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OCT 2–15, 2014 3 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook/dailyxtra.com Comment tweet @dailyxtra FEEDBACK I believe we would have less suicide in our community if we Here we go again John Tory and QuAIA John Tory is right [“John Tory Says learned to have more compassion QuAIA Has No Place in Pride Parade,” lot can happen between today and EDITORIAL dailyxtra.com, Sept 20]. Yes, Pride for each other and ourselves. election day, and Tory’s win is by MATTHEW DIMERA has always been about politics — gay no means guaranteed. If Tory does RE: GAY MEN AND SUICIDE liberation politics. What does a pro- That was the feeling become mayor, there’s no telling Palestinian group have to do with gay in the Xtra newsroom if a majority of the newly elected liberation politics? Absolutely nothing. when mayoral hopeful and current councillors would vote to support Pandering for the acceptance and ap- Why is a group that has nothing to do MAGNOTTA frontrunner John Tory announced his desired changes to the city’s anti- TRIAL JURY proval of Christianity in general will with gay politics or gay life allowed to SELECTION recently that he would vote to discrimination policy that would TORONTO’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS E9 PROUD eventually lead to just that. They’ll hijack the Pride parade year after year? FREE 36,000 AUDITED CIRCULATION POLITICS deny funding to Toronto’s Pride effectively exclude QuAIA. E11 accept gay people with open arms if it KEVIN BROWN ANN-MARIE celebrations if Queers Against Israeli Even then, we don’t know how 2014 1, 18–OCT SEPT MACDONALD DAILYXTRA.COM E20 #780 means that LGBT people will join their LAMBDA Apartheid (QuAIA) were allowed Pride Toronto would respond. Three RETREAT cult of delusion. They’re in need of num- Tim McCaskell would like this to be “a E 22 to continue to march in the annual Pride board members have said bers and members to perpetuate their dead issue,” but as long as QuAIA con- parade. they won’t run for reelection this dogma. It’s going to take a long time tinues its hypocritical and very vocal At a Sept 19 afternoon debate held fall and a new executive director is for that acceptance, but it will happen. stance, there is no reason to believe it at More at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal being sought. Would Pride side with dailyxtra.com It always happens. The church always Center for Holocaust Studies and QuAIA in the name of free speech, or is dead at all. Tory is right. The QuAIA facebook.com/dailyxtra facebook.com/dailyxtra adapts to what they’ve previously con- mantra doesn’t belong at Pride — it has then again that night at an LGBT would the organization fall in line to demned and then carries on as if they’ve The scandalous life nothing to do with gays, and it isn’t of author Francisco issues debate, Tory held his ground maintain its civic funding? @dailyxtra Ibáñez-Carrasco never persecuted a soul. LGBT people even honest in its declarations. E 18 and reiterated his view that the What I find concerning is the oft- need to be beacons of humanity because phrase “Israeli apartheid” is hateful repeated and nonsensical refrain KEN DAILYXTRA.COM they know with intimate pain the ex- and has no place at city-funded that Pride shouldn’t be political. Jim Deva perience of being hated for something events. To his credit, and despite Pride started off as a protest — a Doug Ford and Pride Jim Deva was a doer not only in the beyond their control or choosing. If you accusations that he was trying to protest for the very existence of The mayor represents the people Vancouver LGBT community, but believe in a deity, feel free to pursue your score political points with supporters our communities. To argue now and should therefore represent all in LGBT communities everywhere spirituality, but please spare the rational of Israel, Tory was merely repeating that it should be stripped of any the people, not just the straight ones [“Community Mourns Sudden Death thinkers in your midst the public display the same position he has taken controversy is a blow to the freedoms [“Doug Ford Won’t Commit to Attend- of Hero Jim Deva,” dailyxtra.com, Sept of begging for acceptance and love from publicly several times before. that our elders fought so hard to ing Pride Parade,” dailyxtra.com, Sept 22]. LGBT folks everywhere are far humanity’s most prominent purveyors Less to his credit was the win. Besides, what is more political 24]. He shouldn’t be running for mayor better off because of his work in our of our segregation and disdain. subsequent release by his campaign than politicians? Yet, I don’t hear if he’s not prepared to support all of his community.