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FOOD BANK SHELVES ARE EMPTY AND GAY PRIDE GETS $25,000 ,GO FIGURE.

"Daniel MacKay" <daniel@bonmot.ca> wrote in message
news:daniel-079A30.08095104062009@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...
> (another article about this on page A12 of the Halifax Herald)
>
> Halifax, Nova Scotia -- Pride Festival Wins Hallmark Status in Council
> Vote
>
> Halifax Regional Council voted last night to make the Halifax Pride
> Festival (July 18 - 26) a Hallmark Event and awarded the Pride Committee
> $25,000 towards this year's celebration. This was a recommendation from
> HRM?s Special Events Advisory Committee (SEAC) and was put before
> Council by SEAC Chair, Councillor Brad Johns. Councillors Dawn Sloane
> and Jennifer Watts spoke in favor of the motion, noting the hard work of
> the Pride Committee and that Halifax had become a truly welcoming place
> for the gay community; no councillors spoke against. "This is an
> extraordinary moment," said Halifax Pride Chair Hugo Dann. "This places
> Halifax Pride in the same category as HRM's signature cultural events
> like the Jazz Festival, the Film Festival, and Scotia Festival of Music."
>
> In 1988, 75 brave men and women marched down Spring Garden Road and into
> history as the first Pride Parade in Halifax. With no human rights
> protections in place, many of the marchers had to conceal their
> identities behind paper masks. It was only in recent years, under Mayor
> Peter Kelly, that Halifax Pride Week was officially proclaimed and the
> Pride Flag flown at Halifax City Hall.
>
> "This year's theme is Breaking Down Walls; Building Bridges, which is
> kind of appropriate, when you think of it," said Dann. "There are some
> municipalities in Nova Scotia that have recently gone to extraordinary
> lengths not to fly the Rainbow Flag. Halifax Regional Council
> recognizing Pride as a Hallmark Festival is a major symbolic victory for
> our whole community," said Dann. I guess you could say that in our 21st
> year, we've come of age."
>
> Halifax Pride is the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer
> (LGBTQ) cultural event in Atlantic Canada, and the 4th largest Pride
> Festival in the country. As many as 75,000 people now take part in
> Halifax Pride events. It's estimated that $2,000,000 is generated for
> the local economy during Halifax Pride Week.
>
> This year's festival takes place from July 18 -- 26th, with the Pride
> Parade on Saturday, July 25.
>
> Halifax Pride Week
> July 18 - 26, 2009
> http://www.halifaxpride.ca/

They ask for mainstream acceptance and say they are the same as everyone 
else, then they have a parade to prove they are freaks. 

On Jun 4, 9:29 am, "Browser" <n...@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> They ask for mainstream acceptance and say they are the same as everyone
> else, then they have a parade to prove they are freaks.

"Freaks" ? No, they are our kids and siblings and doctors and teachers
and parents and friends. What is being sought is an end to
discrimination, nothing more.

Cheers,
John

jrl wrote:
> FOOD BANK SHELVES ARE EMPTY AND GAY PRIDE GETS $25,000 ,GO FIGURE.

	It makes you wonder about society's priorities.

John wrote:
> On Jun 4, 9:29 am, "Browser" <n...@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>> They ask for mainstream acceptance and say they are the same as everyone
>> else, then they have a parade to prove they are freaks.
> 
> "Freaks" ? No, they are our kids and siblings and doctors and teachers
> and parents and friends. What is being sought is an end to
> discrimination, nothing more.
> 
> Cheers,
> John

They are just a natural normal variation people; nothing to be
afraid of and no better or worse than anyone else.

-- 
jw.

Science is a candle in the dark. - Carl Sagan.

"John" <jvangurp@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Jun 4, 9:29 am, "Browser" <n...@eastlink.ca> wrote:
> They ask for mainstream acceptance and say they are the same as everyone
> else, then they have a parade to prove they are freaks.

"Freaks" ? No, they are our kids and siblings and doctors and teachers
and parents and friends. What is being sought is an end to
discrimination, nothing more.

Cheers,
John


If tehse freaks wanted to be treated as 'normal" then act it...grow up 

On Jun 4, 5:54 am, John <jvang...@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Freaks" ? No, they are our kids and siblings and doctors and teachers
> and parents and friends. What is being sought is an end to
> discrimination, nothing more.

Then there is no need for a parade, is there?

I don't believe in Harry Hay's assertion that gay men are a distinct
tribe.  Sure, it was a clever tool for his political organizing in the
1950s, just as he had done among the longshoremen, truck drivers, and
other working people he organized.  But gay men are not really a
tribe.  We don't share much in common at all.

In article <K6PVl.29329$Db2.22151@edtnps83>, "Browser" <no@eastlink.ca> 
wrote:

> They ask for mainstream acceptance and say they are the same as everyone 
> else, then they have a parade to prove they are freaks. 

Yep, just like every other cultural group that has a parade in Halifax. 
Freaks, the lot of us.