Pride Toronto’s way of dealing with black LGBTQ youth ‘abysmal’: group
TORONTO — An activist group fighting for more rights for racialized communities says the way organizers of Canada’s largest Pride parade deal with blackness and black LGBTQ youth is “abysmal.”
Black Lives Matter Toronto says organizers, particularly Pride Toronto’s executive director Mathieu Chantelois, need to be held accountable for their actions.
The group, a Canadian chapter of the a larger U.S. movement, temporarily halted Toronto’s Pride parade Sunday to issue a series of demands that included more funding and better representation for racialized communities during Pride events.
It also called for a ban on police floats in future parades, though stressed that individual officers identifying as LGBTQ would be welcome.