I Miss Coren...

Coren: Don't shoot the messenger

...and while I understand the need for Sun Media to make money with their programming I find the cost of watching Coren is more than I can afford (retired senior).

April Showers Bring LGBT Rainbows

Gay club under fire for live sex shows

Ford won't commit to Pride

Toronto school has 'positive space' for LGBT students

Pride Brought Life To The City....QuAAIA Has Hijacked Pride!

QuAIA vs Rob Ford: Who is bluffing here?


Posted Toronto Political Panel: Queers Against Israeli Apartheid has volunteered to skip this year’s parade to deny Mayor Rob Ford an excuse to chop Pride’s funding. Our panel gets worked up for different reasons

Kate Gives Credence To Bloggin...

Who's filling out the Community Advisory Panel survey?


Heh.

Related... March of the Imams.

Posted by Kate at 2:14 PM Comments (15)

How Many Islamic Advocates Support Gay Rights?

Pride Parade and Mosques

How could gays work so hard to get recognition and then blow it all off by supporting a group that spouts hate? Is it because they have no "cause" to fight for anymore? They can yap about free speech all they want but not on the taxpayers dime. You want a parade? You raise funds and do it on your own, especially if you want to include groups with political agendas. So says the Toronto council...

Climbing out of the dark |

Let's Apply Some Logic...

...there is no question the following is relevant;

"For local business operator David Bervas, funding Pride should be a natural decision for the government.
"The amount of people that come to Toronto because of Pride -- and what it does to the economy -- it's huge"
therefore shouldn't businesses contribute funding directly?

T.O. Pride organizers respond to federal cuts

Do you think the federal government should fund Toronto's gay pride festival?

Yes (33%)

No (64%)

Not sure (3%) 

Total Votes: 9348

...funding a parade is a hot issue in Ottawa and Toronto but not in the middle east:

Death for sex deseg advocates?
Saudi Sheikh Al Najaimi supports killing anyone who calls for mixing of sexes, then attends an all-women's conference in Kuwait. —Saudi Woman's Weblog

If Liberals won't cut gay pride PARADE funding then what the hell will they cut?!!

Look at Greece. Look at Portugal. Look at England. These countries are either on the verge of bankruptcy or will be soon. Most rational people agree that we need to reign in the deficit. So the question is which programs will you cut or which taxes will you raise. I think most Canadians would agree that parades probably rank pretty low on the priority list - unless you are a Liberal. Liberals c...

Craig Smith

The Deck Now Has 54 Cards...

Family furious at police over man's death

...do you think Facebook participants will start coming forward and identifying suspects that the community refuse to identify? 

Facebook site accuses cops

By ROB LAMBERTI, Toronto Sun

The Facebook community has rendered its verdict: The cops killed 18-year-old Junior Alexander Manon.

...the race card was 53 and now the homophobic card makes 54.

Harper gov't won't fund T.O. gay pride festival

Tories target Pride Week, Grits say

Counterpoint: Yakov Rabkin on Pride parade

...Comrade Miller should be able to find the $400k for gay pride in the same place he found the $1.5B:

Metrolinx says no to Miller's $1.5 billion offer

By CHRISTINA SPENCER, Parliamentary Bureau 

Anti-gay bias is behind a federal government decision to drop Toronto’s Pride Week from the list of tourism events that received special funding this year, the Liberals charged Friday.

A Gay Mayor? Hmm! Good Or Bad Thing...

...in retrospect a non-issue. Look at how well San Fransico has done. But does labelling him "gay positive" mean that he is negative about the other 95-97% of the voters in Toronto?

Wait, Adam Giambrone is gay? Actually, he isn't

Updated: Thu Dec. 31 2009 12:56:28 PM

ctvtoronto.ca

Local weekly Now magazine has been forced to change a story in which it predicted that popular local politician Adam Giambrone would become Toronto's mayor in the New Year.

While the young city councillor is considered a dark horse for the mayor's chair, the magazine's retraction had more to do with sexual politics than with the local variety.

In the article, which hit the streets on Thursday, Now wrote that Giambrone had a good shot at the mayor's chair because: "He's young. He's bright. He's gay. And he looks better than any of his challengers so far."

Later on Thursday, however, Giambrone set the record straight on his Facebook page: "Amused but not entirely surprised to learn in NOW Magazine that I'm supposedly gay."

Giambrone went on to write that he has "great relationship" with the gay community in Toronto, but: "so as not to mislead anyone, I should correct the record: I'm not, in fact, gay. Sarah, my partner, has taken the news in stride (and) with good humour ..."

After Giambrone made the comment, Now changed the story on its website to read that Giambrone is "gay-positive."

Gay? Not NOW, not ever

By JENNY YUEN, TORONTO SUN

Someone's "gaydar" must have been broken.