Editorial: Celebration of Pride

Today marks the beginning of Pride Week in Toronto and there is reason for all residents of the city to celebrate and feel proud.
-really, what reasons?? Most people that I know avoid it like the plague.

From a strictly economic point of view, the week-long festival pumps tens of millions into the local economy at hotels, restaurants and bars, clothing stores and souvenir shops.
-uh so does any event in the city in any given year. So I'm supposed to give gays whatever they want because of this?

It is a celebration that combines the raucous and colourful, including parades and dance parties, with the solemn and sombre, notably an AIDS vigil. It also includes a sub-cultural explosion of art, dance, theatre, music and entertainment.
-yeah real family like entertainment, nothing mainstream here, so how can everybody be proud of this?

The giant Pride parade Sunday along Yonge St. is the culmination of a week's worth of events.
-thankfully most of us never have to witness any of them.

It attracts participants and spectators from across the city, the province, the country, the continent and from around the world.
-next they will be telling us that this is the biggest event this city hosts every year.

In scope and scale, it is truly a world-class event in a city that aspires to be so.
-it's world class because some foreigners come here? Luckily, for the gay community, our city hall falls all over their demands, needs and wants.

It has the wild and exotic juxtaposed with the humble and domestic — where sequins and feathers mingle with baby carriers, penny loafers and sunscreen.
-debauchery by any other name I would say.

Happy Pride Week.
-hoping that it is over fast.

Now back to SSM, are the liberals still planning to ram it down our throats??