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June 28, 2009
LGBTTIQQ2S Day
I expect the only reason Stephen Harper will not be off to repeat his grotesque bid to trade anti-gay religious sentiment for votes in the 905 is that there can hardly be a group of Muslims still willing to listen to him. But an alternative outcome for today's events occurs to me; one of potential interest to those of us frustrated not only by our Prime Minister but by Canadian identity politics in general as Toronto ponders rain for today's 29th Annual Pride Parade.
What used to be gay pride day is now meant to celebrate Canada's LGBTTIQQ2S (I had to look it up) communities (and, of course, their families and friends). But the new nomenclature suggests the event has been hijacked by a progressive will toward an apartheid based identity politics* and that strange fascination of the left for categorizing to death the complex fullness of the world.
Who knows? Perhaps once Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Intersex, Queer, Questioning and 2 Spirited identities become insufficiently tortuous boxes to squeeze people into, these groups will splinter yet again into their constituent parts - individual people in all their peculiarity - and we will at last have something for everyone to celebrate.
* Made worse by the scheduled appearance of anti-Semites in the parade. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) will protest the only place in the Middle East where they would be safe to protest, turn the word "apartheid" on its head and prove once again that anti-racism is the new racism.
Update with a note to the "free" "Palestine" contingent: Just because you are carrying a terrorist flag does not mean we can't tell you are all International Socialists in "third world" drag. Also, and despite your signs to the contrary, anti-Zionism is racism. Notable by their absence: Queers Against Saudi Apartheid, Queers Against Egyptian Apartheid, Queers Against Persian Apartheid, Queers Against Pakistani Apartheid...
Kudos to the Israel contingent earlier in the parade. It is still safe to travel to Israel and, yes, we should all love Israel because Israel loves us. So too should everyone who marched in that parade. Anyone who believes anything to the contrary should try the same act in the streets of Tehran.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at June 28, 2009 09:08 AM
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