Canada’s Navy urges sailors to attend Gay Pride parades in uniform
Royal Canadian Navy commander Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd urged sailors last week to attend "Pride" events in uniform without any special permission to show that the Navy is "diverse" and "inclusive." "In an effort to epitomize diversity and inclusion," Lloyd wrote in his directives, "the (Navy) encourages attendance to Pride events and authorizes the wear of uniform to participate in or attend the parade." The Navy commander said that effective immediately, Navy personnel no longer had to seek permission in order to wear their uniforms in homosexual "Pride" parades. Lloyd marched in last year's Pride Parade in Toronto . He told Canadian Press that he issued the directives after meeting with members of the LGBTQ community , who complained to him about Navy members needing permission to wear their uniforms in Pride Parades . "They were speaking to the fact that you needed chain-of-command approval in orde