Of course, instilling fear was not BLM’s intention. (Ironically, it was a nearby police officer who reassured my friend the cop let him know that the parade had stopped on account of a peaceful protest, not an anti-gay terror attack or shooting). So it transpired that BLM Toronto, a group that advocates fiercely for the institution of “safe spaces,” made at least one queer person in their midst feel momentarily, very unsafe. ![]() You might have thought, as my friend did, with the horror of the Orlando LGBT nightclub shooting fresh in his mind, “Why did the parade stop? Is something wrong?” If you were standing anywhere close to the demonstration, the sight (regardless of your take on BLM Toronto) was undeniably beautiful.īut if, like a close friend of mine, you were a few hundred yards from the sit-in, anxiously trying to determine what just happened, you might not have been impressed - you might have been afraid. At Toronto’s LGBT pride parade Sunday, honoured activist group Black Lives Matter Toronto staged a 30-minute parade-halting protest, marked by enormous plumes of multi-coloured smoke - actually the result of harmless smoke bombs.
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