PRIDE - it has taken decades to get to this point - celebrate the achievement.

News 100 redBy Staff

June 2, 2018

BURLINGTON, ON

 

It took some time to get to the point where there is a PRIDE month.

The bathhouse raids took place in Toronto in 1982.

People lost their jobs because of their life style choice.

HRPS cruieser with rainbow stripesStudents coming to terms with their sexual identity needed time to figure out what was happening. For far too many years the best much of society could do was bully and shame these boys and girls.

It all took time but June is now PRIDE month.

Doug Ford, who wants enough of us to vote for him and make him Premier of the province next Thursday has yet to commit to marking in the PRIDE parade in Toronto. Not there yet

The acronym PRIDE stands for Parent Resources for Information, Development and Education.

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1 comment to PRIDE – it has taken decades to get to this point – celebrate the achievement.

  • Steve D

    Are we talking about the same pride group who demonise all Toronto police by barring them from the parade they’ve asked to be part of? So inclusive.