, University of Cincinnati

Colin Robinson: Founder, Coalition Advocating for the Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO), Trinidad and Tobago

Miriam Smith: Author, Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995, and Professor, York University

Alison Burns, Isis Portillo and Lauren Pragg: PhD candidates, York University

P.S. "Israeli apartheid"

The June 28 human rights event was to be part of Pride Toronto's "Global Human Rights for Queers" program. Earlier this week, Pride's 2010 international grand marshals resigned their honours, in protest of Pride Toronto's decision to limit free expression.
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In other words...the never-ending parade of stupid is now in the people planning Pride

First Loss of Funds..Now Loss of Speakers...Toronto Pride

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