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AUG 28–SEPT 10, 2014 3 email [email protected] comment dailyxtra.com & facebook.com/dailyxtra Comment tweet @dailyxtra FEEDBACK Whatcott’s Pride FREE Electoral culture shock 20,000 AUDITED Vancouver Pride and the actual CIRCULATION don’t evoke sex as part of their queer We have built for each other a VANCOUVER’S GAY & LESBIAN NEWS GUEST EDITORIAL Church of the Flying Spaghetti Mon- TRISH KELLY identity. beautiful, loving community, and ster should jointly sue Bill Whatcott AUG 2014 14–27, In the vetting process, I gave Vision the edges seem to be expanding for #547 and his “followers” who participated in It’s Pride Sunday in Van- Vancouver a detailed list of the types of us, allowing us more representation this ruse [ “Anti-Gay Activist Slips into PLUS! couver, Aug 3. Coff ee in sex-positive work I have done, includ- in the broader societal context. And PRIDE NEWS Pride to Hand Out Fake Condoms,” & PHOTOS hand, I start the day off with an in- ing editing and contributing to several we keep sending out scouts beyond E7–13 dailyxtra.com, Aug 6]. It seems trivial, WHATCOTT’S terview on CKNW radio talking about gay and lesbian erotica publications the edges, each one carrying a little RUSE but considering the Supreme Court E8 my recent run and withdrawal from bit more of who we are and testing and doing burlesque in pre-camera- @dailyxtra of Canada’s judgment against him, HOT& Vancouver’s upcoming municipal phone times, but it did not occur to acceptance. This time we have been this would seem to be a blatant case BUTTERED election. The rest of my day will con- me to make these things a big part of told that sex-positive performance facebook.com/dailyxtra of contempt of court — the Supreme Xtra’s annual guide to the Vancouver Queer Film Festival sist of writing op-eds and planning my candidate bio. In a nomination race art is too much of who we are and may dailyxtra.com Court, no less! E15 several forums on diversity and rep- with nine candidates, I was the only even undermine our ability to make at More Whatcott even admits it: “The Su- resentation in politics. Pride for me one with actual experience working decisions about off-leash dog parks preme Court found me guilty of hate today is about asking what’s next for on policy with the parks board. That or playground equipment. speech and I have been breaking that our community. seemed more important. And ulti- I’m not knocking our existing LGBT ruling ever since, and this is part of it,” For the 99 percent who didn’t get his We’ve come a long way, it’s true. Not he told Xtra. “I’m still out there. I’m disguised message, he was a positive only do we host the best annual party loud and not ashamed of my moral addition to the parade. And for the this city holds; we have also made As gay-friendly as we think our city is, a and theological protest. This is spiri- other one percent, he provided a living, strides in representation in Vancou- monologue of mine from a Fringe Festival tual warfare. This is a war against the breathing reminder that the fi ght isn’t ver politics. Back in 1986, Gordon Supreme Court of Canada and the ho- quite over yet. Price was elected to city council as play that I wrote and performed in 2000, in mosexual agenda.” Attempts to institute protocols that Vancouver’s fi rst openly gay council- which I talked about the invisibility I felt as a So I say take his word for it and take might prevent him from returning to lor. In 2002, Ellen Woodsworth, an him (and his fellow co-conspirators) the parade would mostly discourage real out lesbian, and Tim Stevenson, an young single person and admitted to a kind of to court. people from creating fun and random openly gay man and former MLA, self-love that included masturbation, became DAVID MYERS fl oats, and it probably wouldn’t prevent were elected to city council. Cur- what a blogger titled “Another Nail in the VANCOUVER, BC a hard-core protester from making his/ rently, we have Trevor Loke on the her way into the parade.