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‘Let’s get naked this Pride’: Gay editor defends nudity at Toronto’s ‘family friendly’ parade

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TORONTO, February 26, 2014  – An editor at Canada ’s leading homosexual news agency has defended nudity at Toronto ’s annual Pride parade, which is billed as a “family friendly” event. It’s just “queer people celebrating their sexuality,” wrote Danny Glenwright, managing editor at  Xtra , last week in a piece titled “ Let's get naked this Pride .” A drag queen at Ottawa's Capital Pride in 2013. Glenwright defended exposing the public to what he called “our wanton sexuality and hedonism” as par for the course of expanding gay rights. “It’s what we do with our naked bodies that kept us gays down for so long,” he wrote. Glenwright mockingly suggested that those who have a problem with nakedness at the parade can “stay home” with their children and watch on TV “more palatable aspects of our world” such as “priests raping children.” “I prefer to leave that all behind for a few hours on Pride and head downtown to celebrate gay rights and gay sex — and to protest th

Ottawa mayor’s float hands out condoms at Homosexual Immorality parade

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Mayor Jim Watson wields a water gun at Capital Pride on August 25, 2013. Credit: Patrick Craine / LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, August 26, 2013 – As thousands gathered for Ottawa ’s annual Pride parade Sunday (also called immoral blasphemy day), the city’s mayor joined in the immoral nuide sexual festivities atop a float that was handing out condoms. Mayor Jim Watson playfully sprayed the crowd with a water gun from his perch on the float of Ottawa Public Health as representatives of the agency dispensed the condoms. The float, bearing the slogan “Sex it Smart,” is part of a  campaign  by Ottawa Public Health that aims to distribute 2,376,000 free condoms in the next three years to city youth as young as 15. Immorality has no bounds nor brains! Watson sprays the crowd atop his "Sex it Smart" float. Credit: Patrick Craine / LifeSiteNews.com The city launched the campaign in February as part of an effort to stem a pandemic of sexually transmitted infectio