Justin Trudeau announces he’ll be first Canadian PM to march in a gay pride parade
Toronto Gay Pride Parade 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Justin Trudeau has announced that he will be
the first prime minister in Canada to march in a homosexual “pride”
parade. The event, planned for July 3, has been known to include male
frontal nudity — in contravention of public decency laws — and sexual elements
including mock sex acts, sexual bondage, and sadomasochism. The theme for this
year’s event is “belonging and inclusion.”
In 2014 Xtra’s managing editor Danny Glenwright defended nudity at Toronto’s annual Pride parade as par
for the course of expanding gay rights, writing, “It’s what we do with our
naked bodies that kept us gays down for so long.”
Marching along with Trudeau will be Ontario’s lesbian Premier
Kathleen Wynne and Toronto Mayor John Tory, reported the Canadian Press.
In 2013, Trudeau marched in the Toronto Pride parade with Ben Levin one
week prior to the province’s former Deputy Minister of Education being arrested
and later convicted for making and distributing child pornography.