Pride parade in Toronto canceled MID ROUTE due to protestors.

[EllieBC]

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/thousands-sing-dance-and-celebrate-at-pride-parade-until-protesters-strand-marchers-and-floats-mid/article_397ddf84-3730-11ef-a004-53173fd80f80.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

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This will surely get the support and results they want. But probably only get cheers from conservatives who also hate Pride parades and Pride events.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Assholes, hateful assholes!

[Cha]

5. Precisely.

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[EllieBC]

9. Well they support Hamas

who also hates Pride. So it fits.

[Hekate]

2. Oh FFS

[betsuni]

3. They wanted signatures on their little stern letter of demands as if the hundreds of groups

involved in the parade have anything to do with what goes on in other countries.

[Cha]

4. "When they started chanting "Final Solution " and "Revolution ", I bailed!! Creepy!"

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Mahalo, Ellie.. So Sorry

[Timeflyer]

6. Hamas approved--If these protestors want to turn people solidly against them, this should do it.

[Jose Garcia]

7. They never do this at Trump rallies

[Nixie]

8. Exactly, which is so odd now considering what Trump said

about Palestinians during the debate.

[orange jar]

12. Probably because they're well aware of what the reaction would be.

They target people they see as docile/unlikely to challenge them — which, interestingly enough, is another form of bigotry.

[brooklynite]

10. I wasn't aware that the gay rights movement had a middle east policy...

[Behind the Aegis]

11. Now, I am even angrier!

'It just makes me feel home': LGBTQ2S+ newcomers celebrate first Pride in Canada

When Zhya Aramiy was living in Turkey and Iraq, he had to keep his Pride flags hidden away.

Aramiy, who identifies as gay, fled from Iraq at the age of 27 after facing threats, physical violence and ostracization from his family because of his sexuality.

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"As an LGBT person in Uganda, you don’t have the freedom to really express your feelings,” Bisaso said. He added he feared he would lose his life, citing the country's enactment last year of an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty.

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Nugent said she faced discrimination in Jamaica as a queer woman. As an activist there, Nugent said she was once arrested after challenging “a culture that is very homophobic and queerphobic.”

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These people (above), and others, are who those SELFISH, TERROIST-SUPPORTING fucksticks ruined what should have been a celebration, liberation.