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DISAGREEMENT AMONG HOMOSEXUALS OVER GAY PRIDE PARADES

According to an editorial by Paul Gallant in the homosexual newspaper, Xtra, (June 27, 2002 issue), a homosexual community does not exist in the sense that they live in one place, have formal representation or reach a consensus on issues. He stated that homosexuals are a "community" only in the sense that they have something to say to each other - and that "we're often having sex with each other."

It is apparent that there is no consensus either among homosexuals in regard to Gay Pride parades.

QUEBEC CITY GAY PARADE

According to the Ottawa edition of Capital Xtra, September 27, 2002 issue, a heated dispute broke out in the Quebec City Gay Pride parade held there on the Labour Day weekend. Homosexuals/lesbians from all over Quebec decided to participate in this year's parade including a group from Montreal. In August, rumours began circulating that Quebec's parade was being taken over by people from Montreal who would introduce the vulgarity of Montreal's gay parade, called Divers/Cit" to the Quebec City parade. Claudine Ouellet, President of La Coalition Gaie Lesbienne du Qu"bec, which claims to be the official voice of the community in Quebec City claimed the Montreal parade showed off distasteful stereotypes with which she and her group could not identify. She also stated that she did not approve of nudity at the Gay parade. Organizers of the Quebec City Gay parade also stated categorically that nudity would not be tolerated at the Quebec City parade. This matter came to a head at the parade itself when the organizers began shouting at the participants over a loudspeaker demanding that no body parts be exposed in the parade. None were.

TORONTO GAY PARADE

Contrast the Quebec City parade with that of Toronto and the June 27, 2002 issue of Toronto's Xtra in which feature editor Paul Gallant supported the nudity in the Toronto parade as an example of harmless "Queer Creativity." Even if it's not something one would do oneself, he thought it should be supported by others. However, Eleanor Brown in the homosexual publication,
"Fab" (July 18, 2002 issue), stated that she found the Toronto gay nudists " … a slightly ridiculous lot. …" She went on to say that, "The gay appreciation for beauty has turned into an obsession ..," and that "regular humanity [such as the Toronto nude marchers] is considered grotesque."

MONTREAL GAY PARADE

In an article in the homosexual publication, "To Be," September 2002 issue on the Montreal Gay Pride Parade, "Divers/Cit'," columnist Ouri Moulav asserted that the Gay parade and surrounding events were just another reason "for gay people to come and have another long weekend of partying and drugs." He stated:

… Most of the gay people don't bother to come to the parade at all since they are still sleeping, hung over from doing all kinds of drugs the night before. The parade was filled with straight people who bothered to get ready, drive, find parking and cheer us on.

He went on to say:

The whole drug taking, ecstasy, GHB, crystal …. or whatever other drug is popular at the moment during these parties and events, is killing the atmosphere and meaningfulness of Gay pride. Instead of participating in the joy and pride we should have for being able to be openly gay in this city, and even marry, adopt, many of us choose to pop a few pills and dance to unrelenting, indistinguishable music, for hours on end. The drugs make people feel witty and happy and people dance around touch and feel each other, but there is no connection, no real feelings going on. It's all a drug induced high that disappears the next day when we suddenly feel all down and depressed as reality sets in ….

…The music ... sounds like the same pounding song over and over again. You can't tell when one song ends and the other begins. You can't really talk to anyone or meet anyone. People are dancing like bumble bees going from one flower to the other, sucking some nectar and then moving on. They can't concentrate on one person. The next day when there is an important event like the Montr"al Gay Pride parade, are these people present? I don't think so!

POLITICIANS IN SUPPORT OF THE HOMOSEXUAL/LESBIAN PARADES

Liberal Minister of Industry, Allan Rock, and Conservative Leader, Joe Clark, happily march in these Gay Parades. One wonders about their common sense. Both of these politicians have also come out in support of legal "marriages" for homosexuals/ lesbians.

Mr. Rock especially seems to be obsessed with the homosexual issue. When he was the Minister of Justice in 1996, he pushed through the sexual orientation amendment to the federal Human Rights Act. We do mean "pushed", since the amendment was passed in ten days, owing to the government using methods unprecedented in Canadian Parliamentary history, including the closing down of the debate by way of Closure. (See Reality, May/June, 1996, "Liberal Tyranny over Homosexual Legislation," page 3.)

Mr. Rock was recently a featured speaker, along with the well-known US lesbian, Patricia Ireland, former president of the US National Organization of Women (NOW), at a Conference of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on October 26, 2002.

What is behind Mr. Rock's obsession with the homosexuality issue? Is his Liberal leadership campaign being generously funded "behind the scene" and is he being offered extensive volunteer support by homosexual activists? Rest assured, there is something behind Mr. Rock's homosexual activism - it's not just ideological.

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