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MAY 1–14, 2014 5 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook/dailyxtra.com Comment tweet @dailyxtra FEEDBACK Like the rest of the country and Lessons from the ACT cuts economy, people are polarized Ellen’s letter severely criticizing Ha- between rich and poor, and the zelle Palmer’s direction of ACT from 2009 to 2013 is very unfair and cannot poor are losing. Parti Québécois go unchallenged [Re: “AIDS Commit- tee of Toronto Cuts Staff to Control [RE: TORONTO LGBT PHILANTHROPY CONFERENCE] Deficits,” dailyxtra.com, March 19]. enormous gains within the province: EDITORIAL Everything ACT does is essential and ROBIN PERELLE Québécois culture is strong and per- #769 APRIL 17–30, 2014 love, compassion and any teachings in there is nothing there that’s a luxury FREE INSIDE! 36,000 AUDITED vasive; francophones are now better CIRCULATION Xtra Living the book they clutch to so dearly. This activity. ACT regularly reviews its pro- THE BEST OF TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS GAY & LESBIAN When Pierre Karl Pé- educated and have access to the highest- TORONTO grams for efficacy and winds down is cruel and against the new laws they ladeau pumped his newly paying jobs; music, fi lms and even the at More must adhere to but not surprising. old programs that no longer serve a dailyxtra.com anointed Parti Québécois fi st for sover- most vacuous homegrown TV shows MARY MILKETTE (FACEBOOK) useful purpose while starting new facebook.com/dailyxtra eignty in March, he might as well have celebrate and refl ect Québécois realities. TORONTO, ON ones to address new areas of need. been talking about sexual liberation. Yet as a direct result of these signifi cant Hazelle Palmer became the executive @dailyxtra Not that Péladeau has given any indica- gains, the separate state now seems un- I agree with everything Christopher director of ACT at a point when ACT tion that he supports sexual liberation. necessary and nearly impossible. To even is doing, except removing the book began to suffer severe unexpected But like sexual liberation, sovereignty suggest it during an election campaign is Poison from the curriculum. If you funding cutbacks from various levels of is both the end game and potentially the political suicide. don’t want to be censored, don’t be government, and she and ACT senior greatest liability of a cultural movement Not unlike sexual liberation. Once a banning books. It’s a slippery slope! staff and its board struggled to cope Raging homosHas the gay lobby E8 that has earned enormous gains without goal of the gay liberation movement — to become the bully? with the resulting unexpected defi cits JACQUES LAPLANTE (FACEBOOK) managing to ultimately dislodge the transform society as a whole to embrace all OTTAWA, ON without severely cutting back essential governing social system. forms of sexual pleasure and relinquish its services to the gay community and When the Parti Québécois stepped onto uptight fi xation on sin — we have settled new manager of the Church-Wellesley Toronto LGBT without butchering its cadre of profes- the political scene in 1968, it was the prod- largely for carving spots for ourselves, and Business Improvement Area (BIA), as Philanthropy Conference sional staff , and this was not easy. ACT uct of profound social upheaval. The Quiet to some extent our culture, within existing saying, “I don’t read Xtra or any of the has been very much in survival mode Canada’s middle and working class is Revolution was barely eight years old but institutions. Rather than challenging mar- major papers,” [“New Blood at the during the last few years, and Hazelle BIA,” Xtra #769, April 17]. That’s a economically tapped out [“When the had already transformed a conservative, riage, for example, we demanded our share Money Dries Up,” dailyxtra.com, April Catholic Church–driven, anglophone- of its sanctioned rights and responsibilities. coped very well with this ongoing crisis warning sign. If you have a leadership in funding for ACT, which is why SHC position in the Toronto gay village, 25]. In Toronto, service industry jobs, dominated province into a more modern, Nothing wrong with demanding our due, which traditionally cover a big chunk was so happy to hire her. you need to read Xtra. It’s the only gay more egalitarian state with access to edu- whether it’s equal access to education, jobs of the gay working class, pay shit, and EVE MARIE publication in Toronto that attempts cation and healthcare and a reemerging and decision making in Quebec or equal ac- it’s not enough to keep up with ris- TORONTO, ON to regularly monitor issues in the gay sense of pride in being French Canadian. cess to job protection and spousal benefi ts ing rents. Look at the Village: all the village and the broader Toronto LGBT The revolution’s lead architect, Liberal in straight society. But is it enough? What mom-and-pop shops are closing and WorldPride community. Even the gay opponents premier Jean Lesage, had, with his natu- happens when a cultural movement wins more corporate-owned franchises are Two months before WorldPride 2014 of Xtra still read the publication. ral resources minister, René Lévesque, signifi cant gains without transforming the moving in. Like the rest of the country and you wouldn’t know it [“When Furthermore, if you have a leadership nationalized foreign-owned hydroelec- overall structure that surrounds it? and economy, people are polarized Toronto Hosts WorldPride, Will Any- position with a BIA in Toronto, you tric plants throughout the province and The latest incarnation of the Parti between rich and poor, and the poor one Show Up?” dailyxtra.com, March need to be aware of municipal issues begun training francophones to take over Québécois shows what can happen are losing.