Wonderful news! Just over a decade ago, the government of The Right Hon. Paul Martin P.C., Q.C. tooks steps to make civil marriage legal irrespective of gender. It seems appropriate and fitting that it, too, would be a Liberal prime minister to be the first to attend the Toronto Pride Parade.
This demonstrates that The Right Hon. Justin Trudeau P.C., M.P., the Prime Minister, is committed to the rights and freedoms of all Canadians; he celebrates, with us, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; and he seeks to create a Canada where LGBTQ Canadians are free of discrimination and persecution on the basis of sexual orientation.
Because it's the first time that a sitting Canadian prime minister has attended that pride parade with a message of "Actually, yeah, it's totally okay to be an LGBTQ person in Canada." Let's not forget that it was not so long ago that diverse sexual orientations were forbidden by law; in the context of Canadian history, the recognition of the rights and freedoms of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans* Canadians is fairly new (as is the Charter more generally).
The fact that it's 2016, and this is the first time a Canadian prime minister is going to be attending that pride parade, is why it holds meaning. The fact that folks on this forum are so comfortable with systemic discrimination against queer people, even here in this thread, is why it holds meaning.
Bull****.
That kind of homophobic garbage, where you perpetuate the idea that to even behave decently toward an LGBTQ person is in and of itself something indicative of homosexuality, is exactly why systemic discrimination continues to put up walls and barriers for LGBTQ people being fully engaged in our country's institutions and political systems.
"You went to the pride parade? What, dude, are you some kind of homo?"
Rates of attempted and completed suicide among LGBTQ youth are alarming. Studies have shown that these rates increase in regions where laws authorizing discrimination against LGBTQ people are passed. LGBTQ students are three times more likely to feel unsafe at school than heterosexual students. LGBTQ people are overrepresented still, in Canada, in terms of homelessness.
You are a part of that problem, with your schoolyard gay-labeling BS, so kindly **** off.
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