[Brenda]

$1:

Calgayry, AB?

I thought it has been pronounced that way for years?

[Lemmy]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

I think it's a good event Lemmy. Once they get rid of the "Queers against Israeli apartheid" idiots, I'd be for them getting cash.

Yeah, that's not acceptable. I'd prefer to see private or local funding too. I just wanted to pooh-pooh the knee-jerk reaction that the $400K from the Feds was pissed away. It may be inappropriate for the Feds to fund this (in fact I agree with that position), but it's a sound investment.

[EyeBrock]

It does bring a lot of vistors and I'm all for greater mainstream acceptance of LGBT people.

Letting these political types in on Pride will just give the bigots an opportunity to attack Pride. Bad move on the organisors part.

[2Cdo]

Lemmy Lemmy:

2Cdo 2Cdo:

IF they funded it, that would be wrong. I don't agree with government funding for ANY parade of ANY group.

Not even the Santa Claus parade? I can accept that the Feds shouldn't be funding this, or even perhaps, the province. But municipalities funding parades (and community events like parades) is exactly what municipal governments are supposed to do. Like I said earlier, $400K is a small investment for the benefits of the Pride parade to the city of Toronto. It's a worthy thing for Toronotonians to be spending on. I don't think, similarly, that Torontonians should expect Montrealers or Calgarians to chip in though.

My shame. I should have been more specific with my choice of words. Of course, I meant Federal government.

[martin14]

Lemmy Lemmy:

According to Liberal MP Navdeep Bains, the Pride Festival generates $100M in economic activity and $18M in tax revenue. Those seem like reasonable figures for a event of this magnitude.

well if the numbers are so good then the Liberal Party can fund it.

[Lemmy]

martin14 martin14:

Lemmy Lemmy:

According to Liberal MP Navdeep Bains, the Pride Festival generates $100M in economic activity and $18M in tax revenue. Those seem like reasonable figures for a event of this magnitude.

well if the numbers are so good then the Liberal Party can fund it.

Why not just say "Fuck the Liberal Party"? That was your point, wasn't it?

[martin14]

Lemmy Lemmy:

martin14 martin14:

Lemmy Lemmy:

According to Liberal MP Navdeep Bains, the Pride Festival generates $100M in economic activity and $18M in tax revenue. Those seem like reasonable figures for a event of this magnitude.

well if the numbers are so good then the Liberal Party can fund it.

Why not just say "Fuck the Liberal Party"? That was your point, wasn't it?

Someone piss in your cornflakes more than usual this morning ?

[Lemmy]

martin14 martin14:

Someone piss in your cornflakes more than usual this morning ?

Not at all. So what's your point then?

[Choban]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Lemmy Lemmy:

:idea: I think we should be marketing ourselves, en masse, to foreign homosexuals. We should pick a Canadian city and turn into "Fag Vegas" (well, we'd need a marketing expert to pick a better name, but....) we could turn a Canadian city into the marriage/honeymoon/party place for gays that Las Vegas is for straights. We could make a FORTUNE performing gay marriages, especially for Americans homosexuals that can't get a marriage license in their home state. Just think of the tourism dollars we could gobble up.

Calgary.

Make it Halifax, they already have Citadel Hill (fag hill to us when we were kids) Hell, TO would do as well, Calgary is fine I guess, does that mean if I'm straight I gotta move.

[kenmore]

Its just the tory right wing homophobic ideology that is the reason.. just like they want to put all drug addicts behind bars and throw away the keys on young offenders.... politics of fear and phobia... end of story

[Brenda]

Choban Choban:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

Lemmy Lemmy:

:idea: I think we should be marketing ourselves, en masse, to foreign homosexuals. We should pick a Canadian city and turn into "Fag Vegas" (well, we'd need a marketing expert to pick a better name, but....) we could turn a Canadian city into the marriage/honeymoon/party place for gays that Las Vegas is for straights. We could make a FORTUNE performing gay marriages, especially for Americans homosexuals that can't get a marriage license in their home state. Just think of the tourism dollars we could gobble up.

Calgary.

Make it Halifax, they already have Citadel Hill (fag hill to us when we were kids) Hell, TO would do as well, Calgary is fine I guess, does that mean if I'm straight I gotta move.

No, it only means you have to pay

[1Peg]

The Fringe & Folk festival isn't being funded either here in Edmonton....

[MacDonaill]

No more funneling money to interest groups. I don't care who they are or what they promote. Let them find their own cash. We've got a pretty heavy bag of hammers to carry around as it is.

If the parade stands to bring in so much cash, then finding private financing should be no problem.

If the government didn't set the precedent of throwing money away, we wouldn't be in so much debt, we wouldn't be paying so much in taxes and there would actually be more money out there for people to support the things they personally find important.

As a side note, the tawdry spectacles these so-called "leaders" put on to represent homosexuals and other non-mainstream sexual preferences in this society are downright tacky and I think they have actually done more harm to the image of homosexuality than it has to better it.

If anyone was wondering why homosexuality's image hasn't progressed past this..



To this...



Pride, its partisans and those of similar organisations and events are the reason why.

[djakeydd]

I like the upper depiction, it is far more representative on balance. Just my humble opinion tho..

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Uh huh don't come into contact with many gay people do ya? OR..maybe ya do and you just don't know it cuz they aren't the pop-cultured stereotype you think most of 'em are.