Rob Ford wants gay pri flag outsi of cy hall taken down - Toronto |

Contents:

• SO ROB FORD DON’T LIKE THE GAY PRI PARA? SO WHAT?
• ROB FORD HAT GAY FLAGS
• ROB FORD PHOTOS AT GAY RIGHTS EVENTS ARE WORTH 1,000 WORDS
• ROB FORD WANTS GAY PRI FLAG OUTSI OF CY HALL TAKEN DOWN
• ROB FORD SAYS HE'S AGAST CY SPENDG, NOT TORONTO'S GAY MUNY

SO ROB FORD DON’T LIKE THE GAY PRI PARA? SO WHAT?

"World Pri ftival ntroversyOn Friday, about six monstrators prottg what they lled Ford's homophobia turned up at Thomson Memorial Park Srborough, holdg signs that lled for the mayor's parture om office. "Ford drew heat om the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny recently after he remaed seated while cy uncil gave a standg ovatn to anizers of Toronto's World Pri Rob Ford don't stand for WorldPri ovatnHe didn't answer qutns om reporters about why he didn't stand up, but said he's not homophobic. I’m gay, which is nvenient—not for the obv reasons—but for the soberg realy that many people who know my sexual orientatn tomatilly assume I intify wh everyone who shar .

But Toronto’s left has spoken: gay pri—assls chaps and all—is forever bound to gay rights, and Ford’s pendg absence at the annual para is a direct admissn that he nsirs such rights revoble. In other words, if Ford is not for gay pri, he is fely not for gay rights—or at the very least, as Pri -chair Francis Alvarez suggts, his actns jeopardize them. “There have been a lot of hard-won and cremental gas over the years, for lbians and gays this untry, ” Alvarez told the Toronto Star last week, “but they are all easily reversible.

ROB FORD HAT GAY FLAGS

Apparently, though, this mak him an unapologetic homophobe, whose acquicence to fay tradn is nothg more than a nvenient way to snub the gay muny. A homophobe? Ford actually wouldn’t md gog to the para, but he’s fely grossed out by assls chaps and nipple tassels, and maybe even the thought of homosexual sex self.

ROB FORD PHOTOS AT GAY RIGHTS EVENTS ARE WORTH 1,000 WORDS

Do make him a homophobe?

Who knows—Rob might fight to his ath for your right to engage homosexual activy. Ford is fact eply homophobic.

Gay people repulse him and his perfect world there wouldn’t be any.

ROB FORD WANTS GAY PRI FLAG OUTSI OF CY HALL TAKEN DOWN

The chair of Queer Ontar’s Polil Actn Commtee, Casey Oraa, told the Star Ford should “own up to his homophobia, ” and tell the world exactly how he feels about gays.

ROB FORD SAYS HE'S AGAST CY SPENDG, NOT TORONTO'S GAY MUNY

Shouldn’t they be proud that a powerful person is aaid to adm he’s homophobic? When gays n e out of the closet, and homophob have to step si , isn’t that e to celebrate? Frankly, I don’t want Ford to tell the world how he really feels about gay people.

Tubg enthiast, shrkg vlet, homophobic opportunist—or a ltle of each—one thg’s for sure: Rob Ford will not jo ranks wh the rabow briga this weekend. Cannibalism survivor and gay rights darlg, Mel Lastman, is nfint the mayor will eventually embrace the para’s more bawdy elements, and one day get a squirt gun of his own.

But to bldly fend the para’s more salac and arguably sophomoric overton—notwhstandg their ntext the history of gay activism—is simply naïve. If Pri’s mandate is to host an epic party, then should never change; but if s purpose is to advance gay rights—as many anti-Ford activists mata—then perhaps ’s time for Pri to evolve wh the rights celebrat. Maybe Rob Ford, as some of his supporters claim, wasn’t a homophobe.

In 2006, he famoly said that “if you’re not dog needl and you’re not gay, you won’t get AIDS, probably.

At Ford Ft, the giant barbecue/mpaign event/hetero pri party that was held Etobike (and later also Srborough), party-goers were wele to hot dogs, hamburgers and a healthy dose of homophobia.

I know what lbian, gay, bisexual. “Bee there’s a group here that says Lbian Gay Bisexual Trans-sexual Transgenred Pri Toronto and I don’t know what a transsexual or transgenred is.