Happy Pride! And now here's some history!

[Saviolo]

8. Exactly the same in Toronto

The the police are still there to protect us (because they get paid to do that), but this year they weren't allowed to march armed and in uniform. They were allowed to be in the parade as citizens, but not uniformed and armed police.

POC are being shot by police and officers are not being charged, so queer POC don't feel safe around armed and uniformed officers. As an ally of my black gay friends, I support them in this. If the police want to make some real changes wrt. how they treat POC on the streets, and address the systemic racism in their ranks, they can come back to the parade in uniform as they have for years.